The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Season finale: Life on Mars (US)" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2009/04/season_finale_life_on_mars_us.php Comments for the entry "Season finale: Life on Mars (US)" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:53:25 +00:00 Comment from Toby O'B Lisa Bonet can be heard as Sam is waking from suspended animation; something about letting him go. I think it was a quote from an earlier episode. Can't remember when exactly, because the original version of her sub-plot (which wasn't handled well either in the UK version in my opinion) is so strong it drowns out the remake.

What I would like to have seen was Lisa Bonet as President Obama, and that would explain how she got wrapped into that neural stim fantasy.

I'm thinking that the meteor crash/car crash jumped Sam's neural net over into his Dad's, and then it blended them together.

I don't think I've ever seen Gretchen Mol before, I know she played the late Betty Page but I know this for sure - she should always be blonde. That long dark hair did nothing for her, and didn't seem apt for a space mission. (grew while she slept?)

As it took longer and longer to finally see "Gene Hunt" again, I began to think that his stasis chamber malfunctioned, and we'd see he aged while the others stayed young. (Would've needed a longer space flight though.)

I liked that Gene turned out to be Tom Tyler, and the father-son theme came full circle. But if Sam has a sister back home.... ewwwwwww!

The original will always be in my Top Ten of shows. But I admired how these guys took those themes and characters and plots and gave them their own twist, right up to the end.

I'll have my own Inner Toob take on it all after midnight, EST. Rob's got the link there to the right.

]]> 4913@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c28738 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:53:25 +00:00 Comment from Rullsenberg Since I was never likely to catch this, I was really interested in reading the review with spoilers (I'm freaky that way). So THAT'S what they did with it and THAT was what all the gossip was about since it aired. Well, it was certainly different!

PS Gretchen Mol - 3.10 to Yuma... she's not given much to do but she's interesting (and blonde-ish)

]]> 4913@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c28752 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:34:59 +00:00 Comment from Toby O'B "PS Gretchen Mol - 3.10 to Yuma... she's not given much to do but she's interesting (and blonde-ish)"

Wow. I saw that, and I can't even picture her in it now. So much for making an impression on me. But she did in this remake, and I think she should seriously think about finding another TV vehicle. I think TV plays to her strengths.

]]> 4913@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c28756 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:02:40 +00:00 Comment from Nasher I have to say they made a watchable show.. esp by the time they got to espisode 14 (as these were the 4 later commisioned episodes in the season) the cast finally seemed at home with their characters.. Even Harvey could deliever his lines by then. As for the ending.. it was rushed they had 2 episodes notice to make an ending.. and is the nature of US shows to be open ended.. (a 1 season show is a failure.. a 8 season show is a success!) and they proved they had a plan all along at least. So of course all the plot elements seemed stunted.. they were.. you keep things open ended on US shows so they can be recalled and reused later. All in all my rating of the show went from a -1 for the pilot up to a 8 or so by episode 15 to an ending i have mixed feelings about.. but certainly not cheated. Well done on making a british show a solid american show.

]]> 4913@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c28879 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:25:26 +00:00 Comment from Life On Trent I don't think I've ever seen Gretchen Mol before, I know she played the late Betty Page but I know this for sure - she should always be blonde. That long dark hair did nothing for her, and didn't seem apt for a space mission. (grew while she slept?)

Actually I think she was much tastier as a brunette, especially in the earlier "swingers" episode.

Overall I think this was a pretty decent series and different enough from the British version to keep me watching to the end, it's about the same length as both original series which works for me. I will always remember it as the show that blew my mind with the most retarded ending I ever saw. I seriously thought it was a joke and it looked like half the cast thought so too.

Let's hope they leave Ashes to Ashes alone, I don't think I could take a blossoming romance between a young hotty Harvey Keitel. Never mind Phil Glenister. Ick.

]]> 4913@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c29556 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:16:43 +00:00 Comment from Tra ta ta [this is good] Recently in Russia have shown this serial. And I have fallen in love with it! I looked the British original, but on me have hooked. This history, these actors and as they have played roles. It is possible to argue long on щет endings. Personally it seems to me so "he thought that slept, and actually searched настоящаю for love which has helped it to wake up and believe in the presents". Well and that is final more many. And yes Enni went a short blondi-hairdress more, than that which was at it in the end.
I do not know English and consequently have taken advantage of the translator if you have not understood about what I I wish to tell, it means has badly translated =)
In Rossie too love this serial...

]]> 4913@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c30505 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:36:07 +00:00 Comment from Toon Scheur This must have been the worst ending in the history of sucking. And the term "genetic DNA"???? Will the moron in the room please stand up? (a stampede follows).

This is an insult. Any show could end like that then. Dead Wood, the Tudors. Anna Boleyn wasn't really decapitated. She is dreaming in a bad coma. And how much corny can it get huh? A 80's style computer voice, the daughter of Obama is president (kinda like predicting that Arnold S. is the president in those 90's movies). This is the 2000 version of bringing Bobby Ewing back to life: it was all a dream. The biggest insult in the history of TV

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