Originally posted by majorsal
- I also didn't like the ending of 100 Days. Although I wasn't too aware of the S/J ship furor, I really didn't like seeing the way they filmed Sam turning back to the Gate after Jack asked Laira to come with him. Ugh! The whole Leading Male gets girl, while trusty-always-there-'right-hand-man' girl pines after Lead Male... blech! That scene still makes me shudder and feel sorry for Sam!
- I didn't like the 'I really got to pee' scene with Jack in Ascension. Talk about disrespectful! (to Sam)
-I know a lot of people thought it was funny... but I didn't like the 'pull things out of your butt' line in 48 Hours (?, I think that was the episode)
- Desperate Measures - where it ends with Jack hurt and Sam comforting him by his infirmary bedside!
-getting cold-cocked in Forsaken; having it written that her father called her Sam because he wanted a boy - Samantha is a beautiful name, and I hated having it besmirched with such a childish, school-yard couple of lines in the script!
-having Jack show up and rescue her (and Felger) in Avenger 2.0; that would have played so much better if Carter had gotten them out of it and back to Earth without Jack coming to save the day
-I also agree with the 'giving up' scene in Death Knell. I felt that it should have ended with the SuperSoldier dead from Sam's McGyvered missil - AT did a *superb* job of walking over and sitting on the dirt in exhaustion after the dust first settled. She showed no exhuberance in apparently having won, she showed a completely realistic reaction to the whole experience.
Having the Supersoldier then climb out of the dirt smacked of B-grade movies where the evil monster just keeps coming back no matter what the protagonists do to it.
That said, if the Supersoldier was going to come back, I would have *much* preferred it if Jack had handed the weapon to Sam to fire at the Supersoldier - Sam and her Dad designed the weapon, it made much more sense that she would be more familiar with it and should be the one who took the shots. But then, the Lead Male wouldn't get to be *The Lead Male* in the heroic closing scenes. Grrrrr..
- I was OK with Sam getting/having a boyfriend who didn't die (thought it was about time, actually), but I didn't like seeing it become so much of the show. Especially didn't like the 'morning after' scene where Pete threw his tantrum and Sam acted.. so un-Samlike (pleading with him, and then calling after him later). After his little tantrum in the bedroom, I thought she should have told him to take a hike!
- really wanted to see more of Sam leading in Season 8
- wanted to see Sam have a showdown with Replicarter (after Gemini)
- really didn't want to see Jacob die - and I really hated that they said that Sam basically went into the Air Force to please her father - what a way to trivialize her dreams and aspirations - ugh! ugh! ugh!
Season 9:
- writing Carter out of command was nasty
- writing it so that Carter was off working on a bomb... ugh, how demoralizing is that?
- writing it so that Carter comes back, the bomb doesn't work properly, and Carter really isn't needed to even get it to work or to do anything heroic, except be around
- bringing Orlin back as a kid (ick)
- not writing anything that shows how important or indispensable Carter is to the SGC - or how difficult (near to impossible) to replace
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