Feb 13 2008
Watching new time-travel cop show with futuristic technology
This evening we made our first use of the BBC’s iPlayer “watch again” system to see the first episode of Ashes to Ashes, the sequel to last year’s retro-modern cop show Life on Mars.
We watched it on the laptop over wireless, and received full-screen playback for almost the entire episode. The only “loading…” pause was during the opening credits, for which I’ll happily forgive them. The quality was excellent and I was pleasantly surprised that it even works on Linux-based machines, provided you’ve got the latest Flash player.
I’m not sure what I think about the show yet. It was very jarringly edited — open a door into a different room, the person walks into a different building. I have already developed a healthy dislike for the protagonist’s daughter. I hope she will remain merely a spectre for the rest of the show.
Nothing much happened, though they’ve got a good character for the main part. Like Sam Tyler in the previous, Alexandra Drake should be a good person to base a series around.