"When I want advice from a lobotomized Essex girl, I will ask for it!"

[intrikate88]

Now that we've come to the end of series two of Ashes to Ashes and Some Stuff has happened that is strange and significant in mysterious ways, I think it is high time to go back and analyse once again the complexities of the first instances of Alex being totes crazycakes episode. Because I can both do my job AND have my iPod playing episodes,

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[ohvienna]

I believe this applies to the small screen as well.

Cha it does! Of course it does. TV as a lesser medium than film as an intellectual argument makes me bonkers.

For the entirety of this sequence, Alex's face is also bisected by the line of the glass window.

Really like this analysis of this shot! As well as the deconstructing of the ways in which people are seeing things around them, and how Alex doesn't quite.

And that you picked up on all of the glass/mirrors usage. It really plays into one of the producers stated references, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (the second one especially) (And Alex's name ain't so similar sounding by chance

[intrikate88]

And that you picked up on all of the glass/mirrors usage. It really plays into one of the producers stated references, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (the second one especially) (And Alex's name ain't so similar sounding by chance).

Oh my dear sweet fluffy Buddha, I never realized that. *has teh dumb* So bloody obvious.

TV as a lesser medium than film as an intellectual argument makes me bonkers.AHHH me too. It's not even that people are too boring to analyse stuff (okay, well, yes it is) but its that show directors fall for it too, and that's why not every show is brilliant in its use of symbols and themes and so on. When they totes should be

[ohvienna]

God I can ramble.

One more thing.

Since Gene Hunt was the man who actually took care of her at the scene of the car explosion

Just wondering! Do you believe this? As in, actual Alex reality true? I'm fairly 100% certain that he wasn't really there (as I'm also pretty damn sure he's not a real person, I'd be bummed to the extreme if they went that way). She conflating things in her mind, themes and Gene as guardian figure and etc. etc.

[intrikate88]

Just wondering! Do you believe this? As in, actual Alex reality true?

Yes! No! Sorta! No! ...not exactly! Like, if my theory is anything remotely even close, then Gene was at the explosion. Then he goes away and Alex never sees him again and actual Gene Hunt doesn't matter. Maybe that's not even his name, maybe we can go CRAZIER and try to make that name mean something, but because he was there the Gene Genie becomes the central figure in little Alex's fantasy coping mechanism.

[ohvienna]

Go crazier, just because I don't think that Gene exists in the "real world" AT ALL. There could have been someone there in that role at the scene, IMO, someone who happened to be there that wasn't Evan, just not anyone having to do with the Gene Hunt we know in that kind of very specific way. I am kind of a giant stickler for the "Gene Hunt isn't real!!" thing. ;)

[intrikate88]

Gene Hunt anagrams... Teen Hung (erk?), Eng He Nut, Gent Eh Un (well, she is always invading the gents' toilet... that's another strange occurrance that may have some gender-bending significance), He Ten Gun, The En Gun... oh, fuck it. Maybe its supposed to rhyme with something.

I don't know if Gene is real. I want him to be real... but it occurs to me that may not, actually, be based on critical analysis. :P

Though didn't Alex ask "Why on earth would my subconscious generate something like YOU?" which is sort of what we're all asking, really.

[ohvienna]

Also! You should totes post this to a2ashes. People need to be understanding how rich and glorious this scene is.

[intrikate88]

Clearly you are brilliant. Have cookies.

[mizz_magenta]

Ooh, really interesting read! :)

I don't know the building featured in the beginning. However, the statue is part of Andrew Gormleys's 'Another Place'. Telling in itself and a wonderful LOM tie-in.

[intrikate88]

Ooh, that really is an interesting tie-in, there. Thanks!

[gregorypeck]

OR Gene Hunt is a Timelord. That is my other theory.

YES. XD