OMG OMG OMG

[dangermousie]

OMG. I just watched last episode of Life on Mars.



Mind.

Blown.

Brain.

Gone.

For ever.

This just might be the best episode of anything, in history.

Only coherent enough for caps. Meta to come.

OMG.



Sam and Annie at his flat. That scene killed me dead.













I love Gene.



Awesomeness.



These scenes broke my mind AND my heart:



























Oh Gene. Oh Gene. I love how with all his faults, he is miles better than Morgan. He would NEVER leave his people to die, and he would always risk himself first. He is only awful to people he thinks is scum (which is obviously a separate issue). I wonder if it's Sam's subconscous, making Morgan, the way out, the modern one, such scum as a sign of his wanting to stay. Anyway, no meta because am not coherent. Must not meta.







Ohhhh.





OMG OMG



Promising to come back:





Finding out what kind of person Morgan really is:



Waking up (or is he, the modern world is so much less defined. There is no sand on someone's hands here. Is the 1970s really the real world?)



'Back in the present'





On the roof. This time there is no Annie to stop him. How barren must his 'future' life be, for him to jump?







I sort of melted:









EEEEEEE!!!!

















Heeee! Perfect. One of the best, perfect, yet most disturbing endings ever.

Comments

[jebbypal]

Heeee! Finally, I don't have to worry about spoiling you!!! :):):):)

I told you it would leave you a puddle of ectoplasm of goo on the floor!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's the morning after and I am still brain scrambled from it.

[bennet-7.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just fab? The ending is so trippy but perfect for this odd little show.

I wish they'd hurry up with Ashes to Ashes, even though Sam and Annie won't be in it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am rather excited for AtA. Any idea on when it's supposed to air?

[bennet-7.livejournal.com]

Methinks January 2008. Thank god the writers strike doesn't affect the Brits!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I am very very thankful it's only a US strike. What would I do without my British shows and Asian dramas?

[ladysaotome.livejournal.com]

I knew you could hold out. It's flabergasting!

Also, did you know they made (or are making) a spinoff?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I knew about spinoff, and yeah, I am amazed at self :)

LOM rocks

[fire-snake.livejournal.com]

Mind boggling, but awesome! I had to quickly watch four last episodes in a raw just to find out how it ends (no spoilers for this one). I am still not sure what actually happened to him, but the good news is that he doesn't seem to care, either. He is just out there in 1973 enjoying the moment and the girl:) I think that the last thread that connected him to the present was Maya and her fate (when he left she had been abducted and he didn't know if she was alive or dead), but it was successfully cut loose in S2E6. His mom and aunt were important, but in a way he said goodbye to them in S1E8 and S2E4. There was nothing left for him in the present except his job and all technological advances. I don't think that the present is exactly barren for him, but it lacks adrenaline and attractions of the 70s. It looks like his position is high enough in the modern hierarchy to carry some bureaucratic responsibilities. I am sure that when it was his only reality, he didn't mind climbing up the career ladder, but now he has something to choose from. Also, the failure of a "new" portable radio in the last episode is in essence his disillusionment with technology. After all, it is only as good as the people on the other end of your transmission.
My take on the sequence in the present and his jump is metaphysical. I would like to believe that at that moment in the tunnel he had a vision as to how his present would look like if he came back. His jump is a metaphorical letting go of the present, then he turns around and is back in what he considers his real life.
I can't wait for Ashes and Ashes, but I hope that they will change the setup a little bit. The same explanation twice would be much less intriguing.
BTW, there are so many interpretations as to what had really happened that I already lost track. I can even believe that he was an undercover cop from Hyde with amnesia who came up with a bizzare way to fill in the memory gap. If he trully believed that he was from the future, he could have come up with some bizzare ideas about modern technology. Since the show is filmed from our perspective, we could have just projected the existing devices onto his imaginary ones. It is a little bit like Star Trek with its funny looking communicators in the original series and sleek iPhone look alikes in the latest installment.

Re: LOM rocks

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The thing about him being actually from the past is interesting. But I like your first theory even better.