Life on Mars: Um, guys, I don't think that was supposed to be literal

So ABC cancelled Life on Mars but they still had time to get in a finale - the most bizarre, non-sensical finale I've seen in quite some time. Accepting that they were under the gun to slap together some kind of ending, what they came up with was still so ludicrous and hokey at the same time that I wish I had just watched a rerun of the British ending instead. If you somehow managed to make it through the U.S. show and were left scratching your head last night, please, please find a way to check out the British version of Life on Mars (or at the very least tune in to its sequel series Ashes to Ashes which is currently airing on Saturday nights on BBC America).