Imagine in just a moment's time going from computers and cell phones …. to telephone booths and type writers! That would be torture!! My daughter said to me the other day, "I bet you can't function without your computer." … I looked at her and said; "Please email or text your question and I'll be glad to respond".
Who uses pens? Who actually communicates face to face anymore?! We would be better off dashing and dotting morris code… or more efficient yet: sending smoke signals! If that is what things returned to, we may as well stop shaving/waxing/plucking, hunch over and drag our knuckles on the ground!
Okay - that's my pretty lame attempt of describe what life was like when Detective Sam Tyler was snapped back to the year of my birth 1973. Yes, I'm continuing on in my "new favorite shows blogs"!!
"Life On Mars" had such an interesting appeal to me, so I decided to check it out. It's not just another one of your average cop shows - it's a cop show with a different twist! While chasing a bad guy, Detective Tyler was the victim of a hit-and-run… When Sam awoke, he was lying in the middle of the street - he struggled to his feet and screamed, "WHERE IS MY CELL!?" From that moment on, he received the nickname, "Spaceman". Having gone back to the time where he was just a little kid, the reality of seeing things as an adult pretty much blew his mind. Watching his police peers beating the crap out of someone, guilty or not. Realizing that women's lib hadn't really taken place in the precinct by the way the lovely Anne Norris wasn't taken seriously. Sam ran into some interesting people as well, such as Jim Croce! Sam being so excited to see Jim just HAD to congratulate him on his super-hit, "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown"!
"That hasn't even been released yet…"
"Oh, sorry… um…try and stay away from small airplanes"
Sam also had a run in with the BLA - also known as the "Black Panthers"… he had the privilege to work side by side with a mentor/father figure/hero - who passed away in 2008. My absolute FAVORITE part of that whole episode: Sam along with his mentor had been held captive by the Black Panthers. Sam paid a compliment to one of the head-hauncho's "freestyling". Big dude decided to hold a gun to the ever-so-white boy's head and demanded a rhyme - Detective Tyler could do nothing except to resort to a hit from the future:
"All right stop!! Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it you better gain weight
You better hit bull's eye the kid don't play
If there was a problem yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it… Ice, ice baby!"
If he wasn't hand-cuffed, I'm sure he would have burst into a running man. Was that a 1990's dance? Anyway, For the record, I had to look the lyrics up… I wasn't THAT into Vanilla Ice.
One of the main storylines that he keeps running into: Detective Tyler's own family….or as he is known to them, "Detective Skywalker" (that was awesome) Little by little he is finding out dirty little secrets he never knew as a little boy. As each episode airs we see the puzzle of Sam's blast to the past unfold…. What will happen to our spaceman? Will he return to the present day? Will he have to leave his uber cool 1971 Chevy Chevelle SS454.…yellow with the black stripes?? It may be an "old" car, but it's definitely NOT a hunched over knuckle dragging Neanderthal kind of car!! Are you all impressed that I know what kind of car he drives? Another fantastic thing we have in 2008...Wikipedia!
