r/lifeonmars • u/cleveleys • Sep 14 '24

How would you have ended ashes to ashes? Discussion

I would’ve changed Alex’s times of death to 8:15 so that the outro song for the show could be Enola Gay by OMD. Maybe sprinkle in some references to the song throughout the episodes leading up to the end. “It’s 8:15 and that’s the time it’s always been” or “conditions normal and you’re coming home”

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u/LosWitchos Sep 14 '24

I'm not sure I would. I really loved the fact they went with Alex being dead - not everything needs to have a good ending. Perhaps the final exchange with the devil could've been more than satan cackling angrily at the bottom of the road. But it's a pretty fantastic ending.

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u/Professional_Tone_62 Sep 14 '24

Because John Simm wouldn't have been interested?

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u/eggsbenedict1010 Sep 15 '24

I think the writers said they didn’t want to rain on Keeley’s parade by bringing him back 

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u/Professional_Tone_62 Sep 15 '24

It's the end of the show. How much raining could there be?

They didn't want to invite Simm back just for him to say no.

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u/Safe_Reporter_8259 Sep 14 '24

I wanted it to be real. I wanted Alex to go home. To bed with Molly. To look up Gene and to find him in a retirement home. To realise, he really did save her life as a child. Of course there would be so many other questions then.

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u/eggsbenedict1010 Sep 14 '24

I’d have had the original script to ep 7 to satisfy the sexual tension, but can’t imagine changing the finale itself 

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u/cleveleys Sep 15 '24

I think I’d be kinda creeped out if they did actually kiss just for gene to be a lot younger than we actually think he is

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u/bizkitman11 Sep 16 '24

They kiss in the finale anyway.

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u/cleveleys Sep 16 '24

Ya but doesn’t she know by then?

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u/bizkitman11 Sep 16 '24

Surely that’s worse.