Ashes to Ashes (and other stuff)

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RAY SAW THE STARS.

(OK, now he just needs to, you know, TALK TO SOMEONE about them. Like, say, Shaz...)

The point is, HE SAW THE STARS. LIKE ALEX. LIKE SHAZ.

And what he SAID was interesting too... that it was like being in outer space and like being at the end of the world.

The "end of the world" comment makes me think. Mostly it makes me think that... maybe it felt like being at the end of the world because in a sense, he was AT the end of the world. If the world that the A2A characters inhabit is centred on and, to an extent, created by Gene and Gene's memories and Gene's expectations of what should be there... then there must be some point at which the world comes to an end.

A few weeks ago, Alex was (ineptly) following Shaz home and they both saw the stars - and just before, Gene told Alex that he didn't know where Shaz lived - i.e. wherever she lived, it doesn't exist in that world. She never actually got there, either.

Next big thing from this episode involves Danny Boy:

Here are the lyrics:

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

It's the lines in bold that hit me the hardest. I think that these characters - Ray, Shaz, Chris, Alex, maybe others - are dead. Gene is a bit more complicated. Keats... I have no idea.

Other things:

#1. Keats' grey coat vs. Gene's black one. Grey is such an ambiguous colour, you know? It's almost like they're trying to tell us that Keats isn't definitely good or definitively evil.

(Gene's black coat makes me think of the fact that in movies - like, say, old Westerns - the good guy is usually the one in black, and the bad guy can usually be identified by his white hat/suit/etc. On Supernatural, for example, what does the Devil wear in one episode? A WHITE SUIT. So black is good. Probably. Maybe.

Makes you wonder about Alex's old white jacket, though.)

#2. Keats is in love with Alex.

Do I need to go into detail here? He treats her almost like a girlfriend, rather than as a DI in a station he's meant to be auditing/investigating.

#3. What did Gene tell Bevan? What was the awful truth?

(When - IF - we find out, it will be awful. This isn't going to end with rainbows and puppies, folks.)

#4. When Bevan was talking about What Happened In 1980, he said the day Sam Tyler disappeared. Not "died", as one might expect: disappeared. We know he was involved in What Happened. What did he know? What did he think he knew?

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Saw Iron Man 2 yesterday.

O.M.G.

Also, um... okay, I *may* have bitched a little about Rhodey getting recast as Don Cheadle and about Scarlett Johansson being Natasha Romanoff.

I TAKE IT ALL BACK. So, um, sorry about that...

ALSO: HOLY CRAP, THAT WAS CAPTAIN AMERICA'S SHIELD. In full view. OK, partially disassembled, but Tony was probably tinkering with it at some point. And, hey, there was that DOSSIER that said AVENGERS on the front. In other words, YAY!!!!

And, well, NICK FURY. *shrug* enough said.

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Um. I watch a lot of HBO shows. Until recently, HBO was great.

Not now.

NOW, HBO HAS TRANSCENDED "GREAT". It's really that good. It's so good that the word 'good' is now totally inadequate, and I don't know what word to use instead.

I say this because I just discovered The Wire. And, um. Yeah. <33333333333