Life on Mars

[altariel]

Further to this interesting discussion on communicator's journal, one of the writers of Life on Mars has been teasing people on the BBC website: "And remember, Rule Britannia is out of bounds, to my mother, my dog and clowns..."

I am liking this show very much, and it is making me think, particularly about nostalgia. Leaving aside the personal questions of what is happening to Sam, I would like to see them brave enough to try an episode about the IRA, and also I am intrigued as to what subtext the show will eventually contain about the period between 1973 and 2006. What it has to say or not say about Thatcherism. And about television. Sam's relationship with his telly is at least as interesting as his relationships with Gene and Annie.

Damn, I wish I had been keeping this on the skybox. I haven't wanted to neurotically close-read anything this much in ages. Well, I'm sure there'll be a DVD release soon enough. My, how times change.

Comments

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I haven't wanted to neurotically close-read anything this much in ages.

Same here! It's amazing. I'm eager to go back through all five eps so far just to be sure I've captured the second-level nuances (I am a very coarse viewer of television--it takes several passes before I notice stuff). It's the only thing I've torrented in months that I've actually considered burning to CD.

It's as discussable as a Joss Whedon show, and in my book, that is a very significant statement.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You couldn't point me to your source of these episodes could you? A friend missed it last week, and doesn't have a VCR for me to send her a copy.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I torrent everything from either Torrentspy or Mininova. I'm at work and can't access those sites now, but all LoM episode torrents seem to stay viable for quite a while.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Passed on, thank you!