The ending where Sam Tyler jumps off the roof - that was the conclusion of Series 1, correct? Someone was trying to tell me that is the end of series 2 but I think she's mistaken.
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He tried to jump off the roof, but he didn't. And yes, it was at the end of the first season.
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Oh dear. I watched what I thought was every episode in series 1 on BBC America [they did a marathon on a Sunday, showing episodes back to back]. The last episode was Sam jumping off the roof because he wanted to get back to 1973 or die.
I'm so confuseth now.
UPDATE: Wikipedia knows all. Sam's suicide leap from the building was the end of series 1.
Wikipedia clearly doesn't know all you idiot. He jumps at the end of series 2 and stays in the 70s, end of series, goodbye. It's all set up nicely for Ashes to Ashes. There is nothing at the end of series 1 about Sam jumping from a roof.
So was teh Cobb in teh limbo? At teh end?
I think the confusion has to do with "series" and "seasons.' Series 1 -- i.e. Life on Mars -- has two Seasons. At the end of Season 2, Sam jumps off the roof in order to go back to 1973. That is the end of the Life on Mars Series. Ashes to Ashes is the second Series (and has 3 seasons).
shareOK, BBC America must have shown a condensed version of the Life On Mars ... thing then. Let's eliminate Ashes to Ashes from the discussion entirely. Only referring to Life On Mars, the program ended with John Simm/Sam Tyler jumping off the roof. Got it. Thanks.
shareYes, let's forget Ashes to Ashes completely!
shareWhy? Ashes to Ashes is just as good as if not better than Life on Mars.
So was teh Cobb in teh limbo? At teh end?
[The Brits use the word series like we Americans use season, so I'm referring to the halfway mark of the show with John Simm only]
I kind of enjoyed Ashes to Ashes, but of course something is lost in terms of originality/newness. And - this is a small thing to be bothered about I suppose, but - what was up with the police station being done up in stylish monochromatic black and white, as if it was a music video set rather than a working police station? That's a rhetorical question, I know in terms of the finale why that and other anachronisms/oddities are justified. But as a viewer it comes off as fake, as is Gene Hunt's slightly new wave attire of skinny white tie and black shirt. What middle-aged policeman is going to be that fashionable.