Life On Mars finale -- spoilers

[gategrrl]

Okay.

The Guy and I just finished watching it. He's nuts for this show -- keeps comparing it to the spirit of The Prisoner.  I thought it was rather shocking, really, even if not entirely unexpected. Sam decides to go back to the seventies, and jumps off the roof of the police building - just as he threatened to do in the first or second episode.  And of course, the 'ship with him and Annie blasted off in the last scene. The hero gets the girl, even though he acted like a total git before that for most of the episode.

Interesting for the mind-screw going on.  How the heck are they going to continue this show beyond here, without Sam? I understand the actor doesn't want to reprise the role, kind of like in Dr Who with Christopher E.