Posted by jkm822 at ool-4352edb7.dyn.optonline.net on January 23, 2004 at 00:46:06:
In Reply to: I think if Sam came back... posted by tommybruce on January 23, 2004 at 00:43:47:
: that would have been the rip off. He can come home whenever he wants but chooses to stay and help mankind? He broke his rule and helped his best friend? That's a hero's ending my friend.
There was no need to put "Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home." at the end of the episode. It cut off any chance of doing anything else with the story, because Sam would no longer have any reason to hope. He was starting to feel like God's butt-monkey as it was. Yeah, what he did was heroic - I'm not denying that. I'm just saying that it didn't have to end there.