It was nice to see the images of the first Crónicas marcianas program in El reencuentro that Telecinco broadcast on Tuesday, perhaps to remind viewers and themselves of their past successes. There will be those who don't remember, and there are those who have forgotten, that “Seven Lives” originally focused on Toni Cantó's memory loss after 18 years in a coma, and that “Martian Chronicles” was born with the ambition to be a respectable one to be a program. Just as Ray Bradbury's eponymous novel told the colonization of Mars from a human perspective, Gestmusic tried with its space to assess life on Earth through the eyes of supposed Martians, which allowed them to distance themselves, especially with their own strip. It aired over the still-hot corpse of Tonight We Cross the Mississippi, which more than a river crossed as many red lines every night as Catherine Zeta-Jones did in The Trap to comfort her million-dollar audience.
Martian Chronicles had the difficult task of bridging the gap – and at the same time competing, if only for a short time, with things from the red lines – the Krispin Klander, Pepelu, La Reme and the mastermind of it all, Pepe Navarro, the Man who… Invented late night in Spain when he took David Letterman to Callejón del Gato. They began the feat with Martí Galindo, interviews with international stars, children's experts in Egyptology and political tables; They reached their peak with Coto Matamoros as the highest paid employee, Big Brother supporting the program and Telecinco, Xavier Sardá and Javier Cárdenas in court for making fun of a disabled person. Eventually there was less and less difference between the roles of Navarro and Sardá. The main reason was that the Córdoba native was never ashamed of his stature, while Sardá always seemed like a guest who had not been taught the script and who did not leave the set to avoid appearing rude. .
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