'Ashes to Ashes'

Mikeuk · 17-02-2008, 11:51 PM

I really enjoyed 'Life on Mars' but this is utter trash!!!!

The first episode was just about tolerable but the second...

I watched ten minutes and then wiped it. I shan't watch any more of this rubbish.

tito · 17-02-2008, 11:53 PM

Indeed, nowhere near as good as Life on Mars.

Mikeuk · 18-02-2008, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by tito

Indeed, nowhere near as good as Life on Mars.

I'm really annoyed at the way they have wrecked this concept. Life on Mars was witty without descending into stupidity and had a serious point in the way it examined attitudes pre and post PC.

The new series plays it for laughs - except there aren't any. What was funny about a dog being blown up by dynamite?

That's it. I'm outa here - and I'm sure I'm not alone.

brian pearson · 18-02-2008, 09:36 AM

Thats depressed me ! Got the first two recorded. Loved the first L on M series but thought the second was a bit weaker. Thinking of ditching the telly altogether.

g hall · 18-02-2008, 10:14 AM

The original concept was so off the wall for prime time TV and the subsequent success of the series I think surprised people (especially the BBC) the follow up was not so good and Ashes to Ashes is just a cash in although it's worth watching just for Philip Glenister who is also on ITV3 in the repeats of Clocking Off which also had John Simm in the first episode
Also entertaining to watch for the music and fashions

John Connor · 18-02-2008, 11:15 AM

Man, am I glad I don't have a TV.

Mikeuk · 18-02-2008, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by g hall

it's worth watching just for Philip Glenister who is also on ITV3 in the repeats of Clocking Off which also had John Simm in the first episode

His character has become a watered-down caricature of the original.

I suspect somebody got alarmed about the way the public responded to the anti-PC wisecracks just as they did years ago with the Alf Garnett phenomenon.

Of course 'Till death us do part' will never be shown again by the media fascists.

17-02-2008, 11:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mikeuk Banned Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Fareham Posts: 5,758 Party: Conservatives	'Ashes to Ashes' - what a heap of hokum! I really enjoyed 'Life on Mars' but this is utter trash!!!! The first episode was just about tolerable but the second... I watched ten minutes and then wiped it. I shan't watch any more of this rubbish.

18-02-2008, 10:14 AM	#5 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erewhon Posts: 5,638	The original concept was so off the wall for prime time TV and the subsequent success of the series I think surprised people (especially the BBC) the follow up was not so good and Ashes to Ashes is just a cash in although it's worth watching just for Philip Glenister who is also on ITV3 in the repeats of Clocking Off which also had John Simm in the first episode Also entertaining to watch for the music and fashions __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." TANSTAAFL TANJ

18-02-2008, 11:15 AM	#6 (permalink)
John Connor Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Hard Working Families' Socialist Republic of Untied Kingdomistan Posts: 1,054 Party: None	Man, am I glad I don't have a TV. __________________ There are three types of people in this world: Libertarians, fascists and those who haven't been paying attention. Users on ignore list: Akria, Besoeker, Clippo, david H, Ian C.

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18-02-2008, 09:36 AM	#4 (permalink)
brian pearson Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: nottinghanshire Posts: 760	Thats depressed me ! Got the first two recorded. Loved the first L on M series but thought the second was a bit weaker. Thinking of ditching the telly altogether.