*spoiler alert for those that haven't finished the series*
If you were Sam, would you have went on living your life after waking up from the coma, or jump off a building and go back to 1973 to save your friends and live a life there even knowing it's all not real?
I have to return some video tapes
Well, I tend to think in a rational world, most people would realize the difference between a coma and death. And I don't think you could really expect that killing yourself would bring you back to the semi-dream state that a coma could produce.
But it's a show, a sci-fi show in fact, and I think it's the ending more people are happy with. I was OK with it, even given the above.
Well, I tend to think in a rational world, most people would realize the difference between a coma and death. And I don't think you could really expect that killing yourself would bring you back to the semi-dream state that a coma could produce.
Back to 1973.
Sams entire "meaning of life" was to be able to make a difference.
in 2006 he couldnt make a difference, he knew the guy in episode one was the killer but he couldnt do anything about it becuase of red tape....
Then his girlfriend got taken and likewise it was becuase he was mostly helpless to prevent anything.
In 1973, he not only stopped the original killer, he also supposedly stopped the kid from growing into the 2006 killer... thus saving his girlfriend.
And thats just episode one.
He grew attatched to Annie and showed that he actually cared a lot about Gene, Ray and Chris when he helped them out with their problems (tutoring Chris, feeling sorry for Ray after the bombing and clearing Genes name in the murder).
To him life was better in the coma and he couldnt accept that he had to live behind all that red tape again... as well as losing pretty much all of the people he cared about (bar his mum realy).
So he jumped.
I would have done the same if i had lived sams previous life. With my own life though... im close to a lot of people and i dont think i could give them up.
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I first I would say no, it would be too different, and I would be thinking of my family, then again it was the time of Glamrock, and no chavs, and cool friend.....so I would jump.
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If I was Sam, I would have put more bets on sporting events and elections etc. Could have made a fortune!
sharehe choose to go back to where he felt alive as opposed to actually be alive ... it's a strange choice but who knows what you might do if you were in that situation. I mean he lived a full life in the coma ... one he had not allowed himself to live before. He had been cold, detached and didn't feel much of anything for most of his life whereas there, in 1973, alongside those wackos and Annie, despite all his protests, he came to life.
Gene told him from the start that, no matter how much he whined, he wanted to be there and he was right. Always trust the Gene genie!
ask the spokesperson, I don't have a brain
1973 for me :)
I am NOT a guy!!
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No way I'd choose the past. I love the internet and my TV shows far too much. They are what's keeping me sane.
shareFinding that what seems to be the real world no longer feels realistic, Sam jumps from the roof of his modern day police station. His jump is revealed to have occurred in April. He re-appears in 1973 where he is able to save Gene and the team. When he next receives a communication from 2006 ("It's no good, he's slipping away from us"), Sam Tyler turns off the radio, implying that he has chosen his fate - to stay in 1973. His death is ruled a suicide.
Series creators Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham have confirmed that they intended Sam's jump to be suicide. In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, Graham even goes as far as to say that Sam is now in the afterlife, where time lasts an eternity compared to the few seconds of the suicide jump: "The truth is, when I wrote it, what I was trying to say is that he's died, and that for however long that last second of life is going to be, it will stretch out for an age, as an eternity for him. And so when he drives off in that car, he's really driving off into the afterlife."
Though I would love to be able to trip through time if I had a choice to remain in the past or the present I'd choose the present.