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.

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.

Wasn't it three different people? At the very least, time had passed, because the girl who was his daughter was several years old.

Eh. It was around the last season anyway. The quality started going real funky.

Wasn't it three different people? At the very least, time had passed, because the girl who was his daughter was several years old.

Maybe he lept into her (edit: the mom)? The last one, I'm totally blanking on.

Yeah. That was the season of Wonky.

Had to pull up an ep guide.

First one: A pair of unsolved murders marks just the tip of the iceberg when Sam leaps into a sheriff in a small Louisana town. Rumors of a history of family insanity, the suspicions surrounding his daughter Abigail's involvement in the murders, and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make matters worse.

Second one: Finding himself back in the same small Louisiana town, in the arms of Abigail, now twenty-one, Sam must prevent an angry crowd of townspeople from lynching his fiancee, following the disappearance of a young boy whom she had been babysitting. This is the one where he fathers the child.

Third one: Sam is an aging lawyer, recruited by Abigail, now thirty-three, to defend her when she is put on trial for the murder of Lita Aider, the woman whose daughter Abigail was accused of killing almost twenty-five years earlier. Includes "Kimberly Cullum (as Sammy Jo Fuller)", who is Sam's daughter.

There. Now we remember.

You know, it *is* an interesting question. Can you write believable slash about someone who is canonically in a committed relationship with a woman? I've tried Lemon Lashes' Firefly series, but found that I was totally unable to suspend my disbelief at the thought of Wash shagging some another member of the crew while being married to Zoe.

Similarly, I wonder how the Jack/Daniel slashers from Stargate handled Daniel's very real devotion to Sha're pre-Forever in a Day. I can see the two getting together after Sha're's death, but before? Wouldn't such behavior be fundamentally at odds with what we know of Daniel?