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[doyle]

BBC announces Life on Mars will end after series 2. I can't help feeling I'm somehow to blame, since I finally got around to watching it this week and have only just joined lifein1973 (though haven't posted anything about it since I'm not beyond the 'flailing with love for Sam-Gene-Annie' stage). Buffy died the season after I got into it too! It's a sign! Possibly a sign that I should stick to the likes of Xena and Hercules, with their happily closed canons where the characters forever frolic in a suspiciously New Zealand-looking Ancient Greece and Eomer from Lord of the Rings has an awful bleached perm.

ETA: Also Sam Tyler/Rose Tyler = crossover time travelling gigantic daddy issues OTP, yo.

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[neadods.livejournal.com]

Part of me is thinking "Damn, that's such a cool show, hate to see it go." The major part, though, is thinking, "There's only so long you could keep that conceit going, and with a definite ending point, they can write a definite resolution about will he/won't he wake up when."

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oh, ugh, you didn't mention that they were going to "adapt" it for the US! We always hose shows like that when we try to recreate them; I can't think of a single remake of an overseas anything that we got right. And the ways of doing it wrong are legion.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Horrible as it's likely to be, I'm really interested in seeing how different it is: I keep thinking it's bound to be more of a take on Starsky and Hutch than The Sweeney, and I'm curious how it'll turn out.

It's driving me mad trying to remember the ads from the 90s that parodied 70s cop shows, especially the one with a very Gene-ish guv and a younger officer involved in a car chase ("Please stop shouting, sir." "I CAN'T!")

[redscharlach.livejournal.com]

It's driving me mad trying to remember the ads from the 90s that parodied 70s cop shows, especially the one with a very Gene-ish guv and a younger officer involved in a car chase

Ah, that was the ad for the Nissan Almera. Phil Cornwell off Dead Ringers played the Guv character. See here (http://www.missingimages.com/thesweeney/thefts/thefts.html) for details...

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* Why must they adapt things for the US? Why can't they just air the original? Especially since if the US version goes well, they won't have the sense to stop at the appropriate time and will keep going long after it should have ended.

[xionin.livejournal.com]

Why must they adapt things for the US? Why can't they just air the original?

sometimes it's a language barrier, believe it or not. and a lot of the cultural references don't translate. not everyone is an anglophile like me. ;)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

if the US version goes well, they won't have the sense to stop at the appropriate time and will keep going long after it should have ended

That's one of my fears too, but maybe if we're lucky, they'll do it as a miniseries and then they'll have a definate beginning and end.

Doyle's right about the language barrier, and there's also a cultural one as well (basically, they're going to have to Zevon it up with lawyers, guns, and money) but still... the number of American writer/producers I trust to get this right could be counted on one hand, and I haven't heard Strazynski, Whedon, or Sorkin mentioned yet.

[xionin.livejournal.com]

*is sad*

i love 'life on mars'. but i can see how the premise would get old after a while, as great as it is. and david e. kelley is working on a US version? i have mixed feelings about that. i guess we'll see if it flies.

ooo! wow, that would be a crossover i could get into. ;)

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I mostly think that's a good thing, because now they can end it the way they want and it won't drag on for too long.

And the Sam/Rose(/Vince) Tyler crossover of greatness is the only thing I want for Christmas.

[livii.livejournal.com]

I'm not too upset because, like others, I think it works best as a limited-length concept. In fact I'd sort of hoped it was going to actually end at the end of last season. But one more season should be just right.

My DW/LoM OTP is Rose/Annie, though. Because gah, I'm wibbling just thinking about the loveliness.

[rh.livejournal.com]

It's on this week? Or watch the DVD, you mean?

[tavella.livejournal.com]

In this case, I think it's a good thing. It means they can make it a story with a beginning and an end, not miserably stretched out. One of the things I love about UK TV as compared to America is that they know when to say when.

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose it's best that there is a definite ending. I'm still annoyed that they haven't made a Christmas Special, though. Slade! Ronco Buttoneers! Party Sevens! IT WAS MEANT TO BE, PEOPLE.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

BBC announces Life on Mars will end after series 2.

This is good news! As much as I love this show, I'm glad it's not dragging on. It means the creators have an idea how they're getting out of the situation, rather than just flailing behind smoke and unfocused shots (ala Chris Carter).

On the other hand, Ally McBeal creator David E Kelley is making a pilot based on the show for US audiences is not good news.

[chelseagirl47.livejournal.com]

ETA: Also Sam Tyler/Rose Tyler = crossover time travelling gigantic daddy issues OTP, yo.

eep. Then I'd better finish up the crossover I've been writing about this. ;-)