TV shows

ER's final episode was on last night. I'm glad it ended like it did...the same way it started. Simple, yet intense. John Carter's comment at the end..."just a bit of deja vu"....I know exactly what he meant. *sigh* I've spent the last 15 years glued to the TV every Thurs night between 10 and 11. What am I going to do now?

Speaking of TV shows, did you ever watch that show Life on Mars...Wednesday nights at 10:00pm?
I started watching it when I was in Victoria all last month. It turned out to be quite interesting. It was about a cop that got into a car accident, and was transported back to 1973. The props, the music, the hair, the clothes...all from 1973. It was quite cool. While watching each episode, I was constantly amazed at what I could remember about that time, and how many things came up that I said to myself...."Oh, yeah!, I remember that now!".

Also, the show (I thought) was intelligent. They often slipped little pieces of conversation in that made you stop and try and figure out what they were referring to. Like the part in last Wed's episode where he said "Why does everything lead back to David Bowie?", and then at the end of the show when he looked at the Harvey Keitel character, and heard someone call him Major Tom. Or the reference to President Obama...but in the show, they meant to infer that one of President's Obama's daughters was now president in 2035. Stuff like that. It made the showing interesting, because you had to think about the things that were said.

That's probably why it was cancelled. (the last episode aired on Wednesday April 1st). I find that another show that I followed (Journeyman), had the same type of intelligent humour. It too was cancelled. I guess the majority of the viewing public doesn't want to think when they watch TV. That would explain the popularity of shows like American Idol and Survivor.

Anyways, I enjoyed the few episodes I did watch, and am sorry to see it go. But, I have to admit one bad thing. The ending. Not a fan of the "it was all a dream" explanation. I thought the last 10 minutes of the show, while it gave the show an ending, it cheapened the show by using the common ending of "it was all a dream". I wish they had come up with a different explanation to end the show.

PS - The only show that ever did the "it was all a dream" ending effectively, was the Bob Newhart show. And the only reason they got away with it then, was the sheer brilliance of the way it was done.