NPH and Jason Priestly, eh? Eeeeeenteresting.

I say this with vast amounts of love in my heart for NPH: Looking Smug is about 95% of his professional life.

Never seen the show, this is actually the second time I've ever heard about it. Is it any good? Never seen too many sci fi shows, x files was winding down when I was getting old enough to understand it. I enjoyed the first season of warehouse 13 on netflix, but that's really as far as I've gotten into tv science fiction. I guess I enjoy traditional science fiction in the truest sense of the phrase, fictional stories based in science. What do you guys think? Watch it or check out that joss whedon show everyone wont stop talking about? (yes I am aware i am living under a rock from the last decade.)

duffblue: Never seen the show, this is actually the second time I've ever heard about it. Is it any good? Never seen too many sci fi shows, x files was winding down when I was getting old enough to understand it. I enjoyed the first season of warehouse 13 on netflix, but that's really as far as I've gotten into tv science fiction. I guess I enjoy traditional science fiction in the truest sense of the phrase, fictional stories based in science. What do you guys think? Watch it or check out that joss whedon show everyone wont stop talking about? (yes I am aware i am living under a rock from the last decade.)

Firefly? Yes, you should watch it. The Star Treks - surely you've watched those??

duffblue: Never seen the show, this is actually the second time I've ever heard about it. Is it any good? Never seen too many sci fi shows, x files was winding down when I was getting old enough to understand it. I enjoyed the first season of warehouse 13 on netflix, but that's really as far as I've gotten into tv science fiction. I guess I enjoy traditional science fiction in the truest sense of the phrase, fictional stories based in science. What do you guys think? Watch it or check out that joss whedon show everyone wont stop talking about? (yes I am aware i am living under a rock from the last decade.)

I watched it when I was a kid and enjoyed the heck out of it. Recently I went back and watched the pilot and it looked incredibly cheesy. Apparently everything in the future looks the same, but with more flashing lights. You just can't go back again, I guess.

You can't leap till you get a greenlight.

How can you tell the costumes apart from the 1993 regalia?

Also, CSB: A friend of mine from college loved the show when she was a little girl, and wrote a letter to Scott Bakula. She got a handwritten letter back from him. Cool.

So they contracted with Vivid to bring in a different demographic?

I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. Also I think this story could be made today, with Scott and Dean at their present ages, and be even more awesome.

And by the way, if anybody from the copyright holder (or anybody who knows somebody...) happens to be reading: I disclaim all rights in this idea. Use if freely. I'd far rather see this made than get paid (although a "from an idea by..." credit would be nice.)


[fade to black]
Burn in: Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.
[crossfade to]
Burn in: ...Until today

Open on Sam, emerging from a leap. He is in an anonymous office bathroom, could be anywhere in America, any time from the 1980s to the present day. POV over his shoulder, he looks into a mirror and sees... himself, as he looked at the beginning of the project.

Sam: Oh, Boy!

[Titles]

The story then unfolds: after many years of leaping, Sam has somehow leaped into his own body. It is 1999 [the "present day" of the project in the original series], the exact day before the experiment that launched his first leap. And Sam has just 24 hours to decide: does he take the leap or not? If he does leap, he may never get home. This may be his one and only chance to break out. But if he doesn't leap, does he erase all the good he has ever done? He has no idea... and no help (at first).

Back in his own timeline, a long-retired Al snoozes in a chair. The QL project was shut down years ago. They had lost contact with Sam, and everybody had assumed he was lost in time. The one exception: Al never gave up hope, and even though the project is mothballed, he still has the comm device gathering dust on his desk. And after all these years it blinks into life, and starts bleeping, waking Al.

So now Al, with the help of a grown-up Sammy Jo, tries to revive Ziggy, contact Sam, and figure out the consequences of his decision. But the closer they get to the choice to leap or not, the more erratic and unhelpful Ziggy becomes: instead of converging, her predictions are bouncing wildly, as every choice Sam makes seems to involve terrible paradoxes...

czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. Also I think this story could be made today, with Scott and Dean at their present ages, and be even more awesome.

And by the way, if anybody from the copyright holder (or anybody who knows somebody...) happens to be reading: I disclaim all rights in this idea. Use if freely. I'd far rather see this made than get paid (although a "from an idea by..." credit would be nice.)


[fade to black]
Burn in: Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.
[crossfade to]
Burn in: ...Until today

Open on Sam, emerging from a leap. He is in an anonymous office bathroom, could be anywhere in America, any time from the 1980s to the present day. POV over his shoulder, he looks into a mirror and sees... himself, as he looked at the beginning of the project.

Sam: Oh, Boy!

[Titles]

The story then unfolds: after many years of leaping, Sam has somehow leaped into his own body. It is 1999 [the "present day" of the project in the original series], the exact day before the experiment that launched his first leap. And Sam has just 24 hours to decide: does he take the leap or not? If he does leap, he may never get home. This may be his one and only chance to break out. But if he doesn't leap, does he erase all the good he has ever done? He has no idea... and no help (at first).

Back in his own timeline, a long-retired Al snoozes in a chair. The QL project was shut down years ago. They had lost contact with Sam, and everybody had assumed he was lost in time. The one exception: Al never gave up hope, and even though the project is mothballed, he still has the comm device gathering dust on his desk. And after all these years it blinks into life, and starts bleeping, waking Al.

So now Al, with the help of a grown-up Sammy Jo, tries to revive Ziggy, contact Sam, and figure out the consequences of his decision. But the closer they get to the choice to leap ...

Well don't stop now, what happens next!?!?!?

Hamster On A Wheel: duffblue: Never seen the show, this is actually the second time I've ever heard about it. Is it any good? Never seen too many sci fi shows, x files was winding down when I was getting old enough to understand it. I enjoyed the first season of warehouse 13 on netflix, but that's really as far as I've gotten into tv science fiction. I guess I enjoy traditional science fiction in the truest sense of the phrase, fictional stories based in science. What do you guys think? Watch it or check out that joss whedon show everyone wont stop talking about? (yes I am aware i am living under a rock from the last decade.)

Firefly? Yes, you should watch it. The Star Treks - surely you've watched those??

Who said anything about the "Show that Couldn't Even Manage a Full Season"?

Yes, Quantum Leap was a good show. It's worth checking out.

czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. [amazing stuff follows...]

If you KickStarter this and I'm in. Seriously.

duffblue: Never seen the show, this is actually the second time I've ever heard about it. Is it any good? Never seen too many sci fi shows, x files was winding down when I was getting old enough to understand it.

I'd sum it up as "spiritual morality play" so you've got to be a bit of a softie to enjoy it. Most Americans I know would loathe it for being cheesy. That's not to say it's bad, just the dosage of NON-emo raw emotion is more than what most Americans can handle. That said, I liked it. It's a bit different to see a guy solving problems with reason instead of yelling or shooting or power play. Characters are flawed, even selfish, but often revealed to be more stubborn or fearful than depraved. The episodes typically aren't about internal conspiracies or petty drama or otherwise getting the better of someone like so much U.S. TV these days. Instead, it's about finding the best solution to some very difficult yet local problems. Sam doesn't always win. He thinks fast but makes mistakes, gets frustrated, and at times fails to understand why he leapt into a particular person. Despite being a super-genius he comes off as very human. He has a nauseatingly diverse arsenal of skills but comes off as LESS of a Mary Sue than a lot of protagonists these days because the show's not shy about showing Sam NOT knowing how to do something.

Once they get to the actual plot of Sam fixing people's lives, the premise itself may as well be based on magic. However, it actually uses more true science and math than any Star Trek episode I've seen, and even history of science. When he jumps into the past, he has to date his solutions according to whatever knowledge and technology is available at the time.

patricula: czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. [amazing stuff follows...]

If you KickStarter this and I'm in. Seriously.

SECONDED

czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. Also I think this story could be made today, with Scott and Dean at their present ages, and be even more awesome.

And by the way, if anybody from the copyright holder (or anybody who knows somebody...) happens to be reading: I disclaim all rights in this idea. Use if freely. I'd far rather see this made than get paid (although a "from an idea by..." credit would be nice.)

[fade to black]
Burn in: Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.
[crossfade to]
Burn in: ...Until today

Open on Sam, emerging from a leap. He is in an anonymous office bathroom, could be anywhere in America, any time from the 1980s to the present day. POV over his shoulder, he looks into a mirror and sees... himself, as he looked at the beginning of the project.

Sam: Oh, Boy!

[Titles]

The story then unfolds: after many years of leaping, Sam has somehow leaped into his own body. It is 1999 [the "present day" of the project in the original series], the exact day before the experiment that launched his first leap. And Sam has just 24 hours to decide: does he take the leap or not? If he does leap, he may never get home. This may be his one and only chance to break out. But if he doesn't leap, does he erase all the good he has ever done? He has no idea... and no help (at first).

Back in his own timeline, a long-retired Al snoozes in a chair. The QL project was shut down years ago. They had lost contact with Sam, and everybody had assumed he was lost in time. The one exception: Al never gave up hope, and even though the project is mothballed, he still has the comm device gathering dust on his desk. And after all these years it blinks into life, and starts bleeping, waking Al.

So now Al, with the help of a grown-up Sammy Jo, tries to revive Ziggy, contact Sam, and figure out the consequences of his decision. But the closer they get to the choice to leap ...

That's actually a pretty good way of working into a movie, but there is one flaw I do see and that is what about the other Sam? I mean when he leaps from life to life, the essence of that person goes into present day Sam's body. And if you are going with the mothballing of the Quantum Leap project, what would they do with that body?

Psykorgasm: czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. Also I think this story could be made today, with Scott and Dean at their present ages, and be even more awesome.

And by the way, if anybody from the copyright holder (or anybody who knows somebody...) happens to be reading: I disclaim all rights in this idea. Use if freely. I'd far rather see this made than get paid (although a "from an idea by..." credit would be nice.)

[fade to black]
Burn in: Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.
[crossfade to]
Burn in: ...Until today

Open on Sam, emerging from a leap. He is in an anonymous office bathroom, could be anywhere in America, any time from the 1980s to the present day. POV over his shoulder, he looks into a mirror and sees... himself, as he looked at the beginning of the project.

Sam: Oh, Boy!

[Titles]

The story then unfolds: after many years of leaping, Sam has somehow leaped into his own body. It is 1999 [the "present day" of the project in the original series], the exact day before the experiment that launched his first leap. And Sam has just 24 hours to decide: does he take the leap or not? If he does leap, he may never get home. This may be his one and only chance to break out. But if he doesn't leap, does he erase all the good he has ever done? He has no idea... and no help (at first).

Back in his own timeline, a long-retired Al snoozes in a chair. The QL project was shut down years ago. They had lost contact with Sam, and everybody had assumed he was lost in time. The one exception: Al never gave up hope, and even though the project is mothballed, he still has the comm device gathering dust on his desk. And after all these years it blinks into life, and starts bleeping, waking Al.

So now Al, with the help of a grown-up Sammy Jo, tries to revive Ziggy, contact Sam, and figure out the consequences of his decision. But the closer they get to the choice t ...

I was wondering the same. Where's the "waiting room"

dirty_bird18: czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. Also I think this story could be made today, with Scott and Dean at their present ages, and be even more awesome.

And by the way, if anybody from the copyright holder (or anybody who knows somebody...) happens to be reading: I disclaim all rights in this idea. Use if freely. I'd far rather see this made than get paid (although a "from an idea by..." credit would be nice.)


[fade to black]
Burn in: Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.
[crossfade to]
Burn in: ...Until today

Open on Sam, emerging from a leap. He is in an anonymous office bathroom, could be anywhere in America, any time from the 1980s to the present day. POV over his shoulder, he looks into a mirror and sees... himself, as he looked at the beginning of the project.

Sam: Oh, Boy!

[Titles]

The story then unfolds: after many years of leaping, Sam has somehow leaped into his own body. It is 1999 [the "present day" of the project in the original series], the exact day before the experiment that launched his first leap. And Sam has just 24 hours to decide: does he take the leap or not? If he does leap, he may never get home. This may be his one and only chance to break out. But if he doesn't leap, does he erase all the good he has ever done? He has no idea... and no help (at first).

Back in his own timeline, a long-retired Al snoozes in a chair. The QL project was shut down years ago. They had lost contact with Sam, and everybody had assumed he was lost in time. The one exception: Al never gave up hope, and even though the project is mothballed, he still has the comm device gathering dust on his desk. And after all these years it blinks into life, and starts bleeping, waking Al.

So now Al, with the help of a grown-up Sammy Jo, tries to revive Ziggy, contact Sam, and figure out the consequences of his decision. But the closer they get to the choice ...

It'd watch that. Please continue.

The only thing about the show that annoyed me was the ridiculously long intro promo. Then to top it off they added a second sudo-promo at the start. Together they took about 2 minutes. Then as a kick in the face, the stupid DVDs didn't even put a chapter skip past them, so you can't just skip them. Annoying.

For some reason "Good Morning Peoria" is one of my favorite episodes.

FirstNationalBastard: I wish they would do a DVD Rerelease with the music intact.

The netflix streaming has most if not all of the music intact.

Ika7734: I was wondering the same. Where's the "waiting room"

One way to work around that is to say that the 'present day' Sam gets sent to some government psych ward where they just keep that Sam there under supervision as the people keep leaping in and out of him.

And if you really want to make an antagonist, have that evil group of Leapers get involved where they take that body hostage in hopes of past Sam refusing to make the next leap.

Good god, I'm a nerd.

FirstNationalBastard: Psykorgasm: That's actually a pretty good way of working into a movie, but there is one flaw I do see and that is what about the other Sam? I mean when he leaps from life to life, the essence of that person goes into present day Sam's body. And if you are going with the mothballing of the Quantum Leap project, what would they do with that body?

In the final episode, there was no body in the waiting room. Sam body had reunited with him in the bar in Pennsylvania in August 1953, and he would leap through time from then on as Sam Beckett.

Also, they never really made it clear whether Sam's body or mind was doing the leaping. But, most evidence points to Sam's body leaping through time, with only the aura of the person surrounding it.

...except for the pregnancy episode.

Oh, then never mind. I always assumed that there was a body there. But in that case, that intro is pretty much solid. So where is the kickstarter link?

brigid_fitch: FirstNationalBastard: Psykorgasm: That's actually a pretty good way of working into a movie, but there is one flaw I do see and that is what about the other Sam? I mean when he leaps from life to life, the essence of that person goes into present day Sam's body. And if you are going with the mothballing of the Quantum Leap project, what would they do with that body?

In the final episode, there was no body in the waiting room. Sam body had reunited with him in the bar in Pennsylvania in August 1953, and he would leap through time from then on as Sam Beckett.

Also, they never really made it clear whether Sam's body or mind was doing the leaping. But, most evidence points to Sam's body leaping through time, with only the aura of the person surrounding it.

...except for the pregnancy episode.

I vaguely recall in one episode, Al talking to someone in the waiting room & remarking how weird it was to look at Sam and try to remember it's not really him. But, earlier in the series, I think they said that there was no waiting room & that Sam had just vanished. Maybe they tried to retcon it later?

Again, I haven't really watched to show in years so I'm just going off on what I remembered as a kid. But I'll take FirstNationalBastard's word on how they were able to explain the body situation at the end of the series.

In the episode before the vampire episode didn't they show the vampire guy arriving in the waiting room?

Oh man, I loved watching that show with my dad and brother. Bakula and that cast will always have a special place in my heart. I remember seeing they had picked him for the new Enterprise show and was pumped up for that. I wish they all had more roles in entertainment.

Pawn takes the King: FirstNationalBastard:
If there had been a sixth season, that episode was going to end with Al leaping to find Sam.

Yeah.. I remember being like 7 or 8 when that aired. Scarred me for life.

That.

How did we not realize he was gay?

He audibly swishes in that piece. Come ON!

Psykorgasm: That's actually a pretty good way of working into a movie, but there is one flaw I do see and that is what about the other Sam? I mean when he leaps from life to life, the essence of that person goes into present day Sam's body. And if you are going with the mothballing of the Quantum Leap project, what would they do with that body?

To be honest, I hadn't even thought about that. But it might make for an interesting subplot: The other Sam finds himself in the waiting room, which of course he recognizes, but in our present day. It's dirty, decrepit, and locked from the outside... So while Al tries to help leaping-Sam in the past, he also has to rescue other-Sam in his own present, because if he leaves him to die it's an horrendous paradox, and do it in a way that doesn't so traumatize other-Sam that he calls the whole thing off...

patricula: czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. [amazing stuff follows...]

If you KickStarter this and I'm in. Seriously.

I'd love to, but without owning the rights to the property, I really can't do anything more purposeful than fanfic :-(

dirty_bird18: czetie: I've shared here before my idea for a post-finale finale that I think would be more satisfying, but this is a pretty good excuse to share it again. Also I think this story could be made today, with Scott and Dean at their present ages, and be even more awesome.

And by the way, if anybody from the copyright holder (or anybody who knows somebody...) happens to be reading: I disclaim all rights in this idea. Use if freely. I'd far rather see this made than get paid (although a "from an idea by..." credit would be nice.)


[fade to black]
Burn in: Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.
[crossfade to]
Burn in: ...Until today

Open on Sam, emerging from a leap. He is in an anonymous office bathroom, could be anywhere in America, any time from the 1980s to the present day. POV over his shoulder, he looks into a mirror and sees... himself, as he looked at the beginning of the project.

Sam: Oh, Boy!

[Titles]

The story then unfolds: after many years of leaping, Sam has somehow leaped into his own body. It is 1999 [the "present day" of the project in the original series], the exact day before the experiment that launched his first leap. And Sam has just 24 hours to decide: does he take the leap or not? If he does leap, he may never get home. This may be his one and only chance to break out. But if he doesn't leap, does he erase all the good he has ever done? He has no idea... and no help (at first).

Back in his own timeline, a long-retired Al snoozes in a chair. The QL project was shut down years ago. They had lost contact with Sam, and everybody had assumed he was lost in time. The one exception: Al never gave up hope, and even though the project is mothballed, he still has the comm device gathering dust on his desk. And after all these years it blinks into life, and starts bleeping, waking Al.

So now Al, with the help of a grown-up Sammy Jo, tries to revive Ziggy, contact Sam, and figure out the consequences of his decision. But the closer they get to the choice ...

Simpsons did it.

/J/K, I liked it, too

czetie:

The story then unfolds: after many years of leaping, Sam has somehow leaped into his own body. It is 1999 [the "present day" of the project in the original series], the exact day before the experiment that launched his first leap. And Sam has just 24 hours to decide: does he take the leap or not? If he does leap, he may never get home. This may be his one and only chance to break out. But if he doesn't leap, does he erase all the good he has ever done? He has no idea... and no help (at first).

Back in his own timeline, a long-retired Al snoozes in a chair. The QL project was shut down years ago. They had lost contact with Sam, and everybody had assumed he was lost in time. The one exception: Al never gave up hope, and even though the project is mothballed, he still has the comm device gathering dust on his desk. And after all these years it blinks into life, and starts bleeping, waking Al.

So now Al, with the help of a grown-up Sammy Jo, tries to revive Ziggy, contact Sam, and figure out the consequences of his decision. But the closer they get to the choice to leap ...

Spoiler Alert

Was a fan. See, I thought I remember that he never had a choice about taking the leap or not, ziggy just always moved him on maybe because it was how it was programmed. Also, if you remember, anytime he lept into a person's body, the person would actually manifest back at the QL lab, but have no memory of the experience when Sam moved on. I remember the episode where he lept into Lee Harvey Oswald and i think there was a part where Sam asked Al to speak with Mr. Oswald in the holding chamber but Al was very apprehensive about it or something.

For Czetie's scenario, he'd have to work around the fact that the Sam from 1999, would then be in the Holding chamber at the lab. Normally they never focused on the person in chamber, but this time I would think that they would since its Sam.

//It was that show called Sliders, which had the dimension travelers that could choose to take the wormhole or stay behind. :)
/miss that show

Zebby: Was a fan. See, I thought I remember that he never had a choice about taking the leap or not,

Maybe I was a bit ambiguous. When I asked, "does he take the leap or not?" I'm talking about Sam-from-1999 taking the very first leap i.e. the time travel experiment that went "a little kaka", in the immortal words of Al, and started the whole process. Sam-from-1999 was just himself at that point, making a normal decision to undertake a risky experiment; Sam-from-2012 now has to decide whether to allow Sam-from-1999 to go through with that. Make more sense?

Also, see my confession above that I completely forgot about the waiting room, but on reflection think it would make for an interesting subplot/complication. Heck, maybe even have Al and Sammy Jo break Sam-from-1999 out and he helps them figure things out.

Maybe even set it up that Sam-from-2012 is all set to abort the experiment, but Sam-from-1999 persuades him to through with it, even knowing the risk that he may never get home?