Life On Mars
Mar. 12th, 2006 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenSo, I watched the first episode of Life On Mars, which I am about to review, and it was joyous. Absolutely wonderful. I am now trying for episode two. However, torrents hate me, it seems. Every torrent I try vworps* out on me and doesn't start downloading at all, and I don't know what's happening. I think this may simply be because I suck with torrents. Does anyone have the episodes uploaded somewhere as zipped files or some such, or can perhaps explain to me where I'm going wrong with the torrents? (I'm still not quite getting to grips with the new internet connection, which I think may have something to do with it).
However, the first episode was just wonderful. In more detail, the things I liked:
-Sam. Oh, so sweet and so lovely. I love how understated he is even when he's going crazy.
-the accident. Eeek. I liked that too. I especially like the total lack of resolution - when he comes round he's standing up, and there's no immediate fallout, which sort of leaves you waiting to exhale for a long time, and I reckon it's very effective.
-the accident reloaded; the creepiness and the voices and the shifting reality, and the weird starkness of the new landscape. I really liked that scene.
-the atmosphere, the smoke, the lamps, the strange detachment, when Sam gets back into his office. Eeek.
-Gene and his gratuitious violence. It's wonderfully alien.
-The details! The wallpaper, the chintz! The blatant sexism! The smoking! More than that, the more subtle detail about all the coppers being willing to steal 27p.
-I liked that Sam is quick enough to suspect time travel even in between crack-ups. There's something very quiet about him as a character; quiet, but very clever, and it makes for a terribly interesting protagonist.
-Sam cracking up by the side of the corpse. And, while I'm at it, all the scenes that seem to show the "real" world intruding, what with the scary distant voices and bleeping.
-Sam cracking up, again, on top of his telly in the middle of the night. Awww.
-Gene being nice to the kids. Awww, again, especially when he gives them money.
-The strange connections between the 1973 case and the 2006 case, paticularly Sam's soundproofing revelation. There is so much fic potential regarding his younger self's visit to the record shop.
-The beyond creepy turn of the "hypnotherapist"; I adored the ambiguity about whether or not it was real. The guy is a real person, but should he know about mobile phones? And then it's really him running around trying to stop Sam from committing suicide, and well, brain-melt. I'm hoping the red herrings for this show are more thought-provoking than Lost.
-The suicide-attempt-attempt. Eeee, Sam. He is adorable. He is adorable in every single way. I love him and his angsty self. I need an icon of him being angsty.
In short, I loved it. Bring on the next episodes if at all possible. *loves flist*
*There was originally another word here, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
biascut objected to its use, and rightly so. I have therefore replaced it. The verb "to vworp" is the canonical onomatopaeic rendition of the TARDIS dematerialising, and an excellent word it is too.
However, the first episode was just wonderful. In more detail, the things I liked:
-Sam. Oh, so sweet and so lovely. I love how understated he is even when he's going crazy.
-the accident. Eeek. I liked that too. I especially like the total lack of resolution - when he comes round he's standing up, and there's no immediate fallout, which sort of leaves you waiting to exhale for a long time, and I reckon it's very effective.
-the accident reloaded; the creepiness and the voices and the shifting reality, and the weird starkness of the new landscape. I really liked that scene.
-the atmosphere, the smoke, the lamps, the strange detachment, when Sam gets back into his office. Eeek.
-Gene and his gratuitious violence. It's wonderfully alien.
-The details! The wallpaper, the chintz! The blatant sexism! The smoking! More than that, the more subtle detail about all the coppers being willing to steal 27p.
-I liked that Sam is quick enough to suspect time travel even in between crack-ups. There's something very quiet about him as a character; quiet, but very clever, and it makes for a terribly interesting protagonist.
-Sam cracking up by the side of the corpse. And, while I'm at it, all the scenes that seem to show the "real" world intruding, what with the scary distant voices and bleeping.
-Sam cracking up, again, on top of his telly in the middle of the night. Awww.
-Gene being nice to the kids. Awww, again, especially when he gives them money.
-The strange connections between the 1973 case and the 2006 case, paticularly Sam's soundproofing revelation. There is so much fic potential regarding his younger self's visit to the record shop.
-The beyond creepy turn of the "hypnotherapist"; I adored the ambiguity about whether or not it was real. The guy is a real person, but should he know about mobile phones? And then it's really him running around trying to stop Sam from committing suicide, and well, brain-melt. I'm hoping the red herrings for this show are more thought-provoking than Lost.
-The suicide-attempt-attempt. Eeee, Sam. He is adorable. He is adorable in every single way. I love him and his angsty self. I need an icon of him being angsty.
In short, I loved it. Bring on the next episodes if at all possible. *loves flist*
*There was originally another word here, but
biascut objected to its use, and rightly so. I have therefore replaced it. The verb "to vworp" is the canonical onomatopaeic rendition of the TARDIS dematerialising, and an excellent word it is too.