The revival has come down firmly on the side of outright leaping into someone else's body. Which is fine, the cannon on that topic from the original series and novels is confusing and contradictary as all hell.
Or is it?
I *think* I have a solution that can make both true.
The leap back is the key and would be the point when things changed from it being cleanly Sam"s mind inhabiting someone else's body to some sort of odd hybrid state where Sam's actual body began to be physically there enough to lend traits a leapee was missing.
Sam makes it home and then goes leaping a second time.
If you think about it, early in the process a confused and less trained leaper needs the physical body of the leapee to provide skills and strengthen them. Ray didn't know how to fight, now he does, for example.
So lets see if the theory holds and the rest of you try to confirm or refute it.
Sam Jo - conceived after leap back. (Was Will sterile?)
Sam walking without legs - after leap back
Sam swimming when it should not physically be possible for a chimp - after leap back.
Sam not being in the body of a Vampire when *maybee* the leapee was one (Sam adds humanity). - after leap back
There are three problem episodes I've identified so far.
First Trilogy Part 3 - is obviously after leap back when according to my theory Sam's physical body can now concentrate his physical substance into things his leapee physically lacks and needs
In part 3 of trilogy he seems impacted by Larry Stanton's heart issues but that may be because Sam is still only partially there and Larry is in really bad shape, bad enough that Sam's healthy body needs to sustain both leaper and leapee?
The other explanation may be that heart disease is not just a heart issue, it often involves the entire circulatory and even other body systems. Having Larry's damaged heart trying to run Sam's healthy body is as problematic as Sam's healthy heart trying to run Larry's body in this case.
There are two I'm concerned about being prior - and both involve Sam having normal eye sight when the leapee does not - although it could be argued that as a "spirit" inhabiting the body of someone without normal eyesight - he is seeing in some other way? A third eye if you will. Which I guess makes sense with the whole the leapee might where glasses but Sam usually doesn't thing.
Any other leaps prior to leap back that need Sam's physical body to manifest itself in sone way?
Any other leaps after that put us back in pure mind leap land?
And do we think a simo leap between Ben and Addison is comming?
Or is it?
I *think* I have a solution that can make both true.
The leap back is the key and would be the point when things changed from it being cleanly Sam"s mind inhabiting someone else's body to some sort of odd hybrid state where Sam's actual body began to be physically there enough to lend traits a leapee was missing.
Sam makes it home and then goes leaping a second time.
If you think about it, early in the process a confused and less trained leaper needs the physical body of the leapee to provide skills and strengthen them. Ray didn't know how to fight, now he does, for example.
So lets see if the theory holds and the rest of you try to confirm or refute it.
Sam Jo - conceived after leap back. (Was Will sterile?)
Sam walking without legs - after leap back
Sam swimming when it should not physically be possible for a chimp - after leap back.
Sam not being in the body of a Vampire when *maybee* the leapee was one (Sam adds humanity). - after leap back
There are three problem episodes I've identified so far.
First Trilogy Part 3 - is obviously after leap back when according to my theory Sam's physical body can now concentrate his physical substance into things his leapee physically lacks and needs
In part 3 of trilogy he seems impacted by Larry Stanton's heart issues but that may be because Sam is still only partially there and Larry is in really bad shape, bad enough that Sam's healthy body needs to sustain both leaper and leapee?
The other explanation may be that heart disease is not just a heart issue, it often involves the entire circulatory and even other body systems. Having Larry's damaged heart trying to run Sam's healthy body is as problematic as Sam's healthy heart trying to run Larry's body in this case.
There are two I'm concerned about being prior - and both involve Sam having normal eye sight when the leapee does not - although it could be argued that as a "spirit" inhabiting the body of someone without normal eyesight - he is seeing in some other way? A third eye if you will. Which I guess makes sense with the whole the leapee might where glasses but Sam usually doesn't thing.
Any other leaps prior to leap back that need Sam's physical body to manifest itself in sone way?
Any other leaps after that put us back in pure mind leap land?
And do we think a simo leap between Ben and Addison is comming?