Hulu doesn't have original music in season 2, I'm positive on that one (MIA). I don't know about season one. The others seem okay based on what I've read around this site...
I struggle to believe I haven't posted to this thread, but as a previous poster said, An't that a kick in the butt? (Actually it was "what a good question", but you get my point).
I, too, live in Australia, and any time anything vaguley SF sounding came on, I was on it like blue light on a leaper. I read in the TV guide a very brief synopsis of the show and thought "Worth a try". The timing of the episodes wasn't great, in Summer where I live it was on at like 7:30pm and there was still heaps of light for playing basketball, but over weks and months I recall getting more and more keen to be home by the start of QL no matter what. I even recall watching the Pilot episode with my mother who surprised me by liking it too.
Like many of you, I felt I was watching something special, but TV networks down here suck even more badly than you guys elsewhere in the world would think and it changed timeslots and even (at one time) networks, getting shunted to a very late night slot and (like any good SF show in Australia) was pre-empted, shown out of order or forgoten about for months at a time only to be quietly slotted back in when nobody was looking.
People had started saying "I gotta Bounce" when they had to leave, but being the nerdburger I am, my version was "I gotta Leap". I recall a mate of mine saying "You do realise that's never going to catch on, don't you?". Sadly he was right, but whenever I see him, and it's time to go I still say it.
The chemistry twixt Sam and Al, and when I have seen them interviewed jointly, Scott and Dean is fantastic, and for me it's what the show is about. Al's helplessness to help and his utter devotion to doing his damndest at any cost to do the impossible, and Sam's earnestness and heroism were a winning combination.
I know it's been said, but the Leap Back is agoosebump-fest for me. "Ziggy! How many times has Al saved my life?" and Ziggy's quiet, understated "23" is still, to me the epitome of the feelings this show can invoke. It makes you invvvest.
Shock Theatre is the episode I reference most often (I work in Mental Health) and which I recommend to anyone looking to get into the show, even though it's inside out. It's one of the best episodes of any show I ever saw, its sad, funny, bittersweet, terrifying and tearjerking all at once "Save Jimmy. Save Sam" is hard to even type, and it's the reason I know Bakula and Stockwell are every bit as good as any Oscar, Emmy or Tony winner, if not better.
The writing, the production values (after the pilot) the pathos, the theme music, the impact on other shows.
But you understand that. That's why you are here
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