Life on Mars (BBC Cop Drama)

[Tomas]

odin wrote:

The only shows i follow these days are battlestar galactica and family guy. I look forward to the return of futurama though.

I even hate Family Guy and Battlestar Galactica (dizzycam...*vomit*). :lol:

I think it makes it more realistic  :-P Though i guess it is nt so good for those who suffers from motion sickness.

[X-ray]

Okay, just saw another episode.
I can honestly say that the acting is indeed poor. I guess it's not for me. It's a pity because I like the concept.

[odin]

Same here, watched (partly) an episode where the main character ran into his father, with his father involved with a porn movie. It was a bit better than the other episode I saw, but still urine-poor.

[Hyperspeed]

I think you have to appreciate the British sense of humour and nods to 1970s culture to find it entertaining.

It's refreshing to see cops kicking down doors and being politically incorrect.

It's generally tongue in cheek (like Doctor Who). Don't cancel your social life to watch it - but if it's on it'll keep you hooked for some peculiar reason!

[motorollin]

I love Life On Mars. 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.

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moto

[X-ray]

If I want that, I'll watch Austin Powers  :-P

[PMC]

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.  

[motorollin]

Yes you're right I picked up on that side of it too, but only being born in 1983 this is a distinction I only understand through studying the "golden age" rather than experiencing it first hand :-p

--
moto

[PMC]

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.

[X-ray]

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

[mel_zoom]

motorollin:
"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 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.

[metalman]

mel_zoom wrote:
"I think throwing someone from the 90s/00s into the 70s is an excellent way of ... showing how things have changed."

... I guess distinguishing someone half Bangladeshi from someone Pakistani is going to be a bit too much to ask.

"how things have changed" since 70s

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

[PMC]

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?

[mel_zoom]

metalman:
""how things have changed" since 70s

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

That changed in 1971 which is some time before I was born. Ive never been pakistani. Also its presently 2007, not 1970. Still dont let that dissuade you from using pedant logic to support his action.

[mel_zoom]

PMC:

"I trust you had some choice words in response?"

Yes - though I was several hundred metres away by the time I said them...

[PMC]

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!