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TheReligion

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Never watched it when it was on the tele, but finished the boxset off tonight.

Well.

What is everyones take on the ending?
 
In what sense?

Liked it? Hated it? Did it makes sense? What was the meaning? Eboue?
 
That he wakes up...Doesn't like the modern age, can't feel anything for it, so being a rational and sensible human being he jumps off a tall building in the certain knowledge that he'll end up in 1973 again at the exact point he left
 
Well as in what actually happened?

Was Sam originally from the '70's. Did he have a car crash before the series begins, and is the modern day his coma?

Was it as the show suggests. Sam is from the present day, he slips back to the 70's due to his coma, he pulls out of it but then kills himself to go back?

Im unsure as to if the present day is reality. Sam doesn't feel when he cuts himself, yet he does feel Cartwright's slap. So if it is as Nelson tells him, then the 70's is real, and the modern day stuff is in his imagination.
 
MockneyRevil said:
That he wakes up...Doesn't like the modern age, can't feel anything for it, so being a rational and sensible human being he jumps off a tall building in the certain knowledge that he'll end up in 1973 again at the exact point he left
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Is it because he can't feel anything for it though, or simply as it isn't real?
 
TheReligion said:
Well as in what actually happened?

Present day was reality. He returned to the 70's by commiting suicide

Was Sam originally from the '70's. No

Did he have a car crash before the series begins, and is the modern day his coma? Yes

Was it as the show suggests. Sam is from the present day, he slips back to the 70's due to his coma, he pulls out of it but then kills himself to go back? Yes

Im unsure as to if the present day is reality. It is.

Sam doesn't feel when he cuts himself, yet he does feel Cartwright's slap. Symbolic of him feeling more for his 73 reality

So if it is as Nelson tells him, then the 70's is real, and the modern day stuff is in his imagination.
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Not what the writer intended apparently.
 
I thought he only jumped off the building as he knew it wasn't real...

He clicks when he cuts himself that it isn't real, so gets himself back to reality which is '73
 
TheReligion said:
I thought he only jumped off the building as he knew it wasn't real...

He clicks when he cuts himself that it isn't real, so gets himself back to reality which is '73
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I didn't interpret it like this at the time but it was suggested enough that the writer came out and said that it wasn't what he intended when he wrote it.
 
Well, as I said, I was open minded to both possibilities. Was just interested to see what you lot thought. Didn't realise there was a "clear cut" ending that the writer had put out.

So basically, Sam was right all along, he was in a coma. When he did what Morgan said, and followed the light in the tunnel, he pulled out of the coma. Then he realised he didn't like being back in the present day and wanted to return to the 70's. After he chats to his mum and she says he always keeps his promises, he throws himself off the building in order to get back to Cartwright and the team. When he turns off the radio, that symoblises he has accepted where he is and the Doctors "have lost him".

Essentially, he is dead.

Is that right?

Oh and did Sam realise this when he throws himself off the buidling? Or do you think he doesnt know?
 
Yes Hello....Everything you just said is how I took it to be when I watched it...He was effectively killing himself. The first scene of Ashes to Ashes confirms that he is filed as a suicide.

So yes, I believe he knows this when he jumps, hence why he is smiling when he does so

Personally I wasn't completely happy with it when I first saw it, but after watching it again, and having time to think about it, I like it more now.
 
MockneyRevil said:
Yes Hello....Everything you just said is how I took it to be when I watched it...He was effectively killing himself. The first scene of Ashes to Ashes confirms that he is filed as a suicide.

So yes, I believe he knows this when he jumps, hence why he is smiling when he does so

Personally I wasn't completely happy with it when I first saw it, but after watching it again, and having time to think about it, I like it more now.
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And Ray tells Alex what happenned to him in that world as well, since if he weren't dead the whole series would be about looking for him or something.
 
TheReligion said:
Well, as I said, I was open minded to both possibilities. Was just interested to see what you lot thought. Didn't realise there was a "clear cut" ending that the writer had put out.

So basically, Sam was right all along, he was in a coma. When he did what Morgan said, and followed the light in the tunnel, he pulled out of the coma. Then he realised he didn't like being back in the present day and wanted to return to the 70's. After he chats to his mum and she says he always keeps his promises, he throws himself off the building in order to get back to Cartwright and the team. When he turns off the radio, that symoblises he has accepted where he is and the Doctors "have lost him".

Essentially, he is dead.

Is that right?

Oh and did Sam realise this when he throws himself off the buidling? Or do you think he doesnt know?
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My reading of it was that he was that he simply prefered 1973 and was trying to get back there. I didn't think that he doubted that he came from the present.

Try this and there is a link to a more indepth bit on the finale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(TV_series)#Finale
 
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