Charloween

I spent yesterday watching Criminal Minds. It's cute, if fairly (excuse the pun) mindless.

Today, philthe25th brought over Life on Mars and it ate my brain completely. We'd also watched the pilot of Pushing Daisies and made a few "don't touch her, don't touch her!" jokes at Sam and Annie when we went back to watching Life of Mars. Sam Tyler has more than a little of the John Crichton about him, the man trapped in an alien world who finds that world to be far crueler and harsher than the one he's used to. Sam also makes anachronistic references with the same clutching-at-sanity deadpan manner.

Sam's more able to make changes in this new world than Crichton ever was; while both are pushed into behaviour that they find morally unattractive, Sam is finding it far easier to push back and make things better. That's probably because Sam has the benefit of being closer to figures of authority in order to affect change. Crichton is an outlaw: if he'd been mysteriously tranferred onto Crais's ship rather than being on the run with outlaws, it would be different. He'd be able to use his cunning to change the system from within. But the PKs are, you know, evil and stuff, so maybe it wouldn't have worked out either way.

I also quite enjoyed how the lights would flicker at dramatically convenient moments. I giggled, but Phil hasn't yet seen Jekyll. He would have giggled, too. I mean. He would have chuckled manfully. It would have been hilarious if John Simm turned into ev0l James Nesbitt at the end of the episode. That would have be excellent.

The point: Life on Mars is excellent and I ran out of episodes (only had the first five...ooops).

And since Life on Mars is a cop show laced with supernatural/paranormal elements (is it a dream? is the Test Pattern Girl really Satan incarnate?), it's the kind of show I'm going to be writing about for my thesis. Therefore, it's research. HA.


...and I'm craving chocolate cupcakes with coffee icing. *mmmmmmm*