In Conclusion

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We were supposed to go out last night to see the Rich Kids (1977 band formed by Glen Matlock after he left the Sex Pistols and featuring Midge Ure, Steve New & Rusty Egan), do a reunion benefit gig for New, who's been fighting cancer, but the roads round here are way too icy to risk driving and we didn't fancy our chances on the trains much either

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I'm impressed that you twigged the end! I didn't see it coming at all. I was desperate for 1973 not to be just a delusion, but after he woke up properly in 2006 I was convinced it had to be. Then when I realised he was going to jump, my heart was completely in my mouth waiting to see if he would get back there.

I think Sam's worldview was very much It's All About Sam All The Time --although you have to forgive him for that in the '73 world since well, it actually kind of was :-) The people who hated the ending had a problem with what it would have done to Ruth, which I can see -- there, I think, is where the 'suicide is selfish' idea lives.

I personally believe that the actual reality is ambiguous, too. I think there's validity for that reading in the show, although I understand that the writers (initially, at least -- I gather there's supposed to be some kind of definitive explanation coming up at the end of Ashes to Ashes) stated for sure that he was in a coma, 2006 was real and 1973 was a hallucination.

If you work from that point, then everything that Sam experienced in '73 -- including the glimpses of 2006 -- was false. So the things that led him to believe events had changed (hearing about Maya, Tony Crane escaping & trying to kill him in the hospital) never actually happened. Everything in '73 is completely self-contained, and didn't affect the 'real' 2006 at all.

I can see that works, but I don't like it, because that means Gene & the others never had any independent reality at all -- and that is just not acceptable :-) My personal canon is that Sam was supposed to die in the car accident and be non-linearly reincarnated, but the wonders of modern science kept his body alive and so that's why he 'flitted' between realities. He ended up waking into a world he wasn't supposed to be in any more, and couldn't connect with. When he jumped, it put things back in order and he could live properly in '73. Or something like that, anyway *g*

I'm a little torn on Avatar. I want to see it for the experience (clearly a TV viewing is never going to cut it) but there was an ep of South Park that spoofed it so well (Cartman living with the Smurfs) that it's made it very hard for me to take it seriously :-)

I hated Dracula too, haven't watched The Piano and have actively avoided watching Titanic. Guess we're both weird!

The Darla ep of SPN is great! I'm just a few ahead of you, I think. The bug episode is FAMOUSLY appalling, and the racist truck was pretty hilarious, but on the whole the MOTW eps are good. Once the arc plot kicks in, it kicks in big time, and they do a very good job of blending the early stuff in. It's HUGE fun.

I expected to be a Sam!girl (he's definitely the Michael of the two, heh) but no, it ended up being Dean all the way for me. I shall await news of your allegiance in due course *g*