Hey, hey here comes Alex no comments

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.