Oh love. I love your posting on this. I have no answer for you other than I think LOM works on so many different levels that it invites this kind of obsessive analyzing. I cannot imagine thinking about or rationalizing character's actions in ANY other show. OK, maybe Lost, but even then, it doesn't quite work as well as LOM does for me. I would love to see that fic of yours, if you can ever figure it out though.
Thanks hon, I love you for reading it :D I think LoM is just the kind of rare show that just captures the imagination on so many levels in a way that invites such analysis, at least in my opinion (and the open-ended nature of how the series draws to a close just exacerbates it). A lot of the credit has to go to Simm, IMO. You're so drawn into Sam"s confusion and the mess that is his mind that you start theorising about how he came to be in 1973 and if/how he'll return to 2006, and it's just a downward spiral from there ;P
I'd love to write that fic as well, but considering how the construction of that world is going (and the fact that I currently have a backlog of fic that I've been meaning to write) probably means it won't happen for a while :(
It's ridiculous. It's been, what, over a year since I first saw the series in it's entirety, and I still theorise about it entirely too much. It's like you said, it's the type of show that elicits speculation to the point of your head hurting, but you can't not think about it.
Hopefully I'll get over the stumbling block and write it, but we'll see.
Oh by the way, thank you SO MUCH for biting me, haha, I mean, for writing about Being Human. It´s gorgeous. I´ve swallowed all episodes and wait desperately for more.
Ummhmmmmmmm...yep, I see the issue. But I think it would also matter WHY a person would end up in parallel coma worlds, I think there would have to be some kind of connection to the Primary Coma Person at some level. Which could mean that Annie ends up in Sam's coma world because of the whole "woman in the woods with Dad" thing, but that Sam would NOT be in Annie's coma world because would she really remember him? Maybe, maybe not.
...in which I prove obsessively analyzing LoM-related theories is endemic. *nods*
I love the premis, whatever you do with it, and now I hope you DO write it. Now, did I ever read "Dead Souls"? *wanders off to check*
But I think it would also matter WHY a person would end up in parallel coma worlds That is a very good point. I don't think Sam would turn up in Annie's coma world, because I'm fairly sure it was implied that little!Sam was hiding in the bushes while Vic was attacking her, and I don't think she'd know Sam was that little boy grown up even if she did see him. And it also begs the question of how Sam and Gene were connected. Alex and Gene would be easy to explain, but unless there is some point in which Sam and Gene's timelines cross in reality (they met and hooked up at a Policeman's Ball when Sam was new to the Force or something, they wouldn't be.
...and LoM theorising is a very slippery slope, isn't it? Once you fall, it's difficult to stop.
I hope I do write it as well, I'm just hoping that I can get the bloody idea to work!
*slipping down the slope, yelling for help like Sam Tyler hugging his telly*
And it also begs the question of how Sam and Gene were connected. Oh, good point. Unless you took something like Fawsley's "Spit and Promise" idea, where Gene was somehow the inspiration for young Sam to decide to become a police officer. Certainly nothing from canon sources is much help....
I, personally, am not very worried about you writing it well. I know you will. *nods*
Gene was somehow the inspiration for young Sam to decide to become a police officer. You know I could see that. Maybe if, I don't know, the Tyler's house was broken into when Sam was about 3, and Gene was the officer who investigated (it could have possibly been Stephen Warren-related, it's not unreasonable to think he had a monpoly of houses and that Vic and Ruth had issues with rent before that, which would require a CID investigation), and a young Sam was inspired or something less naff.
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I would love to see that fic of yours, if you can ever figure it out though.
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I'd love to write that fic as well, but considering how the construction of that world is going (and the fact that I currently have a backlog of fic that I've been meaning to write) probably means it won't happen for a while :(
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Hopefully I'll get over the stumbling block and write it, but we'll see.
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P.S. I love your mood icons.
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...in which I prove obsessively analyzing LoM-related theories is endemic. *nods*
I love the premis, whatever you do with it, and now I hope you DO write it. Now, did I ever read "Dead Souls"? *wanders off to check*
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That is a very good point. I don't think Sam would turn up in Annie's coma world, because I'm fairly sure it was implied that little!Sam was hiding in the bushes while Vic was attacking her, and I don't think she'd know Sam was that little boy grown up even if she did see him. And it also begs the question of how Sam and Gene were connected. Alex and Gene would be easy to explain, but unless there is some point in which Sam and Gene's timelines cross in reality (they met and hooked up at a Policeman's Ball when Sam was new to the Force or something, they wouldn't be.
...and LoM theorising is a very slippery slope, isn't it? Once you fall, it's difficult to stop.
I hope I do write it as well, I'm just hoping that I can get the bloody idea to work!
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And it also begs the question of how Sam and Gene were connected.
Oh, good point. Unless you took something like Fawsley's "Spit and Promise" idea, where Gene was somehow the inspiration for young Sam to decide to become a police officer. Certainly nothing from canon sources is much help....
I, personally, am not very worried about you writing it well. I know you will. *nods*
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You know I could see that. Maybe if, I don't know, the Tyler's house was broken into when Sam was about 3, and Gene was the officer who investigated (it could have possibly been Stephen Warren-related, it's not unreasonable to think he had a monpoly of houses and that Vic and Ruth had issues with rent before that, which would require a CID investigation), and a young Sam was inspired or something less naff.
Oh, and thank you! *blushes*
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