![]() ![]() One of the biggest takeaways from that alternate ending - which more or less tracks with a never-authenticated script that had leaked online years earlier - is that the existence of Project Quantum Leap in the present-day timeline hadn’t, in fact, fallen victim to Sam’s last bit of history-bending. In the alternate version, Al and Beth, reunited thanks to Sam’s time-warping shenanigans - engage in a fascinating back-and-forth chat about how to bring Sam back once and for all. Unlike the ending that aired on NBC, this one dropped some tantalizing plot twists aimed at setting up a whole new direction for the show to explore in a sixth season. Sam, viewers were told via an onscreen title card, “never returned home,” resuming his unceasing series of time skips in the hope of finding the one leap that could send our stranded hero physicist back to his own time.įlash forward to 2019, when some long-lost footage surfaced online of a rough-cut alternate ending for Season 5. Bellisario and the writing team knew fans would have about Sam’s future. Quantum Leap’s 97th and final episode, “Mirror Image,” did resolve one of the show’s ongoing plot threads, with Sam looping back in time to save Al’s first marriage (and thereby preventing Al from becoming the oft-divorced womanizer fans were all too familiar with). But its closing moments deployed a cobbled-together wall of text, complete with the infamous “Sam Becket” misspelling of its hero’s name, to answer the bigger questions series creator Donald P. Canceled only weeks before the last episode of its fifth season was set to air, the show simply didn’t have enough time (ahem) to flesh out the season-ending installment as a proper series finale. ![]() It’s safe to assume Sam’s still out there somewhere today, looking for that perfect last leap that could finally send him home.Īs fans from way back may recall, NBC’s groundbreaking sci-fi series came to a jarringly quick end, concluding what would become its final season in a way that never gave Sam and helpful holographic sidekick Al (the late Dean Stockwell) satisfying answers. 19 premiere - ended abruptly back in 1993. But, that original show - which you can stream on Peacock and catch on SYFY, where there will be some marathons leading up to the revival's Sept. ![]() Luckily, Quantum Leap is set to return this fall in a revival series on NBC. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula) shackled to his time-jumping fate in what felt like a closure-denying cliffhanger ending. If you want a forgettable action adventure series with an element of time travel watch this I guess.Hard to believe, but it’s been almost 30 years since Quantum Leap left the airwaves, leaving Dr. What is the point of making the team suspicious of Ben & his motivations? Why did they think they needed a mystery about Al's daughter? If you want a good time traveling TV series with good storytelling, watch the original. This is a case where telling the viewers that the team was working on trying to fix the problems with Ziggy & figuring out a way to get Sam back was better than showing us what they're doing in the present to get Ben back. There's also way too much split focus, going between Ben trying to help people back to the project isn't needed. Instead they decided that they needed to make it into a flat action adventure series. You grew to care about the people that Sam was helping in the episode & not just Sam himself. They barely give you any reason to care about Ben & no reason to care about the people he's helping. They removed everything about the original series from it to make it into a series without substance. I watched the first two episodes (the second one only because Beth Calavicci was in it) and to say I'm underwhelmed by it is an understatement and I think I understand why Scott Bakula doesn't want anything to do with it. ![]()
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