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I thought they were grasping at straws when the brought in Sam/Al's opposite numbers.
The final few episodes were fantastic though- particularly the less than happy ending.
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While the idea of a rival leaper/organisation had it's potential, it wasn't fully explored and ended up pretty nonsensical. It wasn't like they were even trying to stop others from meddling with the timeline - in other words, being a force for maintaining the status quo; they were trying to make things worse by, I dunno, fucking around with a mentally-retarded kid. There are easier ways to screw up the world, I'd say. Something a little-less labour-intensive, you know? And maybe employing someone who actually enjoys being an evil-minded cunt, rather than forcing some easily-swayed-by-hot-Bakula-action dipsy girl to do their dirty work.
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They sort-of resolved things with the girl-leaper (sounds like a porno) in a subsequent episode where Sam and her were in some women's prison.
I cant recall how that one resolved though- the problem with those episodes was that having so many leapers in one story completely overshadowed any reason for their being there in the first place.
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I know that the series didn't wrap up with a happy ending, but did it really come out that Beckett was leaping for God?
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: They sort-of resolved things with the girl-leaper (sounds like a porno) in a subsequent episode where Sam and her were in some women's prison.
I cant recall how that one resolved though- the problem with those episodes was that having so many leapers in one story completely overshadowed any reason for their being there in the first place.
That was a two-parter, IIRC. After coincidentally meeting again on the same mission to screw up / fix up someone's life, Sam tries to break Alia from her captors by simul-leaping by... Hugging. They end up as prisoners in a women's prison. The bad guys leap Alia's former hologram into the Prison warden to find them, and ultimately Alia's self-sacrifice or something causes Time or Fate or God or whatever to leap her out. I was rather annoyed when Al was searching for her, and simply concluded "wherever she is, she's free".
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I did think the idea that Sam might accidentally leap with Alia while they tried to simul-leap was interesting though... of course they never did anything with it.
And in the end, it turned out that, whomever was actually behind Sam leaping, he was ultimately in control of it himself, only being forced to do it as long as he truly wanted to. And since he's the uberBoyscout, it turns out he wanted to do it forever.
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And Major Ryan, the guy was one of two guys who ended up poorly parrotting General Hague's lines when the latter got Leaped into Admiral Leyton.
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I did sort of like the fact that Sam got a chance to give Al the one thing he really wanted before continuing his journey (and presumably forgetting a whole bunch of stuff), even though it sort of screwed Al's girlfriend, Tina. Getting the same actress to play Al's first wife was a nice touch, both because of the continuity and the fact that she's wicked hot. The bit at the end with the leap effect on the photograph was kind of overkill, though.
Though I wonder about any paradox made by Sam giving Beth back to Al. The show detailed several times that Al helped Sam innumerable times in getting Project Quantum Leap off the ground, and that without Al, Sam would never have started in the first place. Likewise, it was Al's despondency about losing Beth that drove him to be an alcoholic shadow of a man, when Sam found him.
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I've wondered about that too. Also about the fact that Al knew the answers to so many of Sam's conundrums because of information he learned from all his ex-wives. If he was married to Beth all that time, Sam would've been in big trouble.
One also wonders how he managed to maintain his rank as an admiral being the drunken loser he apparently was.
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You know, I never quite got how he could keep leaping for all eternity. Isn't he eventually going to fix EVERYTHING?
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