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Questions about Life On Mars ending (and BTW I never expected to love it as much as I did. It was awesome!)


Okay so Maya was originally in danger when Sam went into the coma, and it's a big plot of the first episode that Sam manages to catch the serial killer in 1973, and change the future in that respect.

I was expecting Sam, back in 2006, to look into what happened with Maya. And to check out whether Gene Hunt and Annie ever existed. But if he did do so, they never let the audience in on it :/ I find it hard to believe that the entire 1973 world was all just in Sam's head, especially as some of the stuff he didn't seem aware of (like questioning is heroin a new drug for example). He wouldn't have known that much in-depth about 1973 to think up an entire world like that.

I saw it as Sam being in a coma, and actually being in 1973 for real at the same time. I'm not sure how that would work, but it's what makes the most sense to me... Although the episode where Sam is OD'ing, sees the case come together through the television, and finding out in the end that it really did happen that way, doesn't quite fit with that. Just because of the info that Sam didn't have (like the father being a photographer), so it's hard to see how he could have pictured the case being solved correcetly, unless the 1973 world was all in his head. I'm so confused!

I wondered if Sam had even woken up though, because it seemed a bit strange for him to just walk out of the hospital/go back to work, after having been in a coma for months, and going through brain surgery.

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[fahrbotdrusilla]

It makes the most sense that it was both real and a coma, to me anyway...

I wondered if Sam had even woken up though, because it seemed a bit strange for him to just walk out of the hospital/go back to work, after having been in a coma for months, and going through brain surgery.

2006 in the last episode seemed less real than 1973, I don't think he did 'wake up' John Simm said he didn't think he woke up either... but the spin off says the chick was going over the tapes before she goes to 81...

I actually liked that he wanted to believe it was real and didn't really care if it was or wasn't... he might have checked on things, but it would have been boring to waste time on it story wise.

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

I had exactly the same thoughts. It kinds implies there might be some sort of outside agency controlling it all, but there's no foreshadowing of something like that at all.

Gene, Chris and Ray are all supposed to be in the sequel with a woman officer who knows all about Sam's case going back to 1981, so there's even more intrigue there.

I like the ambiguity, but my dad hated the ending so much, he refuses to watch the series again!

[mkitty3.livejournal.com]

Hey sugar, this has nothing to do with your post...but are you still making Smallville vids? I'm totally craving a Lexana vid to Sweet Sixteen (http://download.yousendit.com/730F864327A62984) by Billy Idol and thought of you:)

[xwingace]

I'm currently choosing to believe a very depressing version of one of my fics (which has Sam waking up and finding the people were real, but also that he doesn't fit in anymore in 2006) happened, and that when he jumped, he *didn't* get back to 1973, but that that was the first time he really did go into his own head and nowhere else. This is the best way I can fit the finale with my own interpretation of the rest of the canon.

XWA

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

I think he finally woke up in 2007. It was a cute detail, because they very carefully showed him hanging round a little bridge by the train station that hadn't been built in 2006. Well, I thought it was cute.


I am watching the repeats now, and it seems almost unbearable that Chris and Phyllis aren't real. They must be real! Somewhere...

[hoshi-reed.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm a weirdo but I always saw it as he was in his own little heaven. (But I believe we all go to our own version of what we think is the best place for us). It represented a simpler time for him, he was important in his own way, etc.