fightingthecage | If you haven't watched these shows, do.

OK, so I just finished watching the whole two series' of Life on Mars and the first episode of Ashes to Ashes. And I am confused about a couple of things, which a) shouldn't be surprising and b) it's supposed to be ambiguous anyway but that doesn't stop it being annoying.

Life on Mars was less ambiguous than I thought it would be, really. Sam went back to 2006 and then chose to go back to 1973 - fair enough. Except the part where he was in a coma when he was there originally and dead when he went back, so how does that work? I read it was meant to be the afterlife which pretty much makes no sense but whatever.

My main thing is - when he got back, why didn't he check police files to see if Gene Hunt ever really existed? I know I would, just to be sure. And fair enough, it was left pretty much that 1973 was a world created by Sam. But then, watching the first ep of Ashes to Ashes I remembered how this season ends - Alex finds out that the man she remembered holding her hand as a little girl when she saw her parents being blown up...was Gene. So that makes him real.

Anyone who got 'sent back in time' and then came home, would check up on the 'constructs' they interacted with for months. The fact that Sam apparently didn't? Makes no sense. The fact that Alex didn't, when going over the tapes Sam made for her, makes no sense. We're lead to believe that Gene isn't real, despite repeated mentions of how detailed and real the constructed worlds are - and yet, it transpires that Alex actually interacted with him when she was a child.

Like I said, confused. I don't like being confused when I watch shows because they do my head in rather than just letting me enjoy them. At the same time - it's awesome TV so I'm not really complaining.

And I need Life on Mars icons. Hunt is far more attractive than any character that behaves that way has a right to be.