cimorene

I liked the beginning of this season of Life on Mars even more than I liked the beginning of the last. OMG, seriously. Aside from moments in which I test wax's patience to the utmost, no doubt, by yelling things like "Hello! Stop acting crazy!" at the screen, I probably enjoy myself as much as during other top favourite shows that fill me with squee, like Garcia/Morgan scenes in Criminal Minds or Miniature Killer scenes in CSI. And I also probably have little spasms of cuteness-induced giggling more often - it's John Simm's little babyface, and giant ears, and sad moping expressions: irresistable! But I'm wondering whether my memory of last season is somehow skewed, because this season seems darker to me, as wax and the lovely folks at SFX magazine noted, but it also seems in a way more playful and fluffy. Last season the antagonism was coming from inside the building; this season the squad, while hardly lacking tension, seems to have settled in together in large part and we're treated to a lot of tidbits of rapport and togetherness, and not just with Gene and Annie, necessarily, although Gene's have always been the largest part and the most tone-setting.

I had a poll here, which I don't think can really be construed as spoilery unless the mere fact that other people are writing slash about a show is a spoiler to you, in which case I greatly fear you will have been spoiled already. Of course it could be spoilery if you looked at the results, but that only happens once you have already filled a poll out, so the danger is small. But wax gave me censuring and austere looks and kind of insisted so I have to cut it but

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