How was it even possible that only Sam could see and hear Al’s hologram? How did that hologram travel in time? Was Al the Bartender God? Or was he Sam? WAS SAM HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH HIMSELF? Would we find out what the “unknown force” that was driving him was? NO (It was probably Sam). Would Sam ever find out more about his life before he began leaping? NO. Would we ever find out who really developed the Quantum Leap accelerator? NO! (But we were to assume that Sam did it himself). There was just too much evil left in the world. In the end, despite the fact that the premise of the show asked when Sam would leap back home, he decided never to stop leaping, to forever put right what was wrong. Sam decided to leap back to the Vietnam era to tell Beth’s ex-wife to wait for him (originally, Al was MIA, and when he returned, his wife had shacked up with another man), basically changing the entire timeline because Al would end up with Beth and have four kids, and how would he have enough time to DEVOTE HIS LIFE TO HELPING SAM LEAP AROUND? It felt like something really big was happening, that Sam would have a conversation with Al the bartender (a man we’d seen in the pilot episode) that would answer all the questions we had about the show, about Sam Beckett, about why he was leaping, ABOUT THE COSMOS. In that bar, he mostly met people with whom he’d met in his travels over the years, only they shared the names of the people who helped him leap around: Ziggy, Gushy, Al. He’s leaped into his own body (nevermind that his body at the time was a baby). He looked into the mirror and for the first time, he saw himself. Here’s a quick refresher: Sam leaps into a bar in 1953, on the day of his birthday. I don’t know how true that is, but given the way things were going in that final season - Sam began leaping into the bodies of famous people and/or famous adjacent people and never forget the Evil Leapers (NEVER FORGET) - I wouldn’t put it past Bellisario to bring in space aliens.īut that didn’t happen, and what we were left with after five fantastic seasons of sci-fi television (a rarity back in the 90s) was complete nonsense. Sam Beckett was going to leap into the distant future, and that Al was also going to become a leaper and chase down Sam in the future. Hell, it was so rushed together that they didn’t even spell the main character’s name correctly in this subtitle (Beckett has two Ts):īut the truth, according to some suggestions, is that the original intended episode wasn’t much better, that the god-like being in that episode was supposed to an alien, that Dr. The last episode of Quantum Leap that aired - “Mirror Image – August 8, 1953” - wasn’t designed as a series finale, but a season finale that Bellisario took and just tacked some extra crap on to give viewers a sense of closure. At least on shows like Lost and Dexter that took a crap on their viewers in the end, Bellisario wasn’t working toward a finale. I mean, look: It’s not exactly show creator Donald Bellisario’s fault. Quantum Leap taught me how to cope with the kind of devastation only a years’ long obsession with a television show that craps out in the end can deliver. I like to think that the Quantum Leap finale prepared me for the disappointing Seinfeld finale, and that if I had not known that crushing disappointment, the Lost finale would’ve sent me into a weeks’ long funk of depression. It’s been 21 years since Quantum Leap went off the air, and I still think about it more than I probably should.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |