Ashes to Ashes
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI finally got around to watching the first episode of Ashes to Ashes tonight, having taped it but not found the time to watch. I enjoyed it - I wasn't sure I would given that DI Drake knows precisely where she is and why. It works in a more knowing way than Life on Mars and I remember 1981 better than I remember 1973 - I was 22 and just a couple of years from moving to London, compared with being a spotty 14 year old entirely concerned with his LP collection.
It's odd seeing London without the past 26 years of development - particularly Docklands. I read somewhere that it was easier to find places to film in Manchester that had barely changed since 1973, but that there's virtually nowhere in London that looks the same as it did in 1981. Most of the special effects budget was blown on editing out recent landmarks on the sky line apparently.
Having watched the first episode I thought it would be nice to go straight into the second, but I seem to have taped Never Mind the Buzzcocks instead, with the exceedingly annoying Simon Amstell.
So I am torrenting it as I type. Sadly from torrentspy, a much inferior place to the one I usually I usually use, but which for some reason doesn't have them...
Good to see Zippy and George on form, too.
It's odd seeing London without the past 26 years of development - particularly Docklands. I read somewhere that it was easier to find places to film in Manchester that had barely changed since 1973, but that there's virtually nowhere in London that looks the same as it did in 1981. Most of the special effects budget was blown on editing out recent landmarks on the sky line apparently.
Having watched the first episode I thought it would be nice to go straight into the second, but I seem to have taped Never Mind the Buzzcocks instead, with the exceedingly annoying Simon Amstell.
So I am torrenting it as I type. Sadly from torrentspy, a much inferior place to the one I usually I usually use, but which for some reason doesn't have them...
Good to see Zippy and George on form, too.
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Date: 2008-02-19 11:47 pm (UTC)You've only got a certain amount of time to watch the show then (30 days?) and unless you go to a lot of effort, you can't keep them beyond that, but it's pretty sweet when you've missed an episode.
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Date: 2008-02-19 11:57 pm (UTC)Can you save the episodes for a short time, or do you have to stream them? Either way is good and I have my shiny new 19" widescreen monitor to watch them on.
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Date: 2008-02-20 08:46 am (UTC)If you desperately want to keep the file, you can strip out the DRM in a fiddly and-not-really-worth-it process.
I think the 80's genre works as 'knowing', it was about that time we started getting oh-so clever with genre conventions. I think the most significant dynamic shift is that it's Gene Hunt versus a Lady, however.
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Date: 2008-02-20 10:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-20 09:03 am (UTC)Not bad for someone who doesn't even slightly resemble a camp pink hippopotamus...
There is no You Tube evidence I'm affraid !