Life on Mars (BBC Cop Drama)

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I love it!  It's one of the most intelligent things the BBC has done in recent years.

Is Sam Tyler a delusional 70's cop?  Is he really in a coma and dreaming?  Is there a sci-fi element we haven't seen yet?

The two series seems ideal, I don't like storylines dragged out (like Lost), but a series of the same characters (except Sam) picking up in 1981 is in the works apparently.

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motorollin wrote:
I think throwing someone from the 90s/00s into the 70s is an excellent way of highlighting the inequalities and discrimination which were accepted as "normal" 30-40 years ago, and showing how things have changed.

It's cleverer than that, it's a double edged sword.  It's not only trying to tap into our social attitudes in these more elightened times by horrifying us whenever overtly racist/sexist/homophobic attitudes are explored, but also tapping into our rose-tinted nostalgia about life before lawyers, health and safety and various political correctness issues which haven't changed our life for the better.  

I like the contrast and the thought-provokingness of it all.  

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What!? You didn't have the decency to turn up for the 1970s???

Okay, so I was dribbling for most of the 1970s that I can recall (as opposed to me dribbling my way through the 1990s for entirely different reasons), but there exist photos of toddler me in flared jeans and floral shirts.

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mel_zoom wrote:

It didnt stop an angry motorist calling me a "####ing paki b####" after he nearly ran his car into mine. Never mind that he tried to turn the wrong way into a one way street! If he cant understand a "no right turn" sign I guess distinguishing someone half Bangladeshi from someone Pakistani is going to be a bit too much to ask.

Hmm...  Seems like progress (not to mention driving standards) has passed this knuckle dragging fool by.  

I trust you had some choice words in response?

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metalman wrote:

"East Pakistan" was province of Pakistan, residents were "Pakistani"

Ahem, prior to that they were subjects of the crown - as were you colonials at one time I believe.

Try telling an Irishman he's English by virtue of the fact that Ireland gained independence in 1921 and then count your teeth afterward!