Life on Mars: "Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster" 2/18

[Aragorn]

Spoiler: Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster

NYC Councilman Bobby Prince shares a secret with Sam after Prince is caught with a hooker during a raid on a motel. The secret leaves Sam with even more questions as well as the realization he has more in common with Prince than he had ever thought. Meanwhile, Gene Hunt locks down the precinct after a shooting, Maria and her father confront each other, and Ray's wife, Denise, adds tension to the drama.

 

[Venardhi]

Why are you using a picture from the unaired pilot there?

:: blink :: :: blink ::

That is just odd, man.

 

[Aragorn]

No reason.

 

[Venardhi]

It was like a terrible bizarro-verse of LoM. . . it almost turned me off from the whole deal. We must never mention it again. Please edit the picture before I start to retroactively hate Miles O'Brien.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The episode was pretty good...really throws a new monkey wrench into the whole thing. Is Bobby Prince on the level? Did Sam really 'transfer' at his own 'request'?

Dunno about the whole thing with Prince. Assuming he really was who he said he was, I'm guessing that he had the same job 'back home' as he did here. So if he was a councilman there too, apparently Sam didn't recognize him. (Although who among us can name all of our city councilpeople?) And I wonder if Prince's 'transfer' happened the same way Sam's did, or if this Aries Project is involved, or if the whole thing really is Sam's imagination anyway.

I am inclined to not believe that last bit, though, for one reason: There are scenes in this show that don't have Sam in them. How could he dream up stuff he's not in?

Please edit the picture before I start to retroactively hate Miles O'Brien.

Apparently you haven't been watching Law & Order this season...

 

[Aragorn]

I guess Prince really was who he said he was, with the chalkboard and all. But the questions he answered, his responses -- while accurate -- were generic. Sam didn't ask for the name of the black president or the teams the Red Sox beat in the Series.

 

[firehawk12]

Is the stamp significant? I have no idea if that's an Americanism that I don't understand... like it's a stamp from 2009 or something.

The post mark is 1973, the stamp value is 6 cents... so I have no idea why they'd zoom in on it in such an obvious attempt to bait people to freeze frame it.

 

[Arthur Frelling Dent]

Is the stamp significant? I have no idea if that's an Americanism that I don't understand... like it's a stamp from 2009 or something.

The post mark is 1973, the stamp value is 6 cents... so I have no idea why they'd zoom in on it in such an obvious attempt to bait people to freeze frame it.

The end of the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" playing over that shot goes:

Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow,
Why then - oh, why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow,
Why, oh, why can't I?

The stamp was of a (blue?) bird.

It was symbolism of Sam's wish to go home.

 

[rac76]

I voted excellent for this episode. I thought it was cute how Sam played down the fact that he and Annie should be a couple. What the Councilman was saying was kinda in general, but Sam did say "he won". So Sam knew who the councilman was talking about, and not just some random person. Also using quotes from one of my favorite movies, just made the episode even more entertaining.

Oh..I looked up the song that they used in the beginning "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet..I had to look it up since I thought that it came out in the late '70s. Well it didn't, it was originally released in '73 in the UK, then released in '75 in the US & Canada. That's such a great song.

Looking forward to next week's episode..hope that they get the call back for next season.

 

[ClayinCA]

Anybody know if the ratings have picked up at all? I know their first episode back didn't do well at all....

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I really liked this episode. Finally getting some info in terms of what is happening to Sam. Clearly, there is a way home and that there are actual people out there trying to prevent it.

I didn't get that whole thing with the stamp though. Clearly it is significant, but I don't understand why, unless it has to do with bluebirds mentioned in the song "Somewhere, Over the Rainbow".

The questions he asked the councilman were indeed very generic. IMO, given that we are in NYC here, all he had to ask was "What does the date 9/11 mean to you?"

No one in 1973 would be able to guess that in a million years.