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Ashes to Ashes tonight @ 9pm, BBC1

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JackieNo · 07/02/2008 20:49

I'll be watching .

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scampadoodle · 07/02/2008 23:33

& I'm sure we had one of those whiteboards at college (mid-'80s)

Pan · 07/02/2008 23:37

no, coffee - I won't be out-ponced on this one!! I know La Wally, and it wasn'tthat one as she tried to heave...Lakme deffo...>

madamez · 07/02/2008 23:42

ANd that bit where he says, 'Now either kiss me or punch me...' I nearly wet my armchair. But as others have said, this was too much of a pantomime, will keep watching and hope it gets better...
And I'm also irritatingly muddled about the set up really, because the end of Life On Mars was a kind of closed loop (it had all been in Sam's head and then he died before telling anyone what happened) so how could it be happening to someone else???

AitchTwoOh · 07/02/2008 23:44

you have an armchair where you work? i imagine you on a spike, madamez.

madamez · 07/02/2008 23:47

Aitch, no I just hang upside down in my farking cave normally. All the better to drop on people's heads...

AitchTwoOh · 07/02/2008 23:48
littlelapin · 07/02/2008 23:55

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Pixel · 08/02/2008 00:20

Madamez, didn't Sam write down everything that had happened to him when he was back in his 'own' time? I seem to remember that.

What I want to know is, what about Annie? If Sam was there for 7 years surely he was there with her? She was the reason he went back.

AitchTwoOh · 08/02/2008 00:39

lololol lapin. in madamez's dreams.

she's always been one of my favourites, lapin. especially that one about 'normals'. you know she's Bree's alter ego really, don't you?

NoBiggy · 08/02/2008 00:45

I read somewhere this week (and I can't remember where) that Alex Drake was mentionned in the last ep of LOM - like she was his debriefer or some such.

I was soooo bothered about her being apart from her daughter. I'm such a sap these days.

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madamez · 08/02/2008 01:33

Jura - we are the same age! But I thought Sam never made it back into the modern world at all, and the whole thing was a dying-moments hallucination...

Aitch, I thought I was your alter ego. Don't you want me in your head any more?

PortAndLemon · 08/02/2008 08:02

madamez the writers have gone on record as saying that they had written it as his really making it back into the real world, but there was a substantial minority who were of your opinion (including John Simm himself, IIRC or at least, he felt that it was left open to interpretation). But as the writers wrote this one it's their version of what happened in LoM that wins out.

marina · 08/02/2008 09:54

I was 18 in 1981 and relished the whole look and feel of the programme, not to mention the music (I got that first chord too scampadoodle, too much time spent in mirrored nightclubs in Birmingham ) But the knowingness of the Alex Drake character and the script in general has me bothered. It just doesn't have the heart and spontaneous originality of the original series.
But it does have Joseph Way as the restaurant owner, one of my very favourite character actors and spotting the locations, some very local to me, was fun

pagwatch · 08/02/2008 10:26

Oh God, Keely though... she can play the whole gamut of emotions from A to B .
The joy of LOM was that you were right there with Sam and you cared about him. I just kept wanting her to fall off those stupid heels she kept trotting around in. Flat dreary actress.The only moment that was vaguely affecting was when her daughter was asleep next to her and she told her to go away. The crying bit at the end was cringeworthy. She was awful in Spooks and worse in this. Which makes Philp Glenister have to work much harder to stop the whole thing being something you laugh at rather than with. ( Rant over)
He is fab but I love little Chris - aww.

I was working in London atthat time and the riverboat parties were just like that but without the hookers ( i think ).
And LOVED Gene moonwalking around the bullets.

CountessDracula · 08/02/2008 10:33

dh thinks it is hilarious that Gene Hunt is a sex symbol on mn

I tell you though
PG is a fleece wearing tampon buyer I will warrant...

foxinsocks · 08/02/2008 10:42

I didn't think Keeley whatsherface was that good

TigerFeet · 08/02/2008 11:07

Aww yes little Chris and Shazza - just like teenage love

It's Philip Glenister's birthday on Sunday [swoon]

DH still has his Miami Vice jacket with the rolled up sleeves hanging in his wardrobe. He was a lot slimmer in the 80's though.

Fubsy · 08/02/2008 11:08

scampadoodle, Marina, me too! Ive not heard that song for soooo long!

SueBaroo · 08/02/2008 11:12

I'm quite sure PG is a fleece-wearing tampon-buyer.

I don't have rude dreams about PG, I have them about Gene Hunt.

CountessDracula · 08/02/2008 11:14

I will check next time I see him in the school playground (i do most mornings) and see if he has a fleece on and a shopping list with tampons on it

Fubsy · 08/02/2008 11:14

Sue, arent dreams wonderful? I had one the other night that involved a dangerous horse and David Tennant

SueBaroo · 08/02/2008 11:16

Funsy, I appear to have lost the ability to stand...

CD, he said in an interview that he didn't think any of the mums at the school gates fancied him.. is he right?

SueBaroo · 08/02/2008 11:16

Fubsy

mcfee · 08/02/2008 11:16

I wanted to like it. I am sooooooo stuck in the 80's - did you see the black / white couch??!! However, I am such a weepy sap that I can't handle anything which involves a child losing a parent.....so it made me feel panicky & sick.....may have to just tune in for the last episode to see the (I hope!) happy ending!