Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished.
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr.
He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.
>Cool, now I can frick dudes without being outed.
His only guide on this journey is Al--an observer from his own time--who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear.
And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
>hoping each time that his next leap
Will be to a place and time, to the people and environment, to the location and items, to the politics and connections, to the pomp and circumstance, to the position and moment, to the site and second, to the organizations and property, to the buildings and groups he calls home.
Sam, Ziggy says you're a 30-something shut in who spends all his time posting on an internet message board. He says you will need to "clean it up", whatever that means.
Does Cinemaphile enjoy QL?
I used to watch it on comet during my lunch break (2nd shift) but it's only a 30 minute break so i only got to watch half the episode. Where is a good place to watch?
Peawiener, Roku, Prime, NBC.com
I downloaded this shit for my mother as she got to watching the reruns on TV every afternoon and wanted the complete series to see start to finish.
I watched the first episode out of curiosity and it was pretty fricking good.
Does the quality maintain or is it one of those shows that gets shitty, runs out of budget and ends with a whimper? (I think I read somewhere that it didn't get a real finale or something).
it maintains quality throughout but some episodes can be hit or miss since every episode is it's own unique story and tastes vary.
While it technically was canceled, the final episode is pretty fricking good finale (although some hate it). The finale is trippy and almost Lynchian. It's a great series if you liked the pilot.
The show got cancelled and it ends without explaining what happened to Sam Beckett (main character). kek
Also, they had the occasional woke and troon episodes (show was ahead of its time in the 90s). The normal episodes were entertaining and boomer nostalgic tho
>without explaining what happened
He chose to keep going.
He was based.
>The show got cancelled and it ends without explaining what happened to Sam Beckett (main character).
No, it got a proper ending. He meets "God" who was guiding the leaps who tells him he could go home at any time and he continues to keep leaping
The later seasons get a little silly. There's evil Leapers, Satan, and vampires. The final episode doesn't even spell Sam's last name right. It was going to continue with another season and Al was going to be a Leaper to find Sam.
I'm gonna leap back in time, leap into your body, and kill myself before posting this.
Evil Leapers RULE!
It tries to get mind-fricky towards the end in a weird sort of way. It didn't sit right with me.
I'm moronic?
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the reboot is garbage, original is kino
Did Scott Bakula ever comment on the reboot? I know he wanted to star in it. I don't know why they gave the role to some random asian guy nobody. Frick were they thinking
they wanted him to cameo and pop up occasionally maybe and he declined and wished them well
>Frick were they thinking?
They were thinking that they could change the world for the better by forcing a diversity hire down everyone's throats while subverting a popular IP from the past. As usual, they were wrong.
>I don't know why they gave the role to some random asian guy
yes you do
Sooooooo many eps were
>"Sam, this is 1954, you don't know how hard it was for women/blacks/gays"
only a few episodes like that, and it was 30 years ago
the new show is nearly every episode
>Ben this is 1998, you don't know how hard it was for women/blacks/gays/trannies
The past 30 years have been so boring and non-iconic that they had to bend the rules to make him actually travel back further than he was born. Like one episode he's in 1998 and another he's in 2010 and it looks exactly the same. One of the reasons the original series worked so well because the boomer generation grew up in a rapidly changing era.
ITT
it's creepy how they cast someone who looks like Epstein...like ick, why would I want to even touch this
what amazes me about this show (and a lot of older shows) is the main casts are so small. Like Quantum Leap was Sam and Al that's it. modern shows have these huge fricking casts with 6-10 main characters. Can you imagine a show being made today with just 2 recurring actors? everything about Hollywood has just become soo fricking bloated from top to bottom, casts, writers, execs, just everything is soo bloated now. 2 minutes used to be enough time for the entire credits now for some of the big blockbusters it's 20 fricking minutes of credits.
this show was all about the guest actors, that's how Bellasario sold it to the network
Larger casts can work if a show has enough episodes to flesh them out. But instead of some 25 episodes a season with character specific episodes you have now 12 where you have to somehow rush the whole story trough leaving no time for the actual characters of said story to define.
Most shows produced and created by Donald P. Bellisario are like that. That includes Magnum P.I, JAG, and NCIS.
Small cast, guest stars, military as a plot device, and the Russian language being spoken at some point. I think Quantum Leap lacked the latter, but Sam was working for the US Navy (and Al was a Rear Admiral).
How do you get information from this?
telepathically
I had always assumed there was a tiny screen we were too far away to read, like the tricorders on tng
huh
You play with it like a Lego toy and eventually the autism will speak to you.
Al is a hologram, or a projection into Sam's head or some shit. They can project whatever the frick they like. In reality he's probably holding a tablet full of info they don't want Sam to see, which is why Al is even there and Ziggy isn't just communicating directly with Sam.
I don't fricking know, I haven't watched the show since I was like 8.
What? You mean your legos don't talk to you?
Maybe he talks to Ziggy through it and Ziggy responds though a speaker that Al can hear, but Sam can't.
bop it
I loved the theme tune when I was a kid.
Holy shit Donald Bellisario is Troian Bellisario’s (from pretty little liars) dad lmao I had no idea.
she was in a QL when she was a little girl
He never got home.
kek, this shit still kills me years later every time i see it
Bad case of jumping packing a hardon for Sam there
No way is she 12.
How much did he get to sleep in the original? That is one thing the reboot pointed out that I never figured out myself is that if he is constantly leaping from body to body in emergencies, then he really never gets to sleep.
Since it's just his spirit leaping it's not really an issue. He wouldn't feel tired unless the body felt tired, but he would've slept whenever the leap lasted more than a day.
That doesn't answer the question, you are just explaining how the reboot coped with the point.
Oh how much sleep? Leaps can be really short or last quite a while. How much physical sleep? Probably about average. If he did a few short ones in succession he probably would go for a while without physically sleeping, but again it doesn't matter.
Just say you haven't watched the series since realizing the point about sleeping just like me since its obviously you have no idea what the actual answer is and you are trying to insert a bunch of hypothetical when the show already ran its course and you just have to figure it out by watching the show while keeping track.
This is the most logically incomprehensible cluster of words I have ever read.
I am not surprised you lack reading comprehension and can't figure out what words mean.
>Just say you haven't watched the series since realizing the point about sleeping just like me since its obviously you have no idea what the actual answer is and you are trying to insert a bunch of hypothetical when the show already ran its course and you just have to figure it out by watching the show while keeping track.
That's what you posted. Insane, run-on sentence rambling without a scrap of punctuation. You really should try to articulate yourself more carefully.
Its okay if you don't know, you don't need to respond just to highlight your own ignorance and if you do, you can simply say you don't know instead of providing a moronic answer that makes your appear stupider than you need to.
>doubling down
Now you're just embarrassing yourself.
no,
is right, i even had to come into this thread that i wouldn't normally give a shit about since i have no idea what quantum leap is to tell you this. rewrite the sentence or something it is pure nonsense, genuinely so nonsensical that i had to come into this gay thread
It was part of an ongoing conversation, it didn't make sense to you because you didn't read the entire reply chain ie bad reading comprehension.
why would you think i wouldn't read the conversation for context you moron?
Because you clearly don't understand the context.
anon just rewrite the sentence
If you could be helpful at all in answering the question, you would just have responded to one of the earlier posts in the reply chain instead of the one where I was berating someone for being moronic and giving moronic answers.
there you go again you wobbly headed homosexual. rewrite the sentence
Suck my balls, go to an earlier reply and if you have anything productive to actually add, you will add it, otherwise, you are clearly just seething at being berated for giving moronic hypotheticals instead of an actual answer based on the facts of the show.
That's not how sentences work, you literal ESL mongoloid.
Yes it is, reading comprehension doesn't have to come from a single sentence, you may have to read a paragraph or an entire reply chain or thread to get all the context.
>reading comprehension
Black person I know people with phds in hieroglyphics that couldnt decipher that buttdump you call a post
Of course, because its not written in hieroglyphs you absolute moron, take a dyslexia test if you you only see glyphs.
>Just say you haven't watched the series since realizing the point about sleeping just like me since its obviously you have no idea what the actual answer is and you are trying to insert a bunch of hypothetical when the show already ran its course and you just have to figure it out by watching the show while keeping track.
Maybe a comma or 2 would help. You can’t really critique someones reading comprehension when you can’t even follow basic rules of writing.
Probably. I don't care, you obviously can't be helpful in your state of moronation.
Talking about your illiteracy and inability to parse sentences based on a larger context.
I don't understand why you're committed to continually embarrassing yourself further instead of just swallowing your resentment and rewriting your obviously insane sentence.
You aren't "proving" that the batshit moronic nonsense you wrote is any kind of logical English sentence by shitposting even harder.
this is that fricking sister being weighed by water doctor shit all over again
>that episode where Al was a POW in Vietnam and he altered the timeline to delay his own rescue so Sam could save his brother
Al's storyline is incredibly sad and is why the ending had me in tears.
The show creators pulling that off out of nowhere alone makes it a GOTY series for me
>started watching columbo and quantum leap this past week
>now seeing threads appear out of nowhere
>now seeing the shows mentioned outside of Cinemaphile
You are not the main character, but you could be my sidekick
I bet you aren't watching McCloud though. You'll never see a McCloud thread on Cinemaphile, I guarantee it.
>Just say you haven't watched the series since realizing the point about sleeping just like me since its obviously you have no idea what the actual answer is and you are trying to insert a bunch of hypothetical when the show already ran its course and you just have to figure it out by watching the show while keeping track.
This is astounding unparsable garbage. True schizophrenia and/or being a brown person ESL.
read his replies to me
what the frick are you talking about
He'sba moronic autist who specifically wants to know how long he sleeps, for some reason.
The logical explanation provided - that he sleeps when the body sleeps and doesn't feel fatigue unless the body does as its his spirit doing the leaps - isn't enough for him, for some reason.
There is literally no point arguing with him because he is a moronic, mentally ill psycho.
Why is there shitposting in a fricking QL thread
Too bad a 'Sliders' crossover episode wasn't possible.