Reggie Perrin returns - didn't he always?
This was a very different beast from the original, but whatever it lost was made up for by the charm of the new. The smart new Groomtech HQ (? I assume - it didn't seem to have a factory attached), like Sunshine Desserts, was as irrelevant a setting as required for the mildly revamped characters.
For those of us who miss the homely seventies ambience there is the Mitchell and Web Look sketches Get Me Hennimore.
Reggie Perrin returns . . . I hope 2 comments
Posted at 1:30 PM in Get Me Hennimore, Mitchell and Web Look, Perrin
Hey, hey there went Alex no comments
Posted at 8:17 PM in Ashes to Ashes, Demons, Life on Mars
Well, that was a rum to-do and no mistake.
It seems like she got back, but unlike Sam has left a (non-functioning) copy of herself behind.
Or has the 1982 version reacted to being shot by propelling her forward to create the future version?
Yeah, ok, there already was a future version - perhaps that one should have died but the upcoming one replaced her. After all, she and Sam seemed to replace someone in the past.
Summers turned out to be a pleasant surprise, after a fashion; a good cop who couldn't hack turning bad and used his farewell trip to atone for what he'd done. I'm not alone in briefly wondering if he wasn't the older version of Chris, but the thought didn't settle well.
He wasn't sufficiently older to have changed that much in appearance, and there was the other Summers already extant. Which still leaves an uncomfortable thorn - why didn't killing his younger self wipe the elder out? Was his original plan to stop himself being involved in the robbery at the cost of his own (limited) life? He didn't seem surprised at surviving his own death - but maybe knew he was already living on/in someone else's borrowed time. And in the future he didn't survive much longer, which is a pisser for present Alex since she can't ask him about how he was aware of both timestreams.
Unfortunately history is repeating itself - the episode was far too remeniscent of when Sam was on LSD/drug mis-dose. The antibiotic dose warnings were an unsubtle device for cranking up the tension (and far too distracting for Alex) and nowhere near as funny as Sam's.
Unlike Demons this has left itself wide open for another series (I think read somewhere that it already has the go-ahead) where Alex has to go back and pull Gene out of the (bullet) hole that he's put himself in. Sam took a pretty drastic leap of faith to get back; will Alex have to shoot herself in the head?
It seems like she got back, but unlike Sam has left a (non-functioning) copy of herself behind.
Or has the 1982 version reacted to being shot by propelling her forward to create the future version?
Yeah, ok, there already was a future version - perhaps that one should have died but the upcoming one replaced her. After all, she and Sam seemed to replace someone in the past.
Summers turned out to be a pleasant surprise, after a fashion; a good cop who couldn't hack turning bad and used his farewell trip to atone for what he'd done. I'm not alone in briefly wondering if he wasn't the older version of Chris, but the thought didn't settle well.
He wasn't sufficiently older to have changed that much in appearance, and there was the other Summers already extant. Which still leaves an uncomfortable thorn - why didn't killing his younger self wipe the elder out? Was his original plan to stop himself being involved in the robbery at the cost of his own (limited) life? He didn't seem surprised at surviving his own death - but maybe knew he was already living on/in someone else's borrowed time. And in the future he didn't survive much longer, which is a pisser for present Alex since she can't ask him about how he was aware of both timestreams.
Unfortunately history is repeating itself - the episode was far too remeniscent of when Sam was on LSD/drug mis-dose. The antibiotic dose warnings were an unsubtle device for cranking up the tension (and far too distracting for Alex) and nowhere near as funny as Sam's.
Unlike Demons this has left itself wide open for another series (I think read somewhere that it already has the go-ahead) where Alex has to go back and pull Gene out of the (bullet) hole that he's put himself in. Sam took a pretty drastic leap of faith to get back; will Alex have to shoot herself in the head?
Hey, hey here comes Alex no comments
Posted at 10:11 PM in Ashes to Ashes, Gene Hunt, Life on Mars
The last Ashes to Ashes - and I missed it!
There I was, all ready to crack open a beer and settle down for 9pm, when Iremembered I had to go out. Hooray for recording systems! Pity I didn't do the same for the First episode . . .
I've fairly much followed the remainder without ever being quite sold on the series, it was an uneasy balance of drama and comedy, with the mix never being quite right.
Alex never had a confidante like Nelson: Luigi was always too busy with a group to focus on her. That's the nature of wine bars with large tables. Not that wine bars ever jelled with Gene, Ray and Chris any better than the en masse move to London.
So does she think she's really there, or does she still hold to her theory of constructs? She's given up musing on it, which was always the weakness of Life on Mars. Like Sam you'd think she'd spend time tryng to prove she is really there (Summers' prescence provides a clue that it is real) and, even without a conrete decision, ponder the how of getting there. And more importantly the WHY.
Both have seemingly overlooked the point that they were expected to be there, had a relevant job waiting for them and a place to live. (Well, Sam had an address to go to; I can't remember if Alex had the flat ready and furnished. She spent the first three days dressed like a prositute which suggests she didn't have a handy wardrobe at home - or did she just not know about it?)
But Summers is an enigma; he seems to be another traveller but comitted the curious act of killing his younger self, suggesting that it can't be real. How convincing was it that Alex helped cover it up? Even more mysteriously: why didn't Alex kick the crap out of him until he told her how he's in touch with her future? Sam had his phone calls from Hyde, but you can't usefully beat up a telephone.
I'll catch up on Thursday.
There I was, all ready to crack open a beer and settle down for 9pm, when Iremembered I had to go out. Hooray for recording systems! Pity I didn't do the same for the First episode . . .
I've fairly much followed the remainder without ever being quite sold on the series, it was an uneasy balance of drama and comedy, with the mix never being quite right.
Alex never had a confidante like Nelson: Luigi was always too busy with a group to focus on her. That's the nature of wine bars with large tables. Not that wine bars ever jelled with Gene, Ray and Chris any better than the en masse move to London.
So does she think she's really there, or does she still hold to her theory of constructs? She's given up musing on it, which was always the weakness of Life on Mars. Like Sam you'd think she'd spend time tryng to prove she is really there (Summers' prescence provides a clue that it is real) and, even without a conrete decision, ponder the how of getting there. And more importantly the WHY.
Both have seemingly overlooked the point that they were expected to be there, had a relevant job waiting for them and a place to live. (Well, Sam had an address to go to; I can't remember if Alex had the flat ready and furnished. She spent the first three days dressed like a prositute which suggests she didn't have a handy wardrobe at home - or did she just not know about it?)
But Summers is an enigma; he seems to be another traveller but comitted the curious act of killing his younger self, suggesting that it can't be real. How convincing was it that Alex helped cover it up? Even more mysteriously: why didn't Alex kick the crap out of him until he told her how he's in touch with her future? Sam had his phone calls from Hyde, but you can't usefully beat up a telephone.
I'll catch up on Thursday.
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