Ashes to Ashes - 3x04

[qthewetsprocket]

Very late with this one, but seriously, there was SO much stuff in this episode that it was difficult to process it all. I've tried to organize my thoughts and reactions into different categories based on the running themes I've noticed so far this season.

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[oncelikeshari]

We never say sandbox over here, we've always left out kids to play in pits *lol*

[qthewetsprocket]

Honestly, someone should call Child Services...leaving your kids in sandpits and making them eat spotted dick and only giving them tea for dinner; it's an outrage! ;)

Of course, all of our words for sex acts are unsettlingly violent ("banging", "jerking off", "hitting on someone", "I'd hit that"), so I suppose we Yanks can't really point the finger where disturbing slang is concerned.

[thisiszircon]

I'm working on a theory atm, the gist of which is that Gene was like Chris when he was killed: a nervous, awkward young cop who worshipped his hardass DCI, and wanted to be like him so much that he DID become him when he found himself in a world where he could be whoever he liked.

Ooh. Interesting.

Lots of shots of Gene behind the slats of the venetian blinds, almost like he's in a prison cell. The copper's limbo = his prison?

Way back in 3.1 (remember all those weeks ago?) the closing shot, after Keats had done his OMG!HATE routine, was of Gene looking out through the prison bars vertical blinds. And Keats had just said the words, "You can't leave here no matter what happens. This place defines you." So yeah, I'm thinking that this place is effectively a prison for Gene

[qthewetsprocket]

Way back in 3.1 (remember all those weeks ago?)

*nods* That's the exact shot that got me thinking "prison bars", right there.

(If Gene = ghost!cop then he'd have no idea what the 1980s look like, right? Having died decades earlier.) It's the memories and experiences of Gene!world's inhabitants that make the world real and interesting.

Yeah, that's an idea I've only just started playing with this series...before that, I'd been working on the assumption that the copper's limbo existed as its own entity, independent of the souls within it (which it still might; I dunno). But this series they seem to be focusing more on Gene as the "heart" of the whole thing, and if he was killed in the 1950's, the only possible explanation that makes any sense is that the copper's limbo is sustaining itself through the memories of the souls it attracts.

I think there's a good solid reason why Chris hasn't had a Bowieflash yet, and probably won't. But that's another post for a different day. :)

[thisiszircon]

Thanks for the link. Dunno how I missed that post. I might have been frightened of spoilers, so for the record -- very much appreciate your attention to flagging such things in your posts.

I ♥ your theory, btw. Even the cracktastic Sam=Keats part. But I like cracktastic in and of itself, anyway.