rionaleonhart | None Of This Is Even Real!

Right. So,

gayjunglefever begged me to watch Life on Mars and, because I can never deny her anything, that's exactly what I did.

Sam-being-hit-by-the-car was the most horrible shock in the world. DAMN YOU LIFE ON MARS. I bet he's dead and everything 'in the past' is a hallucination.

...er, wait, dead people don't hallucinate, do they?

Unconscious, then. NONE OF IT IS REALLY HAPPENING. OOOH.

Or, y'know, he really is from 1973 and he's been having remarkably accurate hallucinations about living in the future.

...or maybe he did just time-travel. I always have to turn it into some bizarre theory, don't I? The thought that he might actually have time-travelled didn't even occur to me until just now. But the whole hearing-voices-from-the-future and 'you're in a coma, none of this is real' thing would probably suggest otherwise.

I became aware, during the whole "Can you remember what happened?" "What the hell is going on? I need my mobile." "Mobile what?" conversation, that I was grinning in the particular lunatic way my friends have dubbed the 'Obsessive Grin'. Oh dear. This does not bode well, unless you are

gayjunglefever.

YES, SAM, PUT YOUR HAND ON RANDOM LADY'S CHEST AND CLOSE YOUR EYES. THAT ISN'T CREEPY AT ALL.

I quite like Sam. Certainly he seems a decent bloke in comparison with the 1973 ones I've seen so far. Is that an accurate reflection of attitudes to women at the time? Because I usually consider myself quite relaxed in terms of gender issues, but I find their behaviour pretty shocking.

The man on the telly has the silliest facial hair that I have ever seen.

There's something very odd about Sam's eyes, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Also he somehow reminds me of Pete Tyler, which, given his surname and the general crossoverability of Doctor Who with anything, especially something with a theme of time-travel, is somewhat worrying.

Every time he wakes up I think 'right, this time he'll be back in 2006'. Which is silly, because that's hardly going to happen in the first episode, is it?

Hey, is that 'Baba O'Reilly'? HOORAY FOR BABA OH MY GOD WHAT IS GENE DOING TO SAM'S NECK OH GOD IT'S TOO EARLY FOR A LUNATIC SLASH PAIRING.

"He doesn't need me, and I certainly don't need him." NO, MIND, IT IS NOT DENIAL AND YOU ARE A LUNATIC.

The background music was part of the solution! Clever!

AHAHAHAHA TOTALLY GRATUITOUS LEAPING OVER DESK. All the dramatic slowing down and speeding up and changes in music are giving me a severe case of the giggles. Probably not the intended effect, but I never could take these things seriously.

Stop giving each other Looks, you two, I'm trying to be sane here.

Oh, God, it's a clash between principles and trying to prevent what he knows will happen in the future. This is interesting - what do you do if you know the future actions the criminal would take if he were let out?

...well, er, what can you do? I doubt the jury will take his word for it. But he could withhold the doctor's note in an attempt to change things. Would that be ethical, though, even if he knows that the man will kill again? Not showing them it could save a girl's life.

I really like the voices he hears from the 'real' world. Also when he realises that something in the past affects the future. I just generally like it when his real world and his current world collide.

ER, SAM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? RUNNING AWAY FROM THE HYPNOTHERAPIST WHO IS SAYING 'LISTEN TO ME AND YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS'? SILLY BOY.

Oh, okay, he's going to jump off a building. Did the hypnotherapist tell him to do that, or is he just leaping to conclusions? (Also: ACK VERTIGO.)

Conclusion? I'm certainly interested, and will watch the next episode as soon as possible. What worries me is that it looks a prime candidate for Insane Crossovers, as if I needed another of those fandoms.

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"What worries me is that it looks a prime candidate for Insane Crossovers, as if I needed another of those fandoms."

Go on. How can Top Gear be crossed over with Life on Mars?

Well, the main character's actor was the Star In A Reasonably Priced Car on Top Gear in a recent episode, and Clarkson pointed out that the car he drove actually came along later than 1973. So Clarkson gets sent back in time, works alongside Sam, and proves to him that they can't really be in the past because the cars are from the wrong period.

That is ridiculous. I love it and you could easily have Jeremy in some accident as well.

FORD BLOODY CORTINA FANGIRLING, THAT'S HOW.

Though also? Philip Glenister was actually on Top Gear not too long ago, wasn't he?

Pfft, Riona beat me to it, I see. *g*

Riona already seems to have scarily plausible ideas.

OMGLIFEONMARS. I have such love for that show. I skipped revising for exams to watch it. Actually, I think I skipped breathing to watch it. I never even saw the first episode except that bit at the end, but whoa, it grows on you. Especially Philip Glenister.

Also, the Doctor Who crossover? It already exists, and is amazing.

YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL OMG. YOU WATCHED IT! AT LAST! EVIDENTLY I AM BRILLIANT AT SPREADING THE JOY OF FANDOMS.

I love the fact that you have gone into crazy, crazy speculation already. The show will drive you absolutely nuts like that.

...I was grinning in the particular lunatic way my friends have dubbed the 'Obsessive Grin'. Oh dear. This does not bode well, unless you are gayjunglefever.

WHEE!

Sam is absolutely lovely, is he not? How dare you say his eyes are funny! Though he does look vaguely like Pete Tyler, I must admit.

As horribly backwards as most of the coppers are at the 1973!station, I do rather like a few them, as well as the whole general atmosphere, really. For some reason, Gene can be a horrible misogynist bent bastard and yet I still absolutely love him.

Ignoring the terrible facial hair, ISN'T THAT SCENE WITH THE TELEVISION FANTASTIC? Sam breaks my heart omg. The angst!

HAAHAHAHAHH YOU ARE SLASHING ALREADY, GENIUS. If you can already appreciate the Sam/Gene, you must see the second episode, because you will die. Not to ruin it for you, but there is a ridiculously slashy moment quite close to the a dramatic scene near the end (very blink-and-you-miss-it, unfortunately) and just, yes. Omgflail!

I really like the voices he hears from the 'real' world. Also when he realises that something in the past affects the future. I just generally like it when his real world and his current world collide.

That? Is why I love you. Because it's exactly those bits that make me enjoy Life on Mars so much, and why I am so very fond of Sam himself. DUDE, WE ARE THE SAME PERSON!

(Also? You're yelling at the characters already. That is most definitely a good sign. *g*)

Seriously, Life on Mars is already doing very strange things to my head indeed. I dread to think how bizarre my speculation will become when I've seen more than one episode.

HIS EYES ARE WEIRD. Someday I will work out how, and then I will be able to defend this statement.

The scene with the television did make me very distressed on Sam's behalf. I can't even begin to imagine how weird that would be. "OH GOD I'M HERE I'M HERE LISTEN TO ME."

There's something very endearing about Sam, really. I really like him in all his confusion and distress and inexplicable adorability.

Thank you for forcing me to watch this, and indeed for introducing me to three different fandoms in rapid succession, thereby further making me your clone.

YAY YOU ARE WATCHING LIFE ON MARS.

And it gets incredibly slashy. Watch episode two! Go! Go!

Also re. lunatic crossovers: VERY MUCH SO WITH DOCTOR WHO OH YES.

It is slashy. Gene calls Sam "Gladys" (apparently twice, but I'm not sure). And you should see the next episode, hee. That, plus the whole macho alpha male thing just makes me grin like anything. Love the slash vibes.

I still think Sam and Rose are distantly related somewhere, and that there should be a better crossover than what's currently written. Heh.

As for other crossovers, it's worryingly easy, too. You have been warned.

Gene calls Sam "Gladys"

You realise, of course, that now my mind has been flung into the frankly terrifying realm of Life on Mars/Scrubs? And I'm already beginning to think that it would probably go quite marvellously with Silent Hill.

I shouldn't be attacked by so many insane crossovers so soon.

That's what I thought. Although... I can never figure out the logistics of it, so you might be spared. Hee.

Oh, it would go brilliantly with Silent Hill. Heh. It practically is already.

I love this show! Loads! I've only seen up to the third episode, but I adore it.

OH GOD IT'S TOO EARLY FOR A LUNATIC SLASH PAIRING.

it's never too early for slash. especially because there's a strange vibe between the two of them.

I am really very relieved to find out that other people have seen the Sam/Gene and I haven't just madly seized upon something that doesn't exist. Thank you for your reassurance!

Hurrah, glad you're enjoying it! I'm not crazy obsessed with it - only watched it once through, and haven't been reading much fic - but I really enjoyed it when I did watch it, and may see it again soon so I can show my husband. What I really like is it does have those twists of time-travel/coma/mystery, but basically it's a really cracking 1970s copper show.

Sam's last name is Tyler because apparently the writer asked his little daughter to suggest a last name, and she said Tyler, and he did it and only later found out she'd suggested it because she'd been watching DW and Rose Tyler was a time-traveller. The crossovers are built into the very foundation of the show.

Sam's last name is Tyler because apparently the writer asked his little daughter to suggest a last name, and she said Tyler, and he did it and only later found out she'd suggested it because she'd been watching DW and Rose Tyler was a time-traveller.

That is so incredibly cool, but is probably going to make it alarmingly difficult for me to resist the crossover ideas that are already - already! - threatening to overwhelm me.

"OH GOD IT'S TOO EARLY FOR A LUNATIC SLASH PAIRING."

That reminds me.

Have the slasher's guide to Life on Mars (http://severa.livejournal.com/878389.html). She did one for all eight episodes.

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