![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
A satisfactory end to the Martin Summers plotline, though it wasn't clear how Martin Summers had played Alex so precisely and so well; unless he never existed outside someone's head.
So, Ashes to Ashes looked briefly as if it might be over - which those of us who have seen the recommissioning argument knew it wasn't, and besides, there wasn't enough time left in the episode for Alex to be re-enfolded into 2008 - and then embraced a device used in Christopher Priest's A Dream of Wessex, where the researchers 'dreaming' a socialist society in the future think they have returned to the present, only to find that the present is merely a subroutine of the dream. Whatever Matthew Graham, Ashley Pharoah and company (without producer Beth Willis, who has joined Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger at the helm of the TARDIS) intend, the potential is there for Ashes to Ashes to change direction and surprise us. Roll on 2010.
So, Ashes to Ashes looked briefly as if it might be over - which those of us who have seen the recommissioning argument knew it wasn't, and besides, there wasn't enough time left in the episode for Alex to be re-enfolded into 2008 - and then embraced a device used in Christopher Priest's A Dream of Wessex, where the researchers 'dreaming' a socialist society in the future think they have returned to the present, only to find that the present is merely a subroutine of the dream. Whatever Matthew Graham, Ashley Pharoah and company (without producer Beth Willis, who has joined Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger at the helm of the TARDIS) intend, the potential is there for Ashes to Ashes to change direction and surprise us. Roll on 2010.
Tags: