*life on Mars* finale

[muffyn]

(ok, so I am wayyyy behind on watching some of the cancelled shows finales, kept them for a while, while watching current stuff I was behind on)

who else watched this!
al I can say is **WOW**
I never ever saw THAT ending coming

very cool, . I had known how the british version finale was, & thought this was going to be similar. so was really surprised.

(gonna watch this again)

KUDOS to the networks for at least allowing the creator of some shows to settle the show, Like Prison Break ( I will miss that show but at least they did sum up a closure for us . not all 'happy' but at least it was something.. I'd have liked t0 have known what happened to the nasty black haired kidnapper <with the daughter> who was stabbed.. she didn't die right? to bad they didn't show her future)

ticks me off when the networks just cancel a show, & don't even SHOW all the episodes they filmed & never leave us with any answers......sometimes I wonder why I even watch these anymore....

 

[debknight]

Yes, you really are way behind. I loved that show and yes, that was a great ending. Too bad it did not last longer. I especially liked the music!

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Oh... how I miss this show and that hottie ♥Jason O'Mara Best new show in ages and they can it.

I loved the ending! The series just came out on DVD two weeks ago.

 

[5 'LIL *TWINKERS*]

Loved that show too. Loved the whole 70's era feel. Sad that its gone. Life on Mars right after LOST was the best night of the week

 

[pixiewings71]

Oh man, I really liked that show! I miss it for sure!!

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I too thought it was fantastic. The cast, the diallogue, and the ending were all great.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I am kinda glad it ended so well and they really did put in a ton oh hints. I never saw it coming though. I love who the voice of the computer was.

 

[KristaTX]

I didn't even watch it, but now I want to know how it ended. Must have been interesting. What happened?

 

[akayek31]

OMG that is my favorite show. I miss it so much.

 

[Imzadi]

Wow, this thread is like being in a time warp. Yes, I liked the show. I thought they wrap up at the end was a little too rushed. it was like they got the cancellation and had to do it all in that one episode. I needed more time for it all to settle in.

 

[MAKmom]

I am madly in love with Sam

 

[robinb]

I really liked this show too. I'm glad they wrapped it up and didn't leave us hanging. Although ... I liked the UK ending better that the US ending. Most of the US plots were lifted in whole from the UK show. We found it on the BBC after we got hooked on the US version. There is also a UK show called "Ashes to Ashes" which is the same base cast, but a woman who goes back in time to the 1980's. It's HILARIOUS watching her walk around in her high-fashion 80's clothes as a police woman. The big plot device is that she is a 10-12 year old girl at the time and her parents (who are big time lawyers/activists) are killed in a car bomb months after she lands in the 80's. Does she stop it? SHOULD she stop it? What should she say to her parents when she meets them? Very cool show.

 

[librarygal]

I though the ended was the dumbest thing I ever saw. It did not even make sense. First of all there are no 65 year old astronauts and secondly how can you dream about a time period you never lived in? I think he should have returned to 2009 and the last shot should of him and the elderly Annie.

 

[NonScents]

some[/COLOR] shows to settle the show, Like Prison Break.....
ticks me off when the networks just cancel a show, & don't even SHOW all the episodes they filmed & never leave us with any answers......sometimes I wonder why I even watch these anymore....

I agree, I'm still mad about leaving "Veronica Mars" hanging!

Life on Mars was so imaginative, loved the story lines. Seems like whenever I like a new show it is not renewed......

 

[LexiC123]

I though the ended was the dumbest thing I ever saw. It did not even make sense. First of all there are no 65 year old astronauts and secondly how can you dream about a time period you never lived in? I think he should have returned to 2009 and the last shot should of him and the elderly Annie.

Ummmm...you do realize that the name of the show was Life on Mars. It makes absolute sense. I think the ending was unexpected because no one thought it would be such a literal translation of the show's title. And when I say 'no one', I mean 'me'.

As far as your other comments, well...it's a work of fiction, a fantasy. Anything can happen. Even 65 year old astronauts.

Anywho, I loved the show and was so disappointed when it was cancelled. Thank goodness for DVRs.

 

[pixiewings71]

Ummmm...you do realize that the name of the show was Life on Mars. It makes absolute sense. I think the ending was unexpected because no one thought it would be such a literal translation of the show's title. And when I say 'no one', I mean 'me'.

As far as your other comments, well...it's a work of fiction, a fantasy. Anything can happen. Even 65 year old astronauts.

Anywho, I loved the show and was so disappointed when it was cancelled. Thank goodness for DVRs.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

They chose the time period they were to travel in.
Space flight does not seem to be as difucult as in our time so an older person would not e that unusual.
I think the fact that all the characters were so steriotypical of the time period was fantstic. As programs they would most likely be unable to move evolve. He was just in a simulation in his mind to me it really doesn't seem that out there to me.

 

[Imzadi]

Yes, when you realized in the last episode that they were on a trip to Mars, you had that moment of realization about the show's name, "Life on Mars, that it wasn't simply a metaphor, and that the writers went, "Gottcha!"

A little FYI, we already had a couple of people go up into outer space who in their 60's. Dennis Tito was the first "space tourist" when he paid the Russian cosmonauts a million dollars to take him up in space. And, didn't Buzz Aldrin go up this summer? I know one of the original astronauts from the Apollo missions went back up after 40 years.

 

[robinb]

I know one of the original astronauts from the Apollo missions went back up after 40 years.

John Glenn was 77 when he flew on STS-95 in 1998.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

I though the ended was the dumbest thing I ever saw. It did not even make sense. First of all there are no 65 year old astronauts and secondly how can you dream about a time period you never lived in? I think he should have returned to 2009 and the last shot should of him and the elderly Annie.

I respect your opinion that you didn't like it, but I think dreaming about a time period you've never lived in makes perfect sense. An astronaut dreams he's a cop... not that off-the-wall. Kinda like a young girl dreams she's surronded by Munchkins and her house landed on a witch

My dreams are a lot weirder than Sam's... and Dorothy's!

I'm sure they rushed the ending more than they would have liked... but given the amount of time they were given I think this was one of the best endings ever.