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

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw a few of them (there was some reason I didn't see them all, because they were right up my street) and I enjoyed them a lot.

A ghost story?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think I have them on tape somewhere. It's possible I even have them on DVD, now I come to think of it...

I guess ghost stories for me are about coming to a fuller understanding of the past, usually about some wrong which has been committed but won't be put to rest till justice is done. The past is haunting Sam in some way; Sam is haunting the past.