Did you hear how the american life on mars ended? Spoilers for both

[whisky]

As anyone who watched the british life on mars will know, the last episode was something of a masterpiece, where the hero wakes up in the present from his coma, realises how shitty his real life is, and jumps off a tall building to commit suicide, so he can return to the past again even briefly at the cost of his own life.

The american version has him wake up on a spaceship, actually heading to mars, to find life, all the other cops are his crewmates, and they are going on a "gene hunt"

If the show was cancelled anyway why not go the route of the british ending?

 

[CaptainWacky]

To be different? "Gene Hunt" is a lame pun though.

 

[whisky]

But if he is actually from 2025, how come he only remembers stuff from 2009?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Yeah, that is pretty dumb. And why would have be flashing back to the seventies? That makes sense if he was a kid in the seventies, not some FUTURE SPACE ASTRONAUT MAN.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

LOL

 

[whisky]

Why would he even know proper police procedures as an astronaut?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Maybe he read a lot of detective fiction on the long flight to Mars?

 

[Aquehonga]

I rather enjoyed the Series Finale of the American version.

That {type of} ending's how I pictured one way STAR TREK, as a whole, could have a Final Finale.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Similar to the ending of The Britarse Empire, where Gordon wakes up on a train carriage and the main characters are all passengers. The woman who kept babies in drawers turns out to be a nun.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Didn't he die at the end of one series but then Chris Barrie realised he didn't have anything else to do and made another series so he somehow came back to life?

 

[whisky]

Thats right, I think they even ran him over with a steam roller specifically because he said there was no way he wanted to come back.

I think they said he was bionic after that, which made no sence, but still slightly more sence than all 8 years being a dream

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I liked how the leisure centre would blow up at the end of every series, usually thanks to Colin.

 

[CaptainWacky]

WHy the fuck did we ever watch The Britas Empire?

 

[whisky]

I was younger, so much younger than today

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I watched the first episode on Youtube earlier. It was kind of good... had some oddball moments, but still watchable. The nostalgia factor helped a lot, though. I'm gonna watch the rest of the series again.

They're all here http://www.youtube.com/user/bubblebibbit

 

[CaptainWacky]

Well things are usually better and more "pure" in the first series before they get all stupid and have a woman who has babies in drawers and stuff.