This is related to the spoiler discussion we've been having but also very much it's own thing.
So at the end of Mirror Image, Sam goes to Beth as as his real self in a blaze of blue light that shemay or may not be able to perceive but either way he just appears in her living room moments after having a dance with Al as a hologram and she perhaps thinks she feels his spirit. (Which if anything should make her more sure he is dead not less) .
Now maybe that little moment where she "feels" Al was always Sam popping in but either way - Sam IS now there and they talk.
This early in her life, Beth has never met Sam, should have no idea who he is.
We know that he tells her Al is alive and to wait for him but what else is said?
Does he tell Beth who he is? That he is a time traveler and that Al is his best friend and his hologram?
Does he tell Beth that he was just the cop she met also?
You see Sam has just eliminated both the primary reason he wanted to change time and the reason Al would be drawn to it.
Sam has Donna and his brother back. Al has Beth never leaving. However, there still needs to be a reason for Sam to leap and maybe that's where Beth comes in.
Someday Beth may need to tell another Sam Beckett that he needs to leap or Donna isn't there, Tom isn't there, and she isn't there. She tells him someday you'll come to me and tell me this.
Or maybe he doesn't tell her all that - maybe she realizes only when she sees young Sam Beckett on a magazine cover or meets him with Al. We don't know when or what she tells Al. Maybe it's only after they loose him that she understands exactly when and what that encounter was - Sam's goodbye.
Maybe Sam also leaves fairwell messages he wrote and sealed in a box for everyone.
There are a lot of options but the only way we get the story of Beth and Al in this new time line. Of Sam and Donna. Of the friendship and posdible secrets that united them - is for Beth to tell the story on screen (unless it's in a book/graphic novel/animated with someone else voicing Al, etc) - because even if they De-age Scott and Susan and have a good Donna - short of digital recreation or splicing together some footage we don't get Dean for new scenes as Al.
So if Beth is telling the story you can get away with splicing, restoring certain rare footage, etc. And for Beth to talk about this organically she needs to be drawn more into the story and ne talking to people.
A relationship with Magic isn't the only way to do this. But they both know about Quantum Leap, and Magic isn't afraid of Al's shadow over them. They are old friends who can choose to be comfortable with each other and a friendship that is slowly morphing into a sort of long term companionship.
Al may have even asked Magic to look after his wife and given something akin to a blessing. Widow marriages used to be a very common thing you don't betray a spouse who has died even if they were the great and true love of your life just because you find someone you enjoy spending time with and decide not to be alone.
So yeah I'd love to watch a very supportive Magic talking and joking about Al with Beth. Listening to the stories only she knows.
Bringing her closer to others on the project , having her try being a hologram with Ben.
Maybe someday encountering Sam out there and getting a chance to meet Al as a young boy and say a goodbye that is both very different and similar to the one in MIA - both for herself and the audience.
It would be poetry.
If the writers don't give this to us, I think I'm serious about this turning into a fanfic although I don't know if I can write it by myself.
So yeah I hoping Magic and Beth are dating because it leads to the best way I can think of to fully make Al and Sam into real people for new viewers- the stories Beth can tell, the things only Beth knows.
She was the last one to ever see Sam and quite possibly the new reason he leaped.
Thoughts
So at the end of Mirror Image, Sam goes to Beth as as his real self in a blaze of blue light that shemay or may not be able to perceive but either way he just appears in her living room moments after having a dance with Al as a hologram and she perhaps thinks she feels his spirit. (Which if anything should make her more sure he is dead not less) .
Now maybe that little moment where she "feels" Al was always Sam popping in but either way - Sam IS now there and they talk.
This early in her life, Beth has never met Sam, should have no idea who he is.
We know that he tells her Al is alive and to wait for him but what else is said?
Does he tell Beth who he is? That he is a time traveler and that Al is his best friend and his hologram?
Does he tell Beth that he was just the cop she met also?
You see Sam has just eliminated both the primary reason he wanted to change time and the reason Al would be drawn to it.
Sam has Donna and his brother back. Al has Beth never leaving. However, there still needs to be a reason for Sam to leap and maybe that's where Beth comes in.
Someday Beth may need to tell another Sam Beckett that he needs to leap or Donna isn't there, Tom isn't there, and she isn't there. She tells him someday you'll come to me and tell me this.
Or maybe he doesn't tell her all that - maybe she realizes only when she sees young Sam Beckett on a magazine cover or meets him with Al. We don't know when or what she tells Al. Maybe it's only after they loose him that she understands exactly when and what that encounter was - Sam's goodbye.
Maybe Sam also leaves fairwell messages he wrote and sealed in a box for everyone.
There are a lot of options but the only way we get the story of Beth and Al in this new time line. Of Sam and Donna. Of the friendship and posdible secrets that united them - is for Beth to tell the story on screen (unless it's in a book/graphic novel/animated with someone else voicing Al, etc) - because even if they De-age Scott and Susan and have a good Donna - short of digital recreation or splicing together some footage we don't get Dean for new scenes as Al.
So if Beth is telling the story you can get away with splicing, restoring certain rare footage, etc. And for Beth to talk about this organically she needs to be drawn more into the story and ne talking to people.
A relationship with Magic isn't the only way to do this. But they both know about Quantum Leap, and Magic isn't afraid of Al's shadow over them. They are old friends who can choose to be comfortable with each other and a friendship that is slowly morphing into a sort of long term companionship.
Al may have even asked Magic to look after his wife and given something akin to a blessing. Widow marriages used to be a very common thing you don't betray a spouse who has died even if they were the great and true love of your life just because you find someone you enjoy spending time with and decide not to be alone.
So yeah I'd love to watch a very supportive Magic talking and joking about Al with Beth. Listening to the stories only she knows.
Bringing her closer to others on the project , having her try being a hologram with Ben.
Maybe someday encountering Sam out there and getting a chance to meet Al as a young boy and say a goodbye that is both very different and similar to the one in MIA - both for herself and the audience.
It would be poetry.
If the writers don't give this to us, I think I'm serious about this turning into a fanfic although I don't know if I can write it by myself.
So yeah I hoping Magic and Beth are dating because it leads to the best way I can think of to fully make Al and Sam into real people for new viewers- the stories Beth can tell, the things only Beth knows.
She was the last one to ever see Sam and quite possibly the new reason he leaped.
Thoughts
