I need some LoM/AtA icons
I finished Life on Mars. To be honest, I started the show pretty much knowing how it would end (having absorbed a lot of information about what happens in the finale simply through reading my flist during the time it aired, though not intentionally trying to spoil myself) but I still enjoyed the finale nonetheless. My recollections were vague, but
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I know, A2A is really funny like that. I was so certain there was no way Gene up against a woman would work, it'd just be uncomfortably misogynistic jokes hurled at her, but I guess that's the strength of Alex's character, she's so strong and has attitude and the smarts to battle both Gene and her situation. I wasn't sure whether I actually shipped them for a while but I think by the end of series 1 I was on board.
Ray and Chris are so awesome in A2A, too. I was shocked, rewatching LoM, how little lines Ray had in the first episodes. Then again, the actor is so fantastic, he can say so much with just one look, it's like he didn't need lines. But Ray's really great in A2A, though he never loses his essence.
Edit: Plenty of good icons in a2ashes and hmm, I forget which is the main LoM comm but you can find it easy enough, I'm sure. Oh and I have to recommend seeking out some fanvids of LoM and A2A once you finish series 1 of that, because this fandom has some amazing vidders. Some of the best fanvids I've seen, period.
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I think it helps that gene was toned down a bit from his Life on Mars counter part. cause I keep thinking LOM gene would have been way more awful to alex and not to mention viv. It makes sense that he'd mellow out a bit over the years so I'm glad the writers did that with him. I was totally skeptical about gene working with a woman at first too though and I actually tuned in originally just to see how that would work. I didnt know anything else about the show at that point.
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He was very free and very confident in his own power, though Sam often highlighted Gene's very real drawbacks as a person and how his lifestyle was damaging to him. and LOM Gene was very much NOT a hero or really even a good guy, though he wasnt show to be without his good points. But I think I liked how LOM Gene was not made to be a hero whereas in A2A he gets the hero role which I think doesnt really jive with me very well but A2A gene is a better person and cop than LOM gene and that makes his rise to hero dom more palatable to me.
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True, true. There's time between the two shows and Gene's moved from his "comfort zone" from Manchester to London, which he hates, so I guess it makes sense he's a little bit of a different character, too. Plus the police culture around him is changing, making him a dinosaur and Sam-style policing the new deal. In light of that, it makes sense that he's different, that he has a woman for a DI and that he actually learns to value her (as a copper and a partner).
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I do think it's odd that Gene accepted Alex as his partner so quickly, cause last we saw him he was being pretty awful to Annie. and until Alex showed up, the only other woman in his dept was Shaz who has a job not much different from Annie's in LOM. So while I'm glad he never treated Alex very badly. I always found it odd how he seemed ok with her from the beginning even if he was clearly skeptical about her sanity (with good reason really). But yeah LOM was gene in his heyday while A2A is gene feeling like he's finally getting old and becoming irrelevant.
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One thing I find pretty amazing is how an insult of calling her Bollinger knickers has turned into an affectionate term of sorts..
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