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Quantum Leap
is available for instant playing from Netflix, so I thought I'd give it a go again. Except, Disc one, ep one I'm thrown right into the middle of it! Is that how the show actually began? No pilot, no establishing of the premise and how our hero became a time-traveling... time-traveler? I mean, if so, wow, amazing that this show caught on and lasted five seasons!
I can think of only one other show that didn't follow the formula of "Teaser/Act One: set up the plot" and that was
Farscape
and that was well into the show. There they threw you right into the action and expected to you to sprint to catch up. But, a pilot episode? Does Netflix not have the pilot, or did they really just throw the viewers into the week-to-week premise and expect them to sprint? Fucking ballsy! I don't know whether to admire this or be pissed, because I'd never seen the beginnings of the show, even though I'd watched tons of eps, and had always thought/hoped that there were goodies that I'd missed.
The first time you saw Al, was the wearing a bathrobe, and Sam didn't remember anything? Oh! There's a line about things going "A little caca." I remember that.
I seem to recall that he was a pilot in the pilot and thinking it was funny, but I think the actual name of the first episode was "Genesis".
If you give me more detail I can almost certainly help (I'm on a Mac and can't Watch Now on Netflix), but there's not, that I recall, a lot of up-front exposition.
Do you mean starting with the ep where he's in the 60s or so and an air force pilot?
I'm pretty sure you at least see Sam step into the magic hand-wavy thing. Don't you? Or do you learn the story when Al shows up?
I don't remember seeing him step in.
Neither do I.
Maybe in the opening explanation/theme but not before the teaser.
Okay, I see now that the title of the ep is "Right Hand of God" which is the second disc, and that the player refuses to play the first disc which has Genesis et al on it. Grrr.
Victor - my understanding is that yes, we will be getting a first half of season 4 dvd and then a second half. Sadly, there have been no updates as to when - but I suspect in will be in December.
Ach, that sucks. Is it scratched, dirty or just plain bad?
It's the Watch Instantly, so it's streaming, but it seems that Netflix has the second disc streaming for *all* three discs of the first season.
And speaking of laying groundwork in Doctor Who, hoo boy! I can't believe
that the bees were mentioned *twice* in the first two episodes, as were stolen/lost planets.
It's so fun and awesome!
