Poor Sam?

[Psychic Wombat]

I am the only person who thinks that Sam's character got a bit of a raw deal from the script writers? Ok, she had a shady past but most of the time she tried to do the right thing and was 100% loyal to Jack. I seem to recall Jack pursued her relentlessly despite her tying to put him off because of the danger it would put him in with her ex (Rorys father who Jack basically killed in a car chase). When they eventually got together she had Martha to contend with (e.g. wedding dress) but fiercely defended her corner and new life. Ok, her undoing was hiding Johnny under duress who gave her a beating. Then Jack sides with Johnny instead of his wife over a letter that could have been a bunch of lies like it was the excuse he needed to dump her. She has all this to contend with and ends up dead on the beach after, conveniently for Jack, miscarrying his child...tough life or what!

[Daisyap]

I think she's got a break now

[Formerly Known as FKAJ]

The thing I didn't like about the letter and the rest of the episode when Jack confronted her with it is it didn't tell me enough to change my opinion of her one way or the other. I didn't hate her more because I didn't know if she'd been lying about her terminally-ill daughter that Shane had supposedly been trying to save. I got the impression that the writers had either forgotten about or just disregarded that whole part of her established history, which is really grating because it wasn't the drugs that supposedly led Sam to turn Shane in, it was the double murder she witnessed him committing. All they had to do was have Jack ask her if that had really happened, and I wouldn't be complaining.

I don't think Sam crossed the line by hiding Johnny at Tony's house, she crossed it when she poisoned him. If it wasn't for that, I could have forgiven her for getting Shane into the drug scene, provided that the story about Jessica and Shane killing a dealer was true.

[Red Ranger 1]

It's "Other Woman Syndrome", isn't it?I've seen it on so many shows-Smallville, Roswell, Alias... They bring in a character as an alternative love interest, the fans complain about them getting in the way of their favourite couple and next thing you know the writers are doing something stupid like killing them or turning them evil.Or, as in Sam's case, both.