Life on Mars has just started on the BBC. The reason I mention it will become apparent.
It's basically about a Detective Chief Inspector who gets hit by a car in the present and awakes to find himself in 1973. Part drama, part comedy, it's reasonably enjoyable so far.
But there are glaring parallels with Covenant.
Not only is he hit by a car to be transported to an impossible world where he grapples with conflicting urges to believe and disbelieve, he also faces similar moral dilemmas to Covenant - such as whether he should sacrifice his principles to save innocents or cling to his principles and hope it works out.
Anyone else seen it? Any thoughts on the TC likenesses?
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I caught a small part of this just as it was finishing.
Reviews I've read have been positive though.
TC parallels never occured to me until you mentioned them though.
Reviews I've read have been positive though.
TC parallels never occured to me until you mentioned them though.
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
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forgive me for bumping this old thread, but having just finished watching Life on Mars on dvd I was about to start a new thread commenting on the strong parallels LoM has with SRD's Covenant books - CovenantJr was right on the money !
anyway it was a great series highlighted by a surreal and brilliantly acted finale which cast doubt on protagonist Sam Tyler's dilemma : as Sam's opening credits voiceover said every episode "am I mad, in a coma or back in time ?"
The finale managed to give credence to all three theories !
also, there was this wildly popular thread
that I kicked off a couple of years ago concerning a different television program with very Covenant-like themes and philosophies :
kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... +detective
anyway it was a great series highlighted by a surreal and brilliantly acted finale which cast doubt on protagonist Sam Tyler's dilemma : as Sam's opening credits voiceover said every episode "am I mad, in a coma or back in time ?"
The finale managed to give credence to all three theories !
also, there was this wildly popular thread
that I kicked off a couple of years ago concerning a different television program with very Covenant-like themes and philosophies :kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... +detective
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ah, my Dad (who recommended and copied LoM for me) burnt me the Jekyl series (mini-series ?) havent got around to watching it yet, he said it was great.Prover of Life wrote:LOM was brilliant! I managed to catch it on local PBS recently.
All I need now is Jekyl.