What planet?

[altariel]

I suspect I'm the last to see this, but... You know how anything can be improved by including a spaceship? Turns out to be not true. (Thanks, ms_manna, and yes, I am sharing your pain.)

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I hadn't watched the US Life on Mars, but... this doesn't really make me want to. Oh dear.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow 0_0

I watched the first ep of US LoM out of nosiness, and it was kind of fun, but didn't inspire me to watch the rest of it. I'd been wondering how closely it stuck to the UK version.

Apparently, not very.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Jesus wept.

[manna]

I wish we could've had the episode to show at Redemption. See, there ARE worse things out there then house!elf!Doctor.

[bill-leisner.livejournal.com]

On behalf of my entire nation, my most sincere apologies.

[trixieleitz]

*brainspasm*

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I haven't seen you around here lately, I don't think.

I've been avoiding spoilers for LoM because I haven't watched it yet and might yet do that, but I'm not hearing great things about how it ended. Comments here in your LJ make me think I might be disappointed if I bother.

Hard to beat the UK original. Though its ending was a little unsatisfying, II'm thinking it lacked the cheese factor of the US version.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean Cumaean!Sibyl!Doctor?

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

WTF?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So it was ALL A DREAM? Man, I hate that whole concept.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Does that mean they go to solve crime... in spaaaaace?

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Worse than that - it was all a holodeck-gone-wrong story all along!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, the Obama credit is still high. But no more of this kind of nonsense! *wags finger*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And then turned his back on us.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Argh! *claws eyes*

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

It's also going to bugger up Ron Moore's new "Virtuality" show, about folks on a space mission who are given a VR life to lead to keep them sane. Aside from the sheer shiteness of making an entirely holodeck-based series, now all the viewers will just go "huh, it's just ripoff of Life On Mars"...

[trixieleitz]

Do they have to be So. Damn. Literal?! Aaaaugh!

Not gonna rant about the biology fail, notgonna notgonna notgonna....
*sits on hands*
*clicks post with nose*

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

If so, can we get David Calder into the cast?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh crap. I'd regard the whole series as a waste of my time if I'd watched. Mind you, I wasn't a lot happier with the end of the UK version.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, really.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

STAR COPS!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

My sentiments exactly.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't like the end of the British version either. Although this ending is its evil twin.

[i-smell-shite.livejournal.com]

As long as there is a booth I am happy.

[manna]

Looking back, though, 'And then he killed himself because a world where a detective has to attend staff meetings and isn't allowed to harass female colleagues or beat confessions out of suspects just isn't a world worth living in' does explain how Ashes to Ashes was so crap.

[manna]

Ever since I watched it, I have this urge to go around shouting 'They're going to CURE CANCER with GENETIC DNA from MARS!' at people. How is it possible to pack so much stupidity into one concept?

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

GET INTO THE ROCKET YOU SLAAAAAAAG.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

WE'RE THE SPACE SWEENEY AND WE HAVEN'T HAD OUR FOOD PILLS.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Grim, isn't it?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's a direct line between them, alas.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the ending to the British LoM very much, but this plumbs new depths.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*waves!* I've been slack about posting here: I've been working on the Never-Ending Short Story, and also playing at Note:Books.

I have to confess I didn't much like the second season of UK LoM (and I really didn't like the ending). I haven't seen anything of the US version apart from this clip, which isn't persuading me to see more!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Note:books makes me think I really ought to start reading real things again.

Do audiobooks count there?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm finding it helpful to keep a note of what I've been thinking about what I've been reading, without having to go to the effort of writing a lengthy review. (I'm posting those occasionally at altarielbooklog and Library Thing.)

Audiobooks are fine - at least that's what the FAQ implies: "If one person has read a hardcover classics edition of Moby-Dick and another person has read a mass-market paperback, and a third listened to an audiobook, it's all Melville's text — and it's the text that counts."

Let me know if you sign up!

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

PUT YOUR SPACESUIT BACK ON SON YOU'RE NICKED

[altariel.livejournal.com]

LITTER. MAKES THE HOVERCAR LOOK GOOD.

[trixieleitz]

Yeah, "genetic" DNA, like there's any other kind.

And the bit about homeostatic systems returning to normal (am NOT going to watch it again to get the exact quote) - if they're homeostatic, they would have been at "normal" the whole time, otherwise everyone would have been DEAD.

Ooops, I seem to have ranted.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

*facepalm*

Apparently, not everything is better in space... Or somebody's seen too many holodeck episodes of Star Trek. Or both.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It gives holodeck episodes a bad name.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Well... I preferred the garbled second-hand version I'd heard, which skipped over the sentimental crap. But the basic premise I quite like. Because it's achieved what Graham and co failed to do: a Plan C.

I didn't dislike the end of the original in the way some people did. But I was slightly disappointed that, given the fans had already explored every conceivable angle of Plan A (Sam returns to 2006 or 2007, and stays there applying lessons learned in 1973) and Plan B (Sam returns, decides he was happier/played a more useful role in 1973, and takes the definitive step back), the writers hadn't got an alternative none of us had imagined.

So now I'm hoping the Spanish have come up with a Plan D, and that every remake ends with a new explanation which is pure crack.

Also, it seems to reduce the nasty taste left by Graham saying "Yeah, we pretended there were several possible solutions as a publicity stunt, but it was obviously a post-accident coma dream, I don't know why everyone didn't see that all along." This gives him the lie, and opens it all up again.