"Was that hard to say?"
Apr. 6th, 2007 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merelynOkay, so I haven't heard much talk about Life on Mars on the old flist lately, which is SAD, because Season 2 has been pretty damn solid. But I'm especially sad that no one's talked about 2x07, as it was one of the best episodes they've done yet.
AAAH. Holy crap, I just finished it, and I'm so, so blown away. This episode was like Asylum, kids. The entire episode I kept flailing about in Asylum-like glee. The premise, the dynamics between Sam and Gene (who I slash even though I never want to think about them having sex, if that makes sense) were AWESOME.
More than that, you could really see in this episode that Sam is beginning to go native (I watch SGA, I know what it looks like). His reaction to DCI New Guy was so very different from what it would have been in Season 1. I totally spotted early on the point they were making with this- New Guy = future, Gene=1973, Sam's loyalty to either reflects his desire to go home or not, etc. And Sam's decision to go with Gene rather than convict him is naturally a sign. And I'm starting to get torn too, because the prospect of Sam waking up is getting to be a little more heartbreaking each time I think about it.
Also, one problem I tend to have with LoM is eventually all the mystic, garbled future bleed-throughs can get to be a little one-note and irritating in a way that seldom furthers our understanding of Sam's situation. There's only so many times that little girl can be actually creepy instead of trying-to-hard-to-be-cryptic-and-creepy-and-actually-just-being-annoying. This time, however, I think they did an EXCELLENT job with DCI New Guy, little touches that made him seem wrong, wrong, WRONG. And I figured it out early on that he had to be a embassage from the future, and I thought for a moment, when he and Gene shook hands at the end, that it was going to represent some sort of harmony/understanding between 1973!Sam and 2006Coma!Sam, but I think that's what I wanted to believe. Therefore I didn't see the end coming, but of *course* it makes sense that Sam's going to have to denounce 1973 and everyone in it in order to wake up, and I'm absolutely dreading what that means he might have to do to Annie and Gene. AHH. LIFE ON MARS, YOU ARE AWESOME.
AAAH. Holy crap, I just finished it, and I'm so, so blown away. This episode was like Asylum, kids. The entire episode I kept flailing about in Asylum-like glee. The premise, the dynamics between Sam and Gene (who I slash even though I never want to think about them having sex, if that makes sense) were AWESOME.
More than that, you could really see in this episode that Sam is beginning to go native (I watch SGA, I know what it looks like). His reaction to DCI New Guy was so very different from what it would have been in Season 1. I totally spotted early on the point they were making with this- New Guy = future, Gene=1973, Sam's loyalty to either reflects his desire to go home or not, etc. And Sam's decision to go with Gene rather than convict him is naturally a sign. And I'm starting to get torn too, because the prospect of Sam waking up is getting to be a little more heartbreaking each time I think about it.
Also, one problem I tend to have with LoM is eventually all the mystic, garbled future bleed-throughs can get to be a little one-note and irritating in a way that seldom furthers our understanding of Sam's situation. There's only so many times that little girl can be actually creepy instead of trying-to-hard-to-be-cryptic-and-creepy-and-actually-just-being-annoying. This time, however, I think they did an EXCELLENT job with DCI New Guy, little touches that made him seem wrong, wrong, WRONG. And I figured it out early on that he had to be a embassage from the future, and I thought for a moment, when he and Gene shook hands at the end, that it was going to represent some sort of harmony/understanding between 1973!Sam and 2006Coma!Sam, but I think that's what I wanted to believe. Therefore I didn't see the end coming, but of *course* it makes sense that Sam's going to have to denounce 1973 and everyone in it in order to wake up, and I'm absolutely dreading what that means he might have to do to Annie and Gene. AHH. LIFE ON MARS, YOU ARE AWESOME.
