Potential New Fandom

For a change this is not about anything I've been blathering-on about of late, but those guys will not be blasé for the foreseeable future.
I'm writing about something...

Screw it, I'll get to the chase: I'm becoming very fascinated with the show "Life on Mars" that airs right after "Lost". My only regret is that I didn't start watching from episode #1 though, as I might have gotten maybe a clue as to what really happened to Tyler (Tayler?). Last night as I tried to watch the most recent episode via VCR, I found that the signal was breaking up so bad that I had to stop; I can't exactly follow a story in that condition.

But I do have a small theory: that the protagonist is actually a coma-VR experiment subject.
Why? I dunno, maybe the name: "Life on Mars" and a mention of an "Aries Project" a couple of episodes back are clues unto themselves. But they just might be the notorious Red Herring Syndrome.

Am I right? Am I wrong? Gotcher own theories?

Edit: Tried to make a poll or two, but LJ screws-up its own poll coding.