Trust the Gene Genie.

[hafital]

Mayhaps I need a Life on Mars icon.



--That was a lot of fun and I'm eager to watch S2.

--Gosh, an actual honest-to-goodness slash pairing! Well blow me down. *snicker*

--Excepting, of course, that I think I may be just as happy with Sam/Annie as Sam/Gene. D'oh!

--I love Annie. Don't anyone say anything bad about her, please.

--I find myself inappropriately head over heals for Gene Hunt, in that way where I'm perfectly happy to never ever meet him in person ever but if I did I'd cower somewhere behind him and expect him to save me from the bad guys.

--Everyone should have a Jamaican bartender offer random but timely pearls of enigmatic wisdom.

--The little TV blonde girl with the clown doll scares the crap out of me.

--If I have a critique of the show is that a) it was a tad predicable here and there in the actual crime solving part of the story and b) a bit one note with the Sam vs Everyone Else at CID, but neither of these things bothered me all that much.

--So, was Sam's dad acting as those brothers (Gene) or was he more or less innocent and at wrong place at the wrong time (Sam)? The show didn't seem to clarify that, unless I missed something.

--I figured out pretty early on that the tragedy of it would be that Sam would not be able to change history but only that he would be faced with some distressing truth about his father, but I didn't twig to the girl in red being Annie until the reveal, so that was cool.

--In conclusion, trust the Gene Genie.

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In other news, I'm seriously unprepared for yuletide. D'oh! *big eyes*

Comments

[klia.livejournal.com]

So, was Sam's dad acting as those brothers (Gene) or was he more or less innocent and at wrong place at the wrong time (Sam)? The show didn't seem to clarify that, unless I missed something.

Vic was actually the Morton Bros.; Gene actually said, "Never crossed our minds that one man could be pretending to be two men." And he would've killed Sam, too, had Sam not unloaded the gun.

FWIW -- no spoilers -- but, as someone who adored S1, I sort of feel obliged to mention that I was really, seriously unhappy with S2, and with the exception of 2 eps, I really, really wish I hadn't watched it, because it almost killed my love for the show and characters. Thankfully, I can still happily revisit S1; K wasn't so lucky, unfortunately.

[hafital.livejournal.com]

FWIW -- no spoilers -- but, as someone who adored S1, I sort of feel obliged to mention that I was really, seriously unhappy with S2, and with the exception of 2 eps, I really, really wish I hadn't watched it, because it almost killed my love for the show and characters. Thankfully, I can still happily revisit S1; K wasn't so lucky, unfortunately.

Uh oh. Well, good to know. :) I shall watch guardedly.

Vic was actually the Morton Bros.; Gene actually said, "Never crossed our minds that one man could be pretending to be two men." And he would've killed Sam, too, had Sam not unloaded the gun.

I got that. I guess I don't quite believe that a man who would be a criminal like Vic would then just dissapear entirely. In both timelines he disappears. The details get lost in the emotional conclusion, I suppose.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I didn't have any problems with S2, FWIW. I actually found it much less predictable than S1 in the way you were describing, and still a lot of fun.

[hafital.livejournal.com]

Oh good! Although, really, this is a very low stress show for me. Nice to have one of those. *g*

[klia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's weird that he just disappeared. I guess I did what fans do, and imagined that he crossed the wrong person and ended up in a shallow grave somewhere. Poor Sam.

[hafital.livejournal.com]

I guess I did what fans do, and imagined that he crossed the wrong person and ended up in a shallow grave somewhere.

Yeah, I thought that too. If you tally up all the loose ends, it doesn't add up (if he is a rising criminal, why are his wife and kid still barely making ends meet? etc etc). I mean, this is just me on one viewing alone scratching me head, so I don't think I'm overthinking it (although definitely looking at it as a writer), but at the same time the show leaves open the question of whether or not what we see is real, a very nice example of an unreliable narrator, so, you know, the plot was not the point. The point is Sam and Sam's personal revelations and discoveries. Don't look over there! Look over here! *g*

er, okay, maybe I am overthinking it. haha.

[klia.livejournal.com]

The point is Sam and Sam's personal revelations and discoveries. Don't look over there! Look over here! *g*

Yep, totally! *g*

er, okay, maybe I am overthinking it. haha.

That show's enough to make one's head spin, definitely!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I actually found the bartender to be kind of disturbingly Magical Negro in an otherwise fairly evolved show, but I agree with most of your other points.

I never did love Gene Hunt, but I appreciated the character as a great foil for Sam and a sort of personal representation of his culture shock. And yeah, if things got ugly I'd want to be behind him.

Annie is 100% awesome.

[hafital.livejournal.com]

I actually found the bartender to be kind of disturbingly Magical Negro in an otherwise fairly evolved show, but I agree with most of your other points.

You're right, he does come up close to that stereotype. He's Magical Negro meets Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch. I loved the character, though. The stereotype would have been mitigated if he'd had other things to do.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Agreed. He seemed like an interesting person and I wanted to know more about him, but all we got was "Jamaican bartender helps out the nice white guy."

[livii.livejournal.com]

I ship Sam/Annie so much, man. They are SO CUTE together.

I hope you enjoy S2 - I thought it wasn't as strong but still fun - I only ever took the show as fun - and the ending was fantastic.

[hafital.livejournal.com]

Oh, look at your Annie icon!!

Yeah, seriously, I adore her, everything about her. I'm all over Sam/Annie!