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[twincityhacker]

I cheated and watched the last episode of the US version of Life on Mars. I sat though a few meh episodes, skipped the end, and... really, really liked it. Why could we not have "Life on Mars in 2035"? That little six minutes so filled me with science fiction glee is was so worth the previous episodes. The neural simulators! The reason why they were going! The tie ins between the hallucination and actual reality!

The only FAIL in the entire scene for me was the ridiculously short delay time between Mars and Earth. From here to the Moon is a delay of about two seconds - the delay would be measured in the minutes.

And, hey, they implied that little Sasha or Melia would be President in 2035. How neat is that?

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[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Actually neither of them could be president in 2035. The election prior to 2035 would be in 2032 which is twenty-three years from now. Malia is ten and Sasha is only seven so Malia would be thirty-three in 2032 and Sasha would be thirty. But you must be thirty-five to take office. QED.

Of course that's not even remotely the most wrong thing about that ending!

[fictionpuss.livejournal.com]

I couldn't make it past 10 minutes of the first episode unfortunately. Having watched the UK version, the US version just looked to be a lame derivative.. and by that point the over-reliance upon the "let's make a quip about the future/present that the audience members will smugly recognise as being folly" as a humour donkey, became too much. Or too little.

I might 'cheat' too though, cheers!

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

As soon as Sam got to the police department, I started hitting the fast-forward button. The shots were way, way too similar for me to be able to watch some things.

The two shows were diverging more latter on, with some plots not directly lifted from the original series. This required a great deal of cheating to get to, though. = )

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Wait.... they did what? Gez, that's overly literal.

Question - did the US version ever make use of the David Bowie song? Just curious.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Yep. Same was making "I want to stay!" speeches, and then suddenly everything started cracking up and cut to Sam waking up in a cryogenic chamber on a space ship.

There was use of the song, but it's use in the transition between 2008/1973 was much, much lighter. I think it was Sam's ringtone?