When does it start?

Next Saturday, apparently.

Whereas I was underwhelmed by it all.

Really? I thought it was very well done, and I loved the camera work on it. So colourful.

I should have seen it, too, but the father was so remarkably absent from all the previous episodes that I never even thought of him.

Very good!

For me though, after 2 series of LoM and one of a2A, the question remains: are the Gene Genie and his team imaginary constructs, or...?

Gene as the prime mover? I'd go with that!

Oh the layers of meaning.

'Knickers'?! If I were your cat, I'd hate you.

Of course he does...poor, conflicted kitty! ;-)

Sorry. I should have realised that if I thought Evan could be the evil genius, other people might think so too. Here I thought I was being careful by not revealing who it was instead!

Try not to let it mar your enjoyment of the last ep when you do sit down to watch it.

Sorry about the spoilery discussion taking place in the comments above; I didn't intend for it to happen, but then I never really thought anyone would be interested in my off-hand remarks in the first place.

I always liked Life on Mars, but not with the can't wait till next week feeling AtA gives me.

Same here! I understand a lot of people feel exactly the other way, preferring LoM to A2A, but as far as I'm concerned, A2A is a worthy successor to that earlier show, and I think I particularly like the dynamic between Gene, Raymondo, Chris and Alex a little better in it. But maybe that's just because I have watched every episode!

Although the eighties clothes are painful to watch, they're that realistic. Make me feel vaguely guilty for ever wearing them

Funnily enough, I've never yet felt guilty or embarrassed about 80s fashions and the fact that I wore them. Looking at pictures of that time, I still think I looked pretty cool back then...although sadly, I can't boast to have ever owned or possessed such a gorgeous white leather jacket as Alex sports throughout the series. I think I saw something very like it in the Bijenkorf Maffe Marathon brochure the other day...but white's never been my colour.

You know what's funny, though? I don't remember the 80s as having been particularly colourful in their fashions; and myself, I never wore anything but black, white and grey for most of those years...although now that I come to think of it, I did own a red, and an ochre dress...and one of my black dresses had a bluish green geometric pattern printed on it.

Inwear? It'd be 15 years before I could afford their stuff ;-)! In the 80s, most of my clothes came from Mac & Maggie, if they didn't come from second-hand shops or the back of my parents' wardrobe (they had some cool stuff from the 50s and 60s still lying around, that needed only minimal adjustment). And I had that fuchsia Laura Ashley dress I forgot to mention earlier, tight bodice, long wide pleated skirt and 3/4 length puff sleeves which did up at the back with a row of tiny buttons and that was my prize possession for a number of years...but that was a present from my Mum, bought to wear at her wedding in '85.

I wasn't all that interested in finding out who blew up the Prices, and why; mainly because I knew Alex wouldn't be able to stop it and secondly because I knew that even if she did find out, it wouldn't take her back to her own time and Molly (the news that a second series had been commisioned had already been leaked). What compelled me to watch was the banter and bickering going on between Alex and the Gene Genie, between the Gene Genie and the rest of his team, and the Gene Genie himself. Also, at the end of this series, I <3 Raymondo; which is funny as I never really liked him much in LoM.