I do, I do! I just finished watching the first season - oh my, oh my!
OMG, I know. And I've just seen your post that you've now seen 2x01 - isn't it STILL made of awesome? Joy!!!!! Oh, the angst and the confusion and the Sam/Gene (or Sam-Gene) dynamic, and the fabulousness of the old fashioned police drama as seen through Sam's 21st Century eyes. Bweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
You're telling ME? *cough*Supernatural*cough*
Exactly what I was thinking of! Well, alongside Stargate, Lord of the Rings, etc etc...
I was always the weirdo saying "I think Britain's cooler!"
We totally are! ;-) Hee!
I love how the "episode plot" always resembles the "bigger plot" with him possibly being in a coma.
Yes, everything always ties in so beautifully. That's part of why I don't entirely mind that they're not doing more episodes after this season: because if they can at least give us 16 hours of amazingly high quality telly, then that's something to be very happy over.
John Simm is incredible... but are you telling me you haven't developed an inexplicable but unshakable love for Gene and the fabulous Philip Glenister as well? I identify with Sam much more, of course - not just being in the same generation and the viewing the "70's world" in a similar way, but also with the freaky-head thing. Part of the joy of bipolar for me has been what I like to refer to as "reality issues" ;-) with my surroundings. So yeah, it really feels to me as if any resolution could turn out to be true: coma, insanity, some mysterious as-yet unknown factor!
So Sam is probably my favourite too, but he and Gene are so closely tied together: the way they learn to work together, then trust each other and look out for each other. And Gene truely is awesome, don't you think? He's the Guv! He's eloquently blunt, and he outwardly comes over as all physical reaction when really his big ole brain is always at work and he and Sam almost always end up on the same page at the same time, however they got there.
Annie is lovely too - can't help you with who she might remind you of, mind you. Hmm. I also think Phyllis rules. That woman takes no crap. Mwahah! :-)
And yes, I think the Warren ep was *just* about my favourite, because it was a major turning point for Gene and Sam, but I love all of them for many many reasons. The overdose ep I found pretty harrowing actually, because it was fairly heavy on Sam having the visions and almost being "outed" as a nutter by Ray. And yet I adore it beyond everything else because it has a scene in it that was incredibly similar to a scene I'd written in a fanfic I was doing at the time!! Obviously it meant re-writing that part of the (still unfinished) fic, but seeing something that I'd imagined playing out on screen was pure joy. Also, the last episode was just... I don't know, a tour de force in everything that LoM is, I think. *happy sigh*
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Date: 2007-02-15 11:19 pm (UTC)OMG, I know. And I've just seen your post that you've now seen 2x01 - isn't it STILL made of awesome? Joy!!!!! Oh, the angst and the confusion and the Sam/Gene (or Sam-Gene) dynamic, and the fabulousness of the old fashioned police drama as seen through Sam's 21st Century eyes. Bweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Exactly what I was thinking of! Well, alongside Stargate, Lord of the Rings, etc etc...
We totally are! ;-) Hee!
Yes, everything always ties in so beautifully. That's part of why I don't entirely mind that they're not doing more episodes after this season: because if they can at least give us 16 hours of amazingly high quality telly, then that's something to be very happy over.
John Simm is incredible... but are you telling me you haven't developed an inexplicable but unshakable love for Gene and the fabulous Philip Glenister as well? I identify with Sam much more, of course - not just being in the same generation and the viewing the "70's world" in a similar way, but also with the freaky-head thing. Part of the joy of bipolar for me has been what I like to refer to as "reality issues" ;-) with my surroundings. So yeah, it really feels to me as if any resolution could turn out to be true: coma, insanity, some mysterious as-yet unknown factor!
So Sam is probably my favourite too, but he and Gene are so closely tied together: the way they learn to work together, then trust each other and look out for each other. And Gene truely is awesome, don't you think? He's the Guv! He's eloquently blunt, and he outwardly comes over as all physical reaction when really his big ole brain is always at work and he and Sam almost always end up on the same page at the same time, however they got there.
Annie is lovely too - can't help you with who she might remind you of, mind you. Hmm. I also think Phyllis rules. That woman takes no crap. Mwahah! :-)
And yes, I think the Warren ep was *just* about my favourite, because it was a major turning point for Gene and Sam, but I love all of them for many many reasons. The overdose ep I found pretty harrowing actually, because it was fairly heavy on Sam having the visions and almost being "outed" as a nutter by Ray. And yet I adore it beyond everything else because it has a scene in it that was incredibly similar to a scene I'd written in a fanfic I was doing at the time!! Obviously it meant re-writing that part of the (still unfinished) fic, but seeing something that I'd imagined playing out on screen was pure joy. Also, the last episode was just... I don't know, a tour de force in everything that LoM is, I think. *happy sigh*