4 posts tagged “spoilers”

I think the BBC may have been premature uploading photographs from next week’s Ashes to Ashes. Do not scroll down if you don’t want a spoiler. I’ve tried to put the most revealing pic at the bottom of this bunch.

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That’s Martin Summers (Adrian Dunbar) in the last one, fatally wounded?

These ads are not new, and American viewers will have already seen them. They are interesting to me because it shows this new première has taken on a lot more of the original version than David E. Kelley’s rejected pilot for Life on Mars. The new American lines are actually quite funny, with references to Sam’s ‘cell’ and Gene’s ‘year of the fist’. According to Chris, Sam has transferred to the 125th Precinct from ‘Hyde’—presumably Hyde Park, New York, near Poughkeepsie (which is where the new Nelson is from). We also see a scene with Lisa Bonet as Maya in one of the spots.

Keeley Hawes gave an excellent performance in the final of Ashes to Ashes last night—best I’ve ever seen her in anything. And the story—wow (spoiler alert).
   I know some fans are dismissing it as “not as good as Life on Mars” but I say the series was redeemed in that one episode, penned by co-creator Ashley Pharoah.
   Because Ashes finally gave a good mindf*** that makes you now wonder if it’s all inside Alex’s head as ‘constructs’—or is it now her memory?
   That finalé, where it was Gene, not Evan, who takes young Alex’s hand, was a total surprise to me. Her Dad turning into the evil Pierrot clown—amazing. It is better than Sam finding out that his Dad could have killed Annie. It also becomes very apparent why the première’s director, Jonny Campbell, was called back to do this episode.
   Geoffrey Palmer’s guest role as the real-life Lord Scarman, the comic turn of Alex in the tank, the two sides of Gene, the two ages of Alex in the police station—all these were brilliant elements in an episode that finally sees all eight outings of Ashes to Ashes come together. Talk about nicely tied together in a story arc.
   I can now say, ‘I told you so,’ when I said that Alex’s predicament is different from Sam Tyler’s and that Gene, Ray and Chris exist in another timeline—which brings back the validity of Soozanne’s theory penned this time last year.
   We were promised more of the ‘Gene Hunt mythology’ from Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah—and we got it. Fantastic! Best episode ever.
   The scene is now well set for the second series, which, after this, should do incredibly well.

J. K. Rowling might get a bit mad at Harvey for leaking spoilers about the seventh Harry Potter book. But it sounds like a corker. I wasn’t interested, but now I am.
   I thought it would reveal that Harry Potter has a nickname, Happy, and he tells the girls he got that at West Point. But Harvey knows better.