The coma theory is really the only one that makes me *happy* (and the whole series worth while and beautiful to me.) So I tend to see any given episode through those glasses. What struck me this episode was the growing feeling (for at least the first half) that Sam wasn't needed "there" anymore... Morgan comes in, starts running the place like Sam had been struggling to do for ages, and for about a half hour, Sam was really left with nothing to do and the future of police work had hope and was running smoothly without him. Which got me thinking about how that applies to the "coma" storyline - Perhaps Sam has settled his internal issues/fears/etc.? Perhaps he is not so attached/invested in his reluctance to leave? Sure there's Annie and his friends, but the bigger issue has been this "trapped", out-of-place feeling - If he can get through that, couldn't he just walk out of there (so to speak?)
I think that particular line of thinking fell apart in toward the end of the episode, though... Morgan became a bit more complicated and other plot developments changed the color of it. But still... Sam's not going *anywhere* if he doesn't want to (or feel he can) leave.
I did love the Gene stuff muchly... :-) Especially the waking from the nightmare sequence. :)))
On another note... If this is, indeed, a coma situation and Sam comes out of it - I would very much like to see a couple more episodes... Based in his "real" world. I'd like to see him readjusting to life in his old, new world. Because even though that would mean LoM was an imaginary place with imaginary people in his own head, the experience was *real to him* - And losing all those friends and readjusting to his old world would be a two or three episode process (in my book.)
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Date: 2007-04-05 02:51 pm (UTC)I think that particular line of thinking fell apart in toward the end of the episode, though... Morgan became a bit more complicated and other plot developments changed the color of it. But still... Sam's not going *anywhere* if he doesn't want to (or feel he can) leave.
I did love the Gene stuff muchly... :-) Especially the waking from the nightmare sequence. :)))
On another note... If this is, indeed, a coma situation and Sam comes out of it - I would very much like to see a couple more episodes... Based in his "real" world. I'd like to see him readjusting to life in his old, new world. Because even though that would mean LoM was an imaginary place with imaginary people in his own head, the experience was *real to him* - And losing all those friends and readjusting to his old world would be a two or three episode process (in my book.)