Ashes to Ashes! How good was it! You're not pulling my todger... well he can't any more... You've been Quattroed! Shaz shooting a baddie in a wedding dress (nod to Kill Bill, 'the Bride'? Y, n?) That was a bit outrageous, but they just about got away with it.
And and and... SPOILERS...
Alex gets shot in 1982... all goes white... she wakes up, and there's a bandage on her head. She got shot in the head in the present, in 1982 she gets shot in the torso... so... does that mean she's back? But hang on, they've just announced A2A is coming back with a third (and final :-( ) series... so, is she gonna slip back in a coma... and there he is... Gene Hunt, haunting, nay, *hunting* her through the hospital screens and machines... 'cause he's gonna go down for shooting her in 1982, which he did... but he didn't do it on purpose.
So, wait a minute, I thought the whole deal with Alex Drake is that she knows its all in her head. Not actually travelling in time. Which rendered a lot of the jeapordy in series 1 as null for me. Oh a character dies, well, they're not real, it's just her imagination. In series 2 however, her state of health in the present, deteriorating, racked up the tension. And somehow... somehow... what happened in this 1982 felt real and relevant... and now Gene's hunting her in the present... It's certainly muddied the 'it's all in my head' theory, for me. I *like* the idea there's actual time travel involved, and I liked it better that the show seemed to acknowledge that a bit more this time round.
Thoroughly enjoyed this series. Want more more more!!!
Also, the red button 80s Top of the Pops show with Gene making ascerbic comments in between, and sometimes over, acts, was great. Again, I'll repeat, more more more!!! This is television that gets me excited!
(Altho pls dont tell me... if series 3 is set in the present... we'll lost all the 80s kitsch...)
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