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I haven't really been talking about this series of Ashes to Ashes so far, but I am enjoying it very much. And I have things to say about this episode! Time to say them!

- Alex's behaviour towards Jackie in the early part of this episode was annoying me quite a lot, and that worried me. After disliking Alex for the first few episodes of the first series, I came to really like her (forgiving her for not being Sam Tyler was probably a necessary step), and I was afraid that my opinion of her had regressed. However, after Jackie (rather awesomely) revealed that the child was not Gene's, Alex quickly regained my affection. Just stay away from other potential love interests for Gene, Alex, and we should get along famously. (Should Sam Tyler turn up, however, you are welcome to hang around him. In fact, you and he could even have sexual tension. Think about it.)

- If Gene has a son, he wants to name it after himself. This delights me.

I actually have a bizarre craving for fanfiction about Gene Hunt raising a child, now. I have never read babyfic in my life, and yet something about Gene Hunt makes me want to see how he would cope as a father. I cannot decide whether he would be wonderful or terrible. Probably both. He would have a daughter, and he would adore her, and he would start beating up paedophiles twice as hard, and I would go 'awww' because, in a disturbing and violent way, it would be a symbol of his fatherly love.

On a vaguely-related note: I didn't make an entry about last week's episode, but I wanted to mention that I really love how furious Gene becomes when a child is hurt.

Seriously, I need to see Gene with children.

- When Gene said 'I forgive you', my immediate thought was that Gene/Mac is the equivalent of Doctor/Master. There are certainly a number of similarities, but I think that I prefer Doctor/Master overall.

I also prefer Gene/Alex. JUST SHAG, YOU GUYS, SERIOUSLY. I seem to recall thinking they had no chemistry whatsoever when Ashes to Ashes first started. Whoops.

- I really like that there are references to Sam in this series. This episode even mentioned Annie! (Please come back at some point, Sam and Annie. I love you.)

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For much of this episode, because I am shallow, I kept realising and re-realising that Phillip Glenister is actually quite an unattractive man. And then deciding that it totally doesn't matter.

I'm...intrigued by your Gene-and-children idea, and I could quite easily buy into it. I could especially go for some fic about Gene and Alex somehow having to look after a young child together (it is dumped on the doorstep of CID? I don't know.) and their parenting techniques clashing with hilarious consequences. Also, they would have sexual tension. Because. That's how they roll.

I don't think I find Gene quite as attractive in Ashes to Ashes as I did in Life on Mars. I don't find him entirely unattractive, but I do think something has changed. Perhaps I need to rewatch Life on Mars and perform some sort of scientific analysis.

I WANT THAT CHILD-DUMPED-ON-THE-DOORSTEP-OF-CID EPISODE. Alex would disapprove of pretty much everything Gene did. Also: yes, sexual tension. I do not recall the 'next episode' trailer in any way indicating that Gene and Alex would suddenly have a small child thrust upon them, but I am going to hope.

I think the peak for me was the S1 finale of Ashes to Ashes, actually. He was all knight-in-shining-armour-y! T-that got to me a little.

I can't quite take any death on the floor/just been shot/cradling in arms/whatever scenes seriously any more because my immediate thought is OH LIKE DOCTOR/MASTER and then the poignancy is ruined by considerations of what the characters would be like as timelords. It also always reminds me of Spaced, which idk if you've watched? There's a bit where someone gets shot with a paintball gun and it is done exactly like that. In conclusion, all telly is the same as itself.

Also Gene's three rules for childbearing made me lol a lot. I like how he seemed to think it was obvious the baby needed to be named after him.

It is true that I spent the whole 'oh no, Mac is dying in Gene's arms' scene thinking about the Doctor and the Master, rather than 'oh no, Mac is dying in Gene's arms'. (GENE WOULD BE AN AMAZING TIME LORD.)

And I think the paintball episode may be the only episode of Spaced I have watched. Hooray for over-dramatic paintballing!

I liked that he assumed it was going to be a boy. Had the child been a girl, would he have named her Jean?

Since you probably know, can you explain something to me? See, the way I understand it, Life on Mars ended with Sam returning to the past because he missed ~~Gene~~ everybody and that life, or something. But in A2A, Sam is nowhere to be seen. Why is that? Is it because he got hit by another car and is now wondering around in the 4o's, or did he and Gene divorce or something and Gene got Manchester in the settlement? Or something entirely different?

Sam was apparently killed in a never-found-the-body way in a work-related car accident. He drove into a canal during a car chase. Make of that what you will.

I keep meaning to watch this but forgetting that it's on. That happened with the original series too (though the lack of Sam IS rather irksome).

I have read the script for the pilot episode though - it was actually homework from university (I love you sometimes, university) and had to write 500 words of a writer's response on it!

Can you use BBC iPlayer? It seems to have all the episodes of the second series so far at the moment. Here is the first; the rest are just beneath it.

That is some pretty amazing homework.

Up till now, you've had to hunt a little bit for the Sam references - and then this episode beat you over the head with them.

Which makes me sad because it makes my theory of Sam Tyler showing up in the last episode less likely.

But, oh, I love how much effect Sam had on Gene. To have gone from, "Yeah, yeah, we all take a bit of a bribe," to, "Take one bent penny and I'll smash your head off," is so awesome. *happy sigh*

Oh, I do so hope Sam shows up. I think it's unlikely that the BBC would have been able to keep such huge news quiet, but I can dream.

JUST SHAG, YOU GUYS, SERIOUSLY.

UNRESOLVED SEXUAL TENSION HAS NEVER ACTUALLY MADE ME THIS TENSE BEFORE. I THINK I MIGHT EXPLODE IF THEY DON'T RESOLVE IT. PLEASE GENE&ALEX, HAVE SEX. FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MY LIFE.

I loved the Sam&Annie mention! I really want Annie to come back for an episode.

And thinking about it, I'd also like to see how Gene deals with fatherhood...

THE LACK OF SEX IS DREADFUL. (I was so confused when I realised I was actually beginning to 'ship them in the first series.)

Yes, I am hoping for an Annie appearance! Did we hear what had happened to her? I can't remember.

Me too! I was so prepared to completely despise Alex and then I just didn't, and I even wanted her and Gene to get together (even though Sam is so obviously his One True Love Forever And Ever).

I don't think anyone actually ever said what happened to Annie...

Gene Hunt's little girl would so be called Jeanette. :D

She would be! He'd shorten it to Jeanie.

My goodness, he so would. Someone needs to write this!

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