The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: Ashes to Ashes 1x1" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/02/review_ashes_to_ashes_1x1.php Comments for the entry "Review: Ashes to Ashes 1x1" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:27:26 +00:00 Comment from Stuart "They can evade sustained machine gun without problems."

That's because they're the A-Team!

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23075 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:27:26 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Only Gene was the A-team!

And, of course, The A-Team only aired in the US in 1983.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23076 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:08:05 +00:00 Comment from Toby OB Rob, have you heard anything about when this might hit the States? Having just seen the finale to 'Life On Mars' two weeks ago, I'd love for there being very little down time between the two series.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23077 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:21:37 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Not yet. I don't think BBC America has even acquired it yet.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23078 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:48:56 +00:00 Comment from Mark H Wilkinson Keeley Hawes' Alex is far more of an entertaining character than the buttoned-down Sam.

And yet I found her the most alienating element of the show. Too posh, too knowing, too much of a smart-arse.

The real success of LoM -- when it was successful -- was in allowing viewers to take guiltless pleasure in the kind of stuff that makes for less comfortable viewing when not presented as pastiche-with-a-knowing-wink. There wasn't enough of that in AtA last night.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23079 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:04:05 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob She's more entertaining than Sam, but she is a bit of an arse at this point. But I'm giving her some slack since she's basically got the same script as Sam had in the first episode and doing the same things. Let's see how she fares in later weeks.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23080 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:43:01 +00:00 Comment from Marie "More than a professional relationship blossoming"? Because that's what every sexy, ambitious and intelligent woman of 2008 wants - to be tamed by a brash and politically incorrect man with Stone-Age opinions on women. Sign me up for that one when I'm comatose / dead.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23081 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:10:48 +00:00 Comment from Anonymous Rob: "And, of course, The A-Team only aired in the US in 1983."

There's also the fact that the Rozxy Music song at the end didn;t come out until 1985.

I'm wondering if those kind of mistakes are deliberate hints that it's all Alex's dream (or even still Sam's dream - or as someone I know suggested, both this and LoM are Gene's dreams).

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23082 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:50:16 +00:00 Comment from Stuart Rob: "Only Gene was the A-team!"

No, wasn't Gene leading the A-Team, rather than calling himself it? So Chris and Ray were provided with the usual A Team powers of bullet evasion.

And very handy that proved too :)

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23084 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:53:16 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Maybe I wasn't pay enough attention but I thought he dished out the "b-team" and "c-team" roles to Chris and co and then Alex said, "What are you going to do?" (or something similar) and he said, "I'm the a-team".

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23085 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:05:04 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Could be, although we don't really need hints that it's a dream. Plus I read an interview where the producers said they were trying very hard to only pick songs from 1981. That could either mean sloppiness or deliberate mistakes.

I could believe the rationale of it being Gene's dream. It does explain why he doesn't age and also looks the same in different people's dreams. And also why the dream continues even when Sam/Alex are asleep or have fainted or aren't present in the scene.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23086 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:09:04 +00:00 Comment from Julian Roche I think the saddest thing of all about Ashes to Ashes is that we won't ever now get Station to Station, or whatever the 1976 version of the series would have been. Gene Hunt's view on the Sex Pistols, Thatcher as Tory party leader, Healey and the IMF, the National Front and a whole lot of other stuff would have been fascinating.

As I live in Australia I haven't yet watched Ashes to Ashes. I think I'll fall into that category of LOM viewers who just can't make the journey. Moving from the 'seventies into the 'eighties was hard enough when it actually happened, let alone having to do it all over again...

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23087 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:46:33 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob That is a shame, although there were probably enough punks, NF/BNP members around in 81 for them to crop up in Ashes to Ashes.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23088 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:52:59 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Assuming it is her dream, she can change him as much as she likes. Maybe she'll mould him into a new man by the end of the series. Maybe that's her fantasy.

]]> 3796@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23089 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:57:06 +00:00 Comment from Marie Incidentally, I reckon Alex is dead, but only because of the title.

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