Also finished Quantum Leap

I think that technically he swapped the bodies..?

 

Still doesn't quite explain the pregnancy episode, best not to think about it.

 

It absolutely does happen. Al brings it over, and lets go of the sheet music for a moment. It disappears, and Sam prompts him to keep touching it so that he can see it.

 

Sam is basically a modern day Doc Savage, isn't he? Strong, smart, a great musician, reasonably popular with the ladies, and even has an inner circle of sidekicks with nicknames (Al, Gushie, Ziggy, Tina, etc.).

In fact, IIRC, the only things Sam can't do are the same things Doc Savage couldn't do: draw/paint, cook, and imitate a woman's voice.

 

They're both polymaths, fo sho.

 

Yes, he does read a box. And he gets caught.

 

The 'evil leaper' stuff was pure nonsense. The writers were trying to do something different, but nothing was really thought through. So there are these people, maybe from the future (but that was never made clear), who also have leaping technology (but it's never made clear how they got it), who are taking orders from an 'evil' version of Ziggy named Lothos (whose agenda was never made clear), and if the leaper didn't do what Lothos wanted, Lothos would torture them (again, I'm not sure what the reasoning was behind that, since we never actually saw Lothos or was told how an artificial intelligence could torture someone), and it was also never made clear just what the evil leaper was doing or how it affected anything. And the evil leaper was just a girl who wasn't actually evil, but her two companions were total jerks because...they're 'evil.' I watched the show first-run and remembered always thinking, "Are they ever going to explain any of this?" But like Manifest, they were just making it up as they went along and it went nowhere.

 

While it's not properly thought through, the initial idea is pretty clear: they are from a timeline which is being averted by Sam's actions.

 

That was not at all clear. The only agenda they seemed to have was to screw up the timeline, for no particularly clear intent.

 

Don't remind me. I had high hopes for this show when it started but it got disappointing. Everything became a calling.
Did they wrap this up yet or explain anything in a meaningful way?

 

Well if you think about it, Sam also had to fix things for no particular reason (except for some vaguely superior being)

 

Sam's working for God, maybe the evil leapers were...the opposite?

(hey, the devil actually appeared on the show, and berated Sam for "putting right what [he] made wrong", so having Lothos and its ilk actually working for him wouldn't be too much of a stretch...)

 

I must have missed that episode which season, and episode?
So God and the Devil need technology to do this stuff, I thought they were all powerful /rant

 

The Halloween episode from the third season.

 

I might have passed over that one in my rewatch..... I skipped a few episodes.

 

The Boogeyman. But much of that episode, including the appearance of the Devil, seems not to have happened.

 

I see no reason to assume it didn't.

 

God or time or fate...all personified by a bartender who looked like Jack Dalton.

What does God need with a time machine?

 

I see the plot of the next Star Trek movie