who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

Now that we've come to the end of series two of Ashes to Ashes and Some Stuff has happened that is strange and significant in mysterious ways, I think it is high time to go back and analyse once again the complexities of the first instances of Alex being totes crazycakes episode. Because I can both do my job AND have my iPod playing episodes, meaning that I can make money AND use my brain. Just not together.

In one of my earliest film studies classes my film professor started off by telling us that nothing happens by chance in a well-constructed film, and I believe this applies to the small screen as well. He went on to say that they are creating this story in a goddamn studio, controlling the light, the sound, and the objects in the scene, so if a character's face is half in shadow it is because somebody fucking wanted it that way. It doesn't happen by chance.

As Alex said, "I must believe that everything means something. Everything in this place is a clue."

This is my excuse for anytime I overanalyze this show.

I started with the opening shots, at a time Alex seems to indicate takes place less than a year after Life on Mars ended.
( 1x01 talks about 2x08. )

OR Gene Hunt is a Timelord. That is my other theory.

PS GO LOOK AT donna_gene . YES, THAT DONNA NOBLE. AND THAT GENE HUNT. AND THEM TOGETHER. YESSSSSSS.

I think this post probably needs pictures: time to hotlink the BBC since I suspect I can't be arsed.

( It was a fun time and not too many people died. )