And the finale got me as bad as Chosen did.
Dana, I was once randomly in a bar that was SO QL Finale I kept blinking.
Man, I loved that show.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
P.M. Marc - Oct 31, 2003 11:30:30 am PST #1688 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Nutty - Oct 31, 2003 11:33:23 am PST #1689 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I also never knew episode names, although we all watched it as a family faithfully enough to chase it down every time it changed nights/times (many). I loved it the first time Sam was a woman -- and the fact that he got better at it as the series went on.
Quantum Leap -- making the early 1990s safe for hand-wringing liberalism!
DCJensen - Oct 31, 2003 11:34:05 am PST #1690 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I was pretty pissed off at the QL finale. Sam should have gotten home. It's not like they couldn't have found an excuse for him to leap again, someday.
Not getting to go home to your wife and friends? Argh.
Trudy Booth - Oct 31, 2003 11:34:44 am PST #1691 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DANIEL!!!!!
And what WAS the finale?
helentm - Oct 31, 2003 11:35:11 am PST #1692 of 10000
Religion isn't the cause of wars. It's the excuse. - Christopher Brookmyre
Loving QL is why I couldn't take Enterprise seriously, even before it totally sucked. I watch Scott being all captainy and just think 'Boy, have you leapt into the wrong place.' Any minute Al's going to walk in through a wall and start drooling at T'Pol.
Speaking of Al, did anyone see that Stargate ep where Al was Jonas's mentor, only he was schizophrenic? Now that was weird. But well done, I didn't figure it out, the first time around.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2003 11:36:35 am PST #1693 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sam should have gotten home. It's not like they couldn't have found an excuse for him to leap again, someday.
Well, not so much someday, as much as maybe next season. Wasn't it, Dana, that they just weren't sure if they were coming back, so they went out on a cliffhanger?
But I'm good with sad finales.
Dana - Oct 31, 2003 11:39:01 am PST #1694 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Wasn't it, Dana, that they just weren't sure if they were coming back, so they went out on a cliffhanger?
I don't actually know. But the finale seems pretty final to me. They had all those people back from the course of the series.
helentm - Oct 31, 2003 11:39:46 am PST #1695 of 10000
Religion isn't the cause of wars. It's the excuse. - Christopher Brookmyre
I wanted it to end with seeing Al at the big project place, talking to the leapee in Sam's body, trying to find out where Sam is, only to work Sam's right there.
I'm not okay with sad finales because I am a big giant sap.
JesseBelle - Oct 31, 2003 11:44:52 am PST #1696 of 10000
Don't forget, the written coda at the end of the final episode:
"Sam never made it back home"
or something to that effect.
It wasn't a cliffhanger, and it pissed off a lot of people needlessly. QL was a great show. Why end on such a downer note? There was no reason not to leave it open, or even say, "Eventually, Sam made it home".
It sucked. And seeing him as Captain Cardboard on Enterprise is awful. Bring Back Sam!!!
JesseBelle
Nutty - Oct 31, 2003 11:46:10 am PST #1697 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I didn't think it was a sad finale at all -- it was more like, Sam, this is why you've been doing this. Here you are: some of the people you've helped, all your memories back. Here you are: free will. Look at the results you've gotten, when you were doing it by accident. How would you feel about doing it full time, on purpose?
It was sort of like an optimistic commitment, not something sad. I always got the sense that if he'd wanted to, he could have returned to the life he'd had, and that maybe he will, when he's done doing what he's doing. Sam always was the sort to take on the burdens of others, but I don't think he ever did so unwillingly.