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So I've seen the finale of Ashes to ashes, and I'm still teary. Fabulous performances from all the cast, especially from Philip Glenister who will forever be the Gene Genie, and from Dean Andrews as Ray Carling (the tape scene was wow!).

The mystery is solved, no ambiguity here.

It was a great episode, really, and a perfect finale for Ashes to ashes, yet I can't help thinking that it screwed up Life On Mars but that was to be expected from the day the spin-off began and made it clear it was about Gene. I wrote it down 2 years ago and it happened; So I'm torn, because I loved it but I loved the concept and metaphors of Life On Mars more.

For fun here are links to my first entries about the show, two years ago:

The premiere; the crazy theory; theory about Alex' mistaking her situation for Sam's,  

Don't read what I put under the lj-cut if you haven't seen the episode and don't want to be spoiled!

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Who would have thought, 4 years ago when I started watching Life on Mars, that Ray Carling would become my favourite character from the Gene Hunt's team? Dean Andrews has been great in Ashes to ashes, and was wonderful in the latest Ray-centric episode.  The character's progress since Life On Mars is really amazing.

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