Thanks to Wikipedia, I found a good interview with the writer of the last episode at: http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/2007/04/life_on_mars_the_answers.htmlOne of the key things he says about the last moment of the episode is: “The truth is, when I wrote it, what I was trying to say is that’s he’s died, and that for however long that last second of life is going to be, it will stretch out for an age, as an eternity for him. And so when he drives off in that car, he’s really driving off into the afterlife.”He said the storyline had always been that he was in a coma and would be brought back to now in the last episode. But when he started writing the last episode, he found he felt Sam would have hated it now.But John Simm still says he thinks Sam may have still been in a coma at the end - maybe he wants to keep open the option of a new series despite what he says....
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