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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.

Comments

[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.