Starting last fall I started watching ABC’s science fiction crime drama “Life on Mars”, a show that focuses on a New York City Homicide Detective Sam Tyler (Jason O’Mara) who suddenly finds himself transported from 2008 to 1973. Once in 1973, Tyler is befriended by Detective Ray Carling (Michael Imperioli), Policewoman Annie Norris (Gretchen Mol), Detective Chris Skelton (Jonathan Murphy), and Lieutenant Gene Hunt (Harvey Keitel). The series was a mixture of thriller, science fiction, and police procedural.
Throughout the series Tyler attempts to come to terms with the fact that he was somehow transported to 1973. Tyler believes he’s either in a coma, dead, crazy, or being manipulated by evil forces. The stories center on the conflict between Tyler’s modern police values and those of the 1970’s. However, by the end of the series, Tyler finally comes to terms with being in 1973 and embraces his friends in the time period.
And then the big twist – the audience learns the Tyler’s 2008 and 1973 realities were both fictitious and created by a computer on space ship which carries Tyler, Carling, Norris, Skelton, and Hunt on the first ever manned mission to the plant Mars in the year 2035.
Last week the series ended and I’ll be the first to admit that I was dumbfounded by the series finale – he was actually in some sleep chamber in the distant future traveling to Mars. In some respects, I think I would’ve felt more satisfied if series ended where Tyler picked up the telephone and told the mystery voice that he wanted to say in 1973 as I opposed to traveling back to 2008.
Throughout the series Tyler attempts to come to terms with the fact that he was somehow transported to 1973. Tyler believes he’s either in a coma, dead, crazy, or being manipulated by evil forces. The stories center on the conflict between Tyler’s modern police values and those of the 1970’s. However, by the end of the series, Tyler finally comes to terms with being in 1973 and embraces his friends in the time period.
And then the big twist – the audience learns the Tyler’s 2008 and 1973 realities were both fictitious and created by a computer on space ship which carries Tyler, Carling, Norris, Skelton, and Hunt on the first ever manned mission to the plant Mars in the year 2035.
Last week the series ended and I’ll be the first to admit that I was dumbfounded by the series finale – he was actually in some sleep chamber in the distant future traveling to Mars. In some respects, I think I would’ve felt more satisfied if series ended where Tyler picked up the telephone and told the mystery voice that he wanted to say in 1973 as I opposed to traveling back to 2008.
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