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Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:00 AM

Finale wrap-up: "Life on Mars"

In its last episode, the charming (and canceled) cop show finally unlocks the secrets of our hero's past. But they're not what you might expect.
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Thursday, April 2, 2009 06:41 AM

    best of all possible endings

    Seriously, what ending would you have chosen instead? Waking from his coma to discover that he's really in 2008 with his girlfriend who's not Annie? Continued existance in 1973 with Annie, although he's actually still in a coma in 2008?

    The writers gave us the best they could have, considering the shaft that ABC pushed the show into - but unlike the other shows ABC killed this season, at least we viewers got some closure.

    The only opportunity the writers missed was to clarify the relationships between the characters in 2035: Imperioli and Murphy are gay life partners; Mol is in a joint marriage with the father and son, Keitel and O'Mara; and finally, President Obama is a real transgender with parts transferred from her/his own XY clone, which was vat-grown without a brain. As such he/she has a female brain in a brawny male body, ideal for intelligent and wise, compassionate but tough leadership that is moving the First Hemisperic Republic forward into space, colonizing the solar system and beyond...

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