Sensitive New Age Guy.

You know what also bothers me? And it makes me kind of a prude, amusingly enough, but Sam's married. To a woman he canonically adores.

QL's great gift to fanfiction, like Highlander's, is that it can be successfully crossed-over with just about anything.

Thanks.

And, while I've never watched QL, nor read any fic, I think that the 'Sam is married' argument might sway me away from slashing him, unless in a pre-marriage time gap. After all, I don't, for example, slash Oz while he's with Willow. Before, yes; after, yes; but when there's a canon 'significant other' and he's known to be loyal, it doesn't work.

I don't think it's prudish to expect somebody who takes his marriage vows seriously, and who is happy with the relationship he is in, to be a faithful husband and eschew nonmarital intercourse. That's called being true to character. By the same token, I wouldn't be surprised if Al ended up having happy casual sex on a mission just because he couldn't resist.

it makes me kind of a prude, amusingly enough, but Sam's married. To a woman he canonically adores.

To a woman who, canonically, is missing from his swiss-cheesed memory. If the story was set pre-leap, I can see her existence as a problem, but if it's set during the leaps, no big -- after all, her existence didn't stop the show from doing that series of eps where Sam fell in love and fathered a child by another woman (I feel like he Lept into her defense attorney or something, but I haven't seen the show in several years, so MY memory may be the swiss-cheesed one here.).

(I can't remember -- is Al married to wife #5 during the series, or is he divorced from her and dating? Or does it change?)

To a woman who, canonically, is missing from his swiss-cheesed memory. If the story was set pre-leap, I can see her existence as a problem, but if it's set during the leaps, no big.

Yeah, I was about to post that, but a) during the series, Al is a hologram, so that pretty much eliminates that possibility, and b) Al knows how much Sam loves Donna, and I can't see Al doing something like that to either Sam or Donna.

Now Sam/m, yeah, during the series. But the majority of the fandom, as far as I'm aware, is about Sam/Al. Plus, if you're talking about post-series, Al's supposedly happily married to Beth.

I can't remember if Al was married to Tina or just dating her.

Plus, if you're talking about post-series, Al's supposedly happily married to Beth.

Which makes my head hurt, cos if Beth hadn't divorced him, he might well not have gotten involved with project QL to start with. I remember thinking that ep was a big fat contradiction of the law the series had set up that Sam and Al could not change their own lives.

But I do see your point about the relationship problems of slashing Sam/Al.

I can't think rationally about the series finale anyway. I'm always crying too hard.

In some fandoms, it seem to be the difficulty of getting them together at all is the attraction.

after all, her existence didn't stop the show from doing that series of eps where Sam fell in love and fathered a child by another woman (I feel like he Lept into her defense attorney or something, but I haven't seen the show in several years, so MY memory may be the swiss-cheesed one here.).

First he lept into her attorney, then he lept into her fiance, then he lept into someone. Hmm. The attorney again? Crap, it's been a while. There were three connected leaps, some nookie, and a baby.