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Shall I watch Ashes to Ashes tonight or stay on MN?

29 replies

PuppyMonkey · 28/02/2008 20:22

I missed it last week and I can't say I was that bothered. Has it got any better?

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emkana · 28/02/2008 20:25

I'm in exactly the same position. I even got last week's episode on tape, but couldn't be bothered to watch it.

PuppyMonkey · 28/02/2008 20:26

I so miss Sam.

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hairtwiddler · 28/02/2008 20:29

Could always watch on BBC iplayer later! Just finished Life on Mars DVD last night and missing it already. Haven't seen any of Ashes to Ashes as needed to catch up. They are on my DVR. Should I bother?

PuppyMonkey · 28/02/2008 20:37

Hairt, don't bother with the first two eps anyway. They were awful! Not really got to grips with this BBC iplayer thing yet - is it tricky?

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hairtwiddler · 28/02/2008 20:41

Seems fairly easy. If you've got decent broadband should be ok. 4 on demand much more complex because you have to install stuff.

EffiePerine · 28/02/2008 20:46

iplayer a nightmare on a Mc, as you can't dowload and it kees stalling

bloody beeb

thought ashes to ashes pretty shite btw - only got through a bit of the first episode.

PuppyMonkey · 28/02/2008 20:48

Effie, i'm not on Mac but I've got a crap laptop that has a mind of it's own so bit wary about trying something so ambitious!

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onebatmother · 28/02/2008 22:33

Move aside, PuppyMonkey, I'm a doctor.

CLEAR!
CLEAR!
CLEAR!

beep, beep, beep.. etc.

Cast exchange relieved looks.

That was me reviving your thread.

PuppyMonkey · 29/02/2008 06:48

Thanks for trying Dr onebat!

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onebatmother · 29/02/2008 15:38

It's my pleasure.

lottiejenkins · 29/02/2008 16:00

Ive been enjoying my "Gene Genie" every week, i did like his white vest and chain round his neck this week!!!

pagwatch · 29/02/2008 16:02

Oh it is so grim though isn't it.
Keeley appears to think that rolling her eyes and gurning constitutes being sexy and flirty. while any other emotion is conveyed through the medium of shout and stare hard.

If you don't look at her the scripts arn't bad. Chris' convertion to feminism was brilliant.

PuppyMonkey · 29/02/2008 19:08

I did watch it in the end. Some of it. They're trying to do Moonlighting aren't they? Badly.

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CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 29/02/2008 19:40

I did not watch Life on Mars.Never fancied it but sorry now as caught a repeat on sky and really liked it.

Been watching Ashes to Ashes and other than Keeley its very good. Been sending hints re Mothers Day for Life on Mars DVDs

SueBaroo · 29/02/2008 20:52

Dh and I have been mentioning the Moonlighting thing. I think it's working, but only because I'm putting myself in the place of Keeley.

The mum stuff is getting a bit tedious, tbh. I was curling up my toes in embarrassament with most of it - going into her own bedroom, and shouting like an Eastenders regular at her mother. Just so unconvincing.

Chris and Ray were great, though, I'm enjoying seeing how they've developed as policemen, actually.

And the more I see of Alex's godfather, the less I like him - what's the betting that her parents murder was down to him, not politics (just like Gene said murders are )

I enjoyed the open lechery when she took her top off, but it wasn't nearly as charged as the drunken flirting last-seconds-of-life conversation last week.

I think my problem is, I don't really like Alex very much. She's painfully needy around her mother, who is another deeply unlikeable person, she makes completely unsympathetic sexual decisions. I'm just not convinced by her, whereas I really want to find out more about Gene as a character, and it's just not as interesting when he's not part of events.

Poo. I mean, I do love it in a fangirl sort of way, but it isn't as good as it could be.

Bluestocking · 29/02/2008 20:58

Keeley is shockingly bad, isn't she?
And speaking as someone who remembers 1981 very clearly, we didn't always wear off-the-shoulder tops, and certainly wouldn't have worn one to work in a copshop. Or a white biker jacket.

pagwatch · 29/02/2008 21:07

I agree. whoever is styling her clearly either wasn'tthere or has a shit memory.
Black bra visible under coloured top, was little seen and seriously cheap.

turquoise · 29/02/2008 21:10

It's so crap - the 'plots' are ludicrous, and I hate the keystone cops slapstick. The Greenham common women were such crass stereotypes it was like a bunch of year 8s doing improv.

Life on Mars managed to make the impossible believable, with humour and drama, fantastic writing and acting.

The only good thing about A2A is the soundtrack - and the Gene Genie obv.

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 29/02/2008 21:10

i thought fashion was off but i dug out some photos and its actually spot on.I forgot how bad I looked.

What I dont understand is

why was she plain and straight haired in 2007 and now has a perm and loads of makeup? Where does she get her clothes and the flat from (I did not see Life on Mars and missed first 15 mins of first episode of ashes)
She seemed quite serious in 2007 and now she walking around like a bitch in heat and its acting very girly and silly

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 29/02/2008 21:12

oops hasten to add that in the photos I found it was my mates not me that were wearing said bra strao tops

madamez · 29/02/2008 21:13

I thought the 'radical wimmin' were not only stereotypes but one of the places the whole thing faltered badly: that kind of rhetoric and some of the outfits didn;t really get going till about 84/85.
And I am finding it so much less enjoyable than I hoped. Apart from you-know-who and Chris and Ray: Keely THing is just so annoying and so is her farking mother.

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 29/02/2008 21:29

Do you mind me asking how old you are Madamez?

I was 14 in 81.I remember wearing skin tight jeans and cowboy boots then. I also had a lot of frilly lady di blouses a lot of pin stripe stuff. My friends mum had a catologie and I remember in 1981 (my friend was big adam ant fan and I loved OMD)looking at clothes and it was all jumpsuits.

madamez · 29/02/2008 21:55

Chocolatepeanut I was 16. And had a pair of white jeans and several off-the-shoulder tops. And I did wear a scarf tied round my neck like a bib and a pale yellow mini skirt...

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 29/02/2008 22:07

top!!

lovin the 80s flashbacks but still not liking Ms Hawes.Wooden

SueBaroo · 29/02/2008 22:12

I was only 5, so all I recall wearing was a mothercare vinyl painting overall when I used my poster-paints.

I did, however, listen to Green Door a lot, and Shaky was my hero, because he looked a bit like my dad. Which kind of makes me feel a bit ill now that I look back and fancy him a bit.