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the_lady_lily) wrote2012-04-29 07:30 pm
the_lady_lily) wrote2012-04-29 07:30 pm
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Ashes to Ashes, Season 2
In the second series, Alex almost but not quite manages to get home. It is all excellent, and the relationship between Alex and Gene Hunt continues to simmer away, and Chris and Ray continue to muck things up and so on. This time, the theme is that of graft and bribery, of trying to clean up the police force from mucky practices and so forth, ending with the desire to make things right that had not previously been right. There is slightly less mucking around with perception than there was in season one, although the whole 'someone else is here in the same situation as I am' thread works quite well in a vaguely paranoid sort of way. Which then leads into...
Ashes to Ashes, Season 3
Man, I was in tears at the end of this. It's beautifully done (and also neatly holds off explaining what's going on until the last episode in a brilliant way that also makes it impossible for a third variation on the theme to be broadcast). Gene Hunt once more becomes the focus of suspicion of wrong-doing, around the 'second death' (for want of a better term) of Sam Tyler and Alex needs to find out the truth. All with the Evil Jim from the Discipline and Complaints Department, who I knew I didn't like, and was gratified to discover was in fact Eeeeeeeeeevil (although in a comparatively allusive sort of way rather than a straightforwardly here-are-the-horns kind of way).
I have really enjoyed watching Ashes to Ashes, but I can see why they wanted to tie things up - the format could easily have got horribly tired, and it's a good thing that they've retired it before that happened. As it would have been very sad to see.
Doctor Who - Ghost Light
Oh, I enjoyed this. The Doctor and Ace go back to a house that Ace, erm, burnt down as a teenager in Perivale to discover its twisted secrets from the end of the nineteenth century. Which turns out to involve an evolving insect thing, a computer-y thing, and a demented Light-thing which is terribly frustrated that human life just keeps on evolving. Of course, this whole evolution theme is nicely framed within the Darwinian debates of the period, complete with a representative of the anti-Darwin camp. Oh, and a taken-over family stolen by the evolving insect thing.
Once more, I find myself thinking just how good some of the material from this period of Doctor Who are, and feeling a bit sad that it didn't get fully developed. But then, I've been quite lucky in that people have directed me towards the good stuff and away from the less good stuff...
In the second series, Alex almost but not quite manages to get home. It is all excellent, and the relationship between Alex and Gene Hunt continues to simmer away, and Chris and Ray continue to muck things up and so on. This time, the theme is that of graft and bribery, of trying to clean up the police force from mucky practices and so forth, ending with the desire to make things right that had not previously been right. There is slightly less mucking around with perception than there was in season one, although the whole 'someone else is here in the same situation as I am' thread works quite well in a vaguely paranoid sort of way. Which then leads into...
Ashes to Ashes, Season 3
Man, I was in tears at the end of this. It's beautifully done (and also neatly holds off explaining what's going on until the last episode in a brilliant way that also makes it impossible for a third variation on the theme to be broadcast). Gene Hunt once more becomes the focus of suspicion of wrong-doing, around the 'second death' (for want of a better term) of Sam Tyler and Alex needs to find out the truth. All with the Evil Jim from the Discipline and Complaints Department, who I knew I didn't like, and was gratified to discover was in fact Eeeeeeeeeevil (although in a comparatively allusive sort of way rather than a straightforwardly here-are-the-horns kind of way).
I have really enjoyed watching Ashes to Ashes, but I can see why they wanted to tie things up - the format could easily have got horribly tired, and it's a good thing that they've retired it before that happened. As it would have been very sad to see.
Doctor Who - Ghost Light
Oh, I enjoyed this. The Doctor and Ace go back to a house that Ace, erm, burnt down as a teenager in Perivale to discover its twisted secrets from the end of the nineteenth century. Which turns out to involve an evolving insect thing, a computer-y thing, and a demented Light-thing which is terribly frustrated that human life just keeps on evolving. Of course, this whole evolution theme is nicely framed within the Darwinian debates of the period, complete with a representative of the anti-Darwin camp. Oh, and a taken-over family stolen by the evolving insect thing.
Once more, I find myself thinking just how good some of the material from this period of Doctor Who are, and feeling a bit sad that it didn't get fully developed. But then, I've been quite lucky in that people have directed me towards the good stuff and away from the less good stuff...