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[andrewducker]

Ashes to Ashes is the 80's set follow-up to Life on Mars.

You can see the trailer here.

If you haven't seen Life on Mars then don't click on it. Instead head straight to your media provider of choice and obtain said TV series. And then watch it all. Now.

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Damn. I want to see the trailer, but I've not yet seen LoM Season 2, and I've successfully avoided spoilers for it.

Guess I'll have to try and watch it this week.

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

Being Mr No-TV, I was for a few seconds thinking 'of course Ashes to Ashes is the 80's follow-up to Life on Mars, and Hallo Spaceboy is the 90's follow-up'. Then I remembered that not everyone has a history of Bowie obsesion (cured).

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

Surely "Ashes To Ashes" is the 1980 follow up to 1969's "Space Oddity"?

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

Well of course it is. Which just goes to show how much of an idiot I am (wasn't my first stupidity last night). I shouldn't be allowed loose on the internet when my brain is freewheeling.

[tisme.livejournal.com]

It says the video is unavailable?
But it makes me very happy that there's a follow up. Although I don't think it'll have quite the same amazing song/title/feel osmosis as the last one.
*happy sigh*

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the whole premise of Life on Mars that being in an era where gay bashing is socially acceptable is heaven for a straight white middle class man?

Also, do you have it on dvd/lendable format so I can attempt to watch more than two episodes out of order? :D

[andrewducker]

What?????

The whole point is the clash between 21st century enlighted man and 1970s homophobic/sexist/racist man. Well, that's one of the points. But 21st century man is always right.

And I have it largely in downloadable format. But the first season is around here somewhere.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

:D You may have noticed from my second paragraph that I haven't actually watched it - my opinion, formed _entirely_ from previews and reviews and articles in the papers/internets, is that some bloke gets in a coma, goes back to the 1970s when there isn't any pesky political correctness, somebody else beats up gays, and the finale is that he's really in heaven.

I discovered this interesting way of looking at much-talked about series/films while I was on Skokholm; when Snakes On A Plane was released I only really had BBC Radio 4, who would not shut up about it in a really, really, irritating middle aged middle class way. Hence, I never want to see that film because I have heard the plot dissected by some chortling midlife crisis umpteen times.. gaah!

Yes.. I would now appreciate the first season of Life on Mars so I can watch it myself.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I loved it but you actually have a point. It was rather cake and eat it: I think quite a lot of men sat there going "ooh, weren't people bad in those days" while simultaneously rather enjoying Gene Hunt breaking down doors, abusing accuseds, patronising women, employing torture (near as damn in one ep) etc.

It's a bit like every time Batman says "I have to catch those cowardly criminals who you police had to let go because of legal lopholes" ad I go er no, those aren't loopholes, they'rer what we call natural justice..

Anyway LOM had its heart in the right place tho, redemptively (I gave Andy the first series..)

[loveandgarbage.livejournal.com]

In retrospect I think there's a lot of A Connecticut Yankee in it, but I may be reading too much into it.