Originally posted by jdjunkie
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Do you see the old woman or the young one?
Imagine the old woman is the J/S 'relationship' the young woman is J&S friendship.
Most people see one or the other, but once you have had the old woman pointed out to you, (even though you can still see the young one) you find it hard not to see the old one too.
Same with the show. We were fine with ignoring the old woman but TPTB insisted on ramming her down our throat, with all the subtlety of a base ball bat across the back of the head and to the detriment of the characters, Sam, in my opinion, in particular.
And, no matter how often they did that, they couldn't make us like the old woman, or the J/S relationship.
Originally posted by Callista
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The writers certainly damaged her character trying to give her a love life in later seasons, the writers seemed to have no clue on how to write a woman of her age. Her dismissal of Pete was particularly badly written and you all know how I feel about the twin-set and pearls scene at Jack and Kerry's BBQ. There were times when they so abused the character I didn't like her much any more, which is quite a feat as Sam's my second favourite, after Daniel. If I felt like that, what must the casual viewer have thought of it all?
FF
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