Ashes to Ashes: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

** Keats's grey trenchcoat.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: [http://tu.tv/videos/ashes-to-ashes-kiss-me-or-punch-me Alex and Gene]{{Dead link}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[The Eighties]]

* [[Eighties Hair]]: Alex used to provide the picture for that page.

* [[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).

** 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.

* [[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.

** 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]].

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: ''Gene. Hunt.'':

 

{{spoiler|'''[[Satan|Keats]]''': [smiling] ...Alright!}} }}

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Mainly Gene. Ray also counts.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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."

* {{spoiler|[[Satan]]}}: {{spoiler|Keats}}, revealed in the [[Grand Finale]].

** {{spoiler|Or possibly the Antichrist: [[Word of God]] has [[Flip-Flop of God|flip-flopped]].}}

* [[Self-Parody]]: "Fire up the photocopier."

* [[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.