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.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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DCJensen - Oct 31, 2003 11:34:05 am PST #1690 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
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.
P.M. Marc - Oct 31, 2003 11:46:28 am PST #1698 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
I thought the ending was perfect and touching.
YEndingMV.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2003 11:47:47 am PST #1699 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay. Found something:
Now the subject of great debate amongst its fans, the last episode of Quantum Leap, the infamous Mirror Image, was intended to be a season finale cliff-hanger. With the announcement of the show's cancellation well after the filming and much of the editing of Mirror Image was complete, the episode was hastily re-edited to turn it into a series finale. Although the episode was originally designed to address many outstanding questions about Sam's leaping, it raised many more new questions that it answered. Many fans were, and still are, unsatisfied with Mirror Image. There have been numerous requests over the years for a TV movie (or even a feature film) to bring proper closure to the series.