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That goes without saying, but I loved it. Loved this episode, loved the series, loved the characters, loved the way it's told, and filmed, and the way it sounds. EVERYTHING. My love, it is big. ♥
Okay, so I gotta start by saying that I was sort of spoiled during my search for a LoM icon *points to icon* but all I knew was that Sam would jump off the roof. Even though he was wearing a modern suit, my brain decided that meant he would jump off the roof in 1973 to get back to 2007, and I was so convinced about it it's almost funny. So. Shock and surprise much? Oh yes, and I liked that. (The first thing my mom asked me today when I told her I'd finished the series? "WHAT HAPPENS. TELL ME, TELL ME NOW." So I did, because she's a sucker for spoilers, but I really would've hated to miss that element of surprise.
So. Sam Tyler's journey through Wonderland, huh?
For starters, this one was one of the best episodes in the entire series (if not the best), in terms of writing. It has an incredible atmosphere, and it honestly kept me at my edge of my seat (when the title card girl appeared for the first time I swear I jumped). Frank Morgan was well constructed and after he told Sam his story I honestly wanted him to go back to 2007 if only because if anything was real it all had such a grim, grim prospect - it was a good thing to add, though, because by this time everyone and their mothers had already realized Sam WAS in a coma, but the whole 'You're Sam Williams, you have amnesia' thing managed to turn things around and create more of a question in everyone's minds.
Okay, all of the slow-motion scenes in the train tunnel ara a bit over dramatic, but they work, so it doesn't matter. Sam waking up was incredibly painful, and I'm guessing it wasn't so only for me. It just seemed... wrong, in some amount, and it's so heartbreakening. And then the scene on the roof. añlsdkjfalskdjf. So well done, and to have someone commiting suicide and turn into somewhat of a positive thing is a scary thing to do but so well portrayed (SIMM. OH MAN, SIMM DESERVES AN AWARD FOR THAT MOMENT.) and of course, to top it all off with David Bowie's song... añlskjfañsklj.
2007 is all about grey-ish blues, but 1973 is all vibrant greens and oranges and reds, and it does feel like Sam comes back to life instead or running of into the sunset of afterlife in a Ford Cortina. AND ANNIE. They're both oh so cute. Then that line, "I always hated that channel" and Sam chaning the station and the girl from the tv turning off another metaphorical tv, well, it just reinforces the surreal feeling of the series and it was just lovely.
Sure, it hurts to think Gene and Annie and that world isn't real, and that Sam is dead, but it all seemed so happy, you know? And for Sam it was real, so that's all it matters, I guess. And all right, my perfect choice for an ending would've been actual time traveling, but it just wasn't likely and this was an incredible ending anyway.
Mostly, I'm just heartbroken to think the actual series is over. Sure, Ashes to Ashes is comingand the remake, which I know I'll hate, but it just won't be the same. If it wasn't enough, I've been torturing myself and been listening to Life on Mars? all morning long (with small breaks to listen to Space Oddity and woah, but I need to have more Bowie like, now) and been sniffling all hurt-like everytime. I-- I miss it already. *cries*
Okay, so I gotta start by saying that I was sort of spoiled during my search for a LoM icon *points to icon* but all I knew was that Sam would jump off the roof. Even though he was wearing a modern suit, my brain decided that meant he would jump off the roof in 1973 to get back to 2007, and I was so convinced about it it's almost funny. So. Shock and surprise much? Oh yes, and I liked that. (The first thing my mom asked me today when I told her I'd finished the series? "WHAT HAPPENS. TELL ME, TELL ME NOW." So I did, because she's a sucker for spoilers, but I really would've hated to miss that element of surprise.
So. Sam Tyler's journey through Wonderland, huh?
For starters, this one was one of the best episodes in the entire series (if not the best), in terms of writing. It has an incredible atmosphere, and it honestly kept me at my edge of my seat (when the title card girl appeared for the first time I swear I jumped). Frank Morgan was well constructed and after he told Sam his story I honestly wanted him to go back to 2007 if only because if anything was real it all had such a grim, grim prospect - it was a good thing to add, though, because by this time everyone and their mothers had already realized Sam WAS in a coma, but the whole 'You're Sam Williams, you have amnesia' thing managed to turn things around and create more of a question in everyone's minds.
Okay, all of the slow-motion scenes in the train tunnel ara a bit over dramatic, but they work, so it doesn't matter. Sam waking up was incredibly painful, and I'm guessing it wasn't so only for me. It just seemed... wrong, in some amount, and it's so heartbreakening. And then the scene on the roof. añlsdkjfalskdjf. So well done, and to have someone commiting suicide and turn into somewhat of a positive thing is a scary thing to do but so well portrayed (SIMM. OH MAN, SIMM DESERVES AN AWARD FOR THAT MOMENT.) and of course, to top it all off with David Bowie's song... añlskjfañsklj.
2007 is all about grey-ish blues, but 1973 is all vibrant greens and oranges and reds, and it does feel like Sam comes back to life instead or running of into the sunset of afterlife in a Ford Cortina. AND ANNIE. They're both oh so cute. Then that line, "I always hated that channel" and Sam chaning the station and the girl from the tv turning off another metaphorical tv, well, it just reinforces the surreal feeling of the series and it was just lovely.
Sure, it hurts to think Gene and Annie and that world isn't real, and that Sam is dead, but it all seemed so happy, you know? And for Sam it was real, so that's all it matters, I guess. And all right, my perfect choice for an ending would've been actual time traveling, but it just wasn't likely and this was an incredible ending anyway.
Mostly, I'm just heartbroken to think the actual series is over. Sure, Ashes to Ashes is coming
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Porque Sam, es que me da una pena y una alegría al mismo tiempo ese final.
Lo que más pena me da de la serie es que él se lleva diciendo todo el tiempo que quiere volver a casa porque echa de menos a la gente a la que quiere, pero en verdad no tiene a nadie. Los únicos que lo visitan son su madre y su tía. La novia para dejarlo (guarraaa) y además las cosas no iban bien con ella desde el principio de la serie. Y el que lo quería matar.
Así que despierta y sólo está su madre, los del trabajo pasan de él, no tiene amigos porque ha vivido siempre para el trabajo, por eso no iban las cosas bien con su novia. Y no tiene nada ni a nadie, y la posibilidad de ser feliz en un mundo imaginario parece perfecta en un momento así.
Me da pena también la madre que no se ha enterado de nada.
Amo a Sam Tyler!!
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Aaaaah, Sam Tyler, como lo voy a extrañar, en serio que me conquistó todita. ;___;
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YES, who would have thought, right? I watched that scene over and over and over again afterwards. And I had expected the song to play somewhere in the show, but putting it there, the whole song, was pure brilliance. And I had completely forgotten about the difference in colours (it's been so long since I've seen it, sob!). I think, aside from the suicide moment, my biggest gasp came at the very end with the little girl. I had thought that they had forgotten about her, silly me!
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It's just - I can't get over how incredibly GOOD this series is. ♥
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I went in knowing the same thing, and it still worked. I was thinking WTFWTF throughout the episode. THAT is good.
The song brings so much more to the story and the feeling of that ending. It's perfection.
I keep thinking that it ended up being a lot like Neverwhere, which is my favorite book ever, so of course I liked the finale. :p
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It so is. I can't think of another moment in which it would've fitted better than that one, oh no. *sings along*
I thought of that as well, and it's so archetypical, isn't? The hero comes home after yearning after it for time on end only to realize his life there is mediocre and unfulfilling. Hehe, favoritest book ever? Cool, my favorite of Neil's is Amerian Gods (or if one can consider it a book, then Sandman).
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It is! But then I tend to link my favorite things to other good things so Neverwhere was about to come up. I think I posted about Sam being Richard, Annie was Door and Gene was the Marquis de Carabas. It worked out sooo pretty too. Hahaha.
I haven't finished American Gods yet. I think I have about 20 more pages to go. I kinda don't want to finish it, but then I have Anansi Boys waiting for me. :p
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Oh man, it DOES fit! Especially Sam being Richard although not as... loser-y, lol.
...And I JUST realized that the girl that plays Door in the miniseries, Laura Fraser, is Henriette in Casanova. I KNEW I'd seen her before, lol. Woah, what a fandom mixup, though XD
Fiiiiinish it. It's so very awesome. (And I kept on giggling madly while reading Anansi Boys, heee.)
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Richard is not a loser! WTF?! *pokes*
I didn't know she was Door when I watched, so that was a surprise. Still, too old. Haha.
I will. I will.
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He's not now, you have to admit he was a major loser before he met Door... And then he became the kick ass Richard we all know and love. *g*
A bit of a secret: I never did finish the miniseries. I watched the first episode, and... part of the second one? I'M NOT SURE. I just got... distracted, I think, and then I'd already lost the links. o_O Oh well. It was too 90s for my tastes ANYWAY, lol.
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OMGMETOO!!!! First episode, part of the second one and stopped. It was so baaaaaaaaaaaaad. I hate the guy they picked to play Richard and Door was too old, and the Marquis was strange and I just didn't like it at all. I want to watch it again and see if I can digest it, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. haha.