Life On Mars - The Other Ending

There were two endings originally filmed for Life on Mars. This ending was abandonned due to the fact that it was viewed as too bleak an end to the series. With cameo by Leonardo Di Caprio (or however the **** his name's spelt!)

PS. Yes, this is most definitly a fake, yes, this is just a mashing of a television series and a movie, and yes, i have very poor taste, but this moment just goes through my mind EVERY time i watch the ending. So here's my take. Enjoy!

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Film & Animation

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• Life
• on
• Mars
• Alternative
• Alternate
• Ending
• John
• Simm
• Series
• Episode
• The
• Departed

[viper200691]

Wait, was that last clip the US version of the ending?

[DoctorDodge]

@viper200691 No, just a clip from the Departed that I inserted as a crude joke. Remember, this was made at a time when the original version was the only version. (As it should've been, imho.)

[playfulpaul1985]

i have just found out frank morgan is the same name of the actor who played the wizard in the wizard of oz. and sam gets called dorothy by gene. so what does that make gene? the lion?

[DoctorDodge]

@playfulpaul1985 Holy shit. I knew about the Frank Morgan connection to the wizard of oz (and, through a mix of charactor and actor names, the Sweeney), but the Lion is a nice connection that I hadn't seen before.

Then again, I'm reminded of the penultimate ep of Ashes to Ashes, where Chris says, "The rat turned into a lion." So could Chris be the lion? Character wise, it would probably fit him more. See, this is why I love both shows: to this day, they still get me thinking!

[gnowave]

the central actor there, what was his name? acted as sam tyler? he was EXCELENT as were all other actors in his first big part, a movie called human traffic! about a group of young folk (acting, honestly, and sincerely, really as themselves and what they liked to do at the time) who enjoyed taking E and having a smoke! great peer education, and was part of then successful tho highly ,harm reduction technique in drugs education, rather than the right wing & harmful "just-say-no" campaign.

[DoctorDodge]

@gnowave Oh yeah, gotta love Human Traffic! The "Nice one, bruva!" conversation always makes me laugh! Actually, I've loved everything I've seen John Simm in so far. What I really want to see is The Lakes, one of his earliest regular tv roles. I've gotta see that sometime. As well as everything else he's been in, of course!

[JoeyDPro2009]

THE US VERION IS A LOAD OF BULLSHIT!

THE UK VERSION, MUCH MUCH BETTER!

[DoctorDodge]

@FemaleSexShooter Personally, I only prefer the UK version for the soundtrack, the acting, the writing, the directing, the ending and the real Gene Hunt to be honest.

Seriously, I've heard the original being described as many things before, but 'boring' wasn't one of them. Well, to each their own.

[killerwhale901]

this is one of the best shows of all time

[dvdreviewsstudios]

Horrible ending, glad Sam didn't ditch his friends from the past in the normal ending, i just wish that the BBC would continue Life On Mars.

[gnowave]

@DoctorDodge and then there is now, where in the UK we have on for eg channel 5 HOW MANY EPISODES and variatiosn of those naff pretend forensic crime "dramas" with titles that are all abbreviations like crime:NYSTD and the like.. bloody awful mind rot

[gnowave]

@TheAdmirableAdmiral  thats maybe a point that should be strssed on some of the comments here that it was rushed due to being cancelled.

[gnowave]

@hombrerelents snigger snigger. fair point well put!