My Problem Would Rock Your World.
Aug. 14th, 2006 09:28 amApparently, BBC America have been stripping a lot of things out of their airings of Life on Mars to make room for adverts. I mention this just so any Americans who may be watching it will know. From what I've heard it seems that Gene's characterisation suffers a lot, which makes me sad.
(It seems that the episodes aren't so cut down on BBC America On Demand, though.)
I'm afraid that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gayjunglefever just might have succeeded in her evil plot to get me addicted to Life on Mars. Oh dear.
I feel that perhaps I may have been focusing too much on Sam/Gene and, you know, Sam being freakishly adorable in my episode-by-episode posts, and not on the actual stories and the time-travel-or-not-time-travel? thing, which was actually the first aspect of it that I fell in love with. I love it when Sam comes across people or places who were significant in his past, or will be significant in his future. I love it when he hears voices, or when 1973 seems to reflect something that may or may not be happening parallel to it in 2006, or when he realises that something in the past affects the future and maybe - maybe - he can stop it. I love it when he's frustrated and upset and tries to bring something of his home into where he is now. The cases and policing (and Sam/Gene) are all very fun, but the time-travel/insanity aspect is a stroke of absolute genius and makes it so much better than it would be otherwise.
Another thing that I really like is the humour in serious situations, or the humour just before a completely unexpected tragic twist that changes the tone utterly. I'm just very impressed by the ability of the show to completely turn around and startle the watcher, or to change its mood in a second. There were similar moments in Doctor Who, but I think that those in Life on Mars actually have more of an impact. That twist near the end of Episode Four? I never saw it coming, and it brought me straight down from utter gleeful elation to sudden shock.
Why, yes, I am posting this in the slightly desperate hope that other people will be intrigued and watch it.
(Did I mention that Gene is hot? He's got a sort of stealthy hotness that you never see coming until suddenly you're an absolute raving Gene fangirl and can't for the life of you work out why you're finding him attractive.)
(It seems that the episodes aren't so cut down on BBC America On Demand, though.)
I'm afraid that
gayjunglefever just might have succeeded in her evil plot to get me addicted to Life on Mars. Oh dear.I feel that perhaps I may have been focusing too much on Sam/Gene and, you know, Sam being freakishly adorable in my episode-by-episode posts, and not on the actual stories and the time-travel-or-not-time-travel? thing, which was actually the first aspect of it that I fell in love with. I love it when Sam comes across people or places who were significant in his past, or will be significant in his future. I love it when he hears voices, or when 1973 seems to reflect something that may or may not be happening parallel to it in 2006, or when he realises that something in the past affects the future and maybe - maybe - he can stop it. I love it when he's frustrated and upset and tries to bring something of his home into where he is now. The cases and policing (and Sam/Gene) are all very fun, but the time-travel/insanity aspect is a stroke of absolute genius and makes it so much better than it would be otherwise.
Another thing that I really like is the humour in serious situations, or the humour just before a completely unexpected tragic twist that changes the tone utterly. I'm just very impressed by the ability of the show to completely turn around and startle the watcher, or to change its mood in a second. There were similar moments in Doctor Who, but I think that those in Life on Mars actually have more of an impact. That twist near the end of Episode Four? I never saw it coming, and it brought me straight down from utter gleeful elation to sudden shock.
Why, yes, I am posting this in the slightly desperate hope that other people will be intrigued and watch it.
(Did I mention that Gene is hot? He's got a sort of stealthy hotness that you never see coming until suddenly you're an absolute raving Gene fangirl and can't for the life of you work out why you're finding him attractive.)
