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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Ashes to Ashes (British TV series)}} ~~{{work}}~~ [[File:ashestoashes_7133.jpg\|frame\|Right, let's [[Catch Phrase\|fire up the Quattro]]]] Line 5: {{quote\|''"My name is Alex Drake. And quite frankly, [[Mind Screw\|your guess is as good as mine]]."''\|'''Alex Drake''', opening titles (series 3 episode 1).}} Spinoff from ''[[Life Onon Mars]]'', which started on 7 February 2008 and concluded 21 May 2010. DI Alex Drake<ref>(played by [[Keeley Hawes]], formerly of ''[[Spooks]]'' and the current voice of a certain [[Tomb Raider\|female gaming character)]]</ref>, the police psychologist who debriefed ''[[Life Onon Mars]]'' protagonist Sam Tyler, is shot and finds herself in the same world that Sam visited; only it's 1981 London and she's being stalked by the clown from David Bowie's ''Ashes to Ashes'' music video. Now she has to figure out just what's going on. She's convinced that the world is just a construct of her subconscious created from her sessions with Sam, but there are [[Wrong Genre Savvy\|some inconsistencies]] and other constants that she shouldn't even be aware of: including the presence of one Gene Hunt. Then her memories of the real world start to intertwine with the events she witnesses in 1981, creating even more doubt as to the nature of the reality she has found herself in. Not to be confused with [[Ashes to Ashes (South African TV series)\|the unrelated South African TV series of the same name]]. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Ask a Stupid Question]]: Chris asks a South African freedom fighter {{spoiler\|who is revealed to have killed several police officers ten years ago in a bomb attack back home}} if he's frightened to be returned to South African custody, even though they both know he will be tortured to death. Line 16 ⟶ 17: * [[Astral Checkerboard Decor]]: The [http://i51.tinypic.com/nl2wih.jpg C.I.D. ceiling]. Note the above picture. * [[Badass Longcoat]]: Gene Hunt often wears a trench coat in this series. And his camelhair [[Badass Longcoat]] from ''[[Life Onon Mars]]'' was given to another [[Badass]] character - {{spoiler\|Jackie Queen}}, making them one, too. Keats's grey trenchcoat. * [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: [http://tu.tv/videos/ashes-to-ashes-kiss-me-or-punch-me Alex and Gene]{{Dead link}} Line 32 ⟶ 33: * [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: After a fairly fluffy first series, things started to get rather darker in the second, with the final third series veering into full-on horror at times. * [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Gene Hunt dresses in black and drives a flash red motor, cementing his status as [[Anti-Hero]]. Jim Keats in S3 wears gray and drives a white car. * [[Continuity Lock Out]]: It's ''possible'' to watch A2A without first seeing ''[[Life Onon Mars]]''. It's just really, '''really''' confusing and virtually all of season 3 is nigh-incomprehensible. And not nearly as meaningful. * [[Cool Car]]: Gene's Audi Quattro. ** Also in episode 1.2, the Thatcherite Wanker´s [[Hilarious in Hindsight\|DeLorean]] * [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler\|Sally in series 2 ep 1, Supermac, Martin Summers, Louise Gardiner and Viv all die in either Gene's or Keats' arms. The fact that they do proves an important plot point.}} * [[Dirty Harriet]]: Alex arrives in 1981 dressed as a prostitute, and the entire station thinks she actually is one--until she produces her warrant card. * [[Distaff Counterpart]]: As ''[[Life Onon Mars]]'' featured a male lead. * [[Dream Sequence]]: Alex's wacky dream sequences are a major part of the show. And sometimes they count as [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] or [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. With [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] included. For example [https://web.archive.org/web/20141019130130/http://tu.tv/videos/ashes-to-ashes-uptown-girl this sequence]. Or [https://web.archive.org/web/20141019153118/http://tu.tv/videos/ashes-to-ashes-do-you-still-dream-of-h this sequence]. * [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Gene Hunt thinks [[Cardboard Boxes\|stacked boxes]] are there to be driven through. Line 43 ⟶ 44: * [[The Eighties]] * [[Eighties Hair]]: Alex used to provide the picture for that page. * [[Enemy Mime]]: the David Bowie-esque Pierrot which replaces the [[Creepy Child\|Creepy Test Card Girl]] from ''[[Life Onon Mars]]'' * [[Fair Cop]]: Alex in particular, but others as well. Shaz especially. Also, some of the extras who appear in the show too. (Especially the female prison guards). Line 55 ⟶ 56: Phil Glenister in [http://tu.tv/videos/before-the-date semi-formal wear]{{Dead link}} twice in series 3. ** Also, some of the extras who appear in the show too. Namely Joanne Froggatt when she appeared. * [[Fan Service Pack]]: Chris. In series 1 of [[Life Onon Mars]], the production team gave Chris waterwings along with his swimming trunks to tone down the sex appeal. By series 2 of [[Ashes to Ashes]], they had him being [[You Can Leave Your Hat On\|attractively postmodern]] to Shaz. Marshall Lancaster appears to have been working out in anticipation of more exposure in series 3. * [[Flip-Flop of God]]: Jury's still out on exactly what Keats is. According to Matthew Graham, he's {{spoiler\|either [[Satan]] himself or the Antichrist}}, but Ashley Pharaoh apparently {{spoiler\|didn't write him either way, just leaving it with "evil".}} * [[Foreshadowing]]: Lots and lots of it. Line 62 ⟶ 63: ** Alex and Ray do it again in 1.08., although it's more like "Framing the innocent party in order to place them in a prison cell and prevent them from dying". * [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique]]: [[Trope Namer]]. * [[Genre Savvy]] / [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Alex thinks she's in ''[[Life Onon Mars]]'', this means she's right about some things and wrong about others. It confuses and occasionally insults the other characters. * [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: ''Gene. Hunt.'': Line 94 ⟶ 95: {{spoiler\|'''[[Satan\|Keats]]''': [smiling] ...Alright!}} }} * [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Mainly Gene. Ray also counts. * [[Karma Houdini]]: Ray and Gene to a lesser extent, even more so than in ''[[Life Onon Mars]]''. ** Joshua of the ANC in the penultimate episode, who {{spoiler\|Chris lets run from custody}} even after hearing that {{spoiler\|he killed several South African police officers with a bomb ten years ago.}} * [[Lady in Red]]: Alex's first 1981 outfit. * [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: Trust us, you ''really'' need to have watched ''[[Life Onon Mars]]'' before you see the A2A pilot, since it ruins the ending. If you haven't, the shot of {{spoiler\|1=Sam's file clearly stamped "SUICIDE" - which is how LOM ended -}} is kind of a shock. This doesn't even take into account how [[Continuity Lock Out\|confused you'll be]] when Season Three rolls around and the LOM references are flying right and left. * [[Les Yay]]: Alex and Shaz. * [[Literary Allusion Title]]: To be more precise, a Musical Allusion Title to the David Bowie song of the same name. Line 114 ⟶ 115: * [[Nostalgia Heaven]]: {{spoiler\|The entire series, apparently.}} * [[Nothing but Hits]]: Averted. While the music is from the 80's, lots of it is not the biggest hits from the decade, but regular songs from the decade. Well known hits do come up occasionally, but not every single song is an iconic one from the decade. * [[Opening Narration]]: Unlike in [[Life Onon Mars]], it changes as time goes on. Series 1: "My name is Alex Drake. I've just been shot, and that bullet has taken me back to 1981. I could be one second away from life...or one second away from death. All I know is that I have to keep fighting. Fight to live. Fight to see my daughter. Fight to get home." The series 2 one is a bit more concise: "My name is Alex Drake. I've been shot, and that bullet's taken me back in time. Now I'm lost in 1982, and all I can do is fight, and search, and stay alive. Because somehow, I will find a way home." Line 132 ⟶ 133: * {{spoiler\|[[Satan]]}}: {{spoiler\|Keats}}, revealed in the [[Grand Finale]]. {{spoiler\|Or possibly the Antichrist: [[Word of God]] has [[Flip-Flop of God\|flip-flopped]].}} * Arguably {{spoiler\|the Test Card Girl and DCI Frank Morgan from [[Life Onon Mars]]}} also represent {{spoiler\|[[Satan]]}} in different guises, as does {{spoiler\|the Clown}} in season 1 of the current series. * [[Self-Parody]]: "Fire up the photocopier." * [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: In series 2, Alex believes this is the reason that she, [[Life Onon Mars\|Sam]] and Martin Summers went back to years that were significant for them. * [[Ship Tease]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100410225110/http://www.tu.tv/videos/ashes-to-ashes-last-seconds-on-earth Gene and Alex]. A lot. ** Happens with Shaz and Ray in season 3 a bit, as well as with Alex and Keats. 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