Life on Mars

[lizbee]

Episode 6 of the Sam Tyler's Male Privilege Show.    A phone is ringing in Gene's office.  It's not connected to anything.  He picks it up gingerly.

A child's voice does not say, "Are you my mummy?"

I always facepalm when Sam knows what's best for Annie, especially when What's Best For Annie involves Not Doing Her Job Properly.  But I love Annie to pieces, because at first she was impressed by Sam's Sensitive New Age Nice Guyness, and now she still likes him, but isn't dazzled. 

Not that Sam sparkles in the sunlight, but still.

Annie is my favourite.  I guarantee you she'll be running the Manchester police by the '90s.  Sam is an interesting bundle of contradictions.  Gene doesn't seem so much like a character, as a combination of nostalgia and cautionary example wrapped up in the charismatic form of Philip Glenister.



Irrelevantly -- I facepalmed: Abigail Nussbaum on Mortal Engines: "great premise but skews far too young".  God damn that fiction aimed at younger teens!

Comments

[ms-treesap.livejournal.com]

I guarantee you she'll be running the Manchester police by the '90s.

AGREED *goes to upload an Annie icon*.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

She reminds me of some of my friends who've achieved just that type of ascent.

(Userpic FTW!!!)

[ms-treesap.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she has enough skill and guts to cope with what must have been a really horrible place to work in.

(TY :D)

[livii.livejournal.com]

Annie is the best of them all, and much as I ended up enjoying Ashes to Ashes, the lack of Annie still rankles like nobody's business - Shaz is not a compatible substitute, PLUS it's like the secondary female character always has to be highly subordinate (even if A2A has a female lead, it still bugs me).

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

[sajee.livejournal.com]

Annie is awesome and Sam is so fucking pompous at her all the time that it makes me sad.

But YAY ANNIE!

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I like to imagine that a young DI Jane Tennison was once just as tentative and hesitant as Annie can be, and then...

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

I get twitchy at the Sam/Annie relationship too, except more often due to the way Annie treats Sam annoying me. They have this weird dissonance. They're supposed to believe in each other more than the others around them do, but...uh, usually sometimes I find I'd take the way they're treated by the others over the way they do each other.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Same here. Thankfully, the "romance" subplot was a a sideshow at best for me to the "what's inside Sam's twisty brain" show.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Yep. =D On her own, I like Annie reasonably, and it certainly didn't ruin my love of the show.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

I like to pretend inside my head that Annie grows up to be Carol Jordan's first DCI. And that Carol learned to kickass from her.

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

As I said, I'll probably write more about Mortal Engines in a few weeks, but my problem with it wasn't that it was geared towards young kids but that, in aiming the novel at them, the author had tossed out anything approaching complex or believable characterization. The characters - both children and adults - are all not only painfully stupid and naive but far too simple in their emotional reactions, which are far, far to starkly drawn, to appeal to me. If I compare the book to even the very first Harry Potter novel, hardly a bastion of emotional complexity, I still find Rowling's characters and their dilemmas and choices a great deal more believable.

[daniel-bethany.livejournal.com]

The full title of the show is, I believe Sam Tyler's WHITE Male Privilege Show.

And as for Gene, I do find him to be a believable character, mainly because I have a friend with whom I went to university, who is almost EXACTLY like Gene. Not racist at all, but other than that...

And he has subsequently joined the police force. And is a detective in the Moida Squad.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

The full title of the show is, I believe Sam Tyler's WHITE Male Privilege Show.

I've been thinking of it as Sam Tyler's Happy Paternalism Fun Time Hour.

And as for Gene, I do find him to be a believable character, mainly because I have a friend with whom I went to university, who is almost EXACTLY like Gene. Not racist at all, but other than that...

That's pretty impressive, actually. Does he carry multiple hip flasks? (That's one of the reasons I have trouble with Gene -- his interactions with the journalist were really good, they really added a lot to his character -- but then there's the fake-out with his "shooting", and suddenly he's back to being a cartoon.)