Opinion: Ashes to Ashes Finale (Spoilers)

That was all a bit odd, wasn't it? So unlike the Mars' finale's proposition of a comatose reality, this is in fact a policeman's limbo, with Nelson's bar as Heaven and a deep administrative department as Hell.


Gene was, as many suspected, the scarred policeman that haunted Alex throughout this series. Killed in 1953 (a date Shaz mentioned last week), he's spent the last thirty years helping police in limbo either to escape or to get through into Nelson's Heaven. It is surprising then that DCI Jim Keats (Daniel Mays), who has been a major character only this series, is positioned as the Devil, tempting Ray, Chris, Chaz and Alex towards Hell.

I thought it was done as well if not as satisfactorally as the Mars finale. The coma theory was a lot easier to swallow in the long term, even if the limbo theory has been orchestrated to explain everything.  I for one would have loved to see at least one more series with the new policeman that has come in to replace Alex, complaining about his iPod and looking for his office.

Thanks.