The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Life on Mars (US) - The Trailer" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/05/life_on_mars_us_the_trailer.php Comments for the entry "Life on Mars (US) - The Trailer" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 15 May 2008 09:53:22 +00:00 Comment from Stuart My God, could that look any worse? In the particularly point-missing category is the way Sam is good looking and well muscled and easily beats the Gene figure in a fight.
Eh...no.

And it's nice that Sam seems to come from some point in the future, if his police station in the modern day is any indication.

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23800 Thu, 15 May 2008 09:53:22 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob I'm almost glad I've seen it now so that I can prepare myself for it properly when it arrives in autumn – just so I can look at it with fresh eyes rather than with my pre-existing Life on Mars expectations and judge it on its own merits.

The sci-fi future and the direction style of the past suggest they're going more in the direction of parody and satire: rather than compare and contrast policing styles, they're comparing and contrasting TV cop shows of the two periods. And if you watch enough rubbish US TV cop shows, you'll notice they're pretty much sci-fi in terms of computing, etc (cf CSI: Miami).

But yes, bit of a shock. And I'm not sure I'll be watching it because my wife took one look at the trailer last night and banned me from watching the show on general grounds of sacrilege.

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23802 Thu, 15 May 2008 10:26:09 +00:00 Comment from Rosby my wife took one look at the trailer last night and banned me from watching the show on general grounds of sacrilege.

I don't blame her; I don't even watch Life on Mars yet the fact that they're remaking it makes my head hurt.

(McSpaced is bound to pop up soon. Urgh.)

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23803 Thu, 15 May 2008 11:15:30 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Don't yous be a worrying, young Miss. It's been poured down the drains, by the looks of it.

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23804 Thu, 15 May 2008 11:18:58 +00:00 Comment from Stu Nathan Oh, dear God, that's awful. Extra anti-brownie points for not actually playing Life on Mars!

The shot-for-shot parts were especially painful. Did they not notice that John Simm is short and skinny? Did they not think that was important?

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23805 Thu, 15 May 2008 12:51:01 +00:00 Comment from Toby OB I felt the alien nature of being thirty years in the past with the original series. And to make it a fair comparison, even in just the opening credits sequence recap. From this trailer, it just looks like he knocked over to the next town and that's about it. It seems to be all in the dialogue that he's in the past; nothing about their surroundings felt organic to the 1970s.

I like Colm Meaney - anybody who plays an O'Brien is okay by me! - and Lenny Clarke is always fun to watch. I just wish they had a better vehicle for their talents.

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23807 Thu, 15 May 2008 14:06:58 +00:00 Comment from Fraser I think I'm going to be sick...seriously, what the hell?

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23818 Thu, 15 May 2008 20:25:37 +00:00 Comment from Kennie You can all say what you like, but you'll watch it!

]]> 4035@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23820 Fri, 16 May 2008 09:07:35 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob Probably. But how long for...?

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