Comments on: Life on Mars: Issue

By: Jarrell

Jarrell — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:10:37 +0000

Is he? He's the one that idealized his perfect mate as a white woman and not the black woman who he planned to profess his love to and propose to…..Not me.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:46:01 +0000

I think the question Jarrell is implying is if all of this is happening in his head, and everything is his creation and influenced by his life experiences, then why did he make a conscious, or subconscious, decision to change her race?
Carole's observation is a more pertinent issue. Why did the producer/creator of the series, both the UK and the USA versions find it necessary to start his potential fiance as one race and then change it in his mind. This could easily have been dismissed if the USA version hadn't repeated the change. I, like Jarrell, wonder if this was something the writers planned on making an issue. Maybe we are giving the writers too much credit. He can fall in love with whomever he wants regardless of sex, color or religion but it's more than a coincidence that they did the same thing in the remake.

By: tdog

tdog — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:17:01 +0000

So detective Tyler is supposed to fall in love with a color not a person?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:40:06 +0000

How do you really feel? All kidding aside, I agree with you about the remake part, and I find the whole show's concept ridiculous. (I do like Eleventh Hour)
But as far as replacing Lisa with Gretchen, it does seem like if this is happening in his mind, he could exert some control over what's happening. If Anne represents something that he wishes for, or maybe a fantasy, or maybe how he thinks of Maya, then the writers of this show have a sick sense of humor or no taste.
What would have had more impact? Make Anne's character a black woman who is essentially the same character as Anne and the love interest part would have more significance because of the time period and could be used to show how far (or how little) things have come in respect to how interracial relationships are perceived.

By: Carole McDonnell

Carole McDonnell — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:49:18 +0000

I feel you, black geek. I just have a problem with hotties in general. In the British version his original girlfriend is East Indian, sweet and normal looking. Then when he gets to the 73 world, he has a normal looking white brunette girlfriend. But that's Britain, which seems to have a sanity about actresses. In the US, everything has to be sexed up.