life on mars?...

Guess what? Sam was in a coma all along (cf Bobby's shower dream).

Sam's brain tumor and the swelling were the cause of his coma, and once operated on, he was hunky dory and back in the real world. All the 'clever' clues were actually his ward name, the room number, his surgeon... (It was around this time - 15 minutes from the end - that I started shouting at the TV.)

Except that once Sam was back, it didn't feel real to him. The life he'd longed to go back to - his family, the present - felt so much less real to him that he jumped off a roof - killed himself - to get back to 1973. And all because he'd promised Annie he wouldn't 'just leave'... Ah...

Questions...
If the 1973 life that Sam was living in ultimately was and felt more real to him than the present, why did he always want to go home so badly from 1973?
And why did he make the 'slightly' drastic choice of death in order to go back?
Surely he knew that was a cop-out (pardon the pun) - his mum, his girlfriend, his mates and colleagues would be distraught, guilt-ridden, at his recovery and sudden suicide?
One minute he was telling us that it was good to talk about it, the next jumping off the roof - why?
A copper of such principle, such a modern, ethical man, wouldn't choose to kill himself for racist, mysogynist fantasy-land?
He spent months trying to convince them that their methods made them corrupt, violent, sexist pigs (sorry again) - and yet he chose to go back and be one of them?
lf this is all correct, surely it's more accurate to say he was actually more mad than in a coma? Or both - the coma sent him mad?

And more...
Why did the Beeb commission a second series in the first place?
Why did I ever start watching it anyway?
lf it's true they made two endings, can they please let us see the other one?
Doesn't Jon Wilde's son's explanation seem so much better, more real, more satisfying?
Does it make me feel any better that one of the country's best TV critics doesn't seem to know what it means either?
Does all this mean Janet Street Porter's right, we get the TV we deserve?...

So many questions, and nere an answer to be found. Auntie, do the decent thing and 'Gene Hunt' the 80s spin-off now...


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last night K9 saved my life...

Last night, whilst browsing around the Museum of Science and Industry, I was nearly attacked by a walking, talking Cyberman...




...shot at by a Dalek...




and blasted by an Ood...




but K9 saved my life! Phew...




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bad, bad habit...

Realisation - Top Gear is porn for environmentalists.

I feel dirty thinking about, but I love it.


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Sleb Big Bruv...

Stick a fork in me - I'm done.

Because Mark Lawson's Comment is Free article is all I'm going to need to read about this entire series. Ta for that, Mark.

So early, so easy, so painless. Now pass the fork...


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