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

[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."