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strideofpride · 1 year

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just started reading your good girl’s revolt dair fic and i’m loving it so far!!! it has me curious about the actual show - i know it got cancelled, but i’d love to hear some of your thoughts on sam/jane and where their dynamic might/should have gone had it kept going!!

Thank you, thank you! Well, obviously I really love Sam/Jane lol. I never got into the Doug/Patti/Finn love triangle or Ned/Cindy mess. Frankly, I think Doug and Ned are both kinda trash, and while Finn is very charming, he also seems to have a self destructive streak and him and Patti seem like they would've flamed out spectacularly. But Sam...I mean I did tone down his flirting for the fic a bit cause it could be a little too much (but also was probably period appropriate), but he really seemed to be different than the other guys. He always seemed to have a genuine respect for Jane, even when he was mad at her, he seemed to think of her as a real partner and not a subordinate. Like while Doug and Patti had a good working relationship, they wanted very different things from a romantic partner and they could never work that way imo. But Sam and Jane, at least from what I've seen, seem to want similar things, which is a romantic partner who is always an intellectual equal. Which they have in each other.

I'm putting the rest under a cut, just in case people want to remain unspoiled for the fic lol

I think things would've been a mess in s2 between Sam and Jane. We do get a little hint at Jane finally acknowledging her attraction to Sam, but he's slept with Naomi. Not to mention the Noah of it all, he'd be in such a bad place. And add in the fact that Jane is now the face of this lawsuit that she never even told Sam about.

And I do think Sam would be one of the few guys in the office who would've been totally in favor of letting the women write, no hang-ups about it whatsoever. But Jane not telling him about it before she went on TV and did that...I think he'd react very similarly to how he did when he found about Chad and shut her out a bit. Plus, he's already so emotionally fucked up about what happened with Noah, I think he'd shut pretty much everyone out.

And the Naomi bit...I go back and forth on that one. Cause like, I do think she still really loved her husband (the image of her smelling the dirt from Vietnam is soooo haunting) but also she like...low key gets off on bullying Jane (I'll give you one guess what GG character she's gonna be), I could also see her rubbing it in Jane's face that she's slept with Sam. Which would of course really piss Jane off and make her and Sam even more distant.

But I also very much do think they were setting them up to be an endgame relationship and Jane & Sam would've ultimately gotten their shit together and ended up together. Especially cause a big part of them getting together would be Jane going through the process of separating herself from her parents' worldview which we do start to see at the very end of s1, but that's going to take a lot more time. It would really just be a slowburn for them, you know?

Anyway, go read @senbons incredible Sam/Jane fic Oh, oh, I'm on Fire!!!!!

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where-our-stories-start · 7 months

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