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post #101 of 121
4/2/09 at 12:39pm
Yeah, that last 5 min was... not good. Wow. I came into this halfway through the season, and never saw the BBC original, so no broken hearts here. Just some head shaking and chuckles. At least it put Jason O'Mara on my radar; I'd never heard of him before this show and thought he did an excellent job in the lead.

Also on the positive, the show gave us Imperioli as a long-haired mustachioed 70s dickhead cop, which was gold. So, there's the memories, at least. But what a dog of a capper. I'd love to've been with the cast on their first script reading.
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post #102 of 121
4/2/09 at 12:56pm
Jesus, they ripped off the ending from The Thirteenth Floor.
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post #103 of 121
4/2/09 at 12:58pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Jesus, they ripped off the ending from The Thirteenth Floor.
I guess they didn't mind, as both contain Gretchen Mol.
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post #104 of 121
4/2/09 at 1:12pm
It's the way the American ending makes the title excruciatingly literal that's funniest.
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post #105 of 121
4/2/09 at 1:17pm
Shit, why not have Ziggy Stardust show up and REALLY drive that point home? Wow.
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post #106 of 121
4/2/09 at 1:20pm
They didn't even end with the friggin' Bowie song, they used Elton John instead.
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post #107 of 121
4/2/09 at 2:19pm
count me in the camp that liked the ending. As in very campy. Literal yes.. but as silly as most of the show was, how can you really complain?
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post #108 of 121
4/2/09 at 3:39pm
Can you get a worse ending than that? So disappointing that they went this way. Just copy the origional.
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post #109 of 121
4/2/09 at 9:26pm
Since Hunt was actually Sam's dad, and he slept with Hunt's daughter, does that mean Sam wanted to fuck his own sister?

I dunno, I think the ending could've worked... they just didn't pull it off. I'm sure it was filmed as a rush job, and it really showed. The actors didn't seem to know how to play their new characters, and the epilogue was so brief that there was really no time to process it, let alone for them to make anything but surface connections to the 70's story.

Having the show turn out to be a personal journey where Tyler comes to grips with how he feels about his father (having it be Hunt was actually a twist I really enjoyed) and the woman he loves isn't a bad idea. Only spending five minutes to express that just kills it.

Incoming in 3... 2... 1...

The ending still made more sense than BSG's.
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post #110 of 121
4/2/09 at 10:35pm
It might have been rushed, but that's what the series was apparently building towards.

I actually liked this show quite a bit, but that ending was just horrible. It's even moire disappointing because I thought up until the ending it was a pretty good episode.
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post #111 of 121
4/3/09 at 12:54am
Just watched it. Wow. Just, wow.

At least my laughter during the dramatic pause at each astronaut as they stared out silently at the planet was cleansing.
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post #112 of 121
4/3/09 at 1:10pm
Possibly the worse ending to a TV show ever.

It was all a big holodeck adventure, with absolutely no consequences (no the hint of a possible love angle doesn't count).

BTW, what was up with Annie's hair in "real life"? Was that a badly glued wig???
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post #113 of 121
4/3/09 at 1:47pm
"We're on a gene hunt"

Everybody immediately turns to see the last pod opening, dramatic music swells as if the person coming out could be anybody else.

Almost immediately they refer to him as Major Tom.

I've never been so close to punching my TV ever.
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post #114 of 121
4/3/09 at 4:49pm
Never watched it, but caught the tail end of the finale... maybe theyr wrote it as a final "fuck you" to ABC or some shit. Thing is, I had read they were building to this with "hints" throughout the season.

This ending makes God gay.
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post #115 of 121
4/3/09 at 4:50pm
( theyr = the Norse god of phlegm )
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post #116 of 121
4/4/09 at 7:45am
Holy shit. The closure with his dad (1973 Dad, that is) and the main thread there was all going pretty well . . . and then . . . what the fuck happened?!

Man, I don't even have the words for how shitty that ending was.

Wouldn't mind seeing Jason O'Mara get more work after this, though - dude grew on me a fair bit through the show's run.
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post #117 of 121
4/4/09 at 4:03pm
Saw the original BBC ending..and was kinda hoping for somthing similar..that was the beauty of the original..just saw the ABC version.

Too tidy...the whole "scarecrow" line was an F U to the networks..

Course the last 5 minutes might have been Jason O'Mara's audition for Green Lantern.
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post #118 of 121
4/5/09 at 9:32am
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Originally Posted by General Logan View Post
Never watched it, but caught the tail end of the finale... maybe theyr wrote it as a final "fuck you" to ABC or some shit. Thing is, I had read they were building to this with "hints" throughout the season.

This ending makes God gay.
The "hints" seem to be nothing more than Ray constantly calling him Spaceman as well as the stupid beeping sound which popped up and really could have been anything. This whole season has been all about red herrings, so they can't really say that they'd hinted towards this. Maybe if Keitel had crapped all over the camera I would have felt there'd been accurate foreshadowing.
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post #119 of 121
4/5/09 at 12:00pm
Hints my ass. How does Sam remember all the stuff from the 70's if he was born in the 90's?
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post #120 of 121
11/22/09 at 9:18pm
I picked up the complete series yesterday at Target for $14.99 on a whim since I only saw a piece of the penultimate episode when it aired, and Lou Reed's "Satellite Of Love" played over the intro of the episode, and it got me mildly interested.

I'm on the 4th episode now, and I really like the little things they put in the show to make Sam think he might really be from 2008. I've read about the final reveal, and I wonder if I'll be as put off like it as some. Just reading it, and with some of the little hints that are put in the show, it actually makes sense.

Either way I'm enjoying the show and it's a shame it got cancelled.
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post #121 of 121
11/22/09 at 10:18pm

'Real'

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Originally Posted by Fafhrd View Post
Yeah, I liked Ashes to Ashes because it seemed to be toying with an idea of the collective unconscious in a more overt way than LoM did. And that it kind of pulled that from the character (who's name I've forgotten), who, as a police psychiatrist, was treating the whole world with a more clinical eye than Sam ever did, and occasionally using the fact that it wasn't real to indulge some of her baser impulses.
I think whatever is going is more complicated than everything being set in a hallucination. I never had any doubt that Sam Tyler was in a coma but I also thought that he (or least his mind) had gone 'somewhere else'. Ashes to Ashes seems to be confirming this as there's increasing evidence that there's been travel by more than one person from our world to where (or what) the 'past' is.

As for what the place is: our past? An alternative universe? A construct originally created by Sam Tyler after his accident that has continued to survive after his death? Something else?

I'm also interested as stated earlier as to who or even what Gene Hunt is. The Season 2 finale is just adding to the mystery, as to whether it was the 80's, the "80's" or something else.
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