Life On Mars, episode 4
Aug. 14th, 2006 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Girl: "If you let me out of here, I'm dead. I've got no one else to turn to."
*headdesk* No Sam, no! Oh god, there's a sucker born every minute. Come on, Sam! You're smarter than this. Come on.
Edit: As this show and the "Happy Time" episode of Angel have proven, puppets on tv that start talking to you are always, always creepy.
Much love for this show, still. It's very much a boy's club show, being that it's about a male character and most of the supporting characters are men. But that's counterbalanced in an interesting way by the fact that the main male character, Sam, is pretty sensitive and considerate, so he stands out from the boy's club. He's still in the club, but he's got a metrosexual vibe coming from a time when everyone's trying to be politically correct and he's not as tied down by certain gender roles. I'm sure back in 2006 he doesn't appear overly sensitive (crying silently because his girlfriend/partner's been kidnapped and murdered does not by itself a sensitive man make), but compared to the 1973 standard presented in the show he's a lot more sensitive, tactful, and considerate than the other cops. And maybe being in that time period has reinforced his considerate manners, like a sort of unconscious rebellion against the "backward" ways of thinking he's now surrounded with.
You could argue that certain non-PC social attitudes, like prejudices about gender, race, people with disabilities (all covered in the show so far) haven't actually changed in this day and age, they've just been more cleverly veiled and made subtler. And that's partly true. But there's also an element of honest differences-- Sam's startled reaction to the way Annie gets treated at work played very genuine. There's not equality in the workplace yet (not in England or here in the US), but you can tell Sam didn't really expect the full reality of how it was before.
Girl: "If you let me out of here, I'm dead. I've got no one else to turn to."
*headdesk* No Sam, no! Oh god, there's a sucker born every minute. Come on, Sam! You're smarter than this. Come on.
Edit: As this show and the "Happy Time" episode of Angel have proven, puppets on tv that start talking to you are always, always creepy.
Much love for this show, still. It's very much a boy's club show, being that it's about a male character and most of the supporting characters are men. But that's counterbalanced in an interesting way by the fact that the main male character, Sam, is pretty sensitive and considerate, so he stands out from the boy's club. He's still in the club, but he's got a metrosexual vibe coming from a time when everyone's trying to be politically correct and he's not as tied down by certain gender roles. I'm sure back in 2006 he doesn't appear overly sensitive (crying silently because his girlfriend/partner's been kidnapped and murdered does not by itself a sensitive man make), but compared to the 1973 standard presented in the show he's a lot more sensitive, tactful, and considerate than the other cops. And maybe being in that time period has reinforced his considerate manners, like a sort of unconscious rebellion against the "backward" ways of thinking he's now surrounded with.
You could argue that certain non-PC social attitudes, like prejudices about gender, race, people with disabilities (all covered in the show so far) haven't actually changed in this day and age, they've just been more cleverly veiled and made subtler. And that's partly true. But there's also an element of honest differences-- Sam's startled reaction to the way Annie gets treated at work played very genuine. There's not equality in the workplace yet (not in England or here in the US), but you can tell Sam didn't really expect the full reality of how it was before.
