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SPOILERS FOR ASHES TO ASHES

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OK, so the ending was... pretty much what I thought it was going to be akertually (well, I didn't guess about the pub). I mean, of COURSE she was dead - we saw her BEING BURIED! And there were hints about the others manner-of-death. The creepy guy was CLEARLY evil, which meant Gene had to be good (or at least heart-in-the-right-place) because they were in opposition. I'm unsure whether creep is Gene's mirror-self or just some-random-demon (and the finale didn't settle that for me) and I'm not sure why Gene got this job (although note that he is the first dead copper in the reign of QEII which I guess is meant to be significant) or why time runs funny in Limbo; but other than that I think the finale was pretty good - a conclusion but also not quite the end. I think the story ended in a right way for a paranormal/fantasy story of this type.

On local radio this morning (it's normally OK, and my phone can't pick up radio 4 in Cambridge, sucks to be me) they were talking about it (which, hello, SPOILERS people!) and local radio guy was like "wtf I wanted realism!". I mean WTF man - in real life people don't get shot and end up in 1970! Since when was this supposed to be REALISTIC? Grief. Clearly it was some bizarre mashup of Lost* and CSI from the start... He seemed to think it was meant to be pure police procedural and was upset it didn't play by the conventions of that genre. But it never was, and it was playing by the conventions of a different genre entirely.

Oh, and OMG THEY SHOT THE QUATTRO nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.


*NB - I have watch NO LOST AT ALL, I just happen to know it's a vaguely paranormal kind of show.