celebrating 22 years of consumerist living. oh and ashes to ashes, whaddya know.
Gosh, laziest birthday ever.
All my presents are coming later on, as dad is buying me a TV, mum is buying me a TV stand and I got €50 from a relative, which inspired me to feed the DVD addiction with the following play.com purchase:
Life on Mars (series one & two)
Ashes to Ashes (series one & two)
Um, obsessed, what, me? Looks like this whole "marathon a British show, then impulsively buy it on DVD" is becoming a summer tradition for me. Press Gang last year, now A2A. Not good, I know I should be saving my paychecks like a motherfucker, especially as I'm not earning as much this year as I thought I would.
A pretty friggin' fantastic pimp post for Ashes to Ashes, in case some of you are beginning to get lured in by my spammy posts. (Which I'm mostly writing for myself since I think only one flist person has watched the show.)
Been also reading a bunch of theorizing in regards to the show today. A part of why I love A2A is how it starts piecing together the larger picture of the world LoM only really scratched the surface of. Or, to be honest, that's what the makers are promising us with S3 of A2A. There's no way of saying whether they can deliver on that promise. But stuff like Gene's role, whether he's real or not, What Really Happened To Sam, all of that's supposedly getting revealed.
It seems like some popular theories in the fandom are Dead Molly Is Dead and the evolved SuperTheory of the same idea (basically arguing that Molly is the one who got shot and Alex got shot because she attempted suicide, so distraught by Molly's death that she tried to off herself and in a coma her mind created this imaginary existence based on Sam Tyler's case - also some believe Sam had a similar thing going). Here's a post on the SuperTheory which is quite elegantly written. And here's about Dead Molly Being Dead.
I find all of this really fascinating in a sense of, wow, some fans are truly devoted and if even half of A2A is as thought-through as some of the fan theories, then this is a bloody clever show. That's a bit caveat of fan theories, I guess, because writers have more to do than spend all their times piecing together the clues of what's to come but at the same time, it's clear with all the foreshadowing of things that they are putting thought into it.
Like the heavily hinted at possibility of Gene being the Charon (the particular way he holds certain people as they die in S2, Sally the Manc girl, SuperMac and lastly Summers), which I think is one of the most believable theories out there, and something I'll definitely keep in mind when watching the eventual 3rd series.
As it stands now, I'm pretty sure Alex is in a coma within a coma, or as I saw somebody suggest, the two worlds are mixing/leaking into one another, which is also fascinating. But something I can't really figure out is why Sam could go home without traces of the past escaping into his modern world, but Alex can't. And how this one post pointed out how every time Alex is like "I'm going home soon," Gene's replies are all "You're not going until I say so". Like she can't get home without his approval. Because in the larger scheme of things, he's in charge. But does he know it?
Basically, it's a beautiful mindfuck. :D
Which is why it saddens me that it seems that so many people out there are so keen to hate on this show because it doesn't reach their LoM-set up standards. I do agree that some aspects of A2A are way more outrageous and over-the-top when compared to LoM and that can be a turn off for some, but A2A has the same brand of clever nostalgia and world-building and intrigue, especially during S1. And in so many ways, A2A is finishing the puzzle LoM laid out in front of us.
I don't know. I also agree with some that Gene Hunt's character was custom-made for the 70's but perhaps not so much for the 80's. Regardless, I like his character a lot in A2A because he's ever-so-slightly toned down in here. Of course, it's tough to compare since I've not actually seen LoM for ages.
(Oh I also saw a mention of a cracky theory that maybe while Alex wakes up in 2008, the team also land in that reality. Makes no sense as to why they would but god it would make for some awesome cracky situations. Too out there, though, definitely.)
GOD I really have no idea what they can do with S3 which kind of makes me worried. Can it really work with her being in one world and the rest of the team being in another? As intriguing as that premise might be, they need to have interaction between the two, because as much as it's a beautiful mindfuck sci-fi-ish flavored show, it's also a comical nostalgia bath of a cop show. Both elements need to be there in order for the whole thing to work.
Okay, that's enough words on a show nobody else watches. Going to leave this one unlocked for no reason in particular.
All my presents are coming later on, as dad is buying me a TV, mum is buying me a TV stand and I got €50 from a relative, which inspired me to feed the DVD addiction with the following play.com purchase:
Life on Mars (series one & two)
Ashes to Ashes (series one & two)
Um, obsessed, what, me? Looks like this whole "marathon a British show, then impulsively buy it on DVD" is becoming a summer tradition for me. Press Gang last year, now A2A. Not good, I know I should be saving my paychecks like a motherfucker, especially as I'm not earning as much this year as I thought I would.
A pretty friggin' fantastic pimp post for Ashes to Ashes, in case some of you are beginning to get lured in by my spammy posts. (Which I'm mostly writing for myself since I think only one flist person has watched the show.)
Been also reading a bunch of theorizing in regards to the show today. A part of why I love A2A is how it starts piecing together the larger picture of the world LoM only really scratched the surface of. Or, to be honest, that's what the makers are promising us with S3 of A2A. There's no way of saying whether they can deliver on that promise. But stuff like Gene's role, whether he's real or not, What Really Happened To Sam, all of that's supposedly getting revealed.
It seems like some popular theories in the fandom are Dead Molly Is Dead and the evolved SuperTheory of the same idea (basically arguing that Molly is the one who got shot and Alex got shot because she attempted suicide, so distraught by Molly's death that she tried to off herself and in a coma her mind created this imaginary existence based on Sam Tyler's case - also some believe Sam had a similar thing going). Here's a post on the SuperTheory which is quite elegantly written. And here's about Dead Molly Being Dead.
I find all of this really fascinating in a sense of, wow, some fans are truly devoted and if even half of A2A is as thought-through as some of the fan theories, then this is a bloody clever show. That's a bit caveat of fan theories, I guess, because writers have more to do than spend all their times piecing together the clues of what's to come but at the same time, it's clear with all the foreshadowing of things that they are putting thought into it.
Like the heavily hinted at possibility of Gene being the Charon (the particular way he holds certain people as they die in S2, Sally the Manc girl, SuperMac and lastly Summers), which I think is one of the most believable theories out there, and something I'll definitely keep in mind when watching the eventual 3rd series.
As it stands now, I'm pretty sure Alex is in a coma within a coma, or as I saw somebody suggest, the two worlds are mixing/leaking into one another, which is also fascinating. But something I can't really figure out is why Sam could go home without traces of the past escaping into his modern world, but Alex can't. And how this one post pointed out how every time Alex is like "I'm going home soon," Gene's replies are all "You're not going until I say so". Like she can't get home without his approval. Because in the larger scheme of things, he's in charge. But does he know it?
Basically, it's a beautiful mindfuck. :D
Which is why it saddens me that it seems that so many people out there are so keen to hate on this show because it doesn't reach their LoM-set up standards. I do agree that some aspects of A2A are way more outrageous and over-the-top when compared to LoM and that can be a turn off for some, but A2A has the same brand of clever nostalgia and world-building and intrigue, especially during S1. And in so many ways, A2A is finishing the puzzle LoM laid out in front of us.
I don't know. I also agree with some that Gene Hunt's character was custom-made for the 70's but perhaps not so much for the 80's. Regardless, I like his character a lot in A2A because he's ever-so-slightly toned down in here. Of course, it's tough to compare since I've not actually seen LoM for ages.
(Oh I also saw a mention of a cracky theory that maybe while Alex wakes up in 2008, the team also land in that reality. Makes no sense as to why they would but god it would make for some awesome cracky situations. Too out there, though, definitely.)
GOD I really have no idea what they can do with S3 which kind of makes me worried. Can it really work with her being in one world and the rest of the team being in another? As intriguing as that premise might be, they need to have interaction between the two, because as much as it's a beautiful mindfuck sci-fi-ish flavored show, it's also a comical nostalgia bath of a cop show. Both elements need to be there in order for the whole thing to work.
Okay, that's enough words on a show nobody else watches. Going to leave this one unlocked for no reason in particular.