Quantum Leap
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I never really cared for the show, but the series finale was really cool.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I love time travel stories; tv, movies, books...I drink it up! I have a huge collection of all types of stories in all media.
The exception to that rule is QL: I never, ever got into it, never will. Dunno why; could be the actor, could be just the lame idea of slipping into anothers body in another time. Prob a mixture of both.
The exception to that rule is QL: I never, ever got into it, never will. Dunno why; could be the actor, could be just the lame idea of slipping into anothers body in another time. Prob a mixture of both.
Cowboy: Why you doin' this, Doc?
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Cowboy: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ... I don't.
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Cowboy: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ... I don't.
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I remember bits. I disapproved of it at the time, but I was about eleven. I need to watch it again.Cheval wrote:I faithfully watched QL when it was new.
Now that the reruns are being aired, I watch then too.
(Does anybody remember the last episode?
A lot of questions were answered and Sam got to see
somebody else leap.)
Mirror Image was the name of the finale. It remains my favorite episode of a series which I loved.
A good many people were saddened by the fact that Sam never returned home, and I certainly felt that way when the finale aired (I must've been about 13 or so). But I'm pretty sure I understand it now, and feel that it's the only ending that could've worked for the character of Sam Beckett.
He was unable to accept that he was the one leaping himself around in time...that he was in charge of his own fate. Because he externalized this responsibility to Time or God or Fate or whatever he and Al always thought was behind his leaping, he was not able to go home.
Sam Beckett was willing to sacrifice anything of himself for another, and his final act at the end of the finale was the most extreme of these sacrifices. By choosing to leap into Al's first wife''s house to tell her that
Al was still alive and was coming home, he sacrificed the only friend and guide that he had had through all his years of leaping! At least, this is very likely. Fascinating, and corroborating the idea that Sam was indeed in control of his leaping, is the fact that he was able to leap his mind and body into Al's wife's home without another body to inhabit!
I hear that there's a QL movie in the works, and I hope that they devise a way to get this man home once and for all! As someone else said in this thread, if anyone deserves it, Sam does...
A good many people were saddened by the fact that Sam never returned home, and I certainly felt that way when the finale aired (I must've been about 13 or so). But I'm pretty sure I understand it now, and feel that it's the only ending that could've worked for the character of Sam Beckett.
He was unable to accept that he was the one leaping himself around in time...that he was in charge of his own fate. Because he externalized this responsibility to Time or God or Fate or whatever he and Al always thought was behind his leaping, he was not able to go home.
Sam Beckett was willing to sacrifice anything of himself for another, and his final act at the end of the finale was the most extreme of these sacrifices. By choosing to leap into Al's first wife''s house to tell her that
Al was still alive and was coming home, he sacrificed the only friend and guide that he had had through all his years of leaping! At least, this is very likely. Fascinating, and corroborating the idea that Sam was indeed in control of his leaping, is the fact that he was able to leap his mind and body into Al's wife's home without another body to inhabit!
I hear that there's a QL movie in the works, and I hope that they devise a way to get this man home once and for all! As someone else said in this thread, if anyone deserves it, Sam does...
"Verily, wisdom is like hunger. Perhaps it is a very fine thing--but who would willingly partake of it."
--Saltheart Foamfollower
"Latency--what is concealed--is the demonstrable presence of the future."
--Jean Gebser
--Saltheart Foamfollower
"Latency--what is concealed--is the demonstrable presence of the future."
--Jean Gebser