@@charlesjunior5087 if Sam doesn’t admit he is subconsciously controlling his leaps, he will leap around in time till the day he dies or maybe even longer if Stoppa was a Leaper too.
Stawpah is how his name is spelled. I guess that if the show had been picked up we might have gotten a better insight into how many leapers Al is "managing".
If we are to assume that Al the Bartender was God and Sam's hypothesis about dead people warning the living about thing was indeed true. Then perhaps the reason that Sam was pulled in or "grabbed" as he and Al confirm happens when he took his first leap in time, is because this is something that the God of the Quantum Leap universe has already been doing. Al uses the parallel of a priest when referring to Sam and his leaping so maybe we can assume that Sam was pulled into an existing system of using dead people to essential leap around in time. Stawpah the Uncle I believe was dead in the current timeline where Al comes from leaning more into the utilization of disembodied people to swim through the years by some other entity or perhaps Al is God. I think I like it better being left ambiguous. :)
@@nerdvananorth2905 Al (Sam’s buddy) has an uncle named Stawpah who has arthritis. Al (the bartender, be he God or Time or whatever) found coincidence amusing. Almost everyone seen in this leap is either the face of someone Sam encountered, or in some way related to Sam and the Quantum Leap project. Al (bartender) basically set this up as a means of connecting directly with Sam. All the names, faces, and references being recognisable to keep Sam’s attention right from the get-go. There was no leapee (the person in the waiting room) so as to keep Al, Gushi, and the rest of QL from distracting Sam, as Sam needed to help Stawpah complete his own Leap, which since he was dead meant that he probably crossed over to the afterlife at that point. During the mine collapse and refusal to left anyone else in to rescue Tonci and Pete, when Stawpah describes in detail how scared they would be and all the water rising, he says he’d seen it happen too many times… I’d always assumed that he was just recounting times he’d seen it happen while he was alive. Took me years to realise it possibly meant that he’d been reliving the same Leap, constantly having it reset every time Tonci and Pete die. It was only with Sam’s help that he was able to save them, thus why he was finally able to leap out and pass on.
That was a great way to finish ther series. Never forgot it. 👍👍👍👍
Wow, a lot of Star Trek actors in this scene
Thank you I've never seen this final episode
It seems like the Gushi Sam meets in this episode represents Sam’s future if he never returns home.
How so??
@@charlesjunior5087 if Sam doesn’t admit he is subconsciously controlling his leaps, he will leap around in time till the day he dies or maybe even longer if Stoppa was a Leaper too.
Thanks.
So, there were other leapers that were following Sam? Or was Schtoppa something else?
When one travels through time, one unintentionally creates branches.
Stawpah is how his name is spelled. I guess that if the show had been picked up we might have gotten a better insight into how many leapers Al is "managing".
@anonymoususer1051 It was Als uncle or someone related to him.
If we are to assume that Al the Bartender was God and Sam's hypothesis about dead people warning the living about thing was indeed true. Then perhaps the reason that Sam was pulled in or "grabbed" as he and Al confirm happens when he took his first leap in time, is because this is something that the God of the Quantum Leap universe has already been doing. Al uses the parallel of a priest when referring to Sam and his leaping so maybe we can assume that Sam was pulled into an existing system of using dead people to essential leap around in time. Stawpah the Uncle I believe was dead in the current timeline where Al comes from leaning more into the utilization of disembodied people to swim through the years by some other entity or perhaps Al is God. I think I like it better being left ambiguous. :)
@@nerdvananorth2905
Al (Sam’s buddy) has an uncle named Stawpah who has arthritis.
Al (the bartender, be he God or Time or whatever) found coincidence amusing. Almost everyone seen in this leap is either the face of someone Sam encountered, or in some way related to Sam and the Quantum Leap project.
Al (bartender) basically set this up as a means of connecting directly with Sam. All the names, faces, and references being recognisable to keep Sam’s attention right from the get-go.
There was no leapee (the person in the waiting room) so as to keep Al, Gushi, and the rest of QL from distracting Sam, as Sam needed to help Stawpah complete his own Leap, which since he was dead meant that he probably crossed over to the afterlife at that point.
During the mine collapse and refusal to left anyone else in to rescue Tonci and Pete, when Stawpah describes in detail how scared they would be and all the water rising, he says he’d seen it happen too many times… I’d always assumed that he was just recounting times he’d seen it happen while he was alive.
Took me years to realise it possibly meant that he’d been reliving the same Leap, constantly having it reset every time Tonci and Pete die. It was only with Sam’s help that he was able to save them, thus why he was finally able to leap out and pass on.
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