U.S. Life on Mars, episodes 12,13, and 14

Continuing on with the observations.  I'll be finished with the series shortly, and soon I'll have a wrap-up post as well.

Episode 12:

Tony Crane doesn’t own a casino anymore, but an art gallery.  Not a big deal, but since the character of Tony was such a standout in the original, it’s really jarring.  We have the return of Harry Woolf too, so I wonder how close that’ll veer to the original as well in regards to his plotline.

Episode 13:

A pub called Glenister’s just got blown up.  Not a laughing matter, but I am.  Totally not coincidence, that choice of pub name, which makes me happy.  Good to know you guys aren’t forgetting your roots!

They’ve also nailed the Band of Brothers feeling that was present in the original series with this episode.  The only problem with this is that it’s making the WTF ending come even more out of the blue, because these plot devices that they’re tossing in feel like they’re veering closer to an ending that would be more along the lines of the original.  Not exactly the same, depending on how they wanted to initially define this world, but using that idea (I’d be more specific, but I don’t want to spoil the original Life on Mars for any new readers out there).  I want to know if they knew they were going to get canceled at this point and had to decide which ending to use.

Episode 14:

I want Sam’s car.  Yellow muscle machine with black stripes down the hood? *drools*

Sorry, U.K. version, this is one area where the U.S. version wins hands down.  Whatever car that is, it’s a lot cooler than DCI Hunt’s Ford Cortina.

(According to TV Tropes, the car in question is a Chevelle SS.  My dad would have a field day with that one…)

Aaaaaannnnnd we’ve got an episode set on an airplane with flash cuts to outer space.  Methinks they’ve decided on their ending now…

It’s the key party/undercover girls episode.  Shoulda seen this one coming – and let’s see if I’m right at guessing who the killer is too.  At least they’ve still got Sam going undercover to the party with her instead of Chris or something…  Sam needs to ditch the fake moustache, however.  It looks better on Jason O’Mara than it would on John Simm, but still.  Fake rugs like that are never good.

And it’s Gene and the hooker!  I was waiting for that, hee.