Originally posted by tsaxlady
She as an actress did a lovely job portraying Sam struggling with this new and unexplored side of herself and IMHO, no one has any business railing on her for any of this. Again...the actors have some say in how their characters are played out...the "choices" they make to bring a plot to life...but like they have no say that I know of in the actual storyline itself.
Even Amanda couldn't get them to take the kiss scene out from the end of Affinity. They wouldn't listen to her because the image made for a great "fade to black" moment, regardless of the fact that Carter wouldn't have kissed him while on duty like that. Character logic fell to the mighty blow of what looked good for the moment.
Furthermore, even if she (Amanda) did have some say in the storyline, the fact of the matter is that she (Sam) was most certainly being true to her character with a relationship with Pete. Well, not Pete per se, but someone other than Jack. One needs look no further than Grace to figure out that Sam gave herself permission to consider a different life for herself, and that meant exploring the side of her that wanted/needed the type of relationship her parents had...which clearly meant exploring a romantic relationship with a man who was not named Jack O'Neill. Unless of course by some freaky coincidence the new potential suitor's name also happened to have been Jack O'Neill...but then that would've been farfetched.
And we ALL know how careful the SG-1 scribes are to not write anything that would be considered farfetched, right???
*cough*
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