Being alive and feeling alive just isn't the same (or, all the ways Sam Tyler broke my little heart)
That goes without saying, but I loved it. Loved this episode, loved the series, loved the characters, loved the way it's told, and filmed, and the way it sounds. EVERYTHING. My love, it is big. ♥
Okay, so I gotta start by saying that I was sort of spoiled during my search for a LoM icon *points to icon* but all I knew was that Sam would jump off the roof. Even though he was wearing a modern suit, my brain decided that meant he would jump off the roof in 1973 to get back to 2007, and I was so convinced about it it's almost funny. So. Shock and surprise much? Oh yes, and I liked that. (The first thing my mom asked me today when I told her I'd finished the series? "WHAT HAPPENS. TELL ME, TELL ME NOW." So I did, because she's a sucker for spoilers, but I really would've hated to miss that element of surprise.
So. Sam Tyler's journey through Wonderland, huh?
For starters, this one was one of the best episodes in the entire series (if not the best), in terms of writing. It has an incredible atmosphere, and it honestly kept me at my edge of my seat (when the title card girl appeared for the first time I swear I jumped). Frank Morgan was well constructed and after he told Sam his story I honestly wanted him to go back to 2007 if only because if anything was real it all had such a grim, grim prospect - it was a good thing to add, though, because by this time everyone and their mothers had already realized Sam WAS in a coma, but the whole 'You're Sam Williams, you have amnesia' thing managed to turn things around and create more of a question in everyone's minds.
Okay, all of the slow-motion scenes in the train tunnel ara a bit over dramatic, but they work, so it doesn't matter. Sam waking up was incredibly painful, and I'm guessing it wasn't so only for me. It just seemed... wrong, in some amount, and it's so heartbreakening. And then the scene on the roof. añlsdkjfalskdjf. So well done, and to have someone commiting suicide and turn into somewhat of a positive thing is a scary thing to do but so well portrayed (SIMM. OH MAN, SIMM DESERVES AN AWARD FOR THAT MOMENT.) and of course, to top it all off with David Bowie's song... añlskjfañsklj.
2007 is all about grey-ish blues, but 1973 is all vibrant greens and oranges and reds, and it does feel like Sam comes back to life instead or running of into the sunset of afterlife in a Ford Cortina. AND ANNIE. They're both oh so cute. Then that line, "I always hated that channel" and Sam chaning the station and the girl from the tv turning off another metaphorical tv, well, it just reinforces the surreal feeling of the series and it was just lovely.
Sure, it hurts to think Gene and Annie and that world isn't real, and that Sam is dead, but it all seemed so happy, you know? And for Sam it was real, so that's all it matters, I guess. And all right, my perfect choice for an ending would've been actual time traveling, but it just wasn't likely and this was an incredible ending anyway.
Mostly, I'm just heartbroken to think the actual series is over. Sure, Ashes to Ashes is coming and the remake, which I know I'll hate, but it just won't be the same. If it wasn't enough, I've been torturing myself and been listening to Life on Mars? all morning long (with small breaks to listen to Space Oddity and woah, but I need to have more Bowie like, now) and been sniffling all hurt-like everytime. I-- I miss it already. *cries*
Okay, so I gotta start by saying that I was sort of spoiled during my search for a LoM icon *points to icon* but all I knew was that Sam would jump off the roof. Even though he was wearing a modern suit, my brain decided that meant he would jump off the roof in 1973 to get back to 2007, and I was so convinced about it it's almost funny. So. Shock and surprise much? Oh yes, and I liked that. (The first thing my mom asked me today when I told her I'd finished the series? "WHAT HAPPENS. TELL ME, TELL ME NOW." So I did, because she's a sucker for spoilers, but I really would've hated to miss that element of surprise.
So. Sam Tyler's journey through Wonderland, huh?
For starters, this one was one of the best episodes in the entire series (if not the best), in terms of writing. It has an incredible atmosphere, and it honestly kept me at my edge of my seat (when the title card girl appeared for the first time I swear I jumped). Frank Morgan was well constructed and after he told Sam his story I honestly wanted him to go back to 2007 if only because if anything was real it all had such a grim, grim prospect - it was a good thing to add, though, because by this time everyone and their mothers had already realized Sam WAS in a coma, but the whole 'You're Sam Williams, you have amnesia' thing managed to turn things around and create more of a question in everyone's minds.
Okay, all of the slow-motion scenes in the train tunnel ara a bit over dramatic, but they work, so it doesn't matter. Sam waking up was incredibly painful, and I'm guessing it wasn't so only for me. It just seemed... wrong, in some amount, and it's so heartbreakening. And then the scene on the roof. añlsdkjfalskdjf. So well done, and to have someone commiting suicide and turn into somewhat of a positive thing is a scary thing to do but so well portrayed (SIMM. OH MAN, SIMM DESERVES AN AWARD FOR THAT MOMENT.) and of course, to top it all off with David Bowie's song... añlskjfañsklj.
2007 is all about grey-ish blues, but 1973 is all vibrant greens and oranges and reds, and it does feel like Sam comes back to life instead or running of into the sunset of afterlife in a Ford Cortina. AND ANNIE. They're both oh so cute. Then that line, "I always hated that channel" and Sam chaning the station and the girl from the tv turning off another metaphorical tv, well, it just reinforces the surreal feeling of the series and it was just lovely.
Sure, it hurts to think Gene and Annie and that world isn't real, and that Sam is dead, but it all seemed so happy, you know? And for Sam it was real, so that's all it matters, I guess. And all right, my perfect choice for an ending would've been actual time traveling, but it just wasn't likely and this was an incredible ending anyway.
Mostly, I'm just heartbroken to think the actual series is over. Sure, Ashes to Ashes is coming and the remake, which I know I'll hate, but it just won't be the same. If it wasn't enough, I've been torturing myself and been listening to Life on Mars? all morning long (with small breaks to listen to Space Oddity and woah, but I need to have more Bowie like, now) and been sniffling all hurt-like everytime. I-- I miss it already. *cries*