Quantum Leap Episode 4 | Magic Opens Up About Sam Beckett, Big Original Series Connection
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Episode 4 of NBC’s ‘Quantum Leap’ revival took us back to the OG series again…in a big way, as Magic reveals his ultimate goal: finding Sam Beckett, played by Scott Bakula.
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I hope they use this show to bring Sam home, to give us original fans closure.
Looks like they won’t be doing that 🤦🏾♂️ I too am an original QL fan
After this episode (ep. 4) I'm really starting to LOVE this show.
Same
Frank James Bailey have u scene the Original Quantum Leap from (1989-1993)
@@benmills989 Not every episode but yes, I have seen many of the original episodes.
@@FrankJamesBailey do u no what episode Magic from the Reboot is talking about from the Original?
@@benmills989 "Magic" Williams first appeared in the Season 3 episode titled "The Leap Home, Part II (Vietnam)" where the role was portrayed by Christopher Kirby.
I know its a long shot, but I still think Scott Bakula is lying about not being in the show. There hasnt been one episode yet where the audience hasnt been reminded that "Sam never returned home" and that "Sam is still out there."
He could be pulling an "Andrew Garfield". He lied about not being in Spiderman: No Way Home. If Scott shows up in the season finale it will guarantee a Season 2. They may also have stumbled onto an origin for the evil leapers.
He's definitely lying! No shot they green light a Quantum Leap sequel series if Scott Bakula didn't agree to be in it.
Ya think?
I hope so.
Yeah Bakula's pants are totally on fire the great big ole liar. Janis and Ben are trying to rescue Sam. He's been trapped in the past for what 30 years? That's what the slingshot code is for. To build up enough temporal momentum for Ben to leap back past his own lifetime to get to Sam. I bet we get Bakula for a short time then he opts to go back because he built a life there.
This is a great scene, but what I liked about this episode is that it spent more time in the past. The problem I had with previous episodes is that the future plots were taking up so much time that the past plots seemed to suffer. Sam used to have to spend time talking to a character, befriending them and getting them to open up, but with Ben, characters just volunteer information, because they don't have time for exposition and character building. I hope this trend continues. One or two scenes in the future are more than enough
Such a good point.
I just watched the season 3 episode, very cool. Maybe Janice and Ben are trying to find Dr.Beckett at that location pinpointed on the USB drive. Janice needs to find Dr. Beckett.
Janice, not Janet
@@lorrainefiel9103 I meant Janice.
i have the original show of Quantum Leap on Blu-ray. Hopefully with the original songs intact. Yes, I still haven't opened up the boxset. I am saving it up to watch it with my gf in our vacation. But to me, THAT is the only Quantum Leap I am ever going to watch.
As a QUANTUM LEAP devout; it's one thing to do a different take on PQL but to handle "What's Your Original History?" ala "What's Your Sign?". Mark Hamill really needs to team with Scott Bakula and Crispin Glover.
Contradicts the original show. Magic lives regardless of Sam being there. The reason why Sam lept in was to change a mission that went wrong and Magic was at the center of it.
Sam's brother Tom was the only one who originally died. But Sam broke the rules and saved Tom's life in addition to the mission. So that got Maggie the photographer killed due to the "life for a life" balance of time travel.
Not really. They only say that Magic didn't die on the same day as Sam's brother, not that he didn't die in Vietnam. He may have originally died 3 months later but he didn't because LT. Becket was still alive.
Also, another guy died on April 8th with Lt Becket and I think a couple more were maimed.
Magic's explanation of where he was when Sam leapt into him makes no sense because we all know they went to "the waiting room" sitting in a single chair with Al being able to chat to them whilst there.
He probably didn’t remember the waiting room experience though, Swiss cheese effect
They had the mirrored table in the waiting room not a chair and they didn't want peple to remember it. They had the Swiss cheese effect too. Bingo couldn't remember his sister Trudy's name when he was there.
Producers for the new series said they retroactively removed the concept of the waiting room. I'm sad to see it go, but I understand that it was kind of weird so it didn't need to stay around.
@@NickTheNewbie What did you find weird about the waiting room? It made perfect sense to me that when Sam leaped in he pushed the person out since two objects cannot occupy the same physical space simultaneously. The showrunners haven't explained how Ben occupies the body along with the person, and they probably won't.
@@lorrainefiel9103 I mean they haven't explained how someone travels through time, either, but no one seems particularly broken up about that. It's like back to the future: don't worry about the details of the mechanics of it all, just turn off your brain and enjoy the ride.
I like how nobody is talking about evil Ziggy, and the fact that Sam possibly saved Ben from the last episode in the asylum. It was impossible for Ben to leap and it was a year after Sam Beckett's birth ...
How did Sam save Ben at the asylum? I don't remember anyone mentioning that before. How was it impossible for Ben to leap? He leaped after he did what he was supposed to.
hope they bring sam Beckett home
Way cool. We are getting answers. I ask myself why did I like the originals. It was the stories. An we are getting good stories as well as history about our beloved Sam and AL with his family. I hope Janice isn't crazy cause that would hurt cause she's Al's. The thing missing so far are the ad libs Sam had to do. Like not getting kissed an this was a prime opportunity
So bring back Scott,
It looks good. I live out in the sticks though. Its not available on a local channel so I will probably buy on DVD or Bluray.
Buy the Blu-ray the dvd does not have the orginal songs and soundtrack
Love this show😊
I love season one.
This was epic and how do you make a show popular, make it about Sam..
I hope we get novels of the new version
From ep 1, I thought pulling Magic into the new series-from my favorite story arc of the original show-was a brilliant idea! I think Sam may leap into on of the team members, too! How cool would that be?
I'm pretty sure he leaped into Ben to put him in the accelerator.
Didn't even know there was a reboot til I stumbled across this clip!!
At the end of the original, it said Beckett never returned home, so I assumed he kept on leaping with Al (rip Dean Stockwell) with him - is the premise of this that they shut the program down & completely lost him then?, or else I would assume Ziggy & the project would've tracked him as they did every episode?
If there's 'files' on Sams leaps, then it would be kinda cool for them to conclude the 'Evil Leaper' story from the original series, as who they were & where/when they were from was never explained in the show!
I love it keep them coming
What about Sam’s brother and sister? Do they know that their brother Sam is still stuck in time and about the revival of the Quantum Leap project?
Hope some way my dude Sam Leaps home...
My husband and I watched the original. Had no idea this existed... it makes me mad ...networks won't give programs time to pick up an audience.
I originally thought this QL wouldn’t succeed, but I was wrong. It’s drawing me in as I hope Sam comes home, but Ben will be the sacrifice. This show only gets better every week.
I believe Magic is incorrect about him (Magic) being killed in the original history. I would need to check but I believe the main commander died in a helicopter crash (with pilot) on April 7th (that Sam changes), and that Tom Beckett was the only person to die in the main mission on April 8th (aside from the mission failing). Others were wounded / injured, I believe. Al explains this all to Sam right before the first commercial break in the Vietnam episode.
You could be right although I missed that detail.
You are correct about the whole platoon not dying in the first original history. And Shamu and someone else was wounded.
You are correct, that is the original history. However during the events of the episode, it did change to all of them being taken out in that ambush, before it was changed again to them all being saved. It's very possible it was all in the file and Magic was misremembering which one was the original history since he didn't live it.
That just means he didn't die on the 8th, not that he wouldn't die in Vietnam.
Notice how Janice has the OG handlink?
I love that hand link and the sounds it makes.
And if it wasn't for Sam, Magic nor Janice, wouldn't be around..
Ben might be sam grandson via sammy fuller?
They should’ve brought sam home to Donna and Sammie Joe
So when are we going to get the Waiting Room? Sam swapped bodies with other people, not inhabited their soul.
The showrunners stated they couldn't wrap their heads around the waiting room so they aren't doing one. Lots of people think this is a misdirection or something but it would be difficult to change that in midstream since they haven't mentioned having anyone that Ben has leaped into being there anywhere. Or finding someone in the accelerator chamber after Ben leaped.
@@lorrainefiel9103 But they need to provide an explanation since it clearly happened in the original show. They can't rewrite a part of the show. 🤦♂
@@pferreira1983 Hopefully they will soon. I would say they would probably say the new code Ben uploaded had something to do with it but as to how it would, I have no idea. I have read a paper someone in one of the groups mentioned but it was physics and way over my head. My father has a PhD in physics so he might be able to explain it to me but I would have to explain the show to him first.
@@lorrainefiel9103 Sure as long as the writers are doing that kind of research.
@@lorrainefiel9103 They could have updated protocols where Ben's body is sedated so that they don't have problems with people in the waiting room. Remember that once a serial killer killed multiple people in Sam's body and escaped.
I was surprised when Magic revealed Sam leaped into him. I guess Sam inspired him to do good in the future. Luckily, Magic didn't get traumatized when Sam leaped out of him. But I didn't no when Sam does more leaps the people he leaped into don't recall changing the future after the task is done. Only 2 things can see through Sam's leaps Children who are 5 years old and animals. This is the reason I love this show and the 1989 version it has so many plot twists that you'll never no what to expect.
@@totallybored5526 tbh I don't no, but I do no that it's such a cool plot twist.
you know...if they wanted to keep the connection, making it that "oh I'm in my own body but can't do anything" is the worst possible way of doing it.
It was revealed that the minds or souls or whatever were switched, with Sam inhabiting the body of the person he's in while the respective soul was put in Sam's body which is in Project Quantum Leap.
This is a fail, and I didn't even know this series existed before googling Jimmy's name today.
Sam's body always leaped so it was not back at the Project. If it was only his mind leaping how did he get Abagail pregnant with Sammy Jo?
@@lorrainefiel9103 no it wasn't, that's why it was their bodies in the mirror while we saw from Sam's perspective in being himself (and why seeing as their brainwaves were nearly identical, Sam started becoming Lee Harvey Oswald)
And how? It was heavily implied that there were souls in the series (as the Evil Leapers were said to be in Hell) so the argument that she's a genius could stem from the soul issue.
c'mon this is easy....
@@UncensoredScion Except you can't get someone pregnant from your mind or soul. It requires sperm, which is in the body. Also, chimps can't swim but Sam saved the guy who fell in the water. And the person's aura was around Sam, so people would see him as the person he leaped into. He saw his own hands when he looked at them, which is why in Glitter Rock, he had to look in the mirrored table to see the webbing of the guy's fingers. If he was in their body he would see their hands.
It's the other way around. In the early days it appeared that Sam's soul or consciousness or whatever was what leapt.
However, later on it was made clear out was his body, when leaping into the monkey he could swim although their body composition means they don't float, he leapt into the man who'd lost his legs but was able to stand and freak out the person who saw him because he looked like he was floating, etc
@@michellethompson2600 Monkey's can swim though.
The one with the missing legs, yeah that's impossible for me to argue around. Can't do it outside of the argument of inaccurate narrative weaving in the series as it went along and that's just a bs argument in the end as there's no proof for it.
I still argue its his soul due to the Oswald episode as it specifically references their brainwaves being nearly identical and Sam having Oswalds memories while Oswald has his and is thinking its some Capitalist MKUltra style brainwashing as that makes the most sense though. and something in my head is reminding me that the first Jimmy episode referenced Sam having trouble thinking clearly at times.
I don't understand Magic remembers Sam leaping into him yet never shows anyone else. If history was changed no idea how their is a file on it should not everything be effected.
Who do you want them to show? Ziggy kept records on the original histories. Only she and Al remembered the original history. Remember in Honeymoon Express the Senator changed right in front of Al and he was the only one who noticed.
Yeah it seems like the Sam, Al, and Ziggy (or possibly the whole PQL project) is shielded from the changes in the timeline, like they exist outside of time.
In Killin' Time, Gooshie talks about the original timeline like he remembers but he could always be reading it from the handlink from what Ziggy remembers.
@@knightcrusader I think that it is just Al and Ziggy at the Project that remember the original timeline. Ziggy keeps all the records and Al is connected to Ziggy and Sam. Sam would be shielded from forgetting the changes except the leaping causes him to forget. When he returned in the Leap Back his memory comes back right before the Imaging Chamber door is opened. In the novels, which I know aren't canon, everytime Al goes in the Imaging Chamber something has changed when he comes out from something Sam did. Sometimes Tina is Al's girlfriend, sometimes she is married to Gushie. Sometimes Donna is there, sometimes she isn't. And Al can remember how it was originally.
Has anyone even watched 1 episode?
I can't stand this new version. While I loved the original (picking up the single ep releases on VHS back in the day, then the DVDs and now the Blu-Rays), I jumped ship early with this one. I didn't want an ensemble show that spends more time in the present with a cast of Project QL people than on the actual leaps. It felt like any other procedural series with the time travel aspect feeling robbed of its wonder. Like the sci-fi element was just tacked on. I also missed the wit of the original. I'm glad folks are sticking with it and enjoying it, but unless they bring Sam home for Sweeps Week, I'll likely not tune in again. Little things like the original logo's font being interesting and this one being generic. The original leap effect being interesting and this new one being generic. The original show's theme song being interesting and this one being generic. Remember the old commercial bumper fanfare of the original? They could have at least trotted that out again
You quit watching too soon. The first episode wasn't great but it has gotten better as it goes along. They have spent approximately 30 minutes with Ben during the episode and about 10 minutes with the Project. The Leap effect looks different because in the original Quantum Leap it and Al's door were painted on the film as opposed to using CGI now. They don't have a theme because they only get 42 minutes for the show and don't want to waste two minutes on the theme that voukd be used for the story. I don't remember what commercial bumper fanfare you are talking about. Remind me please.
I really hate the new show and its dysphoric lead.
No it doesn't it's doesn't live up to the original. Which focus on Sam trying to help people. It never went back to lab where Sam project was maybe only a few a episode it did. The actors are bad and annoying. Especially the hologram girl she s freaking awful and has nothing on AL.. And trying to make this a romantic love story between her and the leader.
This show is terrible, I was two episodes in and I'm done. This show isn't even good enough to be called abysmal in my opinion.
To me this woke garbage isn't Quantum Leap. I like the tie in with Magic but otherwise the casting is completely wrong. And the new lead isn't nearly as great as Scott Bakula. I feel like if they were gonna bring it back, doing anything less than Dr. Sam Beckett was ruining the original. At least Magic as the new Al would've made sense given the season 3 leap from the original Quantum Leap. I tried watching 3 or 4 episodes of the new series and it just didn't have the magic(no pun intended) of the real Quantum Leap.
i watched the original series and i refuse to watch this if that he-she thing keeps appearing
bahahahahhaha...
You know, I'm not a fan of that character as I find them annoying, but I take solice in knowing my opinion isn't based off of disgusting homophobia like this degenerate and worthless sack of human life "snake plissken"
Just the kind of comment i expect nowadays with all the brain dead, hateful, homophobic, MAGA morons infesting this once great country right now. Seriously though, how do you sleep at night being that intolerant and hateful? Douche
Ian is non binary (they/them) not transgender (he to she and she to he). Plus, it isn't like their being non binary is being mentioned every scene. It hasn't been mentioned at all. They are just there.
Quantum Leap was always about diversity and the acceptance of it, many episodes address certain topics like discrimination, racism, gender equality, animal rights, etc. Sam Beckett was a colored person a few times, a woman, a person with down syndrome, heck even a freaking monkey. To see Sam Beckett in their shoes and live it through their eyes, trying to overcome prejudice made the show one of the most important tv shows that ever aired. Why can you accept that when you watched the original, but having a non-binary person on the new show isn't acceptable?
Prefer the original the lead in this series sucks