The truth about Sam Tyler

[hmpf]

bistokids sums up the 'new' Sam Tyler rather brilliantly. I have my work cut out for me if I want to reform this man in fic! *is scared*

And it's true, he's always been there, quite out in the open, but we didn't see him properly because we didn't want to, and because we trusted that whatever 'problems' we perceived would be 'fixed' by his experiences in 1973 - that he wasn't *quite* so fundamentally broken. And I'm fairly certain the writers didn't see him properly, either, oddly, although they did write him rather consistently, really. It's a bizarre example of wishful thinking on a grand scale, even the writers largely ignoring a pretty obvious subtext that's been there from day one and never really went away. Everyone, Sam, the audience, the writers, buying into Sam's worldview, when really the signs were always there that it wasn't a healthy one.

Life On Mars: a subconscious tragedy. On so many levels.

I think the 'real' Life On Mars was written entirely by the writers' subconscious...

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And wouldn't it be great if the writers had intended it to be a tragedy? But nah, it's really just an escapist fantasy ending in sunsets and the rainbow of death. *Still obviously bitter*