Goodbye yellow brick road...

Jan 10, 2008 18:03

Have we ever had the 'what would your ideal ending have been?' discussion here? I feel like we must have, but maybe it's time for a jumping_off refresher.

My thoughts... )

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mikes_grrl January 10 2008, 14:27:09 UTC
The show had all of these elements that could have worked, have told us something about ourselves. But in the end, we got rampant indulgence with an added theme that is highly disturbing.To me, that is the key to the problem; there were SO many elements that could have played out (Sam really being from 1973; Sam being a time traveller; this is all Sam's subconscious, but where does that leave Sam? etc.) that were just, literally, thrown off the roof. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think the writers needed to tie it up because they knew there was only going to be that second season and grabbed what they could. I've read conflicting stories about what they intended to do from the beginning so I do not buy Graham's assertations that he intended to kill Sam off all along ( ... )

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I should really get back to uni stuff, but... ;-) hmpf January 10 2008, 14:36:21 UTC
>I would have been happy with an ambiguous ending, really ( ... )

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lozenger8 January 11 2008, 07:07:35 UTC
When he talks about 'it was always going to have this ending' I think Matt must mean 'Sam was in a coma', because he always contradicts it in the next breath. He's never said he intended to kill Sam off all along.

The ending was untrue to what we know of Sam, for a variety of reasons.

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neuralclone January 12 2008, 01:46:24 UTC
And this is what annoys me most about the ending. Because if all the events of LOM were just meant to be what Sam's subconscious thought up while he was in a coma, the entire series is just about Sam. And if you mess with his character, in the end you're just left with... a mess. Basically nothing is left at all.

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wesseling January 22 2008, 16:38:31 UTC
And, quite frankly, I *could* accept Sam committing suicide, under the right circumstances. Some fanfic has explored this: Sam being haunted by ghosts, Sam slowly going insane in 2006, etc.

Do you know the links to these fics by any chance?

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