I still haven't quite processed just what my eyes saw last night. Whatever this show is, it is definitely NOT Quantum Leap. At least not the Quantum Leap I know. This time travel conspiracy/alternate future subplot wasn't resolved in any way that made sense. There were plot holes big enough to drive a TARDIS through - if Ben leaped to save Addison because she was the original leaper in that timeline, then if she never leaped because of Ben, would the government even have sent Martinez after her in the first place?
Are there now multiple time lines in play and alternate realities?
This is just too much.
How do you just input a 'cheat' code to have a do-over? Do they know how much that could corrupt the timeline? Especially if the old timeline doesn't vanish, simply becoming an alternate? This is some 12 Monkeys/Continuum type of crap that has no place in Quantum Leap.
If you want a sci-fi show about time travel and alternate time lines and conspiracies, then CREATE one. The show was never about this kind of stuff. It was never about conspiracies or governmental takeovers or altering major historical events.
This was a simple show, with tightly written well-crafted stories and characters that you empathized with and whose lives you wanted Sam to make better. These were simple stories with regular people who had bad turns in life. Sam wasn't there to irrevocably alter history. He was there to help people and make their lives better.
He sacrificed everything for it, and what this new team has done to his project and Ziggy utterly breaks my heart, What happened to Ziggy being the mole? Did they just drop that like a hot brick because they didn't know what to do with it?
I think Al would be turning over in his grave right now to see what they've done to his and Sam's life's work.
At this point, I feel like I'm hanging onto this show only because I still have hope that we'll see Sam again, even if it is just one last time.
Now that the Martinez storyline is over, thank god (though, I hoped Ben would have to sacrifice his relationship with Addison as a result, because it would've gotten her off the screen and Ben off her leash) what are they going to do. The entire first season was built around this conspiracy garbage, and now that that's over...what now? What is even the point?
If I may make a suggestion? Replace Addison with Ian as the observer. PLEASE. It was amazing to see how stronger Ben can be as a person and a character when Addison is not constantly on top of him and leading him around by the nose. Her younger self even comments that he seems unlike himself because this Ben is confident, assertive, passionate.
So...Ben is supposed to be a weak-willed nancy boy nerd?! She likes him because he doesn't stand up to her?
When he went against her in the restaurant, it was like fist in the air moment that he was finally able to just shut her up!
Ben and Ian (or anyone else, really) make a much better pair as leaper and observer. I would've given anything for him to forget his relationship with Addison so he could actually be more involved with the people on these leaps, but no...we're stuck with her. (This is nothing against the actress. She's lovely and really awesome, its just her character is beyond annoying.)
He and Ian have a more solid friendship and deeper understanding of each other that isn't colored by romance. When they're together, they remind me a lot of Sam and Al.
So...what now? Obviously, Ben is still leaping into season 2. Can these people maybe remember that this was the original mission in the first place? Leaping and changing lives is NOT an afterthought and is not to be used selfishly. I know Sam was a bit of a hypocrite when it came to his own personal history, and I even acknowledge that it may have been a very large part of his reasoning for creating the project in the first place, but he never acted as though the project 'owed' him something and wanted to bend it to his will.
He wanted to help people and change lives, which I feel this new team has completely lost sight of. Ben wanted the machine to bend to his will and do what he wanted it to do, to hell with the future as long as he could save Addison.
I just can't even...:censored
Can we just get back to basics and focus on the leaps again? You know, what this show was ACTUALLY supposed to be about? The accelerator is not leaping Ben around. Ben is leaping Ben around. This project was always so much bigger than just one person. Bigger than Ben. Bigger than Sam.
Sam understood that, and that is why he chose to continue leaping on his own and helping people. Hopefully, at some point, Ben will come to understand this as well and stop fighting it.
I still have a bad feeling that the promise they made to that Senator about saving her brother is going to come back to haunt them sooner rather than later...
Are there now multiple time lines in play and alternate realities?
This is just too much.
How do you just input a 'cheat' code to have a do-over? Do they know how much that could corrupt the timeline? Especially if the old timeline doesn't vanish, simply becoming an alternate? This is some 12 Monkeys/Continuum type of crap that has no place in Quantum Leap.
If you want a sci-fi show about time travel and alternate time lines and conspiracies, then CREATE one. The show was never about this kind of stuff. It was never about conspiracies or governmental takeovers or altering major historical events.
This was a simple show, with tightly written well-crafted stories and characters that you empathized with and whose lives you wanted Sam to make better. These were simple stories with regular people who had bad turns in life. Sam wasn't there to irrevocably alter history. He was there to help people and make their lives better.
He sacrificed everything for it, and what this new team has done to his project and Ziggy utterly breaks my heart, What happened to Ziggy being the mole? Did they just drop that like a hot brick because they didn't know what to do with it?
I think Al would be turning over in his grave right now to see what they've done to his and Sam's life's work.
At this point, I feel like I'm hanging onto this show only because I still have hope that we'll see Sam again, even if it is just one last time.
Now that the Martinez storyline is over, thank god (though, I hoped Ben would have to sacrifice his relationship with Addison as a result, because it would've gotten her off the screen and Ben off her leash) what are they going to do. The entire first season was built around this conspiracy garbage, and now that that's over...what now? What is even the point?
If I may make a suggestion? Replace Addison with Ian as the observer. PLEASE. It was amazing to see how stronger Ben can be as a person and a character when Addison is not constantly on top of him and leading him around by the nose. Her younger self even comments that he seems unlike himself because this Ben is confident, assertive, passionate.
So...Ben is supposed to be a weak-willed nancy boy nerd?! She likes him because he doesn't stand up to her?
When he went against her in the restaurant, it was like fist in the air moment that he was finally able to just shut her up!
Ben and Ian (or anyone else, really) make a much better pair as leaper and observer. I would've given anything for him to forget his relationship with Addison so he could actually be more involved with the people on these leaps, but no...we're stuck with her. (This is nothing against the actress. She's lovely and really awesome, its just her character is beyond annoying.)
He and Ian have a more solid friendship and deeper understanding of each other that isn't colored by romance. When they're together, they remind me a lot of Sam and Al.
So...what now? Obviously, Ben is still leaping into season 2. Can these people maybe remember that this was the original mission in the first place? Leaping and changing lives is NOT an afterthought and is not to be used selfishly. I know Sam was a bit of a hypocrite when it came to his own personal history, and I even acknowledge that it may have been a very large part of his reasoning for creating the project in the first place, but he never acted as though the project 'owed' him something and wanted to bend it to his will.
He wanted to help people and change lives, which I feel this new team has completely lost sight of. Ben wanted the machine to bend to his will and do what he wanted it to do, to hell with the future as long as he could save Addison.
I just can't even...:censored
Can we just get back to basics and focus on the leaps again? You know, what this show was ACTUALLY supposed to be about? The accelerator is not leaping Ben around. Ben is leaping Ben around. This project was always so much bigger than just one person. Bigger than Ben. Bigger than Sam.
Sam understood that, and that is why he chose to continue leaping on his own and helping people. Hopefully, at some point, Ben will come to understand this as well and stop fighting it.
I still have a bad feeling that the promise they made to that Senator about saving her brother is going to come back to haunt them sooner rather than later...