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Life on Mars mostly-nonspoilery squee post
That sound you hear is my fangirl soul being sucked down into another black hole. :D
We've just mainlined the first season of Life on Mars (thank you, Derry!) and it's awesome. It's like CSI: David Lynch with a nigh-impenetrable Manchester accent.
I have fallen completely and utterly for Sam and Gene. I keep telling myself that I really should not like Gene as much as I do. He's an ass in pretty much every way: a violent, crude, mysogynist thug. But he's, uh. A very likable thug? And then there's Sam, with his woobiness and his constant struggle to do the right thing in the face of ubiquitous corruption and betrayal. And together, they're ♥ ♥ ♥.
Gene: I think you've forgotten who you're talking to.
Sam: An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding.
Gene: (slight pause) You make that sound like a bad thing.
I love how they handle 1973 as a real place with its own issues and a cultural climate that's very different from what Sam's used to in 2006, in all its little details: the way everyone is smoking all the time, the way that Sam is the only one who treats Annie like a person and listens to her ideas, since he's internalized the idea of working as equal partners with female co-workers in a way that no one around him has. I also love the way that death, corruption and violence are a normal part of their lives, and yet the show doesn't cheapen or trivialize it. You aren't allowed to forget that the murder victims, drug dealers and domestic terrorists that they deal with are real human beings, with families. The main characters themselves are so flawed -- when you have an episode about a cop on the take, or one who accidentally caused the death of a suspect in custody, it's not some random guest star who was brought on so that the lily-white main characters could find them out; it's people we know and (mostly) care about who are doing these things, struggling with their own consciences, dragging each other down or lifting each other up. I love their messy, dark, hilarious, tragic world.
I'm currently avoiding fan sites so as not to be spoiled for season 2 until we get done with that (which, at the rate we're going, shouldn't take very long), but if any LoM fans on my flist could point me to good fic or vids that are safe from S2 spoilers, that would be lovely!
Edit: And this probably goes without saying, but I thought I'd mention it because I have had to enforce my "no spoilers" policy lately -- please don't spoil me for S2 in the comments if you can help it. I won't kick you out, but I'll be very unhappy. I'm sure I'll be done with it very soon and we can talk about it then. :D
We've just mainlined the first season of Life on Mars (thank you, Derry!) and it's awesome. It's like CSI: David Lynch with a nigh-impenetrable Manchester accent.
I have fallen completely and utterly for Sam and Gene. I keep telling myself that I really should not like Gene as much as I do. He's an ass in pretty much every way: a violent, crude, mysogynist thug. But he's, uh. A very likable thug? And then there's Sam, with his woobiness and his constant struggle to do the right thing in the face of ubiquitous corruption and betrayal. And together, they're ♥ ♥ ♥.
Gene: I think you've forgotten who you're talking to.
Sam: An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding.
Gene: (slight pause) You make that sound like a bad thing.
I love how they handle 1973 as a real place with its own issues and a cultural climate that's very different from what Sam's used to in 2006, in all its little details: the way everyone is smoking all the time, the way that Sam is the only one who treats Annie like a person and listens to her ideas, since he's internalized the idea of working as equal partners with female co-workers in a way that no one around him has. I also love the way that death, corruption and violence are a normal part of their lives, and yet the show doesn't cheapen or trivialize it. You aren't allowed to forget that the murder victims, drug dealers and domestic terrorists that they deal with are real human beings, with families. The main characters themselves are so flawed -- when you have an episode about a cop on the take, or one who accidentally caused the death of a suspect in custody, it's not some random guest star who was brought on so that the lily-white main characters could find them out; it's people we know and (mostly) care about who are doing these things, struggling with their own consciences, dragging each other down or lifting each other up. I love their messy, dark, hilarious, tragic world.
I'm currently avoiding fan sites so as not to be spoiled for season 2 until we get done with that (which, at the rate we're going, shouldn't take very long), but if any LoM fans on my flist could point me to good fic or vids that are safe from S2 spoilers, that would be lovely!
Edit: And this probably goes without saying, but I thought I'd mention it because I have had to enforce my "no spoilers" policy lately -- please don't spoil me for S2 in the comments if you can help it. I won't kick you out, but I'll be very unhappy. I'm sure I'll be done with it very soon and we can talk about it then. :D
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... aargh! Now I want to watch more! And hubby's not home from work yet...