"Life on Mars" seaon 2 review
Sep. 19th, 2007 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedi_of_urthWell, I finished LoM a couple days back and having given it some thought, I guess I'll post about it.
Well, I guess I'm assuming that's the end, if there turns out that there will be a season 3 some of my thoughts will be voided.
I'm still not exactly sure what to make of the story, but I will say that it ended exactly the way it was clearly leading to. Season 2 was all about Sam letting go of his old life, and whether or not this one was real it was real enough for him.
I love Sam, which is fortunate since he's the main character of the story. I have enough problems with the show that if I didn't love Sam I probably wouldn't have bothered to keep watching. Alright, that's probably not true because once I start series' it's really hard to walk away from them, but you get my point. I just want Sam to be happy and at peace with his world and I guess he found that in the end. And John Simm does a fantastic job with the role.
Most of the other characters...well aside from Gene and Annie they're kind of just there; but I do find Gene interesting even if I don't like him and I do like Annie even if she seemed a little less central to the story this season (there were a couple episodes where I noted she had as little to do as the other secondary characters).
And some finale specific thoughts, I got a good long giggle over the Hyde Ward Rm 3618 (or whatever the exact number was). It was so funny to me that I was a bit distracted during some of the 2006 sequence. But, while I'm sure it was largely intentional, the 2006 scenes felt very unrealistic. Sam was in a coma for weeks at least, after a hit and run, he would have needed physical therapy. Why was no one there when he got out? Why was he back at work so quickly seemingly without much or any psych evaluation? Why didn't he see Maya? (I know he let her go, but they work in the same department and she'd probably like to know he was alive.) Why didn't we see him looking at old records to see if anything had been real/based on reality, or at least looking at cases to see if things were still as he remembered them?
Like I said, while I'm sure the air of disconnectedness and unreality was intentional (it's why I'm not making a big deal of the extreme case of clinical 2006 police work), I'm not sure what to make of the unrealistic feeling. The 2006 scenes felt...more dreamlike...more fake than 1973 did, and while I'll let some of it go as theme it isn't helping me clear up the what's real and what isn't aspect of the story.
All around, I'm glad I watched it, but it isn't inspiring me to go find much in the way of fandom. Oh and I doubt I'll be paying much attention when the American version gets going, but I expect it won't be as good.
Well, I guess I'm assuming that's the end, if there turns out that there will be a season 3 some of my thoughts will be voided.
I'm still not exactly sure what to make of the story, but I will say that it ended exactly the way it was clearly leading to. Season 2 was all about Sam letting go of his old life, and whether or not this one was real it was real enough for him.
I love Sam, which is fortunate since he's the main character of the story. I have enough problems with the show that if I didn't love Sam I probably wouldn't have bothered to keep watching. Alright, that's probably not true because once I start series' it's really hard to walk away from them, but you get my point. I just want Sam to be happy and at peace with his world and I guess he found that in the end. And John Simm does a fantastic job with the role.
Most of the other characters...well aside from Gene and Annie they're kind of just there; but I do find Gene interesting even if I don't like him and I do like Annie even if she seemed a little less central to the story this season (there were a couple episodes where I noted she had as little to do as the other secondary characters).
And some finale specific thoughts, I got a good long giggle over the Hyde Ward Rm 3618 (or whatever the exact number was). It was so funny to me that I was a bit distracted during some of the 2006 sequence. But, while I'm sure it was largely intentional, the 2006 scenes felt very unrealistic. Sam was in a coma for weeks at least, after a hit and run, he would have needed physical therapy. Why was no one there when he got out? Why was he back at work so quickly seemingly without much or any psych evaluation? Why didn't he see Maya? (I know he let her go, but they work in the same department and she'd probably like to know he was alive.) Why didn't we see him looking at old records to see if anything had been real/based on reality, or at least looking at cases to see if things were still as he remembered them?
Like I said, while I'm sure the air of disconnectedness and unreality was intentional (it's why I'm not making a big deal of the extreme case of clinical 2006 police work), I'm not sure what to make of the unrealistic feeling. The 2006 scenes felt...more dreamlike...more fake than 1973 did, and while I'll let some of it go as theme it isn't helping me clear up the what's real and what isn't aspect of the story.
All around, I'm glad I watched it, but it isn't inspiring me to go find much in the way of fandom. Oh and I doubt I'll be paying much attention when the American version gets going, but I expect it won't be as good.
