I'm pretty sure it's not in the first season, but I love Scott Bakula's performance of Imagine. Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
That was in one of the season openers (don't remember which season) when he jumped into his own teenage body.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
June 8th? Thanks!
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
I'd already saved up for Buffy season 6, Simpsons season 4, and M*A*S*H season 6. Now I've got another one. I'm going broke!
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
though season one is a very short season...I think it was a midseason replacement. I am really waiting for season two to come out...who knows when that will be.
There are a ton of off air air shows that they should release DVDs for...Heck, I am still waiting for the adventures of Lois and Clark
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
Gooshie!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Okay, this is an answered friggin' prayer. It has always been an absolute SIN that this show was not available in any form.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
My mother and I had a long standing argument about the final episode.
*Spoilers*
just in case.
My mother felt really bad for Sam that he never returned home, and I did as well, but only to a certain point. Because i was under the impression that whether he consciously knew it or not, he didn't choose to go home. He cared about his work and helping people more than anything, and continued to do it till he couldn't anymore. My mother was under the impression that he really wanted to go home but couldn't.
I still strongly believe my view of it. But i'm curious if anyone else saw it the other way.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
I've always held the same opinion as your mother, Strider. Sam had a wife. I can't imagine that he wouldn't want to return to her even though I'm sure he did care a lot about his work. But it's all open to interpretation, I suppose, since "they" didn't offer any explanation.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Well, they way I always looked at it, Al the bartender told Sam that he could go home whenever he wanted to, but that he should do one last thing first. And Sam went back and helped out Al the one time he refused to do something that wasn't vital to his mission, and in doing so realized how much he loved helping people, and what his helping others meant, and decided to continue on helping those people.
Atleast that was my take on it. Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
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The last episode works for me only if I completely ignore the final sentence. It's far too final for a satisifying close, it doesn't leave wiggle room at all and condemns Sam to wander forever without the possibility of reprieve or even a vacation.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
He must want to go home because they said that at the end of every show opener. You know, that female voiceover on the verge of tears.
I missed the final because that was when we were stationed overseas. But I remember the one where he came back as his younger self.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I haven't seen all the episodes or even in order...but the main story-arc was Scott and Ziggy fighting against that evil organization and their own quantum computer trying to change history for the worse? Lotho or something?
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
I think you mean Sam and Al, Telperion. Ziggy was just the dude back at the mountain headquarters in the future who looked up stuff and fixed the computer and power problems. Though I guess he was fighting in his own way. You also said "Scott," which I assume just means Scott Bakula, the guy who played Sam Beckett.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I thought Ziggy was the name of the A.I. computer back in the future held in a quantum state so that it could register history changes... and that Al accessed Ziggy through his controler? And yes, I mean Sam.
So he was Leaping around...they didn't know why, or how to get him back...but Ziggy kept Leaping him to times and places where history had been tampered with. Eventually they discover a secret evil organization that is trying to sabotage history. Sam can only see their agents when he touches them. Did they ever find out what this evil organization is?? How did the show end? I never saw the finale..
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Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
oh boy.
it almost sounds like you have Quantum Leap and another show mushed up --- but what i think is really going on is you saw the one episode where Sam finds another "leaper" like himself, who is under the employ of an organization much like the one you described...the organization isn't supposed to be messing up *everything* in the past though, and once they lose their Leaper i don't know if they even continued to operate...
Lia or something the Leaper's name is...
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
Ziggie is the AI. The evil leaper's name was Alia, her hologram was Zoey, and their AI was called Lothos.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Yah... and I remember Alia's boss became the Leaper when Alia rebelled against them... and the new hologram guy said that Lothos had always wanted her boss as the agent from the beginning anyway... scary!
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
that's it -- i think that was a 2-parter...but i don't know if that plot-line was supposed to be so all-show-encompassing, as if the Lothos-headed corporation had messed up everything that Sam had fixed on the show. maybe!
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
quote:but Ziggy kept Leaping him to times and places where history had been tampered with.
Ziggy wasn't the one leaping him. That was God, Fate or somebody unknown.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Glad to see I'm not the only L&C fan around here, Lupus. (Nobody throw things, I know there's another one or two of you around here.)
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