With rumors swirling of a possible Jason & Sam reunion, I've been asked whether or not I would support them reuniting. As much as I'd like to say yes, I can't.
The relationship between Jason and Sam was one of my favorites. I showed my love for them by sporting Jason and Sam avatars and banners, calling into GH's comment line and writing into the magazines for them. The idea that Jason finally had an equal, a "ride or die" chick was really cool to me. Unlike past relationships where Jason's loves couldn't accept the danger or didn't feel like they were truly in on his life, this wasn't the case with Sam. Though they didn't like each other initially, they bonded and Jason trusted Sam with his life and vice versa. Were they propped? Sure they were. All GH couples are at one point or another, but I didn't care. I loved them.
All of that changed in 2006 after the summer of sleaze. Sam slept with Ric (which Alexis and Jason witnessed); Liz walked in on Lucky with Maxie. Jason was pissy (even though he had broken up with Sam "for her own good" and pushing her away decided he wanted her back), Lizzie was angry. Liz climbed 15 flights of stairs in a blackout to seek comfort from Jason. Did she intend to sleep with Jason? Probably not, but things happen. Even with all of this foolishness (and as pissed as a fan of all the couples involved), I was willing to accept a reunion of Liz/Lucky and Jason/Sam at the time. Things were strained but weren't beyond repair.
This is where my problem begins. As far as Sam was concerned, things were getting back to normal between her and Jason. They were working on putting the past behind them and focusing on their future. All wasn't what it seemed. Jason began an ongoing emotional affair with Elizabeth after reconciling with Sam. If that wasn't enough, he suspected he was the father of Elizabeth's then unborn child and proposed to her on many occasion! When he did find out he was the father of her baby, he didn't tell Sam. Instead he kept it secret, willing to allow Lucky to be the father of the child because Elizabeth asked him to. Fast forward a few months, Sam finds out the truth and is distraught. Instead of confronting Jason for lying to her, the girl went bat shit crazy. Oh, and Sam's added backstory of marrying men for their money and scamming them caused Jason to doubt whether or not Sam really loved him.
Jason and Sam argue. Jason threatens Sam
Sam began manipulating situations with Jason, allowing his and Elizabeth's child to get kidnapped and refusing to let them use her show to appeal to the kidnappers, later declaring her actions as "a moment of weakness." Oh and let's not forget hiring goons to scare Elizabeth and her children in the park. The icing on the cake? Jason threatening to kill Sam if she went near his child or Elizabeth again.
After all that I'm supposed to cheer on a Jason & Sam reunion? I'm just supposed to forget the hack job done to them right? Am I supposed to forget the lies, the threats, the manipulations, the emotional affair, and the secrets? I don't think so. With all the progress Sam has made as a character with Lucky, to have her revert back to the co-dependent, "I'm nothing without him" mob moll she turned into with Jason isn't something I'd like to see. Lucky has brought out the best in Sam and I think they're good together.
This sweeps we were treated to Jason and Sam working together against Jerry and the Russians. Sam promised to lay her life down to protect Elizabeth and the children, apologizing for the horrible things she did during her "lapses of judgment." Acknowledging her wrongdoing and understanding how it feels to be worried about a missing child. Of course Sam will get to save the day by bringing home the little innocent one. It's not like Sam hasn't apologized for her actions before, this just reeks of an attempt to purify Sam by having her play hero. Why I ask? Her relationship with Jake's public daddy (Lucky) is great, Elizabeth allows Sam to be around her children and Jason well…he blinks a lot. What are the true motives for having Sam continue to apologize? To have Sam get a taste of working with Jason again, to play hero. I suspect for what may be on the horizon. Jake's three parents may have moved past what happened in the summer of 2007, but now all can be forgiven.
No amount of having Sam play hero and Jason crediting Sam for Jake's rescue will make me want JaSam. No amount of resurging feelings or Jason worship will make that feeling come back. Nothing will excuse or forgive the way Jason and Sam treated each other. Nothing will excuse or forgive the things they said and did. Nothing will ever make that happen.
I'm sure some will reduce my stance to me just being a "bitter Liason fan." That couldn't be farther from the truth. I fought long and hard to hold on to my love for Jason & Sam. However I moved on, as did many fans. GH isn't known for having its relationships end on good terms. Under different circumstances I might feel differently, but for this former JaSam fan, I vote no.
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COMING SOON: Liason and LuSam – Over Before It Began? I talk the never ending stall/push-pull/angst with Jason & Elizabeth. Also, what does the future hold for Lucky and Sam?
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Jasamluver
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... Go f**k yourself, you're not a true Jasam fan. They are back and running and better than ever and I supported them all the way. Liason fans, go f**k yourselveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss bitchessssssssss!! |
Shaton
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understand why you feel the way you do about jasam I have to say that you truily wrote what a fan like me felt after hearing that Jason and Sam were getting back together. I started watching the show again in 2003 after finding out KM was going from Port Charles to GH. I loved the character of Sam with Jax, it showed that she was a young woman with a lot of baggage but still a tough little survivor. With Sonny, Sam became just another mob whore who was not good enough to carry the Corinthos name. I hated what the writers did to Sam. I fastforward through their scenes, then Jason came into the picture. Though I did not get the whole facination with the mob focus I could see the potential of these two. I was clued to my television set for the next three years, rewinding every scene they were in just to get my jasam fix. I believe the writers did not know what to do with these two powerhouses during the writers strike so KABOOM they set out to destroy the very nature of their relationship. It happens in the soap world, but like you Jason and Sam were destroyed for me. Fast forward two years later and Jasam are the IT couple again, because Guza realized it was probably the only way to keep the talent actors on the show. I love them together again but that love is not without a big RED caution up on what could happen in an instant. I want Jason to show his caring and fun side. And most of all I do not want Sam to turn back into all the other women on the show, waiting for the men in their lives to validate who they are. She strong and self-sufficient without Jason and the hopefully equally those things with Jason again. |
lucyntn
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Got Screwed over for a SUPERFLOP! WORD! BEST TERMINOLOGY FOR LIASON I've EVER seen! Jasam fans LOVE Sam & Jason together!! They ROCK as a couple and have more going for them to be a SUPERCOUPLE imo. I got reeled into GH when Sam came on canvas and was IMMEDIATELY drawn to her! Kelly Monaco is AWESOME as an actress and SB with her? DYNOMITE!! I gave up Guiding Light which I had watched since the Bauers and Roger Thorpe were front and center for GH. I have stayed with GH. I like that GH is NOT like the other soaps and that is what attracts me to it. I LOVE the action! IF you are mad about Jasam, blame it on the actors for being THAT good and selling the Jasam fans! Sorry, RHs' Liz is wrote to be ONE dimensional and BORING imo. Liason was a snoozefest, and guess what? I SUFFERED thru it and DIDN'T tune out because I was pissed. I have watched soaps since Secret Storm & Edge of Night. IF you want to tune out and be a part of KILLING the Soaps genre, that is on you, I choose not to. I choose to SUPPORT my favorite daytime shows, and not have them replaced with all day news or talk shows, or reality shows...SOAPS are MY escape from real life. I LOVE GENERAL HOSPITAL!! Next to it, B&B is my 2nd favorite TV Show. Ridge & Brooke have always been my favorite couple and I tuned out once. Jasam are the epitome of what a SUPER couple is imo. Look around at ALL of the other shows and see who the supercouples are? THEY weren't boring and tied up in a neat little package. Sorry Liason are feeling so shammed, but, to me, Liason is as boring as Tridge ever were! I also think, the best thing that can be done, is sever the Jake tie to Jason. I still question if he is Jasons', but, that's just me. Anyone like Z or someone else could have changed the paternity. Liason fans can TRY, but, CAN'T discount the depth of feeling and love Jason had for Sam, and, if I were guessing? Probably never lost it. Liason fans diss and slam Sam, but, Sam WITNESSED baby Jake being napped and didn't say anything, SHE didn't steal that child. She hired ACTORS to scare Liz, but, DIDN'T endanger them. Lying LIZ in sane mind and body CHOSE to endanger her childrens' lives by moaning and bitching and begging and whining to Jason every chance she got. GREAT love?? VERY debatable. I also went back and watched all the "Liason" youtubes..I didn't see any great love, I saw a girl lying to Lucky, hiding Jason, flirting with and totally CRUSHING on him. When I saw that, it confirmed what Carly has always said about Saint Liz. I didn't think Liz got a fair shake from her, till I saw that. Liz is NO better than Sam. They are women who takes love however they find it. ONE thing, SAM didn't chase Jason. There is more to Jasam than there will EVER be to Liason. Liason has a son ( for now), that's it. I didn't see at all, with Lusam, what I saw in Jasam. I didn't see at all with Liason, the passion that LL2 used to share. These are my thoughts. Thanks for reading them. VIVA LA JASAM!! JASAM is where it's at! |
Jasam Fan
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j*z Fans Keep Trying to Ruin GH I think these kind of ridiculous articles and tactics are why GH is failing so horribly. Jiz fans campaigning forever and making up their own GH history is what got us to this point in the first place. Jasam was and will always be a beautiful couple no matter what happened in the past. The writing for their s/l was beautiful, there was never a dull moment but then some fans wanted a jiz love fest so they wrote and campaigned and decided they wanted the show written to please them and look how well that worked out. GH went from being an exciting program to watch into a very dull one. The Jiz s/l was horrible but instead of realizing that and dealing with it you turn around and say the writers are horrible. Well I have to disagree because I watched 2 or 3 years of one of the most beautifully written love stories on daytime, Jasam. I never had a complaint about the writers until they let the storyline be dictated by one specific fan base. |
carly
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liason should be toggether I love the mob and jaason, and he and liz can sitll be together, and raise jake and cam, I will never stop watching Gh because of the mob mess. i love them. Liason should be together right now. |
carly
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liason and lusam they should be together I been watching Gh since 91 and liason is my favorite couple. and they should just put. Lusam and liason back toegther. I liason is a great couple and they need to be left alone. and sam and lucky can go off and do there one think. Liason is it for me. I will never ever give up Gh or liason. |
sickandtired
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No Jasam Reunion First of all, I have been watching this show for about 40 yrs and I have never been more disappointed. I can't believe some of the comments I saw in here, such as Liz told Jason she wanted to sleep with him, and that's why she climbed those stairs. If that was said it was recently and a rewrite. She did say she realized she had loved Jason for a long time, even while married to Lucky she realized it. Sam came to Port Charles because of Jasper Jax, she met up with him while he was on a trip. She was a manipulative, lying woman who was always getting her claws into rich men, marrying them & robbing them blind. She sought out Jax for her next victim, but either realized he wasn't one to be taken, or met Sonny & decided she wanted time with him as well. She got pregnant and after having a paternity test because she didn't even know which one was the father, Sonny was the father, he went back to Carly and persuaded Jason to let her move in with him and raise Sonny's child as Jason's. This was fine with Sam seeing is how she would be taken care of. She's never been anything but a lying, cheating, woman who used men for what she could get from them. She seems all nice when things go her way, but if anything happens and she feels she's been wronged, then people need to look out. She doesn't deserve Jason, especially after how she did him. Lucky is too trusting and caring for his own good, but the way he's treated Elizabeth and cheated on her, I say let them have each other, Lusam deserves one another. Liason has great chemistry and I hate like everything what the writers have done to their characters and how they are evidentally rewriting history. We all know how things happened, and how much chemistry there has always been between Jason & Liz. Even Courtney told Sam not to worry about Carly it was Elizabeth that she needed to worry about. I am very far behind on GH right now, Robin hasn't even had her child yet. So when I get through all of that and see how things are and what is going on in January, after 40 yrs I will stop watching if any of these things come to past. I already don't like what I see with the way they are doing Liz, she is the best female actress on that show and she deserves alot better, and could do alot better. They need to fix what they have msssed up this past year, get Liason and their family together and let Lucky & Sam do whatever they want to, preferrably leave town together, that would be wonderful. |
laura
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jasam are boring to tother jasam are dead to me, what happen with them, i could never get in to them. sam should have a s/l with her mothr and sisters. jasam are boring, and suck. |
allikat
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Ha! I have been a viewer of GH for over 20 years and although I have always loved my show I never became emotionally invested in a pairing until Jason and Elizabeth...The NOP scenes were some of the best that I have ever seen on ANY soap and I have watched A LOT! The chemistry was off the chart and Stecky never fail to deliver even when the writing is bottom of the barrel SHIOT! They were never given a chance to allow anything to develop and yet they still rake in the fans and are constant poll winners. Pretty good for a couple who get scant air time and sub par writing, with the danger speech over and over! Then come November sweeps EVERYONE knows that Jason is with Elizabeth and St. Sam needs her whitewash so she hijacks a story that should have featured Liz/Jason and Lucky and it turns into the "McCall redemption hour". Whatever! I probably could have stomached that if the instant rewrites of Liason history wouldn't have coincided with all of this. As soon as I saw where TIIC were going with this I turned off my tv and have no intention of coming back until GH can figure out how to change their canvas without insulting fans, rewriting couples history and recycling old, played out stories. The bottom line is, I don't know why Sam fans would want her back with Jason. She will always be nothing more than second best....Jason loves Elizabeth, he has stated it over and over again. The way they ended didn't snuff out the love, if anything it just grew larger than life. There never was a defining moment where they fell out of love with each other, they just mutually agreed that is was too dangerous to be together. Elizabeth will always hold the key to Jason's heart. Jason's life isn't any safer now than it has been so what does that say about any one he brings into his life from this point on.....The danger is still there, but hey, you're an acceptable risk. Plus, if the next person happens to be Sam there is the little issue of the fact that the character of Jason Morgan would never be romantically involved with someone who he knew threatened HIS child! He may be grateful to her, as he should be, but they will have to rewrite the character of Jason and his code to accommodate this being played out. Oh wait, never mind, GH LOVES rewriting things and I'm sure they will figure out a way to do this making Jason look like just a small douche bag instead of the larger than life one that he really will be.  |
Samfanfirst
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Why can't Sam have her own story? I have never been able to understand why GH can't give Sam her own storyline where she is the desired one and have two men fighting over her? Show her as the strong independent woman she really is. The way Sonny and Jax competed for Brenda. Why do they feel that she needs to be saddled with either Jason or Lucky? To be with Jason she loses who she is, her love for Jason caused her to make bad decisions in order to keep him and he offers her nothing but a criminal lifestyle. No matter how good her and Lucky seem to be together, he does not love her unconditionally. He doesn't have her back. This is a smart woman who can pilot ships, deep sea dive,shoot, host a TV show, she doesn't need to play mob moll just to have Jason or to change who she is inside to hang on to Lucky. She will only be the woman Jason and Lucky can be with cause they can't be with Elizabeth. Can the writers be anymore condescending than that? Maybe if Jason had never asked Elizabeth to marry him twice while he was with Sam, had never treated Sam so dreadfully after he found out Elizabeth truly was carrying his child my opinion would be different. Jason coming out of that elevator after Liz told him he was the daddy and telling Sam the truth would have made all the difference in the world. They were able to overcome her making the bad, bad choice of sleeping with Ric, Jason's worse enemy, they certainly could have overcome Liz having Jason's baby together. Now that all the drama has happened between them I don't see how Sam could ever trust Jason again. She may forgive him, but how can she trust him? After the way Lucky ran off and left Sam to fend for herself after Jerry set her up proved that Lucky doesn't have Sam's back. Sam has stroked Lucky's ego and been there for him and as soon as it is his chance to be there for her he doesn't support her or believe her when she is telling the truth and just plain leaves her hanging. My dream story for Sam, is for her to not go back to either one. To find a job she is happy with and get with a doctor or someone who has no past relationship ties with Elizabeth. A man that will look at Sam and want her on first sight because she completes him. |
