meleestormbringer
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Post by meleestormbringer on Jan 23, 2008 7:43:06 GMT 1
OMFG!!!! so I finally saw the end of the frickin series. I don't get it. what the hell?!?
I expected a Shamalan-ian twist and I got it alright. But we still can't work out what it all means.
So was he really in a coma the whole time? Or was the return to the modern day a dream, or death?
INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW, DAMMIT!!!!
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Post by Scifishocks on Jan 23, 2008 10:31:28 GMT 1
You have to make your own mind up. The makers left it a little vague on purpose. As for me, I think he'd been in a coma the whole time, woke up in present day and then died at the end and went to his own personal afterlife... which was 1973. A sad but happy ending, if you get me, as he had found true happiness there. Of course, theoretically that then means that Gene Hunt and co are either: 1) Also dead and sharing the same afterlife, 2) Some kind of angels or something 3) A figment of Sam's imagination. If it's 3) then why do Gene Hunt and co have a life away from Sam in the new Series coming up? It is a bit mind boggling.  |
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Post by richardburton on Jan 23, 2008 10:35:58 GMT 1
It's mind blowing but brilliant!  |
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Post by Relyt on Jan 24, 2008 0:27:12 GMT 1
I have no idea what you people are talking about...
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meleestormbringer
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Post by meleestormbringer on Jan 24, 2008 3:14:27 GMT 1
I tried to leave the fact that the same thing happens to Hunt in ASHES TO ASHES out of my theory. As such, I came to the conclusion that maybe he really belonged in 1973, and the return to the modern day was the coma, the dream. I know that doesn't make sense when held up over the entire series, but it was my favorite theory early on.
It was only in the last episode that I realized that every character represented a facet of his personality. SO indeed, the other characters are in a sense alive and living their own lives independant of Sam. Once he comes out of the coma, there is that great moment when he's in the meeting room and doesn't feel the cut. The barman said the difference between being alive or dead is whether or not you can feel. So Sam takes his own life and returns to that place in his mind where he was free to feel.
Basically, as you said, his afterlife. His heaven. His reward.
There is a theory that says you live an entire lifetime at the moment of your death. Perhaps that's what this was all about all along.
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Post by Scifishocks on Jan 24, 2008 3:23:08 GMT 1
I think maybe there is some kind of shared afterlife thing going on. Otherwise Hunt can't operate away from Sam, therefore Ashes to Ashes can't happen.
This is confusing! I wonder if the programme makers have thought of this?
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meleestormbringer
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Post by meleestormbringer on Jan 24, 2008 3:27:48 GMT 1
yea, Hunt throws everything off. Knowing he experiences the same (or similar) thing in the next series is a monkey wrench in any working theory related to Life on Mars.
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Post by Scifishocks on Jan 24, 2008 3:31:31 GMT 1
Not unless Hunt has his own afterlife to live...
The fact it ties into Sams might be the point.... and gives an opening for the Ashes series.
Or... who's to say that, actually, Sam wasn't a figment of Gene Hunt's imagination the whole time and Sam was in HIS afterlife peopled by these others?
And who's this new woman from the 80's???
*Brain explodes*
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meleestormbringer
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Post by meleestormbringer on Jan 24, 2008 4:18:08 GMT 1
my head hurts.....
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Post by Scifishocks on Jan 24, 2008 4:30:54 GMT 1
Yes. Mine too...
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Post by richardburton on Jan 24, 2008 9:39:53 GMT 1
Does not compute...does not compute...fizzle...pop.
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meleestormbringer
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Post by meleestormbringer on Jan 25, 2008 0:06:07 GMT 1
Not unless Hunt has his own afterlife to live... who's to say that, actually, Sam wasn't a figment of Gene Hunt's imagination the whole time and Sam was in HIS afterlife peopled by these others? /quote] you know, given some time to think about that, it's not a bad theory. The first series was really about Hunt, not Sam. My partner suggested something similar in his theory. His thought is that Sam is Gene's conscience, his Jimminy Cricket. The entire series following Sam was just a red herring to introduce us to Hunt and the world Hunt knows. |
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