Hee, not nosy! Most of my posts are public so anyone who wants to can join in the discussion.
Seven years --- you know, there was a time I would have been "and that is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE!" But these days, this cynic has changed her tune. I just... no. :( I never, ever see them getting married, because, no. But I do see many, many years of working together, and then Sam getting his own team, but he and Gene still catching up to discuss and dispute. I think --- I think my happy ending for them is a platonic one, most of the time. Perhaps one which occasionally included friends with benefits. I don't know. But I hate the idea of Sam being dead, I just really, really do. And I'm one of his harshest critics.
I think he's been filtered: in however much detail Sam described him on his tape, he probably wasn't quite able to convey all the layers and complexities, and then you've got the added problem of Alex's mind cherry-picking all her favourite bits and creating her own version of Gene.That's how I thought it would be too, and it may,
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I never got past A2A 1:04 because I found Alex just ... irritating. I didn't hate her or anything - I didn't have that much emotion invested in the character! - but after a while I got fed up with the fingernails-down-the-blackboard feeling I got every time she was on the screen. %-}
My ideal ending for Sam and Gene would be them growing old and grey together - not as lovers, but as colleagues and friends. And then when they're retired going travelling around the world together. Sam, the picky-pain, arranges all the paperwork and plans the itineries. And Gene keeps throwing a spanner in the works, disrupting all Sam's carefully planned schedules and dragging him off on little side-trips.
Sam dying after seven years in his own afterlife, well, it doesn't quite cut it for me.
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Seven years --- you know, there was a time I would have been "and that is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE!" But these days, this cynic has changed her tune. I just... no. :( I never, ever see them getting married, because, no. But I do see many, many years of working together, and then Sam getting his own team, but he and Gene still catching up to discuss and dispute. I think --- I think my happy ending for them is a platonic one, most of the time. Perhaps one which occasionally included friends with benefits. I don't know. But I hate the idea of Sam being dead, I just really, really do. And I'm one of his harshest critics.
I think he's been filtered: in however much detail Sam described him on his tape, he probably wasn't quite able to convey all the layers and complexities, and then you've got the added problem of Alex's mind cherry-picking all her favourite bits and creating her own version of Gene.That's how I thought it would be too, and it may, ( ... )
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My ideal ending for Sam and Gene would be them growing old and grey together - not as lovers, but as colleagues and friends. And then when they're retired going travelling around the world together. Sam, the picky-pain, arranges all the paperwork and plans the itineries. And Gene keeps throwing a spanner in the works, disrupting all Sam's carefully planned schedules and dragging him off on little side-trips.
Sam dying after seven years in his own afterlife, well, it doesn't quite cut it for me.
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Alex improves, but I maintain that by then it's too late.
Your ideal ending is pretty much my ideal ending.
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