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[morwen]

Life on Mars good! they've established quickly a new narrative thread to replace the one throughout the first series, and its ratcheting things up a notch.

i have some speculation about what happens in the end.

either, he wakes up and it was all a dream. or it is established somehow he is definitely mad. those are the obvious endings. which is why i doubt either of them will happen.

one thing that the first series didn't touch on, is Sam's supposed background. we know he's supposed to be from Hyde. in episode 2, someone claims to recognise him from Hyde. how extensive is his backstory? he's met the 2006's Sam Tyler's parents, in 1973; what about the parents of the 1973 Sam Tyler? by my reckoning (assuming he is as old as John Simm is now) he should have been born in 1937.

so i'm thinking that he wakes up from his coma, all right. but he's in his 60s. and he's married to Annie Cartwright.

is this speculation based on any known facts? nope. but i had a wild idea and thought i'd put it here so if by some random chance i hit the right spot i can say "i told you so!"


how does this sound? plausible?

Comments

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

They could always leave us without an answer, if done artistically and not as a cheat, could be more interesting (avoid the x-files method). I gather John Simm wasn't really up for third series: it had a particularly heavy shooting schedule for him.

Brain tumour option seems plausible. I could see him getting diagnosed with one in 1973, and him denying that this is what is causing the visions/blackouts...

[annomalley.livejournal.com]

Oh really, that's the reason? And there I was thinking it was all to do with scriptwriter integrity... I generally stay away from the background story of how fictional shows are written/made, I just want to be told a story :)

If it's just John Simm stopping further series, they could have come up with a plot twist that meant a change in his appearance, surely! Even I could!

What do you mean by X-files method?