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INMATEofARKHAM t1_itccqox wrote

Title card aside one of the best series endings ever. Yeah, it wasn't the happy ending people hoped for but there's something about Sam choosing to help others over his own happiness that's heartwarming.

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meowskywalker t1_itcsy8w wrote

Yeah, I would have liked to see a more complete finale certainly, but I find it strange how many people are certain we would have gotten a happier ending if it had continued. They could have written anything on that title card they wanted, they told us he never made it home.

Course when time travel is involved no rules really apply. This new guy could have a plot where he pops into a person who somehow manages to give Sam a way out. Hw could jump back inside someone at a place and time where Sam is also occupying someon, Sam realizes someone else is out there striving to put right what once went wrong, and then Sam allows himself to stop leaping. Wouldn’t even need to get Scott Bakula to guest star, if that’s the issue, because we could just see the person he’s inhabiting.

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INMATEofARKHAM t1_itdfxt5 wrote

> Wouldn’t even need to get Scott Bakula to guest star, if that’s the issue, because we could just see the person he’s inhabiting.

Leapers who touch each other show their true selves to the other. (At least that's how it worked with the evil leapers.)

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bros402 t1_itdmym1 wrote

That's also how it works with the new show.

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Columbus43219 t1_itdk3d5 wrote

Well then, we can pretend that it was Sam that go every good ending in any story we've seen!

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frytaj t1_itd82o7 wrote

Or the new guy leaps into Sam at some point and makes a different decision.

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meowskywalker t1_itd97vf wrote

Nah I’ve played Final Fantasy VIII and I know you shouldn’t fuck about with time compression.

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mmxtechnology t1_itglec8 wrote

I'm pretty sure that's the road they're on in the new show. After the last episode, I'm nearly certain of it.

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JohnnyAK907 t1_itdeo7r wrote

I mean I guess, but we already saw him do that in the back to back Homecoming and Vietnam episodes, that saw Sam give up on saving his father and then his brother for the sake of others.
It would seem like ultimately this didn't matter, as it was meant to undo a large part of Al's character motivations by undoing the loss of his first true love thus preventing him from becoming the womanizer with commitment issues he became when the show started, but apparently didn't last as he was depicted as dying the same womazing party animal at the start of the new show.
Btw, new show is trash and doesn't deserve the name or Ernie Hudson. Both are wasted on what is even worse than the recent Macgyver reboot.

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TwistedCherry766 t1_itdp91n wrote

Is it? I don’t think that’s heartwarming. To me that sounds like purgatory or a weaker version of ‘hell’

I don’t get happy feeling from that at all

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INMATEofARKHAM t1_ite5og4 wrote

>Is it? I don’t think that’s heartwarming. To me that sounds like purgatory or a weaker version of ‘hell’

But its Sam's choice. It's literally what he wanted to do.

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ShadowXJ t1_itdyi6i wrote

Agreed, completely too me off guard, but is maybe my favourite series finale of all time.

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Dashlockhart t1_ite0g5l wrote

Bawled my eyes out as a 11-year old at the time. Such a great show

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PlasticMansGlasses t1_iteonws wrote

Yeah the story itself as an ending is pretty great, but wish they had the opportunity to show it to us just not on a title card.

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klsi832 t1_itf2xbk wrote

But he promised Donna he'd come back.

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INMATEofARKHAM t1_itf5cla wrote

And she said go when he leaped back to her.

People can ultimately want two different things that don't align.

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