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I\'ve review the TV section and removed the following examples, which don\'t fit the definition of a TomatoSurprise, because the revelation comes as just as much of a surprise to the characters as to the audience:
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* The finale of the American \'\'LifeOnMars\'\', shall we say, interprets the title of the show/David Bowie song in an absurdly literal way. If you want it spelled out: [[spoiler:1973 \'\'and\'\' 2008 are both [[AllJustADream figments of Sam\'s imagination]]. They were some kind of computer-generated simulation generated by the ship\'s computer while he was in [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]], with some sort of glitch putting a fake-memories-from-2008 Sam into 1973. Oh, did we not mention? Sam and all the other detectives from the 125 are actually astronauts on a search for--wait for it--life on Mars. Specifically they\'re looking for \
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* The finale of the American \\\'\\\'LifeOnMars\\\'\\\', shall we say, interprets the title of the show/David Bowie song in an absurdly literal way. If you want it spelled out: [[spoiler:1973 \\\'\\\'and\\\'\\\' 2008 are both [[AllJustADream figments of Sam\\\'s imagination]]. They were some kind of computer-generated simulation generated by the ship\\\'s computer while he was in [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]], with some sort of glitch putting a fake-memories-from-2008 Sam into 1973. Oh, did we not mention? Sam and all the other detectives from the 125 are actually astronauts on a search for--wait for it--life on Mars. Specifically they\\\'re looking for \\\"genetic life\\\", or on a gene hunt. Yes, the show goes there.]]
* The 2009 remake of \\\'\\\'ThePrisoner\\\'\\\' intercuts flashback scenes of Six back in New York City with his imprisonment in The Village; at least, that\\\'s what they appear to be until [[spoiler: he starts seeing and hearing things in the \\\"flashback\\\" scenes that echo things that had already happened in \\\"the present\\\". It turns out that the scenes were not actually flashbacks at all, but were occurring simultaneously in the real world with events in a shared alternate consciousness (that is, The Village itself).]]
In addition, the following are examples of TomatoInTheMirror, rather than TomatoSurprise:
* In the \\\'\\\'StarTrekDeepSpaceNine\\\'\\\' episode \\\"Whispers\\\", O\\\'Brien returns to the station, finds everybody acting suspiciously, and soon come to suspect a conspiracy or takeover of some sort. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that it is actually O\\\'Brien who is a cloned sleeper agent who has been programmed to believe that he is the real O\\\'Brien.]]
* An episode of \\\'\\\'{{Stargate SG-1}}\\\'\\\' involved the team trapped on a planet with a crazy robot man, who kidnaps them and does something unknown to them. Despite his protests that they\\\'ll inevitably come back, they return to Earth, only to discover [[spoiler: that they aren\\\'t, in fact, SG-1. They\\\'re robotic clones who can\\\'t leave the planet. They eventually return and the \\\"original\\\" SG-1 goes back to Earth.]]
** The \\\"sequel\\\" episode to this, a few seasons later, had a similar twist. SG-1 was on a planet where everyone was furious at them for some unknown offense. Sam didn\\\'t remember that she was a Major now. [[spoiler: Eventually, when one of the villains killed Daniel, it was revealed that they were the robotic duplicates, not the real SG-1. The real SG-1 were the \\\"offenders\\\".]]
* The \\\'\\\'Series/FearItself\\\'\\\' episode \\\"[[spoiler:New Year\\\'s Day]]\\\" reveals that the main character [[spoiler:was a zombie all along. She had killed herself after the New Year\\\'s party, and was reanimated by the chemical spill. She couldn\\\'t pull her car out of the garage because she no longer had the motor skills needed to drive it, she couldn\\\'t communicate with her friends over the phone because her speaking skills had been reduced to zombie moaning, and people were afraid of her and trying to kill her because, well, she\\\'s a zombie. Once she realizes this, she teams up with Eddie, her now-zombified boyfriend, to rip apart Christie.]]
* The 2009 remake of \\\'\\\'ThePrisoner\\\'\\\' intercuts flashback scenes of Six back in New York City with his imprisonment in The Village; at least, that\\\'s what they appear to be until [[spoiler: he starts seeing and hearing things in the \\\"flashback\\\" scenes that echo things that had already happened in \\\"the present\\\". It turns out that the scenes were not actually flashbacks at all, but were occurring simultaneously in the real world with events in a shared alternate consciousness (that is, The Village itself).]]
In addition, the following are examples of TomatoInTheMirror, rather than TomatoSurprise:
* In the \\\'\\\'StarTrekDeepSpaceNine\\\'\\\' episode \\\"Whispers\\\", O\\\'Brien returns to the station, finds everybody acting suspiciously, and soon come to suspect a conspiracy or takeover of some sort. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that it is actually O\\\'Brien who is a cloned sleeper agent who has been programmed to believe that he is the real O\\\'Brien.]]
* An episode of \\\'\\\'{{Stargate SG-1}}\\\'\\\' involved the team trapped on a planet with a crazy robot man, who kidnaps them and does something unknown to them. Despite his protests that they\\\'ll inevitably come back, they return to Earth, only to discover [[spoiler: that they aren\\\'t, in fact, SG-1. They\\\'re robotic clones who can\\\'t leave the planet. They eventually return and the \\\"original\\\" SG-1 goes back to Earth.]]
** The \\\"sequel\\\" episode to this, a few seasons later, had a similar twist. SG-1 was on a planet where everyone was furious at them for some unknown offense. Sam didn\\\'t remember that she was a Major now. [[spoiler: Eventually, when one of the villains killed Daniel, it was revealed that they were the robotic duplicates, not the real SG-1. The real SG-1 were the \\\"offenders\\\".]]
* The \\\'\\\'Series/FearItself\\\'\\\' episode \\\"[[spoiler:New Year\\\'s Day]]\\\" reveals that the main character [[spoiler:was a zombie all along. She had killed herself after the New Year\\\'s party, and was reanimated by the chemical spill. She couldn\\\'t pull her car out of the garage because she no longer had the motor skills needed to drive it, she couldn\\\'t communicate with her friends over the phone because her speaking skills had been reduced to zombie moaning, and people were afraid of her and trying to kill her because, well, she\\\'s a zombie. Once she realizes this, she teams up with Eddie, her now-zombified boyfriend, to rip apart Christie.]]
