Talk:Life on Mars (British TV series)

Ashes to Ashes spoilers
Just flagging it up... is there an issue with the fact that the article contains spoilers for the end of the show's sequel? Not suggesting removing it, but at least a spoiler warning. If I'd finished Life on Mars but not reached the end of Ashes to Ashes I'd not have hesitated in reading this article, and poss got it spoiled. 82.33.32.208 (talk) 20:17, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I thought about that too, but then I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoiler and there's not much to legitimately do about it. Sad, but whatever. 129.111.181.234 (talk) 01:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It could be appealed that that chunk is more of a relevance to the Ashes to Ashes respective article, than to this one... just saying. 195.96.78.191 (talk) 20:51, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth (not much admittedly), I didn't expect to come across the spoilers in this article, and I was spoiled by it having only seen up to the first series of Ashes to Ashes. Spoiler warnings are contrary to WP:SPOILER, but maybe this could be cut out and replaced with a link to the A2A article? Something like "The world that Sam found himself in was further fleshed out in the sequel series Ashes to Ashes (TV series)." On the other hand, as the series fades further in memory, this could be another case of "Rosebud is a sled!" -- anyone who cares already knows. Madam Fatal (talk) 17:45, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No, this is completely unlike Citizen Kane situation. There is a difference between a 70-year old movie that is only two hours long and had been a subject of many discussions, parodies and tributes, and is used more as an example than a piece of entertainment, and a complex universe of a TV show which spans abour 37 hours of screentime, is times less known and the twist had only been revealed two years ago. The final revelation brings closure to both series' main storyline, so its effect is fully reached when viewer is not informed of it.

I've rewritten the paragraph to include information that's relevant to Life On Mars, but remove the specific spoilers (both of Sam's ultimate fate, and of the series's big reveal). The way it was written was as bad as the article for Star Wars: A New Hope containing the sentence: "In the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker again encounters Darth Vader, who reveals that he is Luke's father". I've made the title of Ashes to Ashes a direct link to the article on that programme - anyone who wants to know about the finale and what the big reveal is, can click through. I think that's the best balance between providing information and preserving the reader's enjoyment of a sequel work that they may not have seen yet. 79.97.165.16 (talk) 09:47, 18 December 2013 (UTC)KrisW

April 28, 1973:  Just finished watching the entire series in two days, so obviously I'm sort of not in a good mood. The ending of the story was hugely unsatisfactory to this audience. For starters, any suicide is a cop-out (no pun intended) for a writer to get out of his storyline. It could have been a proper sci-fi ending.... good old time travel controlled by his bosses to sort out future crimes by dealing with them in the past. Then he goes back to a job well done. That's my rewrite of the story, and I'm sticking to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.180.176.122 (talk) 02:02, 29 April 2013 (UTC)


 * You think that's bad, what about Hawkwind's "Urban Guerilla" being played in the Trafford Arms before the Manchester Derby when it was released in July and withdrawn from sale after a couple of weeks? Tch. Mr Larrington (talk) 17:51, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Significant absence from the music list
There is some music by Brian Eno, extensively used, often repeated, yet no mention of Brian Eno exists here, let alone a name for the music. It's also extensively used in the movie 'Heat', (Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino) which is where I recognised it from when I heard it in Life On Mars. There are several Eno peices in Heat, so I couldn't be sure which it is, but at a guess it seems likely to be 'Always Forever Now', which would make a lot of sense considering the state of things Sam Tyler finds himself in. :) I hope someone reads this and knows enough to confirm or deny, and add something to the main music text in the article if they know what it is. (Incidentally the Eno/Bowie connection was strong, which at least seems to confirm that it IS Eno's music in Life On Mars... The makers of the show would likely have made a point with this, intended to be recognised by those who do know!) 81.187.19.110 (talk) 22:42, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

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