Ok, yes yes I am going to share ANOTHER thing my best friend and I discussed. *man they sure discuss a lot of Ql stuff don't they?*
ah Yeah, who else do I have to talk about this stuff with!?
hehe, anyway after we watched Mirror Image on New Years Eve Kristen and I figured out that Al (the bartender) is right. Sam CAN indeed control where he leaps or so we think.
Now here is what we came up with(or actually most of this is mine, as we just discussed the episodes in which he Conquincedently ends up in simular situations to his. I am now adding to it with my own thoughts so ), we think that Sam does not realize he controls his leaps because he controls them with his heart.
for example:
In Camakazi Kid Sam leaps into a younger brother who's older sister has an abusive boyfriend problem, and then he remembers the same situation (except of course the ages reversed) with his own sister Katie and Chuck and that drives him to want to help Cheryl even more to make up for not being there for Katie when she needed him. Conquincedence? hmmm?
Also think about The Leap Home II. Sam's teammates in The Leap Home I are holding him up on his shoulders and he shouts for Al over the roar of the crowd to check Tom's fate but its still the same. He reaches out for Tom and yells for him when he leaps, and where should he end up? IN VIETNAM, AND IN TOM'S SQUAD! and after he ended the last leap wanting badly to save him.
And then there is Star Crossed, now Kristen and I didn't discuss this one but I was taking a break from typing just now to have some of my soup that I have having for lunch and I was thinking about it, and a gut feeling tells me that that wasn't exactly a conquincedence eaither. After all, if you read the novel Prelude he was thinking a lot about Donna and why she stood up him, and what the progect would be like if she hadn't. He even consitered what would happen if he could use his new machine to go back in time and change that and make it so she does marry him. and we don't know what happened in the show before Sam leaped so who knows, he could have been thinking about those things. And then his second leap, he does it. hmmm? makes you think huh?
Ok here's another one, Future Boy. Ok So Sam is the co-star of this kiddy show with Mo Stien who in real life actually believes in time travel just like Sam did and this makes people think hes crazy. Well people thought Sam was crazy too, and this is discussed in the show, in Honeymoon Express and Star Crossed. Sam even says that Mo was him just ahead of his time and he admired him for that. So how do you think he got there? No one had stood up for him when he was created progect Quantum Leap (except of course Al) so maybe he wanted to stand up for someone else like him which led him to Mo Stein.
Kristen and I also discussed Promised Land. Sam leaped into a family much like his own IN his hometown! On top of that Willy (his host) also did not show up to his father's funeral as Sam did not. (or so Kristen and I assume because there is faint evidence to support so in Future Boy and Single Drop of Rain where Mo Stien and Billy Boumount did not go to a loved ones funeral and it appeared to sting Sam if you watch his facial expressions closely.)
There is also The Leap Back where Al's heart took over since he was now the leaper and he steered himself to Tom Jarod who was also an MIA presumed dead by his love. After all he wanted to break Cliffords face because he associated him with Dirk. remember:
Sam: No this is NOT the guy that married Beth!
So Is anyone starting to see a pattern here?
Sam's heart appears to have led the way to some of his leaps, not all but a pretty good portion.
ah Yeah, who else do I have to talk about this stuff with!?
hehe, anyway after we watched Mirror Image on New Years Eve Kristen and I figured out that Al (the bartender) is right. Sam CAN indeed control where he leaps or so we think.
Now here is what we came up with(or actually most of this is mine, as we just discussed the episodes in which he Conquincedently ends up in simular situations to his. I am now adding to it with my own thoughts so ), we think that Sam does not realize he controls his leaps because he controls them with his heart.
for example:
In Camakazi Kid Sam leaps into a younger brother who's older sister has an abusive boyfriend problem, and then he remembers the same situation (except of course the ages reversed) with his own sister Katie and Chuck and that drives him to want to help Cheryl even more to make up for not being there for Katie when she needed him. Conquincedence? hmmm?
Also think about The Leap Home II. Sam's teammates in The Leap Home I are holding him up on his shoulders and he shouts for Al over the roar of the crowd to check Tom's fate but its still the same. He reaches out for Tom and yells for him when he leaps, and where should he end up? IN VIETNAM, AND IN TOM'S SQUAD! and after he ended the last leap wanting badly to save him.
And then there is Star Crossed, now Kristen and I didn't discuss this one but I was taking a break from typing just now to have some of my soup that I have having for lunch and I was thinking about it, and a gut feeling tells me that that wasn't exactly a conquincedence eaither. After all, if you read the novel Prelude he was thinking a lot about Donna and why she stood up him, and what the progect would be like if she hadn't. He even consitered what would happen if he could use his new machine to go back in time and change that and make it so she does marry him. and we don't know what happened in the show before Sam leaped so who knows, he could have been thinking about those things. And then his second leap, he does it. hmmm? makes you think huh?
Ok here's another one, Future Boy. Ok So Sam is the co-star of this kiddy show with Mo Stien who in real life actually believes in time travel just like Sam did and this makes people think hes crazy. Well people thought Sam was crazy too, and this is discussed in the show, in Honeymoon Express and Star Crossed. Sam even says that Mo was him just ahead of his time and he admired him for that. So how do you think he got there? No one had stood up for him when he was created progect Quantum Leap (except of course Al) so maybe he wanted to stand up for someone else like him which led him to Mo Stein.
Kristen and I also discussed Promised Land. Sam leaped into a family much like his own IN his hometown! On top of that Willy (his host) also did not show up to his father's funeral as Sam did not. (or so Kristen and I assume because there is faint evidence to support so in Future Boy and Single Drop of Rain where Mo Stien and Billy Boumount did not go to a loved ones funeral and it appeared to sting Sam if you watch his facial expressions closely.)
There is also The Leap Back where Al's heart took over since he was now the leaper and he steered himself to Tom Jarod who was also an MIA presumed dead by his love. After all he wanted to break Cliffords face because he associated him with Dirk. remember:
Sam: No this is NOT the guy that married Beth!
So Is anyone starting to see a pattern here?
Sam's heart appears to have led the way to some of his leaps, not all but a pretty good portion.