Well I'll make no bones about being one of those people who wanted Sam to stay in 1973 - but I wanted it to be a real 1973. One which turns into 1974 and eventually back to 2006. I wanted real time-travel dammit. (I do come at things from a SF perspective!) I wanted it to be Sam getting his "second chance" to make a difference and learning that feelings do have their uses.
And failing that ... if the whole thing had turned out to be a coma dream, I wanted him to return to 2006/7 with a new-found appreciation for life. And you know, Matthew Graham didn't have to write 2007 as a bleak, alienating environment. He could have had Sam wake up with all his family around him, crying for joy. Have his colleagues great him with "Welcome back, Sam. We missed you!" Instead of showing Sam in a tedious bureacratic meeting, shown us what drew Sam to his job in the first place
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And adding to my own post - what's more, I get the impression that Matthew wouldn't have shoehorned the last episode into the interpretation he did if he wasn't planning to write A2A, with a new character interacting with Gene. But he - or they - didn't seem to have the courage to make 1973 "real" (Euuggghhh! Science fiction!) so they resurrected poor Sam in 2007 only long enough for him to tape his 1973 experiences and pass them on, then had him jump off a building into fantasy land. Sam's character was massacred for pure plot convenience (unless we're being lied to because of, once again, A2A. I'm beginning to dread the thought of it.)
Otherwise... well there seems to be enough strangeness in the 2007 Sam returned to make me think it was all part of his coma dream. For instance, who leaves a hospital after a major illness on their own and wearing a suit? Didn't Sam need to convalesce? Doesn't he have anything else in his 2007 wardrobe
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sf perspective/FarscapehmpfApril 15 2007, 14:41:44 UTC
I actually come at things from an sf perspective, too, but while it was fun to play around with sf explanations for LOM, the writers never really gave us much reason to *really* believe any of those sf explanations, even before the show jumped the shark/building ;-). So, I never got too invested in the sf angle here, because it just never seemed very likely to me, within the framework the show seemed to have set itself.
I just wanted an ending that made sense within the logic of the story I'd been following so far. :-(
Ooops, forgot to type my Farscape response.hmpfApril 15 2007, 14:55:09 UTC
I was disappointed when Harvey was 'deactivated', too; that was a cop-out. And season four was uneven. But overall, it was still not the kind of artistic suicide that we saw Life On Mars committing. Flawed, yes, but not completely rotten, IMO. So for me, the real pain came when the show was cancelled - and Peacekeeper Wars is pretty bad, in my opinion, but mostly because they tried to cram all of season five into three hours, I think. I don't think Farscape ever *really* lost its integrity. Unlike LOM. :-(
Re: sf perspective/FarscapeneuralcloneApril 15 2007, 22:23:53 UTC
Yes, that's how I feel. I'm prepared to suspend disbelief for any amount of strangeness if that's how that's how a show's (or book's) internal logic works, but if it's supposed to be set in the "real" world (ie. one without time-travel, ghosts, vampires, living spaceships, etc.) then I expect it to play by the real world's rules. Which means that suicide is *not* a happy ending.
And failing that ... if the whole thing had turned out to be a coma dream, I wanted him to return to 2006/7 with a new-found appreciation for life. And you know, Matthew Graham didn't have to write 2007 as a bleak, alienating environment. He could have had Sam wake up with all his family around him, crying for joy. Have his colleagues great him with "Welcome back, Sam. We missed you!" Instead of showing Sam in a tedious bureacratic meeting, shown us what drew Sam to his job in the first place ( ... )
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Otherwise... well there seems to be enough strangeness in the 2007 Sam returned to make me think it was all part of his coma dream. For instance, who leaves a hospital after a major illness on their own and wearing a suit? Didn't Sam need to convalesce? Doesn't he have anything else in his 2007 wardrobe ( ... )
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I just wanted an ending that made sense within the logic of the story I'd been following so far. :-(
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