Life on Mars 2.07

[gervase_fen]

Great to see Ralph Brown hit his stride straight away and match Messrs. Glenister and Simm, managing to be sympathetic, enigmatic and inscrutable all in one go! And the incidental music tonight (as opposed to the sounds of the 70s soundtrack) really added to the foreboding and mystery.

This series has been less about the crime cases, which have, for the most part, been capers/fairly-obvious-whodunnits, and all about the relationships and characterisations - although, unless it happens very quickly next week, I'm going to feel bereft if there isn't some sort of Annie/Sam romance.

In other news - went on a Health & Safety course, blogged about it, lost the post due to weird formatting errors, and will try to re-write it tomorrow.

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

But there is an Annie/Sam romance! They just haven't got very far; in fact when they nearly kissed each other last night, my immediate thought (for I don't follow these things) was 'Oh no, next week must be the finale...'

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

The departure of Frank Morgan last night was eerie, too, reminiscent of The Prisoner's barred-window end of episode graphic; Ralph Brown's image was frozen before the lift doors slammed shut.

Is Sam a participant, unwittingly, in some sort of computer game? When we met him in 2006 he was DCI and had one of his detectives as his girlfriend; was he meant to displace Gene and get together with Annie to win this level and leave?