rionaleonhart | Also, Alex/Sam. Yes? No?

Somewhere along the line, Ashes to Ashes appears to have become something that I actually watch and enjoy, rather than something that I watch only because I feel on some level that I ought to. Alex is annoying me far less than she used to, and I am gradually recovering from the tragic lack of Sam and Annie. In fact, I may even be developing a certain fondness for Alex/Gene. Don't tell anyone.

It's still not one of my favourite programmes, but it's something I can actually look forward to now. I am interested in seeing how it ends. This pleases me. (It bothers me a bit that the writers are trying so hard to make Shaz awesome, though. Do you know what I mean? Am I imagining things? Because I am contrary, I cannot love Shaz until the writers stop throwing a bunch of awesome at her and saying 'LOVE THIS CHARACTER; SHE WAS CONSTRUCTED ENTIRELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING AWESOME AND ADORABLE'.)

I think I like the fact that it has more of an emphasis on the crazy mind stuff (shut up, you know what I mean) going on than Life on Mars did. And, all right, maybe I 'ship Alex/Gene a lot. Shut up. At the beginning, my attitude was 'DON'T YOU DARE GET TOGETHER WITH GENE, ALEX'; now I seem to be going 'ASJHFJHGDHJGH SNOG ALREADY SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS'. This was unexpected, but, um, all right?

(I think I may find Gene less attractive in Ashes to Ashes than I did in Life on Mars, though. Alas! On the other hand, Chris and Ray are brilliant in it. Ray definitely gets the 'Most Improved Since Life on Mars' award.)

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Does this mean I should watch it then? I'm waiting until the end of series one and then going back to see what people think.

I think you would enjoy A2A - if mostly for the crack - which they commit wholeheartedly. Don't you remember the episode you wrote in the gay bar?

The Gene/Alex relationship/UST/rivalry/whatever you want to call it is hardly stereotypically romantic.

It really depends how much you think you will miss Sam and Annie - Shaz is quite fun, and Chris and Ray get more screen time, but it's not the same.

And the clown is much less scary than TCG, IMHO.

The gay bar episode was supposed to be fun, but I didn't watch it, and sometimes scripts get bungled in filming.

And nothing is as scary as the Test Card Girl. Not Pyramid Head, not that guy from No Country For Old Men, not the Cloverfield monster, nothing.

Except possibly zombies.

They did a pretty good job of filming your script, IMHO - crack, angst, Neville's brother, downbeat ending and all ;-(

I will consider what could possibly be scarier than TCG ~~and then be very careful not to tell you~~

I know that the all-time, number one thing that freaks me out in movies is zombies. So something less scary than zombies, but scarier than the Test Card Girl would be good.

Which is worse: Test Card Girl, or Volkswagen Beetle?

TCG, definitely, for me - cars can't climb stairs.

Other contenders include, but are not limited to

The demon that was controlling the Ood and writing on that chap
The "wracked with many diseases" people from the Dr Who ep with the feline nurses
The creepy snappy dolls from Barbarella

I see what you mean. The Test Card Girl can pop up anywhere.

The Ood demon and the disease people didn't creep me out all that much. I think the demon was a big letdown when I saw him. That, "He is awake!" "And you will worship him!" stuff gave me shivers.

Creepier than the mermaid dream? I have a habit of stealing things from dreams and turning them into stories; I'm contemplating that with the mermaid dream, although it might be too nasty to inflict on fanfiction characters. Plus, it's only part of a story.

Yes, imaginary nebulous terrors are scarier than more concrete ones, at least for me.

Not sure I understand the concept of "too nasty for a story" - well, OK, I do, but I think cruelty can be justified if the story has something interesting or important enough to say. Or if just writing stuff down helps - reality is more real, and thus more important, than fiction.

Reads above statement, wonders if it true - if fiction has the power to make me so happy, then surely it has the equivalent sad/scared making power? But if I'm sure it's fiction, and not a dramatisation of a real tragedy, then drama is mostly catharsis rather than misery. It's an adrenaline thing, perhaps?

I think the conclusion there may be that I am a glass half full person - but then a lot of people enjoy stuff like LoM and Supernatural et al, which is pretty much totally about bad things happening to quite nice people.

*puzzled now*

OBVIOUS LIES. The Test Card Girl has never made me physically start (HELLO, PYRAMID HEAD), or frightened me so much that I couldn't focus on the rest of Life on Mars at all (HELLO, NO COUNTRY FOR MEN PSYCHO KILLER augh).

That's because you get creeped out by strange thing. A man in a big pointy hat or a man with a Mo haircut is nowhere near as creepy as, "You do not like me with my clown. I can see I make you frown. When on Earth will all this end? I'm your friend, your only friend!" Which will never leave my brain.

Obviously, I'm going to have to write better Life on Mars fanfic with a creepier Test Card Girl to prove this.

Also, Alex/Sam. Yes? No?

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