I did say that the worst possible version of 'Lives for Sam' for me would be that he and Annie got married and had babies.
Disagree.
(Because Annie needs to be a DCI, not at home with triplets.)
Agree completely on this point... But, back to my earlier disagreement.
I have no problem with them getting married, as long as it's a true partnership, not some fanbrat's delusion that Annie will suddenly turn into a Good Little Housewife. (Ew. Just... ew.)
I have some problem with kids, in that I cannot see them planning for children. However, there are, just as a for-instance, several drugs that can interfere with birth-control pills. I'm living proof. (And yeah, I'm pretty okay with the fact that I was conceived as the accidental result of antibiotics messing with birth control -- still got a mom who loves me, no issues there.) I'm also living proof that a woman can have a career and still have kids, as most of my childhood was spent at my grandmother's house, as both parents were working.
And really, Sam's the supposedly enlightened 21st century man. I can't see him expecting Annie to suddenly drop her career for the baby. If anything, I'd see him stepping up for baby-feeding and diaper-changing.
Would this be a happy solution? No. Both parents would be coppers, and this would lead to lots of angst over the very real possibility of them both dying and leaving a little Tyler orphan. Also, lots of angst about not giving their child sufficient attention if they did find someone else to raise the kidlet while they worked. Possibly a lot of angst about Annie having the baby in the first place.
Wouldn't be easy. Wouldn't be fun. Could still work, and could still end up happy, though.
This makes it, of course, a very bad note to leave Sam and Annie on for A2A, because there's no way to fit in the amount of backstory required to make that work. I agree with you there. However, I wouldn't say it's the worst of all possible lives. Not by a long shot.
(I haven't read that much Sam/Annie fic, sadly, so I don't know if this has been handled with the kind of maturity and depth I'd hope for, but if it was, it could be an interesting story, and one I'd enjoy reading.)
I did say that the worst possible version of 'Lives for Sam' for me would be that he and Annie got married and had babies.
Disagree.
(Because Annie needs to be a DCI, not at home with triplets.)
Agree completely on this point... But, back to my earlier disagreement.
I have no problem with them getting married, as long as it's a true partnership, not some fanbrat's delusion that Annie will suddenly turn into a Good Little Housewife. (Ew. Just... ew.)
I have some problem with kids, in that I cannot see them planning for children. However, there are, just as a for-instance, several drugs that can interfere with birth-control pills. I'm living proof. (And yeah, I'm pretty okay with the fact that I was conceived as the accidental result of antibiotics messing with birth control -- still got a mom who loves me, no issues there.) I'm also living proof that a woman can have a career and still have kids, as most of my childhood was spent at my grandmother's house, as both parents were working.
And really, Sam's the supposedly enlightened 21st century man. I can't see him expecting Annie to suddenly drop her career for the baby. If anything, I'd see him stepping up for baby-feeding and diaper-changing.
Would this be a happy solution? No. Both parents would be coppers, and this would lead to lots of angst over the very real possibility of them both dying and leaving a little Tyler orphan. Also, lots of angst about not giving their child sufficient attention if they did find someone else to raise the kidlet while they worked. Possibly a lot of angst about Annie having the baby in the first place.
Wouldn't be easy. Wouldn't be fun. Could still work, and could still end up happy, though.
This makes it, of course, a very bad note to leave Sam and Annie on for A2A, because there's no way to fit in the amount of backstory required to make that work. I agree with you there. However, I wouldn't say it's the worst of all possible lives. Not by a long shot.
(I haven't read that much Sam/Annie fic, sadly, so I don't know if this has been handled with the kind of maturity and depth I'd hope for, but if it was, it could be an interesting story, and one I'd enjoy reading.)
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