Originally posted by Lunar
Season8
Spoiler:
The other telling thing was when she yelled: 'I could never be happy like this!' My immediate thought was: Great! Now we're going to see the same scenario with *Jack* in it, and her reaction to that... I was disappointed when Pete turned into Fifth... I think it would have been a lot more upsetting for her to be with Jack in that scenario for a variety of reasons. She could actually chose to live that life with Pete but she could never have it with Jack. So rather than make her angry that Pete is not listening to her, it would bring all those buried feelings and longings to the surface... she's be dealing with a *lot* more than just her actual situation. I think that tptb could never have done that without a) upsetting the anti-shippers to much the same level as we were upset with Affinity and b) having an episode three hours long. It would have raised too many issues to be dealt with; it was simpler to have Pete and the disbelief than Jack and all the angst. Also at that point Pete was still the *big thing.* He got a lot of fan reaction and the American lowdown showed him in a favourable light at that point. They were trying to quiet the S/J ship a little and big up Pete. So that's why it was Pete in her mind. And I actually was quite glad in the end, because it made me realise that their relationship probably wasn't as solid as I feared, that tptb were writing in a little escape clause from the S/P wedding scenario I'd been dreading since Affinity. They had a get out of jail card, a back story to doubts that could end the relationship as well as a really good reason for a wedding. It was clever writing.
But I think it would have been far more torturous to have Jack replace Pete.... <insert crazed evil smiley>
But I think it would have been far more torturous to have Jack replace Pete.... <insert crazed evil smiley>
Spoiler:
I don't think they used Jack in the fifth induced imaginary scene because pete is closer to the "surface" than Jack is. Sam's been burying her feelings for him for so long that it just made sence that "happily every after" scenario would be with the guy who she's not hiding feelings for. But I do agree that if Jack would have been used in that scene it would have taken a lot longer to get through it. Her feelings would have shown through and she would have found it possible to be in that situation w/ him.
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