The UK version had that ambiguous ending where Sam jumped off of a building and apparently committed suicide.
The U.S. version... well, I thought many of the individual episodes were really good. The final scene, though, ruined it for me. It turned out that Sam (and the other characters) were all astronauts in the year 2035 on a scientific expedition to Mars, a "gene hunt" (groan), and Sam's life in 2008 was some virtual-reality program that he had selected to play. A meteor storm in space caused a glitch in the program that threw him back into 1973. So nothing that happened in the series was "real" and ultimately, as a viewer I felt cheated.
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Date: 2009-04-12 07:53 pm (UTC)The U.S. version... well, I thought many of the individual episodes were really good. The final scene, though, ruined it for me. It turned out that Sam (and the other characters) were all astronauts in the year 2035 on a scientific expedition to Mars, a "gene hunt" (groan), and Sam's life in 2008 was some virtual-reality program that he had selected to play. A meteor storm in space caused a glitch in the program that threw him back into 1973. So nothing that happened in the series was "real" and ultimately, as a viewer I felt cheated.