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Life on Mars
Did anyone else watch the premiere of the show Life on Mars on BBC America? I'm sure it came out a bit ago in the UK but it's new here, and has a very interesting premise. A police detective is in a car accident, and apparently "wakes up" 30 years before in 1973, with the same job, an apartment, etc. There's a lot of hints that he's really in a coma and hears people trying to wake him up, doctors talking, etc, but at the same time the 1973 world he is in is very detailed, and if it's all a fantasy he's not sure how he could be making up so much accurate detail. Good stuff, take a look.
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07-26-2006, 03:24 PM | #2 |
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It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling "No" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on [CHORUS] Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on Amerika's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on [CHORUS] Dring-dring-dring...... [Mind the phone] |
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set up a season pass for it. haven't seen the first ep yet, but should get a chance tonight
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I watched last night. It definitely has promise. Anybody know how many episodes season one has?
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07-26-2006, 04:06 PM | #6 |
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and, for those of us with less-refined tastes, looks like there's an americanized version in preproduction. yay.
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you know, i really love that song...but i never realized how little sense it made until now.
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Don't know if there's a thread for the US version on ABC...anybody watch it from Thursday night? Thoughts?
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10-11-2008, 05:32 AM | #12 |
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I'm not going to even bother watching the US version.
As for the UK... 15 brilliant episodes + 1 steaming turd. |
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I watched it.. it was okay. We all kinda knew the premise, but there was an interesting little twist in it - I don't want to give that away. Lot's of my favorite actors are in it. It was definitely good enough to catch episode #2. Harvey Keitel is funny and reminds us how things were before women were a respected in the workforce and political correctness.
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I read that the producers completely recast and reshot the pilot after watching the initial pilot.
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Yeah....I don't know what the BBC version is like but I liked the pilot. I had heard they did totaly reshoot everything. Originally it was in LA, now NY. All completely different actors as well.
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The only actor they retained from the original pilot was the main character.
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Which one was the steaming turd? If you're meaning the finale, I disagree. I thought it was a great way to finish it off. Last edited by Critch : 10-11-2008 at 11:35 AM. |
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the pilot was kind of painful to me, mostly because the new DI Hunt was lame. I've got the new one recorded, but I don't have a ton of optimism. Phil Glenister was THE reason to watch Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.
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I liked the pilot of the US version. The British version was more entertaining but the American version is good, with a few miscast people.
Harvey Keitel seems really old, hell he looks really old to be an active, physical cop like the character needs. The American pilot basically copied the dialogue and music scores exactly from the Brit version. This will change soon if the American version lasts the season. Obviously 22 > 16 in terms of episodes. Supposedly the possible causes to the main characters circumstances will change each year. He lists 3, crazy, coma, time traveler. Each season will introduce a new cause supposedly. |
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which, to me, sounds incredibly tedious. It got old at times in the British version, which, as you pointed out, was just 16 episodes.
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10-17-2008, 09:15 AM | #22 |
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well, I have to say the first episode was a mammoth improvement over the pilot.
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