Originally posted by jdjunkie
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It is incredibly juvenile, watching two adults behave like teenagers. It smacks of infatuation, rather than genuine love; they don't know each other well enough and due to their situation (Jack being Sam's CO) they can't spend enough time alone away from work to get to know each other.
They are both attractive people, Sam hero worshiping Jack is natural, I can see how lust and infatuation could develop but a long term, real relationship? No way, not with the current show canon of the last 12+ years.
Sam, we have been told wants a family, though TPTB have been inconsistent in this and it sounds much more like lip service than a true need - she's pushing 40, if she'd wanted children, she'd have had one by now, it's a pretty powerful urge. I can't ever see Jack getting married and having kids again, too painful, even after a decade or more, Jack internalizes his pain, unlike Daniel who will talk about it. And the more you live alone, the more comfortable you become with your own company, the compromise of living together becomes greater and greater until it's out of the picture.
Can you really visualsize the conversation over a child between them, how stilted and forced it would be. And the idea of Sam getting pregnant without consulting Jack is horrendous.
This is supposedly a love written in the stars, soul-mates, the perfect couple and just the idea of an adult, real, normal conversation between them is laughable.
It's not the characters who are at fault, it's the inconsistent and juvenile writing which kills the romance and turns it into farce. This could have been a serious and interesting plot about power and human emotions, about honour and duty. But instead it was used for superficial and sometimes embarrassing scenes which took away from the show's team emphasis and didn't show either character in a good light.
FF

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