Sweet merciful Jesus...
(again, thanks Tobes!)
Updates and related entries
May 15, 2008:
A look at CBS's new shows for Fall 2008: The Eleventh Hour, The Ex-List, Harper's Island, Project Gary, The Mentalist, and Worst Week
May 16, 2008:
A look at Fox's Fall 2008 shows: Dollhouse; The Cleveland Show; Fringe; Sit Down, Shut Up; Do Not Disturb; Lie to Me; Courtroom K; and Secret Millionaire
June 20, 2008: A look at the first pilot for the US version of Life on Mars
May 15, 2008 | Reply
My God, could that look any worse? In the particularly point-missing category is the way Sam is good looking and well muscled and easily beats the Gene figure in a fight.
Eh...no.
And it's nice that Sam seems to come from some point in the future, if his police station in the modern day is any indication.
May 15, 2008 | Reply
I'm almost glad I've seen it now so that I can prepare myself for it properly when it arrives in autumn – just so I can look at it with fresh eyes rather than with my pre-existing Life on Mars expectations and judge it on its own merits.
The sci-fi future and the direction style of the past suggest they're going more in the direction of parody and satire: rather than compare and contrast policing styles, they're comparing and contrasting TV cop shows of the two periods. And if you watch enough rubbish US TV cop shows, you'll notice they're pretty much sci-fi in terms of computing, etc (cf CSI: Miami).
But yes, bit of a shock. And I'm not sure I'll be watching it because my wife took one look at the trailer last night and banned me from watching the show on general grounds of sacrilege.
May 15, 2008 | Reply
my wife took one look at the trailer last night and banned me from watching the show on general grounds of sacrilege.
I don't blame her; I don't even watch Life on Mars yet the fact that they're remaking it makes my head hurt.
(McSpaced is bound to pop up soon. Urgh.)
May 15, 2008 | Reply
Don't yous be a worrying, young Miss. It's been poured down the drains, by the looks of it.
May 15, 2008 | Reply
Oh, dear God, that's awful. Extra anti-brownie points for not actually playing Life on Mars!
The shot-for-shot parts were especially painful. Did they not notice that John Simm is short and skinny? Did they not think that was important?
May 15, 2008 | Reply
I felt the alien nature of being thirty years in the past with the original series. And to make it a fair comparison, even in just the opening credits sequence recap. From this trailer, it just looks like he knocked over to the next town and that's about it. It seems to be all in the dialogue that he's in the past; nothing about their surroundings felt organic to the 1970s.
I like Colm Meaney - anybody who plays an O'Brien is okay by me! - and Lenny Clarke is always fun to watch. I just wish they had a better vehicle for their talents.
May 15, 2008 | Reply
I think I'm going to be sick...seriously, what the hell?
May 16, 2008 | Reply
You can all say what you like, but you'll watch it!
May 16, 2008 | Reply
Probably. But how long for...?