#serie : quantum leap

[acecroft]

Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap 5.10

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[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Leonard Nimoy guest stars in "A Quality of Mercy," episode 15 of the third season of The Twilight Zone (original air date December 29, 1961). Nimoy plays the radio operator of a U.S. Infantry unit in the Philippines, in the final days of WWII.

The unit is put under the command of an inexperienced, glory-hungry young Lieutenant (Dean Stockwell) who wants to take them on a pointless, dangerous raid while there's still time to make a name for himself. Instead, he finds himself transported, Quantum Leap-style, into the body of a Japanese officer. When he comes back to his own body, his newfound sense of perspective leads him to call off the raid just before they get the news from Hiroshima.

Bonus Dean Stockwell:

[theloopus]

EMMA: It's just that I, uhm... want something more. I want to spend some part of my life as me. Whoever that is. Not just as someone's, I don't know, daughter, or wife, or mother. I want to... I want to stop feeling like... SAM: A non-person. EMMA: Yeah. A non-person.

S02E04 | Margaret Atwood, The Tent, "Clothing Dreams" | S02E10 | source unknown | S04E12, S03E06, S04E15, S03E07, S02E08, S05E05 | Mitski - Valentine, Texas | S02E20 | Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World | S05E22 + S03E11

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— Gif pack / Peter Gadiot in Quantum Leap (part 2)

In this here gif pack you’ll find gifs of Peter Gadiot in ‘Quantum Leap’. All these gifs were made by me, so please don’t claim as your own. Do NOT put into other gif hunts.

[sun-ni-day]

Quantum Leap (2022) All Ben's female leaps

Eva, Aleyda, Kamini, Lois, Lorena, Summer, Elizabeth, Nadia

[llama-milk-for-the-egg-nog]

quantum leap takes "put that guy in situations" extremely seriously

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Quantum leap al <3

[senzasord]

Okay I've slept on it and I have THOUGHTS and THEORIES

Okay, but listen. We already had the link to the original series throughout season one with Magic, Beth, and Janis. But the fact that they created such a strong link in the finale with the handlink, and confirming the events of Mirror Image is setting up to intertwine things a lot more.

I saw someone theorise that the reason the swap code didn't work was because it pulled Sam home rather than Ben, which on a watsonian level is a really good theory and I would be thrilled if that were the case because there would be so much to explore with ALL the leapers. But considering the behind the scenes hesitation from Scott Bakula, I have a different theory.

The problem with Sam's original code was that it had a failsafe built in - Sam only swapped places with the leapee, not created a quantum superimposition. This meant that he kept a tether to the present, but there were no jumps home in between leaps - every time he leaped the new leapee replaced the old leapee, instead of him swapping back with them. At the end of Mirror Image though, through whatever forces were at play (God, or time, or whatever, as Sam and Al would say), the failsafe is removed, but Sam no longer needs it because he has control over his own leaps and doesn't need a leapee to swap with anymore.

Stay with me.

The problem with Ben's code is that there is no failsafe like this to begin with, they're just trusting the code to slingshot him back home rather than creating a tether to the present. And I can see the benefits of Ben and Ian's change - you no longer have a leapee that you have to keep safe, the leaper has the benefit of accessing the muscle memory of the host etc. I wonder even if their starting point was the state of things after Mirror Image rather than Sam's original code, just so they could figure out what the hell happened.

So, original Quantum Leap couldn't bring Sam home because even though there was a failsafe, the accelerator kept skipping over a return trip to move Sam onto the next leap. And new Quantum Leap couldn't bring Ben home because he had no tether to the present. But Hannah's code solves both these problems! It forces a switch home, rather than letting the accelerator push the leaper onto the next leap, and its premise relies on having someone to swap with - a tether.

It solves both Sam's and Ben's problems - but Sam's and Ben's problems are not occurring together. Sam had no driving code, and Ben had no tether - but each had one. I think the reason why Hannah's swap code didn't work and instead flung Addison towards Ben was because the current version of the program still doesn't have the concept of a tether built into it. There was still no one Ben could actually 'swap' with. So rather than pulling Ben home, it just pulled Addison towards Ben - like towards like (something something quantum entanglement something something - I actually do think that was a cute engagement speech, and people just don't like it because they don't like the romance plot).

As I've been writing this, another theory did occur to me, which would honestly probably be simpler to write, and therefore more likely - which is the swap code DID work. On Addison. So now Addison is leaping like Sam was, with a leapee in her body (they'd have to build a new waiting room lol), and Ben is still stranded.

Or maybe no one swapped, and it was God, or Time, or whatever.

Oh boy.

[tuttle-did-it]

Murder, She Wrote ‘Lone Witness’ guest stars

Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser MD, How I Met Your Mother, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Starship Troopers, Dr Who, The Simpsons, Roseanne, Quantum Leap (1993), The Outer Limits, Will & Grace, Harold & Kumar movies, Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)

Liz Vassey (first of two appearances) (Castle, Dr Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog, Quantum Leap, Murphy Brown, Married with Children, Beverly Hills 90210, All My Children, ST:TNG)

Beth Howland (Alice, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Love American Style, The Love Boat, Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

9.19 Episode aired Apr 4, 1993

[loveloki555]

Some stories stay with us forever

[televisionpromos]

Quantum Leap 2x11 "The Outsider" Promo - An anonymous source sends Ben and an experienced local Denver TV journalist on the trail of a dangerous conspiracy as they pursue the scoop of a lifetime in the early '80s. There's trouble at HQ when Ian's past decisions come back to haunt the team.

[firelance2361]

The Quantum Queen

Here’s another piece I did of my version of Kamala Kang in honor of Loki Season 2. Hope that we get to see her in live-action soon!

Hope you like it!

[augustheart]

one queapboot thing i don't mind is that they've abandoned the whole "within your lifetime" thing and now ben is just fucking around wherever the hell. i'm fine with that. they're allowed to do that

[sunnysand-rpg]

— Gif pack / Peter Gadiot in Quantum Leap (part 1)

In this here gif pack you’ll find gifs of Peter Gadiot in ‘Quantum Leap’. All these gifs were made by me, so please don’t claim as your own. Do NOT put into other gif hunts.

[vertigoartgore]

Actor Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett in the original Quantum Leap.