Talk:Gene Hunt

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[edit] Birthdate

"Gene Hunt was born in 1931 (as he is portrayed as being in his early 40s)." - was this somebody's unmathematical guess, or a just badly-phrased reference to an actual source that puts his year of birth as 1931? I've assumed the former and removed it for now. --McGeddon (talk) 19:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

• His birth date has not been established in canon. The most likely is 1931 tho. This would make him 42 in 1973 (a year younger than Philip Glenister at the time of filming) having done his national service in 1949-1950. He couldn't have been born earlier though, as National service wasn't established until 1949 and it's already been established he left it at the age of 19 to join the police force, so he'd have to have joined it at 17-18 for the 18 month stint.Exxolon (talk) 04:29, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Using present tense to describe fiction

This article's infobox currently says "Police Officer formerly for Manchester and Salford Police and now the London Metropolitan Police Service." This should be revised to match the continuous present tense that the rest of the article uses for fiction. In the action of Life on Mars, Gene Hunt is a member of the Manchester Police, in Ashes to Ashes, he is a member of the London Police. Only if we were speaking specifically of the character's Ashes to Ashes appearance could we say he was "formerly" with the Manchester Police. The usage of "now" is meaningless, since it doesn't help specify which point in the 17 episodes he has appeared in is being used as a reference.--Trystan (talk) 17:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)