His interactions with women are nearly always shown as awkward and embarrassing - and although you could put that down to 1970's women not being able to appreciate his 2006 sensibilities, I can't help thinking that it's Sam himself who is just a bit socially (and emotionally) inept.
I agree 100% with this. Sam's generally gauche around women, it's just particularly obvious in 2x04 where there are so many in one place. Maybe he's less awkward with Annie (*cough* some of the time), but I wonder if that's largely due to her role as his sole confidante? Otherwise, yeah, it's hard to think of any Sam/female interactions that aren't a bit cringifying in one way or another ;-)
Speaking of cringifying, maybe it could be argued that Sam's overprotectiveness of Annie here is partly down to what happened to Maya in 1x01 after that awful "standing you down" exchange; but then again there's no reference to Maya whatsoever in 2x04 so it's probably a dicey theory. (And anyway, if Sam had any sense he'd see that trying to keep a motivated female detective down is just a really crap strategy!)
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I agree 100% with this. Sam's generally gauche around women, it's just particularly obvious in 2x04 where there are so many in one place. Maybe he's less awkward with Annie (*cough* some of the time), but I wonder if that's largely due to her role as his sole confidante? Otherwise, yeah, it's hard to think of any Sam/female interactions that aren't a bit cringifying in one way or another ;-)
Speaking of cringifying, maybe it could be argued that Sam's overprotectiveness of Annie here is partly down to what happened to Maya in 1x01 after that awful "standing you down" exchange; but then again there's no reference to Maya whatsoever in 2x04 so it's probably a dicey theory. (And anyway, if Sam had any sense he'd see that trying to keep a motivated female detective down is just a really crap strategy!)
Thanks for the kind comment ♥