Fuck Yeah Life on Mars

Relating to the Emmy award-winning TV show Life on Mars (UK). And how the American remake is inferior to the original.

Due to lack of new Mars-Ashes canon, related shows will be posted: Mad Dogs, Case Histories (by Monastic Productions) and NBC's Awake (LOM-esque US show coming soon this fall). Jason Isaacs stars in the latter two.

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Sam/Annie  FY Ashes to Ashes  FY Philip Glenister  Ruddy Bloody Gene Hunt  FY John Simm  John F-ing Simm  John Simm Sunday  The spell was broken (LoM and A2A caps)  Time of Death (LoM and A2A caps)  Dead Copper caps  Stupid faces of Ashes and Mars  Texts from 1973  Texts from the Quattro  FY British Telly
Oct 9 '11

comedysuze:

Philip Glenister as Tufty.

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Sep 7 '11

Life on Mars 30 Day Challenge: Day 27

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Favourite duo/Bromance




Sam Tyler: I was just dreaming.

Gene Hunt: What I call a dream involves Diana Dors and a bottle of chip oil! That’s what you call a guilty conscience, my friend.

Sam Tyler: What?

Gene Hunt: The root of nightmares.

Sam Tyler: My conscience is clear, thank you very much.

Gene Hunt: Yeah, well, as for me, I slept like a baby! [Flops back down onto the bed]

Sam Tyler: Yeah, a twenty stone baby. Burps, snores and farts.

Gene Hunt: [sitting bolt upright] I do NOT snore!

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Sep 2 '11

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Aug 31 '11

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Gene: “I’m need to see the flat”

Sam: “The crime scene”

Gene: “You know it might kick start the old mighty engine”

Sam doesn’t follow

Gene: “Me brain”

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Apr 22 '11
ruddybloodygenehunt: Don’t touch my mother fuckin’ squirrel! 

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Don’t touch my mother fuckin’ squirrel! 

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Apr 21 '11
ruddybloodygenehunt: Can’t sleep on the job? Challenge accepted.

ruddybloodygenehunt:

Can’t sleep on the job? Challenge accepted.

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Apr 14 '11
Gene: I didn’t do it, Sam. Neither of them. Sam. I swear. I swear to you I did not kill those men.Sam: Why should I believe you?Gene: Because you trust me! Like I trust you. Life on Mars 2.7

Gene: I didn’t do it, Sam. Neither of them. Sam. I swear. I swear to you I did not kill those men.
Sam: Why should I believe you?
Gene: Because you trust me! Like I trust you.

Life on Mars 2.7

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Feb 17 '11
slashbackblazers: Top 5 Screencap Meme | requested by -ziggystardust | Life on Mars, 2x07

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Top 5 Screencap Meme | requested by -ziggystardust | Life on Mars, 2x07

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Feb 9 '11

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Jan 23 '11
lindseycathryn: Fifteen Favorite Things I Watched in 2010 | 8. Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes It didn’t seem right to separate these two shows and rank one above the other.  I’ve heard the stories of Sam Tyler and Alex Drake likened to a British version of LOST - they share a similar brand of mystery, intrigue, and time-travel-y weirdness.  I started watching Life on Mars after falling for John Simm in Doctor Who, and it was an excellent decision.  Gene Hunt is one of the more interesting characters I’ve ever seen on TV - he’s brash, hilarious, and I really came to respect his views on the law despite the prejudices of the time that he illustrates so well.  Both series are expert in balancing the procedural “case of the week” and the serial “WTF is going on here?!”.  Life on Mars concludes with perhaps the best series finale I’ve seen for any show, and while I was sad to see Sam’s story come to a close, I had come to love Gene, Ray, and Chris enough that I couldn’t wait to get back to them in the 80s.  Alex Drake is wonderful and strong, and the Ashes finale helped tie up the continuing story of both series.  It’s well written, the soundtrack is superb, and it’s absolutely worth the watch if you haven’t yet had the pleasure.

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Fifteen Favorite Things I Watched in 2010 | 8. Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes

It didn’t seem right to separate these two shows and rank one above the other.  I’ve heard the stories of Sam Tyler and Alex Drake likened to a British version of LOST - they share a similar brand of mystery, intrigue, and time-travel-y weirdness.  I started watching Life on Mars after falling for John Simm in Doctor Who, and it was an excellent decision.  Gene Hunt is one of the more interesting characters I’ve ever seen on TV - he’s brash, hilarious, and I really came to respect his views on the law despite the prejudices of the time that he illustrates so well.  Both series are expert in balancing the procedural “case of the week” and the serial “WTF is going on here?!”.  Life on Mars concludes with perhaps the best series finale I’ve seen for any show, and while I was sad to see Sam’s story come to a close, I had come to love Gene, Ray, and Chris enough that I couldn’t wait to get back to them in the 80s.  Alex Drake is wonderful and strong, and the Ashes finale helped tie up the continuing story of both series.  It’s well written, the soundtrack is superb, and it’s absolutely worth the watch if you haven’t yet had the pleasure.

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