<![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes" - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes" - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @ElijahDProphet: Yeah, my girlfriend and I are still arguing over what was really going on. I like that, though.

Cthulhah Bankhead

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @eirenicon: Well, as a woman, I feel the same way. Gene Hunt is great, but it's just not the same without Sam.

Cthulhah Bankhead

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @bonniegrrl: I was thinking the same thing about "That '80s Show", but the show's appeal is more a function of how much time has passed since the era rather than the era itself (and also presumably other factors such as the quantity of Gene Hunt: you will notice that "That '80s Show" had no traceable amount).

It's been a good half-decade since "That '80s Show" failed, are we ready for an '80s spinoff series yet?

femto

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> '70s is always better than '80s when it comes to TV shows. "Life on Mars" was brilliant. Remember how cool "That '70s Show" was and how "That '80s Show" wasn't?

I'm not so impressed with this one.

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> "Today, my friend, your diary entry will read: took a prozzie hostage and was shot by three armed bastards" - DCI Gene Hunt

There might be a little confusion about Life on Mars' US air date because they have announced a US remake of the series. So, the BBC version has already shown (and I'd advise anyone interested to download/buy DVDs. All the BBC shows in America have to be cut down to add commercials. It does unspeakable things to the best series) but the US version is still in pre-production.

Ryan H

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> life on Mars was brilliant. ashes to ashes - seemed more of a pastiche. too be fair i haven't watched it as much as the former. i felt it was more a vehicle for the Gene Hunt character. maybe Hunt wouldn't be valid for his own series, so a similar time travelling is used to support? Golden Years - for a late eighties version, I think, yuppies and the money grabbing greed of thatcherism.

nha

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @Garrison Dean: You are clearly not illiterate, as you are responding to my posts and wrote the initial one, so at this point I assume you are taking the piss.

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @ioninerniner: Strangers when we meet? Actually have been listening to it a lot past week. Great!

MarlboroTestMonkey7

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> Life on Mars was absolutely Brilliant. Ashes to Ashes wasn't as good but I found myself watching it anyway just to see the antics of Gene Hunt. Though more often than not I find myself missing John Simm and Liz White. I understand why Sam Tyler couldn't come back but why no Annie Cartwright?

Jesse Mrozowski

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> it's john simm, not "simms." and life on mars's sam tyler lands in the 1970s after being hit by a car, not being shot.

karenjeannette

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @ElijahDProphet: I just don't think it's fair for you to pick on someone because they're illiterate.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> I have to whole season on my harddrive, need to watch soon.

lonewolf333

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @Garrison Dean: I could see how you could compare my inaccurate care not to spoil people with your deciding that reading the accompanying article was unnecessary before commenting on the photo... oh wait, I can't.

I agree, however, that with an ensemble cast as good as Life on Mars had calling all but Sam 'supporting cast' doesn't seem quite kosher.

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> Garrison Dean: I'm supporting nothing but a pint and me own bollocks!

Is there an air date for "Ashes To Ashes" season 1 on BBC America? I'm jonesing for another Gene Hunt fix.

DCI Gene Hunt

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> P.S I've seen the whole series and I can't wait for the next one.Unfortunately that won't air til 2009.Sigh...

Calraigh

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @ElijahDProphet: "but since the show hasn't aired in the US yet I will avoid spoiler filled discussion of it here."

So is researching and not watching everything online >:P

IF you want to tell DCI Gene Hunt that he is nothing more than a supporting character, be my guest.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @eirenicon: That is because a)they are different sexes and b)they are different characters.In an entirely different series.Ashes to Ashes is not Life on Mars II, it's a different series that just happens to have the same characters in it.I for one, think Keeley Hawes is great in it and herself and Glenister have real chemistry.It's a long time since I've seen any really sexy chemistry between male and female leads in a cop show, let alone any show, in a long time.It's bloody brilliant and Gene Hunt is still a delightful bastard.

Calraigh

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @Garrison Dean: The new show doesn't only share a conceit, however; the entire supporting cast of the original series have made it into the new one, a decade older but still with bad taste in clothing and cars.

Reading is fundamental :-P

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @CSX321: Ahh, I just got BBC America, so hadn't realized that it had aired already, sweet.

@genehuntlover: I agree, I don't think the point of the show was "How does all this time travel wackiness work anyway?" I don't think we got those answers anyway, and I am glad about that.

I think the finale of LoM had an ending, but it didn't have the resolution we were expecting. Logically, because of all the crap he knows about, it makes the most sense if Sam was just a nutter in a coma. However the way the finale ends, and his return to the '70s, which through the course of the show became more important to him, left things open to interpretation. Take the episode with the organized crime lord he gets sent to the asylum. In the 'present' day the guy shows up to try and kill Sam in his hospital bed. Unless that was an insane coincidence (or I suppose Sam could have retroactively created the events of the episode after he was attacked) it seems clear that he was, in fact, in the 1970s.

The story could go one of three ways, and I think that is what made it so awesome.

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> Whoah whoah whoah... Is that a good photoshop job, or does this show also have DCI Gene H(oo)nt in it as well.

Alright gents its beer o'clock.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @ElijahDProphet:
There were not the answers that a lot of people expected at the end of LoM, but I didn't feel like the focus is about answers. The theme I am picking up on is based in "Ye olde Rolling Stones lyrics": "You can't always get what you want, but if you try some times you just might find, you get what you need"

At the beginning, I wanted John Simm. I got Philip Glenister and I realize now I need Gene Hunt. We all do.

genehuntlover

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> I don't find Ashes as engaging as Mars, but it's still a very good show. Gene Hunt is a great character in any decade.

Little Time Bomb

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @ElijahDProphet: Life On Mars has aired on BBC America. Or did you mean Ashes?

CSX321

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> @ElijahDProphet: Don't move -- you're surrounded by armed bastards!

victheremin

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> I loved Life on Mars, what a fantastic show. I agree whole heartedly with eirenicon, John Simm was brilliant.
That being said, I actually like Ashes to Ashes. Worth a download, if you ask me.

RileyBolen

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> Also, I did not realize Ashes to Ashes has started yet, I will be making a visit to the torrentosphere after work to catch up. As long as Gene Hunt is still a right bastard I will watch it.

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> Actually in Life On Mars Sam Tyler is hit by a car and wakes up in the '70s.

I also am not inclined to agree that the finale of Mars answered any questions regarding the technicalities of his apparent time travel, but since the show hasn't aired in the US yet I will avoid spoiler filled discussion of it here.

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> Curious -- what Bowie title will they use for the '90s show?

ioninerniner

]]> <![CDATA[The '80s Stay Alive for BBC Time Travel Drama "Ashes to Ashes"]]> I fear accusations of sexism... but Keeley Hawes is no John Simm (not Simms, despite frequent mispelling). That man has a heavy soul on camera.

eirenicon

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