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bonniebird

bonniebird

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ratty Wrote:

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> The Railway Arms is definitely the gate to heaven.

> Gene himself is an archangel, and Jimbo the devil

> or at least a demon. Fantastic but very sad

> ending, especially the video tapes. So sad!


Agreed thoroughly enjoyed it, I shall miss Gene Genie:(

bonniebird

bonniebird

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SimonM Wrote:

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> I thought the saddest part of all was the exchange

> between "Bolly" & Hunt when she finally realised

> she'd not be seeing Molly again...

>

> I bet you *anything* the "Lost" finale is not a

> patch on this.

My sister just phoned me, she just watched the LOST finale and had had a good cry, they said it was a fab ending, am waiting til Friday:))

Keef

Keef

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Only got round to watching last night.


Thought it was very good, but wasn't sure they should have done the whole heaven and hell thing. It seemed to suggest the old Easy path leads to hell, and hard path leads to Heaven.


In some ways I thought it was great, and well done, and yes, very sad (Ray hanging himself). But, I did think of sixth sense, and it was rather religious.


Then again, there's no real harm in that.


Was hoping for a cameo appearance of Sam & Annie in the pub at the end though.

Keef

Keef

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I never realised they made an American version of Life on Mars. If you thought the UK endings were less than convincing, check this out.


At the end of the series, in what appears to be a deus ex machina, it is revealed that Tyler's 2008 and 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the onboard computer of a spacecraft that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling, and Skelton on the first ever manned mission to the planet Mars, in 2035. The crew he worked with in 1973 were just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crewmembers. His room number, "2B", is his sleeping unit; his old precinct, "Hyde", and his new precinct, the "125", are based on the name of the spacecraft - "Hyde 125"; his neighbor, Windy, is the name of the computer A.I.; Frank Morgan, an FBI agent in the series, is the Mission Control flight director. To sustain the crew, their minds were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality "neural stimulation" programs of their own choosing, but Sam's choice of a scenario where he was a police officer circa 2008 was abruptly changed to a 1973 setting by a meteor-storm induced glitch in the computer. This conclusion is markedly different from the conclusion of the original UK series, but is still left ambiguous as the first step on Mars depicts Gene Hunt's signature shoe stepping into the sand.


In a twist, Gene Hunt in 1973 turns out to be Astronaut 'Major Tom' Tyler - Sam's father - in the conclusion. Just as Maria was estranged to Gene in 1973, Sam was estranged to his father until the very end of the series, when he reconciles with his dad before they step out onto the bare ground of the Red Planet.

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