rionaleonhart | DI Tyler Thinks He's From The Future. Cuckoo.

I loved that it said "And now, Life on Mars. In colour." before the episode. Hee!

OH MY GOD, SAM IS INSANE. (Well, we knew that already, of course, but he spent this episode being even more insane than usual.) I thought it started slowly at first - at the beginning, I was thinking 'oh no, do I not love Life on Mars any more?' - but then oh my God, I was absolutely hooked.

It's very different to the last time Sam had a very personal interest in a case (Episode Six in the last series, the case parallelling his mother's decision to have his life support turned off): there, he was being especially cautious for fear that somebody might die; here, he is being especially ruthless for fear that the suspect will get away. It was interesting to see Sam and Gene being, essentially, completely reversed. And then, of course, they eventually joined forces and were awesome, as always.

I somehow managed to find "we thought you'd like to die together" adorable, which is weird, frankly.

I loved it when Sam came out of the car, and he stumbled and collapsed and told Gene to go after the criminal, but instead Gene came back and helped him up. The Sam/Gene is still alive and well in this series, obviously.

And Gene respects Annie now, which is really rather lovely.

THERE WAS, HOWEVER, NO WALLSLAMMING. HOW CAN THERE BE NO WALLSLAMMING? DID GENE PHYSICALLY ATTACK SAM AT ALL? HOW CAN THERE BE AN EPISODE OF LIFE ON MARS WITHOUT GENE PUNCHING SAM IN THE GUT OR SLAMMING HIM AGAINST A WALL?

I was not able to watch Episode Two tonight, so please don't spoil me for that.

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Askfjdslkfj wasn't it fantastic? Oh, I'd missed them all so much. Despite the fact that Sam = scarily unhinged. Obviously, the storyline was great, and I loved, as you said, the sense of role reversal, but I got the impression that maybe the episode should have come a little later in the series? Just so we could get a feel for Sam's character as he is usually, before introducing a factor to ...make him go loco. Same goes for the Sam/Annie near-kiss - way too soon. But then again, they're both rather boring me these days.

The lack of Sam/Gene wallslamming was distressing indeed, but don't worry, the second ep makes up for it. (If you've seen the advert, I need only say the word 'boot'.) And plus, there was so much flirting at the start of the ep, eee!

Also, is it bad that Sam/Tony Crane is my new on-crack hatesex OTP?

I definitely felt that it could have been better later on. It was certainly a very good episode to draw me back in very fast, but it probably wasn't great if there were any new viewers watching.

I cannot believe that that didn't occur to me (I DO NOT DESERVE TO CALL MYSELF A SLASHER), and now I think that it may be mine as well.

Ahaha, my mother is one of said new viewers and she did nothing but sit there looking dumbfounded, questioning everything that was happening, proclaim her extreme dislike of "the crazy one that thinks he's from the future" (cue my indignant squeaking) and then eventually giving up and just cooing about how they've done it so well and it's all so very 70s. No, really?

Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't mention - EVEN MORE USAGE OF GIRLS' NAMES ASJFDSDJFKJSDLF. Daphne! Dorothy!

Thus begins my campaign to make you write it, you do realise?

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