"The greatest cultural extravaganza you could imagine"*

[tree_and_leaf]

Apparently there was a Spanish remake of Life on Mars (times adjusted to make it post-Franco). And there may be going to be a Russian one, though I'm not sure I could get enthusiastic about NKVD Komissar Eugene Ochota (excuse Google Translate Russian).

It occurs to me that you could do something very interesting with a German Life on Mars, though. Set it in Berlin. West, because East has the potential for epically dodgy subtexts which are almost as bad as the Life on Mars: Leningrad edition.** You could do loads with a divided city, cut off from the country that surrounds it, from the inevitable "Sam can't quite remember where the wall went jokes" onward...


* For thus David Bowie described West Berlin in the 1970s.
** "Almost" because the Volkspolizei (the "normal" police) were institutionally separate from the Stasi, unlike the situation in the NKVD, but still...

(I've been rewatching LoM. Can you tell?)

Comments

[gramarye1971]

I'm not even that big of a fan of LoM (though I enjoyed it when I watched it), and I would read the hell out of a WestBerlin!AU of the series. (I'd consider writing it myself if I felt confident enough in the canon.) What would be the Test Card Girl equivalent, though?

[tree_and_leaf]

What would be the Test Card Girl equivalent, though?

That's a problem, I have no idea. Though I'm sure you could make the Sandmännchen quite creepy....

[tree_and_leaf]

I feel relatively confident about the canon, but it would take a lot of research to get West Berlin right. Would be fun, though.

[fallingtowers]

You should really pitch that idea to our TV executives - I'd probably start watching German crime shows for a change! ;)

[tree_and_leaf]

Hee! Well, maybe if the ordination thing doesn't work out...