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[spatch]

I'll probably write some big thing later on about it but for now let me just state for the record that I thought the new American adaptation of Life on Mars, which was on last night at 10:00, completely and utterly failed to suck.

Am very glad they scrapped the original American version (set in LA) and re-tooled the entire thing (now set in NYC) and am most glad to see that the people working on this new one have not only seen the original British series but they get it. Keitel for one clearly did his homework. I was impressed.

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[ghira.livejournal.com]

There _is_ some Quest To Return To His Original Time, actually. I'm not
sure if there's as much as you'd want there to be.

[resk.livejournal.com]

As a detective, I figured the first thing he'd check into would be the department from which he was transferred. I thought that'd be a solid lead to follow. When he didn't do that by the end of the episode, I decided that this just wasn't a show for me.

[spatch]

He will, at least.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

That was actually something that bugged me about the original series, the whole time I was watching it. If I were in Sam's situation, the first thing I'd do would be to go directly to Hyde and see what's there, and how there can be this other adult 1973 Sam Tyler with his own life. If you want to figure out something that doesn't make any sense, you go in the direction of greatest cognitive dissonance, and that's Hyde. But the writers weren't really all that interested in exploring that, and it only comes up toward the end of the run.

[ghira.livejournal.com]

That really perplexed me, too. I'd have visited/called Hyde very very early on.

[spatch]

Well, he'd tried contacting the number in Hyde he'd been given, which turned into a Useful Plot Device later on. But I'm willing to bet that had he tried to actually travel there, something conveniently weird or unexpected ("That was weird! And unexpected!") would have prevented him from leaving Manchester altogether. Kinda like the Truman Show.