Interesting Observations/Facts/Questions about Quantum Leap

Sam Beckett Fan said:
You always have very well thought out viewpoints which I admire and respect Blue Enigma, this is no different and most of the time we happen to be on the same page but we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one.
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No problem.

The episode is flawed, and I can see where the way adoption is treated here would bother you, especially since the topic is more personal. I don’t think the writers meant to disparage adoption (they just had something else in mind for what they wanted to do with this episode); that’s probably why they had Sam say the line about believing in adoption. But then Al tells Sam she spent the rest of her life looking for the child and they immediately focus the rest of the episode on Sam changing things so Billie Jean can keep the baby instead. Adoption as a good option kind of gets short shrift and Sam’s statement feels a little bit like lip service.
Sam Beckett Fan said:
In the original timeline she'd have been on the streets with that baby unable to feed herself let alone! Thus her regret invalid and stupid! Before Sam there was no way she could have supported that baby.
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Well, she feels the way she feels. Even if in the original history she knew that putting the baby up for adoption was the best, likely only option, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t heartbreaking for her.
You mentioned Juno in another comment, which is a good movie, and I agree was very positive about both adoption and single motherhood. But in the case of Juno she knew without a doubt that she did not want to raise the child, she wasn’t ready to raise a child, and she never looked back. The baby got a nice home with a mother who really wanted a child and Juno didn’t have regrets. There are plenty of women who like Juno have no regrets once they’ve given the baby up, but there are also plenty of women who feel a great loss. So I don’t see Billie Jean’s regret as invalid or stupid; it’s the way she feels after making a difficult and heartbreaking decision.

Sam Beckett Fan said:
It still wasn't very fair to the father and the new wife, the way they were kind of coaxed into being that support.
Though apparently they'd come around to agreeing to support her it still wasn't their responsibility to be obligated to. It was asking them to fix her problem.
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Yes and no. I agree it can be seen as an imposition and a lot to ask. But giving her support doesn’t have to mean they’re fixing her problem. That support could just be enough of a helping hand so she help herself. She still may have been expected to work hard and get herself together so she could take full responsibility for her child.
It would've been extremely cruel for the father to allow his child and grandchild to starve in the street. Not that this hasn't happened a lot. But it's pretty crappy.
 
blue_enigma said:
Well, she feels the way she feels. Even if in the original history she knew that putting the baby up for adoption was the best, likely only option, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t heartbreaking for her.
You mentioned Juno in another comment, which is a good movie, and I agree was very positive about both adoption and single motherhood. But in the case of Juno she knew without a doubt that she did not want to raise the child, she wasn’t ready to raise a child, and she never looked back. The baby got a nice home with a mother who really wanted a child and Juno didn’t have regrets. There are plenty of women who like Juno have no regrets once they’ve given the baby up, but there are also plenty of women who feel a great loss. So I don’t see Billie Jean’s regret as invalid or stupid; it’s the way she feels after making a difficult and heartbreaking decision.
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That's my point. Just because Billy Jean had regrets doesn't mean adoption wasn't the proper choice to ensure the baby's well being. The fact that she was implied to regret her decision after she gave up the child says that she didn't think it through. If she didn't think through what it meant to lose the baby than she didn't think of what it meant to raise it either. Without anyone on her side she probably would have ended up regretting keeping that child as well.

Juno was never meant to be that kind of comparison just a better example of a teen pregnancy story. You're right as a comparison it would have been invalid because Juno had felt no connection to her child and we are not told how Billy Jean felt. It could actually go either way. In Juno, Jennifer Garner's character said:
"A mother becomes a mother when she becomes pregnant, a father becomes a father when he sees his baby."
Well that's not always true, sometimes it takes seeing and holding the baby to for a mother to become a mother too. The film Waitress is a perfect example of this.

Perhaps I used the wrong words, my apologies. The adult Billy Jean with those regrets is illogical because she couldn't have kept that baby, she couldn't have supported it. The original circumstances wouldn't have allowed it proper care. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to say that I don't condone her feelings. It's certainly not entirely her fault since open adoption didn't exist in the 50's which would have been the ideal outcome because everyone would have won. The baby would be put in a proper home with people who were able to give it what it needs and Billy Jean would still be allowed a relationship with it (well you know if the adoptive parents were willing to cooperate).

Now I could see if she had sought out her child to find out if it was alright, but to regret not keeping it, no.

blue_enigma said:
It would've been extremely cruel for the father to allow his child and grandchild to starve in the street.
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Honestly if the young black girl hadn't opened his eyes I wouldn't have put it past him considering how he felt about Billy Jean getting knocked up in the first place. He'd already kicked her out, if not for that woman she would have been on the streets even before that baby came. Horribly cruel yeah but a completely realistic possibility. If life always had happy endings there would be no Quantum Leap series because the concept of a man who fixes life's wrongs wouldn't exist.

What's also cruel is to allow a mother to raise a child who couldn't provide for it.
 
Sam Beckett Fan said:
Honestly if the young black girl hadn't opened his eyes I wouldn't have put it past him considering how he felt about Billy Jean getting knocked up in the first place. He'd already kicked her out, if not for that woman she would have been on the streets even before that baby came. Horribly cruel yeah but a completely realistic possibility.
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Oh, definitely a realistic possibility. He was treating his own daughter badly because of his prejudices and narrow views, which is something that happens all the time to kids, over various things not just teen pregnancy.
 
On another subject (since I think at this point I'd just be repeating myself with the Billy Jean discussion), last night I streamed American Beauty. Earlier last evening I noticed it on TV so I turned it on remembering that Scott had a small role. My mother however changed the channel on me but my interest had been sparked so I streamed it as my last act of the night.

His role is small and insignificant but well done, he's basically a neighbor of the main character's in a homosexual relationship. What was interesting about it was the contrast between his and his partner's enjoyment of life and the main characters totally screwed up marriage and daughter.

The film itself is pretty dark and kinda sick but he was worth watching it for. I thought he and his partner were a cute couple, I'd have liked to see more of them.

Later tonight I'll also be checking out the HBO series 'Looking' which I was told about earlier today. Scott has had a reoccurring guest role in over half the 8 episode first season and is supposedly signed on to appear in the second as well. Judging by a screenshot the person showed me, apparently this is another gay role.

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I thought of something today.

We had come to the conclusion that the attempts made to alter a significant moment in history (i.e. stopping the shooting down of the U2) in order to prove the success of the Quantum Leap experiment were essentially pointless - unless there's a way for the committee members to experience both timelines, there's no way that even if history was changed, they would actually notice it.

But it actually IS possible to prove, in more than one way...

1. Using a time capsule - have Sam put important documentation or a recording of himself explaining the project, bury it but let Al know where it is, then Al take the committee members to the site and dig it up.

2. Have Sam write a letter (or record himself discussing the project), send it to the post office, and tell them to deliver it to the committee on the exact moment that they are sitting discussing the funding of the project.

I'm sure there are other ways it could be done as well. Obviously the key is to make sure that what Sam wants them to know is able to reach the committee in their time without it having been tampered with or the possibility of it being fabricated :)
 
Lightning McQueenie said:
I thought of something today.

We had come to the conclusion that the attempts made to alter a significant moment in history (i.e. stopping the shooting down of the U2) in order to prove the success of the Quantum Leap experiment were essentially pointless - unless there's a way for the committee members to experience both timelines, there's no way that even if history was changed, they would actually notice it.

But it actually IS possible to prove, in more than one way...

1. Using a time capsule - have Sam put important documentation or a recording of himself explaining the project, bury it but let Al know where it is, then Al take the committee members to the site and dig it up.

2. Have Sam write a letter (or record himself discussing the project), send it to the post office, and tell them to deliver it to the committee on the exact moment that they are sitting discussing the funding of the project.

I'm sure there are other ways it could be done as well. Obviously the key is to make sure that what Sam wants them to know is able to reach the committee in their time without it having been tampered with or the possibility of it being fabricated :)
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The time capsule isn't convincing, Al would have no way of proving that he didn't create and bury it himself.
A letter could work, depending on how difficult it is to get a hold of stamps from the 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's it may not be as easy to fabricate.

Back to the Future Part III has come to mind and has me feeling like if not for the aura a photograph that would show up in a newspaper or archive would be the best method. Remember the photo Marty found of Doc next to the clock taken where he'd gotten stuck in the 1800's?
Unfortunately because the aura of the leapee masks Sam that is not an option.
 
Sam Beckett Fan said:
The time capsule isn't convincing, Al would have no way of proving that he didn't create and bury it himself.
A letter could work, depending on how difficult it is to get a hold of stamps from the 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's it may not be as easy to fabricate.

Back to the Future Part III has come to mind and has me feeling like if not for the aura a photograph that would show up in a newspaper or archive would be the best method. Remember the photo Marty found of Doc next to the clock taken where he'd gotten stuck in the 1800's?
Unfortunately because the aura of the leapee masks Sam that is not an option.
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Well considering that at the time, the experiment had only happened a year earlier, I think a time capsule would be convincing if it was in a place that clearly hadn't been dug up any time recently.

But you're right, it would also depend on the documentation itself. Photos are out of the question, but a tape or video recording of Sam telling future events and talking about the project itself could be convincing.
 
Catching up again...I had some computer trouble. Stupid computers. The time capsule idea is an interesting one but as pointed out there might be a problem proving the information was actually from Sam. They did a letter from the past sort of thing to get the Imaging Chamber to open in The Leap Back, but there wouldn't have really been any reason to doubt where it came from in that case.

Back to the different themes of some of the episodes i.e. adoption and so on...I think part of the point of QL besides keeping the audience wondering where Sam would end up next was to put different ideas out there and let the people watching the show make up their own minds. I don't think they necessarily took sides on the different issues or were trying to promote the ideas in the show. I think they were more concerned about giving people something to think about, and they did.
 
MichelleD said:
Back to the different themes of some of the episodes i.e. adoption and so on...I think part of the point of QL besides keeping the audience wondering where Sam would end up next was to put different ideas out there and let the people watching the show make up their own minds. I don't think they necessarily took sides on the different issues or were trying to promote the ideas in the show. I think they were more concerned about giving people something to think about, and they did.
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Clever take.
I'd never considered that the negative portrayals of 8 1/2 Months could have in fact been intended as something of a reverse psychology lesson. In later episodes however they did show consideration for the possibility of coming off as negative.
They'd intended to set Running For Honor in a high school but changed it to the Navel Academy when it had been brought to their attention that the leading influence of teenage suicides was television featuring them. (Source: Another Time, Another Place)
Then for Trilogy pt. 2 Scott was professionally coached to portray Will Kinman's stutter in a non-offensive manner.
 
My apologies for double posting but I was at my pintrest for the first time in a while and completely forgot I had this pinned to my Quantum Leap board!

http://raad.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/chinatown-still-has-quantum-leap-fans/

There doesn't seem to be a date for when this was posted but a commenter said there is also a Quantum Leap restaurant! Now I want to go to NYC even more than I already have for years!
 
Sam Beckett Fan said:
My apologies for double posting but I was at my pintrest for the first time in a while and completely forgot I had this pinned to my Quantum Leap board!

http://raad.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/chinatown-still-has-quantum-leap-fans/

There doesn't seem to be a date for when this was posted but a commenter said there is also a Quantum Leap restaurant! Now I want to go to NYC even more than I already have for years!
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Quantum Leap restaurant is on Thompson Street, near NYU. It's not far from where I live. :)

The "Sam Beckett Come Home" sign is actually part of a 2007 art exhibit inspired by Quantum Leap, by Heman Chong. Here's the link to the information about that project:

http://www.hemanchong.com/projects/2007/2007samhome.html

The outdoor sign remains.
 
Oh I envy you Blue! Have you been to the restaurant? What's it like?


On another subject, something has come to mind.
In the Vietnam thread we discussed how we are all on team "Sam can control his leaping" and it hit me. Does this mean that he could if desired will himself beyond his lifetime? Say like what happened with The Leap Between the States? Was it really his ancestor's DNA which made that leap possible?
 
Sam Beckett Fan said:
Have you been to the restaurant? What's it like?
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It's a vegetarian restaurant, and is good. There used to be one closer to me that closed. I haven't eaten at the Thompson Street location.

Here's a link to their menu: http://tinyurl.com/3n7snw2

The restaurant is just called Quantum Leap. It's not specifically themed on the show (though the owners may very well have had the show in mind when they named it).

Sam Beckett Fan said:
On another subject, something has come to mind.
In the Vietnam thread we discussed how we are all on team "Sam can control his leaping" and it hit me. Does this mean that he could if desired will himself beyond his lifetime? Say like what happened with The Leap Between the States? Was it really his ancestor's DNA which made that leap possible?
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The odds of Sam's ancestor's DNA being so identical to his is actually very very slim, if it's even possible. So my guess is that he could will himself beyond his own lifetime, but because he was so certain that quantum leaping worked only within his lifetime he needed to convince himself, and give himself a reason that he could possibly leap outside of those parameters. So, when he leaped into 1945 to save Al, he convinced himself that he could do it because part of him was Al, but it may have had nothing at all to do with that. He might have willed himself to leap that far back anyway by virtue of wanting to save his friend.
 
Actually I did some research a bit ago and on average we share 12.3% of our DNA with our great grandparents and even 3% with our Great Great Grandparents.

Now the chance of PQL specifically being able to pick out Captain John Beckett in Sam's DNA probably IS slim to none because those average numbers are more likely less since DNA swapping in recombination is completely random. So we can get more of one set of parents or great grandparents than another.

I agree with the notion of the 1945 leap, it's probable that this was another case of what happened when he'd leaped to Vietnam.
 
The question is though, WHY would he will himself to the 1800s - it's a really dangerous time and it was nearly impossible for Al to find him. It would just make Sam's life more difficult...
 
I really enjoyed the show and I get a kick out of watching the DVD's however, the one episode that I really have problems with is "The Leap Between The States". I guess the episode is okay , its just that it kinda discards the shows "bible" in regard to Sam leaping during his own lifetime. To go back to the Civil War was kinda "over the top" and brought the show close to "jumping the shark".
Sure there was some BS explanation as to why but I'm surprised at Donald Bellasario green lighted this script.
 
Here"s one for the ages:
Sci Fi has always shown us the future. Quantum Leap does so with the hand link. This object and its operation reminds me of our smart phones and the internet. How Ziggy researches (Google) and is able to provide up to date info on the people Sam interacts with. Interesting tidbit.
 
Here's something to ponder:

Do you think "Devil Al" is actually the Devil? Or do you think he's one of Satan's minions sent to do his dirty work? Or even an evil leaper?
 
He specifically introduced himself as the devil.
"Yin and yang, good and bad, God..."
"the devil."
"In the flesh so to speak."
Though it's my head canon that he is behind or involved with the evil project the way God is involved with Sam's journey.
 
Lightning McQueenie said:
Not necessarily, by saying "The Devil" he could have meant he was the Devil's representative...
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Except that Sam said 'the devil' and then he confirmed it by saying "in the flesh so to speak."
The 'so to speak' was referring to the fact that the devil is a divine being and thus doesn't technically have flesh, he'd only been mimicking it with the Al guise. Or rather that is how I read it.

HOnestly I don't believe the devil has "representatives". The devil usually makes personal appearances in works of fiction in which he plays a role.
 
Sam Beckett Fan said:
Except that Sam said 'the devil' and then he confirmed it by saying "in the flesh so to speak."
The 'so to speak' was referring to the fact that the devil is a divine being and thus doesn't technically have flesh, he'd only been mimicking it with the Al guise. Or rather that is how I read it.

HOnestly I don't believe the devil has "representatives". The devil usually makes personal appearances in works of fiction in which he plays a role.
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You've never heard of demons?
 
I think a demon is the more logical choice in this case, considering Sam defeated it (or at least survived) by strangling it...
 
Lightning McQueenie said:
The question is though, WHY would he will himself to the 1800s - it's a really dangerous time and it was nearly impossible for Al to find him. It would just make Sam's life more difficult...
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Curiosity perhaps. Yes, Sam is a true altruist and without a doubt he's a man who cares about other people and wants to help them. But he's also a scientist and there's that part of him that thirsts for knowledge for knowledge sake (a fact his accumulating 6 or 7 advanced university degrees attests to), that wants to understand the why of things. And of course he has always had an insatiable desire to travel back in time and observe for himself what things were like (the Future Boy episode is one obvious example, but in Curse of Ptah-Ho-Tep Sam also talks about his interest in Egyptology and archaeology and how for him it was like traveling back in time). His leap back to the Civil War may be pre-destined by a higher power. Or maybe a part of him wanted to go back and see what it was like, even if it was dangerous. He stepped into the quantum leap accelerator before it was ready, knowing it could possibly kill him (otherwise he would've waited for Al to get back to the project instead of going behind his back with his initial leap), so it's not like potential danger stopped Sam when he was curious about something.

Maybe someone in his family spoke about these ancestors of his even and that piqued his interest.
 
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Lightning McQueenie said:
I think a demon is the more logical choice in this case, considering Sam defeated it (or at least survived) by strangling it...
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That's not what happened at all! Time was reset, he was pulled out of the situation, you even said in 'The Boogiem*n' thread that you agree with this notion over it being a dream.
There was no way Sam would have survived that and his stranglehold on Satan had absolutely no effect. It was like strangling a mannequin (and this has nothing to do with the fact that one could clearly see that it was BTS wise). Which has me suddenly finding Al's logic pretty stupid:
"If you can touch him you can hurt him."
Shouldn't he know better that a mere mortal could never dent Satan? He's the one who actually believed in Satan.

Of course I've heard of demons and by the way that was worded a bit on the rude side but I've never seen them as representatives of Satan and that belief is actually highly exaggerated in a lot of fiction.

Believe it or not Demons are religiously associated with Angels. Satan himself is actually an Angel, a creation of God like any other, originally known as Lucifer which means 'Light'.
Early Christianity regarded Demons as the offspring of earth descended Angels and mortal women, I believe this is discussed in The Book of Genesis.
Some interpret it slightly differently, that they were born as the souls left behind by these offspring when they perished.
There is also a belief that Demons are fallen Angels, those who were banished from Heaven for rebelling against God though there are arguments that Fallen Angels are much more powerful than demons.

Whatever way one looks at it one thing is agreed upon by all, Demons originate in some form from Angels but not all versions associate them with Lucifer.

Sources:
http://www.tbm.org/origindemons.htm
http://www.gotquestions.org/fallen-angels.html
http://www.biblestudyproject.org/satan-and-demons-messianic.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04713a.htm

The character we see in Quantum Leap is quite clearly stated to be Satan himself.
1.) The DVD episode summary screen says "Sam matches wits with the Devil" or something to that effect (actually the way they wrote this particular episode summary is idiotic because it gives the whole thing away but I digress)
2.) The being disguised as Al clearly identified himself as Satan. Besides I don't believe a Demon or even an Angel could guise himself like that. Angel didn't guise herself when she appeared to Sam, in fact she was a bit TOO open about her identity hehe. The classic Angel who set the standards, Clarence (a fact that was actually point out in 'It's a Wonderful Leap') didn't appear to James Stewart in guise.

It is my head canon that he did however send representatives later in the form of Alia and Zoey.
 
This isn't an observation about Quantum Leap, but it still blew my mind.

Dr Ruth Westheimer was a German-born Jew. She escaped the Nazis by being sent to an orphanage in Swizerland. Later, she joined the Haganah - a Jewish Paramilitary force, and was trained as a SNIPER and as a scout!

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

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Something that I recently observed - in "Jimmy", Sam resuscitates Corey after he'd drowned. Since Corey was so close to death, he really should have seen Sam as Sam and also seen Al...
 
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I noticed:

- Angelita and Stawpah are both dead and help out the living. When Angelita succeeds, we see her walk away from Sam and he forgets everything, while Stawpah simply leaps immediately. Imagine what we all would have thought if instead of Angelita walking off, she leapt...
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If Angelita is an angel (as the show's makers would have us believe), then IMO you're mistaken to call her "dead". Contrary to what many movies, cartoons and television shows depict, angels are not spirits of dead people. According to the Judeo-Christian biblical view, angels are some of God's creatures, who just happen to be created in the spiritual realm rather than the earthly realm.
 
Scotophor said:
If Angelita is an angel (as the show's makers would have us believe), then IMO you're mistaken to call her "dead". Contrary to what many movies, cartoons and television shows depict, angels are not spirits of dead people. According to the Judeo-Christian biblical view, angels are some of God's creatures, who just happen to be created in the spiritual realm rather than the earthly realm.
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But Angelita specifically said she had been alive. She was a flapper and did the charleston, remember? She took a dive into the orchestra pit - auditioning for West Side Story if I remember rightly - and that is what killed her. She is Sam's 'guardian angel' sent to protect him. It was an assignment given her because she had 'too big an ego' and had to learn to care about others.
 
Scotophor said:
If Angelita is an angel (as the show's makers would have us believe), then IMO you're mistaken to call her "dead". Contrary to what many movies, cartoons and television shows depict, angels are not spirits of dead people. According to the Judeo-Christian biblical view, angels are some of God's creatures, who just happen to be created in the spiritual realm rather than the earthly realm.
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That's only one view and Quantum Leap seems to focus largely on a Catholic take which seems from my research to have a divided faith in this area. Some believe that mortals when they pass do become angels. Though there are several verses in the bible that have come up in my findings that seem to say you are right, That humans are not equal to Angels. We become bodiless spirits when we pass but are still inferior.

This is irrelevant however as Angels in Hollywood fiction are almost always deceased mortals and Angela/Angelita being very indiscreet boasts to everyone she meets that she is an Angel. She's also revealed to have once been living/mortal in three ways:
1.) She tells Sam how she'd died while performing a theater audition.
2.) Ziggy was able to find a record of her, something that would be impossible with a being who wasn't born on earth and thus has no birth certificate. She'd had trouble finding it but that's because Angela's lifetime was long before Sam's (even slightly before Al's).
3.) Her explanation as to why she must return to earth to guide the living is exactly worded: "They said IN LIFE I was too vein, I had too big an ego."

It IS possible that said huge ego had caused her to use the wrong word but that is mere speculation.
 
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It is a really nice touch that Adam Affonso, who played Young Sam in Genesis, was brought back to be Young Sam in the mirror image shots of the Leap Home part 1 :D

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I was watching "The Leap Back" last week and I have this nagging question:
What happened to the guy that Al leaped into?
Was he in the imaging chamber all the time?
There is no mention of him throughout the episode. Sam was enjoying his reunion with his wife, while the rest of the team was trying to fugure out why Al leaped into this particular guy.

Then Sam leaps in, Al leaps back to the present day and we can all assume that when Sam did leap the guy returned to his time and place...

This never bothered me when I first saw the ep but it sure bugs me now....:rolleyes
 
TylerMeans said:
I was watching "The Leap Back" last week and I have this nagging question:
What happened to the guy that Al leaped into?
Was he in the imaging chamber all the time?
There is no mention of him throughout the episode. Sam was enjoying his reunion with his wife, while the rest of the team was trying to fugure out why Al leaped into this particular guy.

Then Sam leaps in, Al leaps back to the present day and we can all assume that when Sam did leap the guy returned to his time and place...
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This is an interesting point. We know from the pilot episode that someone -- be it Al or Verbena or another person -- talks to the leapee in the waiting room to get information. In this case though I don't know that the leapee could've given them any information that would've been helpful. I doubt he had any idea that the other guy planned to kill them.
 
TylerMeans said:
I was watching "The Leap Back" last week and I have this nagging question:
What happened to the guy that Al leaped into?
Was he in the imaging chamber all the time?
There is no mention of him throughout the episode. Sam was enjoying his reunion with his wife, while the rest of the team was trying to fugure out why Al leaped into this particular guy.

Then Sam leaps in, Al leaps back to the present day and we can all assume that when Sam did leap the guy returned to his time and place...

This never bothered me when I first saw the ep but it sure bugs me now....:rolleyes
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If the Imaging Chamber was sealed off because of fear of radioactive fallout, it makes sense that the Waiting Room was probably sealed off too. So Tom was probably stuck in the Waiting Room in solitary confinement, until Al sent the letter that told them how to override. They probably had to hurry to look after him after that. Good thing they did too, otherwise he might have died of thirst...
 
Has anyone noticed the multiple appearances of Calla Lilies throughout Quantum Leap? So Help Me God, Future Boy, MIA... Now we know why :D

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Deborah also told me that she got to keep the Calla Lilies that were in Beth's garden in MIA. She planted them in her own garden, and they are still growing there to this day :D
 
I had a thought - it's funny that when the show did homages to "A Christmas Carol" and "It's A Wonderful Life", they didn't do one for "Groundhog Day". They actually already have the means to do it, because Sam would just have to keep redoing the same leap over and over until he finally completes his mission :p
 
Lightning McQueenie said:
I had a thought - it's funny that when the show did homages to "A Christmas Carol" and "It's A Wonderful Life", they didn't do one for "Groundhog Day". They actually already have the means to do it, because Sam would just have to keep redoing the same leap over and over until he finally completes his mission :p
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Groundhog Day wasn't released until 1993 - the same year QL finished. It would have been a bit new for such an homage.
Though in a way, that's exactly what is going on in 'Mirror Image' - the events in the mine keep playing out for Stawpah until Sam leaps in to save Tonchi & Pete.
 
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Groundhog Day wasn't released until 1993 - the same year QL finished. It would have been a bit new for such an homage.
Though in a way, that's exactly what is going on in 'Mirror Image' - the events in the mine keep playing out for Stawpah until Sam leaps in to save Tonchi & Pete.
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That's a good point about Mirror Image. It just seemed odd to me that if they wanted to do a holiday show, they have the perfect film to emulate :)

On another note - in "Leap of Faith", Tony actually beat the death penalty because there weren't any witnesses (Father Mac admits he pretended to have seen it), and so was only ever convicted of the attempted murder of Father Pistano (Sam), which actually DID have a witness.
 
This is an idea that someone came up with on the Podcast Facebook page:

They should have done a spinoff series about Angela.

What an AWESOME idea! It could be an anthology, just like Sam's story, with her "leaping" to different people to help them out, but this time as a guardian angel, rather than a time traveller.

SPEECHLESS!
 
Lightning McQueenie said:
This is an idea that someone came up with on the Podcast Facebook page:

They should have done a spinoff series about Angela.

What an AWESOME idea! It could be an anthology, just like Sam's story, with her "leaping" to different people to help them out, but this time as a guardian angel, rather than a time traveller.

SPEECHLESS!
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Brilliant idea! I'd watch that for sure. Maybe someone should do a fanfic series.
 
I had a thought - rewatching "A Little Miracle" (possibly the best take on "A Christmas Carol" in all television btw :p ) it was a fluke that Michael Blake's brainwaves were on a similar enough frequency to be able to pick up Al, so Al retunes his frequency so that he is off Blake's radar, until he's needed to be the Ghost of Christmas Future.

Do you think that Al would be able to do this with anybody? If he was able to find their frequency of course. This could make things a lot easier on leaps if he had to pass on a message and Sam was indisposed...
 
Lightning McQueenie said:
I had a thought - rewatching "A Little Miracle" (possibly the best take on "A Christmas Carol" in all television btw :p ) it was a fluke that Michael Blake's brainwaves were on a similar enough frequency to be able to pick up Al, so Al retunes his frequency so that he is off Blake's radar, until he's needed to be the Ghost of Christmas Future.

Do you think that Al would be able to do this with anybody? If he was able to find their frequency of course. This could make things a lot easier on leaps if he had to pass on a message and Sam was indisposed...
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Now, now, that would make things TOO easy Hayden!
 
leaper1 said:
Now, now, that would make things TOO easy Hayden!
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That is true, maybe there's only a limited number of possible frequencies Al can take in order to be connected to Sam and make the holographic link in the first place. Compared with the number of possible frequencies there are, then the chances of it ever happening again is probably slim to nothing...
 
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