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Will Sam Beckett Return Home? NBC Orders Quantum Leap Reboot Pilot

Al likely still had a eye for the ladies while married to Beth. It just means he didn't cheat on her because he was deeply in love with her and also having all daughters is something that is bound to change your attitudes towards women and sex. Don't forget. He didn't just stay with Beth but he also had this big family as well.

It is interesting how all of this has changed Sam's perception of Al. Is it like Back to the Future and Marty's outlook on his family where his family has changed but he still remembers how they use to be.
 
Jayson1 said:
Al likely still had a eye for the ladies while married to Beth. It just means he didn't cheat on her because he was deeply in love with her and also having all daughters is something that is bound to change your attitudes towards women and sex. Don't forget. He didn't just stay with Beth but he also had this big family as well.

It is interesting how all of this has changed Sam's perception of Al. Is it like Back to the Future and Marty's outlook on his family where his family has changed but he still remembers how they use to be.
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It isn't clear to me.... but did Sam lose contact with Al after the last aired episode? Maybe by that stage he had a sense of how to "fix" things without Al's help?
 
Shaka Zulu said:
The series was rerun on a religious cable TV channel here in Canada, Vision TV, briefly back in the 2000's, so make of that what you will.
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That channel also at one point in time showed British sitcoms which had nothing to do with religion. And really, a lot of Canadian cable channels have a bad habit of airing shows which have nothing to do with their theme. The Canadian Discovery Channel aired The X-Files, Canada's sci-fi channel has aired crime shows like Castle, Bones and Elementary while Canada's History Channel currently airs NCIS Los Angeles, SWAT and FBI Most Wanted.
 
The Wormhole said:
That channel also at one point in time showed British sitcoms which had nothing to do with religion. And really, a lot of Canadian cable channels have a bad habit of airing shows which have nothing to do with their theme. The Canadian Discovery Channel aired The X-Files, Canada's sci-fi channel has aired crime shows like Castle, Bones and Elementary while Canada's History Channel currently airs NCIS Los Angeles, SWAT and FBI Most Wanted.
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I thought vision tv's main claim to fame was the described audio being on as default for people with visual impairment (hence the name).
 
Mark_Nguyen said:
Yeah, I know that they made efforts to have Al appear as though he's standing in places even when he could/should be seated. There have been exceptions though - I'm positive that at least once he was in the back seat of a car while Sam was driving. In-universe, Al would be "standing" as usual, but in practice of course Dean Stockwell would be seated in the practical padded seats. I think it was "Goodbye, Norma Jean" where we actually see him in the back seat of an open-top car, from the outside, while Sam was driving Marylin? I'm too lazy to dig out my DVDs to check. :P

Mark
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Just rewatched this episode- during “Goodbye” opening credits, Al is in the back seat of a blue convertible and his posture is upright as though he’s standing, but his legs aren’t projecting beneath the car or anything. Under the circumstances, I think they were trying (with some success- it always worked for me!) to give the impression that he’s floating along in sync with Sam rather than sitting down.
 
Quantum Leap actually said God was controlling the leaps and that Sam was an angel.

God may have been a metaphor, but Christians don't under stand nuance.
 
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I kinda think this episode could have used one of those original Quantum Leap type 'bittersweet endings' you sometimes got in the original where Sam 'succeeds', but there's still a sad outcome.

Like Ben saves Carly and she reconnects with her sister, but she was actually in the early stages of an illness and passes away a year or two later and the ends up writing a grammy winning song in remembrance of her.
 
Actually in some forums the bartender became known as an entity called GFTW "God fate time whatever" and it kind of fits if you go with that idea, and I'm one of those adherents. Something pulled Sam off course on the very first leap attempt.
 
FreezeC77 said:
I kinda think this episode could have used one of those original Quantum Leap type 'bittersweet endings' you sometimes got in the original where Sam 'succeeds', but there's still a sad outcome.

Like Ben saves Carly and she reconnects with her sister, but she was actually in the early stages of an illness and passes away a year or two later and the ends up writing a grammy winning song in remembrance of her.
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I was wanting to know Jack and Carly end up together or not :)
 
Gingerbread Demon said:
Actually in some forums the bartender became known as an entity called GFTW "God fate time whatever" and it kind of fits if you go with that idea, and I'm one of those adherents. Something pulled Sam off course on the very first leap attempt.
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But didn't the finale reveal that Sam was really controlling his leaps all along? He just lost his memory so he didn't realize it, or else it was a subconscious thing that he didn't know he was doing.
 
Christopher said:
But didn't the finale reveal that Sam was really controlling his leaps all along? He just lost his memory so he didn't realize it, or else it was a subconscious thing that he didn't know he was doing.
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Yes the bartender mentions that because he also tells Sam that the leaps will be changing somehow but doesn't say more beyond that. When Al catches up to Sam in that final episode it's Al the mentions him being pulled off course, I mean assuming that the leaps have any kind of trajectory to start with because in all the episodes that was never mentioned at all before.
 
Does anyone find it weird how in all the discussion about Ben doing what he's doing because its to get to the future to save Allison they never ask "How does Ben know something happens to Allison in the future?" Not between Ben/Allison not between Allison/team...

You would think that would be something that someone would at least say "How do you think Ben knows something will happen to Allison? Did this other 'future' leaper tell him?"
 
FreezeC77 said:
Does anyone find it weird how in all the discussion about Ben doing what he's doing because its to get to the future to save Allison they never ask "How does Ben know something happens to Allison in the future?" Not between Ben/Allison not between Allison/team...

You would think that would be something that someone would at least say "How do you think Ben knows something will happen to Allison? Did this other 'future' leaper tell him?"
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It's not that weird. After all, there are plenty of ways to learn about future threats that will happen if nothing is done to stop them, like learning that someone currently has plans to hurt or kill someone in the future. A lot of dangers are known about in advance, like the Y2K bug (which we were smart enough to prevent before it happened) or climate change (not so much).

Not that I actually believe that's the case here, but knowing about future threats in advance is common enough to explain why the team hasn't realized that the question needs to be asked.
 
Christopher said:
But didn't the finale reveal that Sam was really controlling his leaps all along? He just lost his memory so he didn't realize it, or else it was a subconscious thing that he didn't know he was doing.
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He was not so much controlling his leaps as he was choosing to keep leaping as opposed to leaping home which he could do anytime he wanted. The only time he ever had any control was actually to help Al. First when he leaped back into 1945 to save his life before being killed and in the final episode he leaped as himself to see Beth and give Al the love of his life back.

IMO I think Sam might have been a chosen one of sorts of God. Someone who would have all the skills and heart to boot to want to help these people. Even the memory loss could be something chosen so as to make it easier to not leap home because he knew he would be tempted to be with his wife and child but the cost would be all those people he could help would go unhelped.
 
Jayson1 said:
He was not so much controlling his leaps as he was choosing to keep leaping as opposed to leaping home which he could do anytime he wanted. The only time he ever had any control was actually to help Al. First when he leaped back into 1945 to save his life before being killed and in the final episode he leaped as himself to see Beth and give Al the love of his life back.

IMO I think Sam might have been a chosen one of sorts of God. Someone who would have all the skills and heart to boot to want to help these people. Even the memory loss could be something chosen so as to make it easier to not leap home because he knew he would be tempted to be with his wife and child but the cost would be all those people he could help would go unhelped.
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It's bittersweet isn't it? I still feel bad that Sam never got home.

One thing did they have to keep the accelerator going after the final episode or was all that stuff shut down and Sam just leaps by himself without the machines helping, I mean within the universe of the show.
 
Well it might have been shutdown but it seems to have been easy to start back up since Sam when he leaped home went back into it and used it again to leap into Al to save him from being murdered. I do also sort of like the idea that Sam did leap home, if only briefly to basically see his wife and daughter and let them know why he is choosing not to leap home and to maybe move on with their lives.

Instead of making them live in this limbo of never knowing if they will see him again or not. Plus if we go with the idea of God being involved I think it means when Sam dies someday he and his family will be reunited someday in Heaven.
 
Gingerbread Demon said:
One thing did they have to keep the accelerator going after the final episode or was all that stuff shut down and Sam just leaps by himself without the machines helping, I mean within the universe of the show.
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Since the physics of leaping seem to be different this time (i.e. Sam's body leaped, but Ben's doesn't), I'd lean towards the latter.
 
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Just getting back to the OG show... Was Sam impatient to step in the machine or was that again a bit of outside influence?
 
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