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Life on Mars (2008)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The American version of Life on Mars, set in New York City. The plots in the early series were close remakes of the BBC original, only localized in: Sam Tyler of the NYPD is hunting a serial killer, listens to David Bowie, gets hit by a car, wakes up in 1973, becomes a Fish out of Temporal Water who is dealing with the different standards of the time and hears voices in his head and on TV that suggest he may just be in a coma. As the show progressed, it introduced the reoccurring motifs of tiny robots (which may or may not be released into people to prove the existence of a human soul), toy rocket ships, and a mysterious group called the Aries Toy Company (more sinister than it sounds). Even the mentions of Luke Skywalker count. There were also hints of a government conspiracy and even the introduction of another character who said he had been abducted from the future as well. The whole thing was a head scratcher for sure.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) | |
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Lampshaded as well. The last thing Gene says to Sam in the simulation is "I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow." | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water | |
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Cool Car: The Chevelle SS. | |
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Time Travel: sort of... | |
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Or Was It a Dream? | |
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Or Was It a Dream?: The final image of "Gene Hunt"'s loafer and slacks hitting the Mars ground. This may be just for the visual. It may be Sam's mind calling back the simulation he just lived through. Or it may imply that Sam is still hallucinating somehow. What's real? Do we really even know? Some have wondered if this was deliberately done to provide the possibility in case of a super-last-second renewal. | |
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And You Were There | |
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And You Were There: In the finale, everyone from the police force is a part of the crew on the ship to Mars. Sam also slept in pod 2B. They crew is on a "gene hunt" for life on Mars (presumably bacterial), and the Gene Hunt of 1973 is Sam's father. Lampshaded as well. The last thing Gene says to Sam in the simulation is "I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow." | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream:The finale establishes that the entire experience was a "neural-sim" while Sam and his crew were on a mission to Mars. Sam had requested to live through the 2 year journey as a cop in 2008, but a meteor-storm mid-flight caused a glitch in his programming. The setting reverted back to 1973, but he kept his 2008 memories. Or Was It a Dream?: The final image of "Gene Hunt"'s loafer and slacks hitting the Mars ground. This may be just for the visual. It may be Sam's mind calling back the simulation he just lived through. Or it may imply that Sam is still hallucinating somehow. What's real? Do we really even know? Some have wondered if this was deliberately done to provide the possibility in case of a super-last-second renewal. | |
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The '70s: And boy can you tell. Ray, in particular, looks straight out of the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video. | |
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