19-05-2008, 19:07
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Re: life on mars
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I'll caveat this with the fact that I can't see the trailer but being as much of the law enforcement in many cities of the US is Irish immigrant decendancy it kinda makes sense.
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Yes but it will make a nonsense of the IRA episode...
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19-05-2008, 20:24
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Re: life on mars
Surely all the scripts will be rewritten around events in US policing history, not UK! It's not Red Dwarf style scifi where it is fantasy future.
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19-05-2008, 23:22
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Re: life on mars
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Surely all the scripts will be rewritten around events in US policing history, not UK! It's not Red Dwarf style scifi where it is fantasy future.
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Yeah I suppose so...but I doubt it's going to have anything like the same impact..There wasn't a lot of terrorism in the US during the 70's.
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20-05-2008, 00:06
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Re: life on mars
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Yeah I suppose so...but I doubt it's going to have anything like the same impact..There wasn't a lot of terrorism in the US during the 70's.
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Perhaps there'll be a Weatherman link...
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20-05-2008, 15:51
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Re: life on mars
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Yeah but most of their activities were not against 'civilians' unlike the IRA campaigns and as a consequence the level of anger as shown by Gene Hunt may not ring as true..but what do I know? Could be it will be brilliant just like all the other US crossovers such as Ab Fab,Till Death Do Us Part,Steptoe and Son.
Personally I think that if a US audience can't accept the original then you might as well forget it.How can we constantly take what is good on our screens and try and change it to fit other tastes and still have it work as well as the original?
I know there are lots of Americans who get the originals.There are fans in the US of such shows as Red Dwarf,Blackadder and Ab Fab in their original British humour.There is no need to alter anything to fit a perceived American mentality.
If we can accept American shows like Frasier then I'm sure they can accept ours.
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21-05-2008, 09:41
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Re: life on mars
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Yeah but most of their activities were not against 'civilians' unlike the IRA campaigns and as a consequence the level of anger as shown by Gene Hunt may not ring as true..but what do I know? Could be it will be brilliant just like all the other US crossovers such as Ab Fab,Till Death Do Us Part,Steptoe and Son.
Personally I think that if a US audience can't accept the original then you might as well forget it.How can we constantly take what is good on our screens and try and change it to fit other tastes and still have it work as well as the original?
I know there are lots of Americans who get the originals.There are fans in the US of such shows as Red Dwarf,Blackadder and Ab Fab in their original British humour.There is no need to alter anything to fit a perceived American mentality.
If we can accept American shows like Frasier then I'm sure they can accept ours.
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Your average American is far less accommodating of cultural diversity, which is sad considering how culturally diverse they are as a nation within themselves. They tend to have quite narrow tastes when it comes to TV.
I don't think it matters too much, because it means we can sell our telly to them twice - once to the minor networks who buy it 'as made', and again to the more major networks who buy the concept and re-make it.
The only thinf that niggles me is that most Americans watching such a re-make have any idea that the show originated outside the US, thus reinforcing their notion that they are the only ones making decent TV.
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21-05-2008, 16:58
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Re: life on mars
must be fun
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20-06-2008, 01:49
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Re: life on mars
A badly acted pilot. The actors just don't suit the roles... Also, some of the settings look very fake. I can't see it being a ratings winner like the UK version...
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01-07-2008, 03:16
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Re: life on mars
Bought the first season of the UK version last week and only just finished episode 8. I feel it was a marvelous ending to the story, better than what most anyone following the series could have imagined. Not sure I would want to see the second season though... The ending to the first season being as good as it was. Am I wrong? How does season 2 compare to the first?
Would like to see Ashes To Ashes though, feel it should work.
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01-07-2008, 13:31
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Re: life on mars
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Originally Posted by kangaroosterrier
Bought the first season of the UK version last week and only just finished episode 8. I feel it was a marvelous ending to the story, better than what most anyone following the series could have imagined. Not sure I would want to see the second season though... The ending to the first season being as good as it was. Am I wrong? How does season 2 compare to the first?
Would like to see Ashes To Ashes though, feel it should work.
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Ashes to Ashes certainly isn't disappointing, although the interplay between Gene Hunt and our new time traveller, Alex Drake, is quite different to that between Hunt and Sam Tyler, which makes for a somewhat different TV show, so just because you like one doesn't mean you'll like the other - it would depend what you really liked about Life on Mars.
All in all I really enjoyed it though. They made a lot out of the fact that Alex Drake, who is a police psychologist, had read Sam's report into his 1970s adventures and so believes she knows exactly what's going on. She treats her experience in a totally different way to him, which is refreshing because it means they avoid simply re-treading Life on Mars.
I'd say go ahead and get it.
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02-07-2008, 11:01
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Re: life on mars
I enjoyed the juxtaposition between old and new policing methods, the music, how they had the older Sam's involvement influence his father leaving the younger Sam and his mother 33 years earlier, and the fact that I knew none of the actors.
Ashes To Ashes is not yet available on DVD here in SA, but soon as it is I'll be biting--sink my bicuspids into the spin-off...
Am still interested in knowing how season 2 of Life On Mars compares to the first. I don't want to watch it and feel it took something away from the impact of the first season.
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02-07-2008, 11:13
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Re: life on mars
Season 2 adds a lot to the overall story and explores Sam Tyler in more depth especially as he is still trying to work out what is going on and it is totally worth watching.
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02-07-2008, 11:30
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Re: life on mars
And the overall ending to the show is superb.
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02-07-2008, 11:36
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Re: life on mars
Has anyone watched the US pilot yet then?
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02-07-2008, 12:31
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Re: life on mars
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Season 2 adds a lot to the overall story and explores Sam Tyler in more depth especially as he is still trying to work out what is going on and it is totally worth watching.
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Thanks, will get season 2 then while I wait for Ashes To Ashes to come out on DVD.
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