The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Review: Ashes to Ashes 1x5" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/03/review_ashes_to_ashes_1x5.php Comments for the entry "Review: Ashes to Ashes 1x5" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:07:57 +00:00 Comment from Craig Grannell Well, having sat through the first three episodes, we decided we can't be bothered with it, and just wiped the last two off the Toppy. Life's too short to sit through boring crap week after week.

]]> 3854@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23252 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:07:57 +00:00 Comment from Stuart I head a suggestion the other day that the reason Alex is less popular than Sam is that she's exactly the kind of person who'd have been one of the mega-popular bitches at school and that's exactly the wrong kind of person to be the POV character for any geeky types watching.

Personally I think that much of the problem with AtoA is that the 80s just aren't far enough away from the modern Police for there to be any major culture clash - and without that there's no sense of character growth.

So it ends up being just another show about someone with parental issues and/or just another cop show.

We're only watching it now for the occasional Gene Jenie one-liner and in hopes that Sam and Annie will re-appear...

]]> 3854@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23262 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:31:12 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I'd go along with most of that. Although this is supposed to be 1981, which was pre-PACE and Operation Countryman so there's still a whole load of things they could have done. I think the problem is that most of those things were pretty well mined in Life on Mars

]]> 3854@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23263 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:33:42 +00:00 Comment from Stuart Even better - Countryman was taking place in 1981 so they could have had Alex interacting with that enquiry whilst knowing how it would end up.

]]> 3854@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23272 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:36:28 +00:00 Comment from stu-n I've read somewhere that both Countryman and Scarman are going to be referenced in AtoA.

]]> 3854@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23273 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:44:34 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I'd heard that the Ashes to Ashes was going to show Gene and co working in an atmosphere coloured by the Scarman report, but not that it was going to be specifically referenced. Hadn't heard anything about Countryman making it in.

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