Life on Mars

[panik]

Oh my.

It's been 12 hours and I'm still blown away.

Anyone wanna talk about it? What do you think happened there?

I mean, my first take is - I don't think both worlds are real - are they? Hell, I don't know! <G> My reading of it was that, he chose to stay in the coma rather than leave his - presumably - imaginary friends and life? I don't think he ever left the coma ward (Hyde! squee!!); I think the whole 'back in 2007' sequence was in his head, as he mentally examined his real world and slowly realised how much richer his 70's life was (when he returned to the tunnel, the light was still there, and as he walked back to the train, we heard the doc cry 'we're losing him!')
...So he turned away from Real Life  and chose to live in his head rather than return?

At least, I think that's what I think, and you know, I hear that. I'm doing it on a daily basis myself.

Or, that was how I read it, anyway. Or maybe he was in some parallel universe; the waking coma the creepy doctor/man from Hyde talked about (hey, I wrote a fic not unlike that! heh heh)? Will we all be analysing this for years to come? (o: Probably.

I believe there's a follow up series on the way, surprise, surprise, set in the 80's. I can't decide if I like the idea or if I think it's a cop out, but I guess Gene, Sam, Annie - all of them, really, are too good a set of characters to lose.

Thoughts, anyone?

Comments

[fingers.livejournal.com]

I'm just still blown away by it all and you know that's the second time I've cheered / cried soemone going over the edge of a building ...(first was in Cracker).

I still need to think about it - but really I'm not analysing it at all just revelling in the whole gloriousness of it all, it was just so perfect - just all of it. I was gut wrenched from the moment when Morgan started on about the cover story and just spent the next however long from there crying and laughing and counting down the clock.... something I have never ever ever done before!

Just coasting in the glow.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I think the last time I felt like this was when I watched the Prisoner finale, it had the same effect; of being hit between the eyes with a cricket bat - a fluffy, pink, feathered cricket bat made of chocolate.

"that's the second time I've cheered / cried soemone going over the edge of a building ...(first was in Cracker)."
Oh yeah!!! I'd forgotten that...

I liked the way the leaping off the building thing tied into that scene back in first season when he's going to leap off to bring himself out of the coma and Annie talks him down from the edge - this time, if I've got it right, he leaps to stay in the coma. Like it!

Stunning. It really was. Can I join you in your glow? (o: