Or, maybe they're locked onto the vitals of the person Ben has leaped into?
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And Sam once leaped in as a blind concert pianist, but he could still see.
Would still need extra abilities for Ziggy to monitor them back through time or a person in the waiting room
Have you seen the PQL 2 tech specs?Would still need extra abilities for Ziggy to monitor them back through time or a person in the waiting room
Janis never does. I think she’s blocked my number
So I gave this a try, and I binged it. I liked it.
As for the Dottie reveal...
This also made me wonder about all of the people Sam leaped into. They all would have the dreams Magic and Dottie had been having. Same goes for the folks Ben has leaped into so far. I also wonder about what if some of the leaps might erase the progress from previous leaps, especially the ones where Sam leaped into someone who knows someone else he had leaped into previously (I believe it happened several times, as it has been a while since I did a rewatch).
What if something Sam/Ben did in a leap far in the past, that prevents the events of a previous leap they did in a more recent period?
I know....temporal mechanics and headaches.
As for the Dottie reveal...
I was kinda hoping it was Sam Beckett. but Ian? This Ian clearly came from a different time line where they waited, and Allison was the one who leaped while Ben went into the imaging chamber before something happened that made Ian start leaping (not really someone I'd expect to decide and start leaping under normal circumstances as Ian's more of a background player)
This also made me wonder about all of the people Sam leaped into. They all would have the dreams Magic and Dottie had been having. Same goes for the folks Ben has leaped into so far. I also wonder about what if some of the leaps might erase the progress from previous leaps, especially the ones where Sam leaped into someone who knows someone else he had leaped into previously (I believe it happened several times, as it has been a while since I did a rewatch).
What if something Sam/Ben did in a leap far in the past, that prevents the events of a previous leap they did in a more recent period?
I know....temporal mechanics and headaches.
Problem is leaping was a different process with Sam because it was his body going through time so he wasn't really leaping literally in their bodies. I mean they did have those moments were his memories fused with the person he leaped into like Lee Harvey Oswald and this cop once and he was having the cops childhood memories of seeing his mom being dead. But I don't think their would be after effects with memories of Sam with most of the people who leaped into.
A for screwing up past leaps I think that makes sense but in reality you would think that would happen with every leap. The show totally ignored the ole, don't step on butterflies in the past logic when it comes to the rules you got to follow in time travel.
Considering the ..."rules" of the original Quantum Leap, I personally wouldn't assume two examples equals it being the same for everyone. For my money, people who recall the face of the person who leaped into them is a rare occurrence until the show claims otherwise.
Would still need extra abilities for Ziggy to monitor them back through time or a person in the waiting room
I begun to think that "Time Monitoring" is a technology that was already perfected before project Quantum Leap started, since we saw Al looking for Sam in eras/time zones where Sam just wasn't.
Isn't it highly unlikely that all time travel technology was invented at the same time by one person in a matter of months? When every other piece of "complex" tech was worked on over the point of decades by many different people.
For some reason, "Let Them Play" has been locked on NBC.com for more than a week. It's the only episode that's been locked, and I'm wonder if that has something to do with its subject matter. I hope NBC isn't that cowardly. Anyway, if it's not just this episode and the whole series is locked going forward, I may just have to go ahead and subscribe to Peacock (which would let me watch some other things that seem interesting, like Poker Face). For now, though, I finally figured out that I could sign up for three free passes to watch locked episodes, so I went ahead and did that for this episode.
This was a good one, nice and heartfelt and very sensitive to the issues. It's a bit preachy, but in the current climate, it needs to be. It handled things pretty well, although I'm unclear on exactly what Ben did to change the outcome of Gia's running away. It seems it was the group therapy counselor who convinced her to stay, not Ben. Ben remembered to contact her, but it was established that Gia's mother often took her to those groups, so she should've known about the counselor too.
My one issue is that I had a hard time buying that Gia's portrayer Josielyn Aguilera was only 17. Also, she looked really familiar to me, but IMDb says this is the first thing I've ever seen her in. I guess she just bears an uncanny resemblance to someone else.
Interesting to get confirmation that the Project staff experiences memory changes in real time with the leaper's actions, while the hologram liaison remembers the original history, just like in the Ashley McConnell novel tie-ins to the original series. The show itself never addressed that as far as I recall. You'd think they'd be more existentially freaked out about their memories constantly changing without their knowledge.
This was a good one, nice and heartfelt and very sensitive to the issues. It's a bit preachy, but in the current climate, it needs to be. It handled things pretty well, although I'm unclear on exactly what Ben did to change the outcome of Gia's running away. It seems it was the group therapy counselor who convinced her to stay, not Ben. Ben remembered to contact her, but it was established that Gia's mother often took her to those groups, so she should've known about the counselor too.
My one issue is that I had a hard time buying that Gia's portrayer Josielyn Aguilera was only 17. Also, she looked really familiar to me, but IMDb says this is the first thing I've ever seen her in. I guess she just bears an uncanny resemblance to someone else.
Interesting to get confirmation that the Project staff experiences memory changes in real time with the leaper's actions, while the hologram liaison remembers the original history, just like in the Ashley McConnell novel tie-ins to the original series. The show itself never addressed that as far as I recall. You'd think they'd be more existentially freaked out about their memories constantly changing without their knowledge.
Pretty big leap of logic there, buddy. You should probably ask first about others' experiences before brining up a charge of transphobia (like you did of ableism with Night Court).
I was able to watch the episode no problem the next day on Peacock, which is the real issue. NBC/Comcast wants to really push their streaming service, and make it more used than people would "naturally" do. If people are like me, we don't think of it on the same level as a Netflix or HBO MAX.... that it almost feels like a side benefit. But NBC wants to prop it up, so On the Xfinity menu for popular Streaming apps, Peacock is always, first followed by "truly" popular services like DisneyPlus, Netflix, and down the line.
For those of us who subscribe to Xfinity, Peacock is there, and is the default for On Demand means for NBC shows. (As opposed to a "general" on Demand for other network's shows, which disappear from Comcast availability within a few weeks or months).
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This episode was so good. For me everything is coming together so well, and it's almost unfair to compare it to the original QL. This show has its own rhythm, it's own style, and lots of empathy, which is what I wanted from it, because if your whole mission is to set right what once went wrong, then that means really getting into the humanity of these characters, and I think they're doing a terrific job.
That said, regarding the landlord:
That said, regarding the landlord:
Nice to see Ben really enjoying the leap, and getting some personal catharsis from the shared immigrant-family experience. And nice to see the kind of family drama episode that feels true to the spirit of the original, where the stakes are more personal and relationship-based than life-and-death or action-driven (aside from the token bit about trying to save the mother from a heart attack). I still wish they'd stop having Ziggy always figure out the purpose of the leap right off the bat. It takes away the mystery of finding out, and the suspense of not knowing if they're working toward the right goal.
Also interesting how the team coped with the Ian revelation. Nobody's suspicious of them because of what they might do in the future; everyone just wants to work with Ian to understand why their future self would do that. And it gives us our first chance to see Ian out of the office and learn something about their personal life.
I have no idea what that's a reference to.
Also interesting how the team coped with the Ian revelation. Nobody's suspicious of them because of what they might do in the future; everyone just wants to work with Ian to understand why their future self would do that. And it gives us our first chance to see Ian out of the office and learn something about their personal life.
That said, regarding the landlord:
I have no idea what that's a reference to.
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It's a woman calling up Mao Zedong because she's witnessing a landlord landlording.
During the land reform movement in China, Mao outlawed the feudal landlording system. At the time, most feudal landlords had their own militias, and fought back, often resulting in the deaths of said landlords. Millions of peasant farmers actually got to live on their own piece of land without having to pay fealty to the local lord.
History lesson aside, though, it's just a joke.
On a smartphone?
I took Chinese history in college, but I'm not as knowledgeable about Internet memes. There's a meme about calling Mao?
I thought so too, but I looked her up and apparently I've never seen her in anything. I guess she just resembles someone else that we know.
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*points to the meme about Mao*
This is where you go "hm, something I didn't know," and move on from the soft power flex of saying you took Chinese history in college as a riposte to a meme.
Probably true that it should bother the staff more, knowing that they're constantly overwriting themselves, but unless something drastic changes and Allison mentions it to them, they'd never know any differently either, so wouldn't be a huge issue.
All of the bigger issues would be with Allison. She's getting further and further from her 'home' universe with every leap, and can't ever get back. She's remembering a history that's changing by the moment, so knows less and less as time goes on. After a point, should have fewer and fewer references, barely even getting the joke when Ben says something about the 80s or whatever because what she remembers looks nothing like what Ben is currently seeing. Become pretty dependent on Ziggy for knowledge about much of anything, really. I know it's a IRL casting issue, but 'reality' would probably be having the PQL team changing up every now and then. Different versions of them, or a totally new person popping up occasionally in place of someone she knew. Maybe the changes are super tiny, but which one of them eventually intersects with the life of someone on the team and they make a different decision? That Ian knew about the Gia stuff and was impacted by it (and it now never happened, or was a totally different even) could have sent them off of the team right there. Allison should be freaking out more every time she steps out of the imaging chamber...
Separate comment, but also agree with seemingly major issues with the random order of the timeline changes. Changing something in 1995 seems pointless if you then change something in 1950 that could have impacts on that later event. May have not have even happened, or way differently, etc. Show doesn't want to commit to having episodes air linearly, but short of having another God with a Master Plan reveal (or at least hint), hard to imagine the level of predictive supercomputing (more than Ziggy) it would take to do things in a random order and hope you don't butterfly effect the entire thing into oblivion.
Like the JFK episode in the original show, where they started messing with a major event. Believe he died either way, but Jackie also died in the original timeline? Who knows what directions that drives the course of events? If you were Sam and were fixing things in 1970 last week, and now this week you're changing things around a Presidential assassination, the 1970 stuff may already be moot...
Like the JFK episode in the original show, where they started messing with a major event. Believe he died either way, but Jackie also died in the original timeline? Who knows what directions that drives the course of events? If you were Sam and were fixing things in 1970 last week, and now this week you're changing things around a Presidential assassination, the 1970 stuff may already be moot...