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

[rionaleonhart]

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.

Comments

[wolfenkahlon.livejournal.com]

Sam is extremely nuts isn't he? You'd think he'd try to reign it in a bit after that guy was dragged of to the funny farm for saying, y'know similar things.

The Hungarians were, well sort of impossible not to like in spite of everything just because they were so dim. That one probably would have held on to Chris forever if someone hadn't told him to let go.

Gene did knock down his door, and they did do a synchronised punch again.

Chris is even more brilliant and ZOMG plot bomb at the end! I was going to post about my theories, but now they are all turned on their heads.

I'm amazed at Annie's willingness to put up with Sam, although she did get a promotion out of him. I haven't watched much House but I have to wonder if she's got some sort of Cameron thing going on.

[rionaleonhart]

I so expected Sam and Insane Man to bond, or at least for Insane Man to be relevant in some way, and then Insane Man just vanished and was never heard from again! (Um, unless he turns up in a future episode, but the episodes are generally pretty self-contained, so I think that's unlikely.)

Hee, I did like Chris and the Eternal Headlock. Nobody did anything about it!

I don't think Annie is really very Cameron-ish at all, but I may only be blinded to their similarities because their accents are so different.

[wolfenkahlon.livejournal.com]

Insane man appeared to be just a plot point "This is how we deal with crazy people in 1973." and a as a sort of freaky parallel thing, Sam, this could be you! I wonder what he thought was going on though? "It's all just a BBC TV show! In the future! I thought it was over, but now they're doing another series! All those people, watching us!"

It's mostly just the 'sticking by people even though (because?) they're hopelessly doomed/insane' thing.

Oh god, now I'm thinking about House-Life on Mars crossovers.