Is there life on mars?

Ok. So you’re about to be subjected to one of my crack pot television theories. Once you’ve stared looking at script writing and television production its impossible to watch TV the same way again. As a result I have a lot of theories like this one. The reason people tend to ignore them is because they’re almost completely irrelevant.

This is a theory on how Ashley Pharaoh and co wrote series 3 of Ashes to Ashes. I happen to think that they’ve constructed the entire series using the lyrics to “Life on Mars” as a kind of scaffold. Each episode so far represents a two line section of the song. Thus-

Episode one is like the musical introduction. Completely ignoring the fact that Life on Mars doesn’t have one.  

It’s a god awful small affair, to the girl with the mousy hair…
Episode 2 was about Shaz and how suffocated she felt in the police force. She felt isolated and excluded and wanted to quit. And no, her hair isn’t exactly brown but she is slightly mousy. Go with it.

But her mummy is yelling no, and her daddy has told her to go…
We learnt more about Ray in Episode 3 than I think we ever have before. His dad tried to pressure him into joining the army and while his mother was relieved he didn’t, his father never forgave him.

But her friend is nowhere to be seen, now she walks through her sunken dream…
The focus of episode 4 was a women who’s name I’ve forgotten. We’ll call her “Sarah.” She felt as though the police force had abandoned her during an undercover mission. She became detached from the outside world.

To the seat with the clearest view, and she’s hocked to the silver screen…
Ok, so directly relating this line to Episode 5 is hard. But you can’t deny that, if you weren’t already, you would have been totally hocked after that. It took me ages to calm down when it was over. I haven’t been that stressed since that last time I watched The Great Game.

But the film is a saddening bore, for she’s lived it ten times or more…
The whole prison siege thing did seem a tad bit familiar at first. But most of all this episode was about events repeating themselves. The tension was heightened by the fact the we have no idea what those
events are. There are things in the past that the team have lived but Alex (and us) are still unaware of.

So that leaves us with the chorus and three episodes to go. From the tiny spoilers I’ve been unlucky enough to chance upon I think there’s a fair chance the rest of the series will fit the pattern. It’ll be interesting to see. So do you guys think I'm a nutter? Or do you see my point?

She could spit in the eyes of fools, as they ask her to focus on, sailors! Fighting in the dance hall. Oh man, look at those cavemen go. it’s the freakiest show. Take a look at the law man, beating up the wrong guy. Oh man, wonder if they’ll ever know, he’s in the best selling show. 

Is there life on mars?