Comments | calixa: I need some LoM/AtA icons

calixa

I need some LoM/AtA icons

Aug 25, 2009 13:00

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 ( Read more... )

tv: ashes to ashes, tv: life on mars, kpop: 2ne1

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fivil August 25 2009, 17:47:25 UTC

I looooooove LoM ending like no other TV ending I've seen so far (most of my biggest favourites, I love their run but the endings tend to be rather dull and not too memorable, or just plain crappy). It's seriously great. The way the music punctuates that scene, just, wow. Initially I hear the director wanted to end it with the leap but I'm glad they tied in what actually happens afterwards; you watch Sam's journey and the ending just has a peacefulness and loveliness to it. And of course, we finally get a kiss ( ... )

sorry to but in! sisterjune August 25 2009, 19:31:38 UTC

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

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.

Re: sorry to but in! calixa August 25 2009, 23:52:06 UTC

I remember reading somewhere that people were disappointed by A2A!Gene because he's lost his bastardly charm or whatever. But logically, LoM!Gene could never have survived in the police force if he DIDN'T change. Things have obviously changed a lot between 1973 and 1981 and if he didn't manage to learn how to be at least a little bit more politically correct he'd have lost his department ages ago. A fact which is highlighted and underlined in the final episode of S1 with Lord Scarman auditing them.

Re: sorry to but in! sisterjune August 26 2009, 15:41:52 UTC

Well in the LJ community that's really a minority who think that way. Because really most of us are women and like the softer less harsh Gene. While I like that he changed, I think his LOM counterpart was more electrifying to watch and had some really intense scenes with sam and I dont mean in the slashy way. and I've yet to see anything that really matches that in A2A but luckily I watch each show for very different reasons. Basically LOM gene kind of personified freedom.
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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darkeyedwolf August 25 2009, 19:27:14 UTC

I love your icon!

calixa August 25 2009, 23:52:30 UTC

Thanks!

sisterjune August 25 2009, 19:38:55 UTC

See I had no idea about the ending and I'm so glad I didnt! I mean I had vague ideas, like sam died and never thought past ep 1 that it was time travel but the actually roof jumping scene was totally a surprise for me (HOLY SHIT indeed). Glad you enjoyed the finale though ( ... )

calixa August 25 2009, 23:46:31 UTC

I think I like both equally too, perhaps with a slight slant towards A2A because of the main character being female. Gene is definitely more of a classic hero figure this time around and I also like him quite a bit more in A2A than I did in LoM. It weirds me out how I ship him and Alex; I just can't wrap my head around actually shipping him with a woman.

breeen August 26 2009, 03:14:56 UTC

I have no idea what anything else is... but BOM! I heart her. I even liked her back when she was on Big Bang's first album. ♥ her voice.

lalumena August 26 2009, 07:25:30 UTC

prettyquotable does gooooorgeous A2A icons, and I assume there'll be a few LoM there too? Otherwise _creations_ has some here and boxed here. :)

And yes! I have a soft spot for Ray. Aaaaand Shazza. She's like, my homegirl. ♥

I like the way they ended LoM too. I mean, on one level it's not a happy ending, but in another way it is? (I love love love that song they use at the end.)