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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on January 14, 2006, 09:20:53 am
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In the episode "All Americans", which originally aired on 17 January 1990, Al states he was watching Super Bowl XXX, and the Pittsburgh Steelers were playing and were three points behind in the fourth quarter. The actual game wouldn't air for another six years, but the Steelers did play and were, in fact, three points behind in the fourth quarter. The team hadn't been to the Super Bowl in the ten years prior.
:wtf:
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...****.
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That's pretty cool.
I always wanted to go to church, sit there meekly until about half way through and then jump up, looking disorientated and say "oh boy".
I doubt many people would get it though.
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If someone did that, and really threw themselves into it, I'd laugh my mother****ing ass off.
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That's pretty cool.
I always wanted to go to church, sit there meekly until about half way through and then jump up, looking disorientated and say "oh boy".
I doubt many people would get it though.
I don't get it...
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Nobody really does.
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:D
I get it. Took me a second, though.
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Would me not really having ever seen QL explain why I don't get it?
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Would me not really having ever seen QL explain why I don't get it?
Yeah, it's pretty much the event that happens at the end of every show, Sam jumps into somebody new, finds himself in a weird situation and mutters the words "oh boy".
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The basic storyline is a time travelling physics doctor "leaps" into peoples lives to right wrongs. No one else is aware of this as they see the personal normally, and Sam's refelection is the person he is occupying. He is guided by a projection of a mate who can provide info (who hs is, where, when etc) who no one else can see (except for children IIRC) but he takes a while to appear. So Sam is stick for the first 10 mins or so of the show who no idea of what's going on.
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I watched a few episodes of QL. It was pretty interesting, but not enough to be one of my favorites.
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I saw the last ever episode while lying in hospital. Now there's a memory that will stick.
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Animals, babies and mental patients could all see Al.
Electricity could futz with the link between him and Sam, screwing up Sam's separation from his host body's personality and occassionally switching Al into a host and Sam back to the Quantum Leap facility.
And there was an Evil Leaper called Alia, whose holographic guide person was called Zoey. They were from further in the future than the Quantum Leap project and could control leaps into specific people, as opposed to Sam's random jumps. They went through time wronging what once went right.
In the finale, Sam leaps into this bar on the day of his birth, but it's all screwy. He sees people leaping in and out, people being remembered and forgotten and they've all got names of people he's known. The bartender, Al, tries to explain things to him but it's pretty confusing and all open to interpretation. But eventually Sam seems to understand and leaps out, with the series closing: "Dr Beckett never returned home".
In an alternate ending, he makes one last leap to Al's first wife's house in the 70s while Al's still a POW in Vietnam - but he leaps as himself, not into someone else's body - and he tells her Al's still alive and to wait for him. This fixes Als entire life, erases about 7 failed marriages and he ends up happily married with about 9 kids. It also presumably erases the Quantum Leap project from history and leaves Sam leaping forever through time, putting right what once went wrong.
Very cool.
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Animals, babies and mental patients could all see Al.
Anyone with "elevated alpha waves". This also included children, nuns, and at least one guy with similar patterns to Sam's (for the QL version of the Scrooge story).
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And there was an Evil Leaper called Alia, whose holographic guide person was called Zoey. They were from further in the future than the Quantum Leap project and could control leaps into specific people, as opposed to Sam's random jumps. They went through time wronging what once went right.
Don't think I ever saw that one.
I remember the triology where he visited the same peopl over a 20/30 year period
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The thing I liked about Quantum Leap was that it was a lot more cleverer than it seemed.
Stuff like's Sam's memories. He starts out with all these chunks missing from his mind, but as he leaps and things in the future change, he remembers more and more and the things he remembers start to change. Like his wife (Donna?). I think he starts out with her as the 'one that got away' then they're divorced, then they're married. And the same thing happens with Al a little too. He says things that seem like goofs, but can be tracked back to changes Sam has made while he was in or around past-Al.
And the physics of it were totally consistent throughout. Granted, they never mentioned much, but the things they did mention were fixed and unchanging.
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Animals, babies and mental patients could all see Al.
Electricity could futz with the link between him and Sam, screwing up Sam's separation from his host body's personality and occassionally switching Al into a host and Sam back to the Quantum Leap facility.
And there was an Evil Leaper called Alia, whose holographic guide person was called Zoey. They were from further in the future than the Quantum Leap project and could control leaps into specific people, as opposed to Sam's random jumps. They went through time wronging what once went right.
In the finale, Sam leaps into this bar on the day of his birth, but it's all screwy. He sees people leaping in and out, people being remembered and forgotten and they've all got names of people he's known. The bartender, Al, tries to explain things to him but it's pretty confusing and all open to interpretation. But eventually Sam seems to understand and leaps out, with the series closing: "Dr Beckett never returned home".
In an alternate ending, he makes one last leap to Al's first wife's house in the 70s while Al's still a POW in Vietnam - but he leaps as himself, not into someone else's body - and he tells her Al's still alive and to wait for him. This fixes Als entire life, erases about 7 failed marriages and he ends up happily married with about 9 kids. It also presumably erases the Quantum Leap project from history and leaves Sam leaping forever through time, putting right what once went wrong.
Very cool.
And there's supposedly a sequel planned.
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Yeah, for 2005 :doubt:
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well, maybe he leaped back to 2005...
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Just looked this up on Wikipedia. Cool idea for a series, I wonder if my video store has the DVDs of this.
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Ah Quantum Leap was class. 5 o'clock sky one, every weekday I'd be there.
Wasn't it revealed that in the last episode the whole 'random' side of the leaps was actually God's plan and that up till that point Sam had only been proving his worth for a greater responsibility? To become an angel or some such?
So essentially what an0n said.
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The ending was open to debate. Got a lot of stick at the time IIRC.
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...and now, maybe just now, people are starting to realize why Enterprise having time travelling aliens was even more cheesy than just the basic premise? ;)
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The end of Season 3 of Enterprise was actually quite good. The time-travelly stuff was vastly less stupid and made more sense, and everything went together well.
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The end of Season 3 of Enterprise was actually quite good. The time-travelly stuff was vastly less stupid and made more sense, and everything went together well.
:wtf: The end of Season 3 was beyond stupid. It took B&B about 3 minutes to ruin the finale of an otherwise excellent season.
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I assume you mean Season 4?
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No I mean season 3. (Haven't seen the end of season 4 yet).
The whole series had a great plotline about the Xindi which worked brilliantly and then in 3 minutes at the end of the episode we have the result of B&B's 5 minute brainstorming session on how to engineer a cliffhanger ending that had nothing to do with the whole rest of the episode but did have nazis and time travel in it.
It was just completely unnecessary and I was really glad when they got the Nazi episodes over and got back to the main plot in season 4.
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And the physics of it were totally consistent throughout. Granted, they never mentioned much, but the things they did mention were fixed and unchanging.
I was a huge QL fan, but... no.
At first nobody could see Sam's true form. Then children, the insane, animals, guys with funny hats, and basically whatever the plot required could see him.
And then there's the thing with his ability to leap "within his own lifetime". They made a huge deal out of that, repeating it in the opening sequence for almost every episode. But then in the last season they broke down and started doing "celebrity leaps". Sam is Elvis! Sam is Marilyn Monroe's chauffer! Sam is Lee Harvey Oswald! Yeesh.
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I thought the Marilyn Monroe and L H Oswald were pretty good. Not the best, but interesting.