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Post by Luke on Apr 8, 2008 10:54:51 GMT -6
Guess what? The ION channel just started running Quantum Leap, that old Scott Bakula series, week-nights at 9.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 10, 2008 8:02:06 GMT -6
Thanks for the warning, Luke. I haven't seen that it a long time.
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Post by j on Apr 11, 2008 1:19:24 GMT -6
I just saw that commericial. I was more confused on what ION was. Apparently it's a new channel because I've never heard of it before.
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Post by Luke on Apr 11, 2008 10:18:14 GMT -6
No, it's an old channel, it just changes its name a lot. It used to be called PAX.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 14, 2008 7:30:27 GMT -6
Slight correction, though. It appears to be only on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
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Post by Dataholic on Apr 19, 2008 12:01:08 GMT -6
Thanks a lot for the heads up. I love Quantum Leap. I'll be setting up my DVR to record it when it's on.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 21, 2008 7:32:23 GMT -6
The best episode that springs to mind (I haven't seen it in a while) is the one where he leaps into a mental patient in an asylum, and he starts flashing back to other people he has been inside, so they think he has multiple personality syndrome.
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Post by Dataholic on Apr 21, 2008 21:55:31 GMT -6
The best episode that springs to mind (I haven't seen it in a while) is the one where he leaps into a mental patient in an asylum, and he starts flashing back to other people he has been inside, so they think he has multiple personality syndrome. I haven't watched it lately either. The only episode that comes to mind for me right now is the last one. I thought it was excellent, but a bit sad unfortunately.
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Post by j on Apr 21, 2008 23:48:22 GMT -6
I think i need to watch this show. I can say right now that I've never seen it. I haven't...right matt? (i'm really not 100% sure)
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Post by Luke on Apr 23, 2008 10:31:25 GMT -6
Keep in mind it dates from the late 80s, before the big television science fiction boom that came along in the 90s. It's essentially a drama, really. The time travel aspect is a plot device to put him into a totally different story every episode. Another unique thing about it is that every epsiode ends with a cliffhanger, when he leaps and you get a taste of who he's going to be in the next epsiode.
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Post by Luke on Apr 23, 2008 10:32:31 GMT -6
*The best episode that springs to mind ...is the one where he leaps into a mental patient in an asylum...*
I don't think I remember that one. The one I remember most vividly is the time he leaped into a chimpanzee! That was a riot.
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Post by socialcrawl on May 6, 2008 14:21:52 GMT -6
Ha I totally forgot about this show! classic!
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Post by Luke on May 21, 2008 10:33:00 GMT -6
There was an episdoe not last week but I think the week berfore, where Dr. Becket leaps into a man who is blind. I was under the impression when he leaps his mind goes into another person's body (which is why he sees that person in the mirror), so if the person he leaps into had physical damage to his eyes (or retinas, or visual cortex or whatever is causing the blindnes), Becket should be blind too. Does this make sense?
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Post by Atoz 77 on May 23, 2008 7:53:52 GMT -6
I think you're right, Luke. From what I gather, Sam Beckett's body never left the Quantum Leap accelerator chamber. His mind simply displaces the mind of the person he leaps into (and that person's mind inhabits Beckett's body, still in the laboratory). As we saw in the episode when he leaped into a woman, even Al sees that body, not Beckett's! I must have missed the episode you're talking about, but from the way you describe it, I'd say the writers decided for dramatic reasons that Beckett needed to be able to see, and hoped the viewers would just shrug off the discrepancy.
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Post by Luke on May 28, 2008 11:04:32 GMT -6
For one thing, if Becket couldn't see, they couldn't to that scene where he looks in a mrirror and sees a different reflecton. I see your point, sir.
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