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Terry Farrell actually does a nude scene of sorts in that ep. Now, I don't know if it's actually her or a body double. But when Sam first leaps in, she walks up to him on the beach in the nude. The camera is blurry in just the right places.
I thought the last episode was confusing as hell. They managed to contradict a bunch of details about leaping. But they had been doing that all along. But I did like the ep. Kinda sad, but good.
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"They managed to contradict a bunch of details about leaping."
Out of curiosity, what were they? I started watching it quite late, and quite irregularly, so I'm not an expert.
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There was always the contradiction about whether or not Al could see Sam leap. They had fairly clearly decided that he could, but then in the finale he said that he didn't know what it looked like.
There was also the controversy as to whether Al saw Sam as himself or as the person he was supposed to be. There were episodes where he clearly saw Sam as the person he leaped into, but then there were others where he seemed to see just Sam.
I'm not sure if they touched on that last one in the finale because he didn't leap into anyone.
And we never really found out where or when Sam was in the finale. They ended up finding him on the day of his birth, but how could all the people from his previous leaps actually have been there. There was something hinky going on but they never explained it. Getting Susan Diol back to play Al's first wife was a nice touch though.
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My favorite is when Sam and Al switched places. Though I don't know if he leaped into his own body or Al's.
Another contridiction is that in the opening credits they say he vanished, yet his body still exists in the present. Only soul traveled back in time.
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Also, i always assumed Al knew what Sam's 'host' was because they would leap into the waiting room. Weather or not Al sees the true sam in the waiting room or in the holochamber is up for debate.
In the waiting room, a person looks into the reflective bench and sees sam, and sam looks into a mirror and sees that person. On second thought, i belive that al sees the true sam thanks to holographic technology.
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Damn, why does somebody always beat me to the point I'm going to make?
The people in the waiting room always saw sam, like Dr. Ruth and Lee Harvey Oswald.
And I haven't seen every episode, only a few and many a long time ago. But the one where they switch places and were Sam leaps into Al were the best I've seen.
Didn't they also reveal that his leaping was controlled by a higher power which ahd always been speculated?
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"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished .... He woke 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. 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."
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"Theorizing that one could travel to Neptune and back within six minutes, Captain Jonathan Archer stepped into the Transporter Pad and vanished .... He woke to find himself trapped in the past before any other Trek series, facing canon facts that were not his own. His only guide on this journey is T'Pol, a Vulcan observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a young woman. And so Captain Archer finds himself transporting from planet to planet, striving to screw up Trek continuity and hoping each time that his next transport will be the transport home."
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To futher muddy the issue, you had the "evil leaper" eps (two I think?) which had a girl forced by some organisation (including a female hologram mentor, bit of an Anne Robinson character) actually forcing her to leap in and make things worse. . . Did they ever explain that?
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I don't think so. Basically I think it was suppose to be good vs evil. Sam was being leaped around by God to do good. While what's-her-name was being leaped by Satan to do evil.
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