Comments on: Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/ Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:28:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: the TV addict » Blog Archive » TV Talk From Fellow TV Addicts http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 the TV addict » Blog Archive » TV Talk From Fellow TV Addicts Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:29:22 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-1020 [...] Marcia considered whether Ashes to Ashes was a worthy successor to Life on Mars. (Pop Vultures) [...] [...] Marcia considered whether Ashes to Ashes was a worthy successor to Life on Mars. (Pop Vultures) [...]

]]> By: This Week in Blogging: Feb. 16 - 22 | ~ ramblings of a TV whore ~ http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 This Week in Blogging: Feb. 16 - 22 | ~ ramblings of a TV whore ~ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:14:27 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-1013 [...] Marcia considered whether Ashes to Ashes was a worthy successor to Life on Mars. (Pop Vultures) [...] [...] Marcia considered whether Ashes to Ashes was a worthy successor to Life on Mars. (Pop Vultures) [...]

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]]> By: TV Blog Coalition: Feb. 22-24 | Pop Vultures http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-991 TV Blog Coalition: Feb. 22-24 | Pop Vultures Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:15:56 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-991 [...] Here at PV, Marcia considered whether Ashes to Ashes was a worthy successor to Life on Mars. (Pop Vultures) [...] [...] Here at PV, Marcia considered whether Ashes to Ashes was a worthy successor to Life on Mars. (Pop Vultures) [...]

]]> By: Maggie http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-977 Maggie Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:00:08 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-977 Carrie, I definitely think that Sam's storyline isn't over, given the disappearance of his body from that ravine. Televisionary has a review up of the first episode and also notes the oddness of Sam's demise: http://www.televisionaryblog.com/2008/02/afterlife-on-mars-ashes-to-ashes.html There's got to be some sort of reveal planned for later on in Ashes to Ashes that clarifies this and Alex's current predicament. Carrie, I definitely think that Sam’s storyline isn’t over, given the disappearance of his body from that ravine. Televisionary has a review up of the first episode and also notes the oddness of Sam’s demise: http://www.televisionaryblog.com/2008/02/afterlife-on-mars-ashes-to-ashes.html

There’s got to be some sort of reveal planned for later on in Ashes to Ashes that clarifies this and Alex’s current predicament.

]]> By: Carrie http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-976 Carrie Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:10:01 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-976 Oooh yeah, that is true about the 7 year thing, I was all sucked into her world obviously. Although I had read the creators/writers say that that's what they meant by the ending of LOM (that he lived his life in the past in the seconds he died in the present) whether the viewer wished to see it that way or not was up to them. I thought it was interesting/weird that they chose to say Sam had died and his body was never found. Is that gonna be a point in the future or is that the end of Sam references? Oooh yeah, that is true about the 7 year thing, I was all sucked into her world obviously.

Although I had read the creators/writers say that that’s what they meant by the ending of LOM (that he lived his life in the past in the seconds he died in the present) whether the viewer wished to see it that way or not was up to them.

I thought it was interesting/weird that they chose to say Sam had died and his body was never found. Is that gonna be a point in the future or is that the end of Sam references?

]]> By: Marcia http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Marcia Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:47:21 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-975 Carrie, yes, but Drake is the one who decided he was there for seven more years. If we are to believe the premise of Ashes to Ashes, that she is in her own space between life and death, then we can't really trust what her constructs are saying, can we? And WHY am I still trying to make sense of time-traveling plots? Did The Terminator teach me nothing? Rachel, you're dead on about the setting. It's gone from being in the background to being a major character and it really doesn't work. Of course, it doesn't help that the 80s were so much brighter than the 70s -- they're a lot harder to overlook. Carrie, yes, but Drake is the one who decided he was there for seven more years. If we are to believe the premise of Ashes to Ashes, that she is in her own space between life and death, then we can’t really trust what her constructs are saying, can we? And WHY am I still trying to make sense of time-traveling plots? Did The Terminator teach me nothing?

Rachel, you’re dead on about the setting. It’s gone from being in the background to being a major character and it really doesn’t work. Of course, it doesn’t help that the 80s were so much brighter than the 70s — they’re a lot harder to overlook.

]]> By: Rachel http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-966 Rachel Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:50:45 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-966 I was really struck by the difference in the use of the time setting - LoM felt very much like a cop show from the 70s, whereas AtA feels like a show produced by people who have candy-coated memories of the 80s. It feels much faker. I was really struck by the difference in the use of the time setting – LoM felt very much like a cop show from the 70s, whereas AtA feels like a show produced by people who have candy-coated memories of the 80s. It feels much faker.

]]> By: Carrie http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/comment-page-1/#comment-965 Carrie Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:26:14 +0000 http://popvultures.com/2008/02/21/ashes-to-ashes-funk-to-funky/#comment-965 Yeah, he definitely woke up for real. I saw the jumping off as part of his willingness to sacrifice his life in the present for the one in the past with Annie etc. He knew he was going to die. And in dying he lived in the past for another seven years in the time it took him to die in the present. That all sounds so very bizarre written down. Yeah, he definitely woke up for real. I saw the jumping off as part of his willingness to sacrifice his life in the present for the one in the past with Annie etc. He knew he was going to die. And in dying he lived in the past for another seven years in the time it took him to die in the present. That all sounds so very bizarre written down.

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