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So seven years is an after life?

posted 15 years ago by kuwong
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Its said sam Died, and was driving to the after life at the end of Life On Mars, etc, and that the moment of death and after life would last forever in 1973. However, he only lived seven more years before "dying" in a river crash from a jewellery heist.

So whats that about? I still dont believe he's dead, body not found and all, but I can't see him reappearing in Ashes to Ashes as John Simm said he'd had enough of that and taken his character as far as he could. So was that really it? seven years was all Sam got?

Kind of a shame.

[–] libra_ryu 15 years ago

There was a scene in the first series of A2A (the ep where she gets locked in the restaurant freezer), where Alex said it takes the brain seven minutes to stop firing after a person dies. That is the main tie in that I've come across for the seven years bit.

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[–] Hammerfanatic46 13 years ago

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My interpretation of the Show's Mythology is that the main characters (possibly all of the characters),are in a form of Limbo.I would suggest that Sam's "death" in 1980 was in fact his entering "The Afterlife","Heaven" or what ever you would like to call it.

Gordon P. Clarkson

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[–] Hammerfanatic46 13 years ago

I recently read an interview with one of the creators of the show and he said that the ending featured in A2A was to be the one they used if they had been able to persuade John Simm to sign up for a 3rd Series of LOM,So it seems it always was the plan.
Having studied both LOM and A2A there is nothing in either show that does not fit with the ending of the latter.

Gordon P. Clarkson

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[–] ExcellentBulletproofVest 13 years ago

Yeah there is, Chris talks about his family and his girlfriend in Ashes goes and stays with her mother for a period in season 2.

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[–] raf-33 11 years ago

Sam was in limbo, as was Alex.

Purgatory, Hades, She'ol and Araf are all known or have been known as gateways where the dead of the corresponding religion go in order to await judgement or to find their own way to paradise or languish in torment. Maybe it is limbo, maybe it's just a waiting room, maybe it's just the final minutes of electricity in the human brain stretching itself out to what feels like several years? Either way enough people have believed in it for most religions to have their own version of it.

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