How did Quantum Leap end?

[PaperclipGod]

I always watched reruns of this as a kid, but never saw the final episode...

...DID HE JUMP HOME??

 

[AbAbber2k]

I loved that show when I was little. This is a valid question worth seeking an answer to.

 

[preslove]

http://tinyurl.com/cgb532

 

[jmolayal]

Conclusion
Throughout the series, Sam believes that God, or some other higher power, is controlling his leaps, sending him to times and places where he is needed. In the series' final episode, he encounters a mysterious bartender who insinuates detailed knowledge of Sam's "mission" and his true identity. Because this bartender (or someone who looks exactly like him – both parts played by Bruce McGill) was also present in Sam's first leap, Sam comes to believe he might actually be that higher power, though the man neither confirms nor explicitly denies this.
The bartender helps Sam remember that he built Project Quantum Leap exactly because he wanted to put right what once went wrong and makes him realize that he himself has control over his leaps. The bartender then asks Sam where he wishes to leap to next. Sam replies by saying he wishes to return home but he cannot as he still has a wrong to put right for Al, by letting his first wife Beth (Susan Diol in her second appearance in that role during the series) know that Al is still alive in a POW camp in Vietnam. Sam then promptly leaps out and does so. The show's epilogue states that Sam never returned home.
This final episode was, in fact, intended to be an end-of-season cliffhanger but after the series was not renewed for a sixth season it was revised to function as a series finale.[citation needed] The original ending had Al's Vietnam-era picture "leaping" into a portrait of Al sitting with Beth and their four adult daughters. In the episode as broadcast, the leap effect eventually recedes into darkness and text on the screen informs the viewer, "Dr. Sam Becket never returned home." Note that "Beckett" is spelled with only a single T.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap_(TV_series)

 

[PaperclipGod]

Clearly I posted this question on Anandtech because I forgot Wikipedia existed.

NO, DAMNIT, I WANT AN ANSWER WITH FEELING! EMOTION! I DONT WANT TO READ AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, EVEN IF YOU CAN EDIT IT YOURSELF.

I feel like if any of you were at a social gathering, and someone asked you what you do, you'd hand them your resume and just stare blankly at them.

 

[preslove]

Clearly I posted this question on Anandtech because I forgot Wikipedia existed.

NO, DAMNIT, I WANT AN ANSWER WITH FEELING! EMOTION! I DONT WANT TO READ AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, EVEN IF YOU CAN EDIT IT YOURSELF.

I feel like if any of you were at a social gathering, and someone asked you what you do, you'd hand them your resume and just stare blankly at them.

Clearly Sam should leap back to before you were born and convince your mom to avoid ruining her life by taking birth control :sneaky:

 

[PaperclipGod]

lol. Sam's luck he'd leap into the body of a blue whale or something equally useless.

 

[squirtle24]

I remember watching the ending back in the day and really hating it. He went through all that crap and never got to go home? wtf. I also seem to remember something being mentioned about there being other people like Sam leaping through time.

 

[preslove]

lol. Sam's luck he'd leap into the body of a blue whale or something equally useless.

Your mom is a blue whale?

 

[PaperclipGod]

I remember watching the ending back in the day and really hating it. He went through all that crap and never got to go home? wtf. I also seem to remember something being mentioned about there being other people like Sam leaping through time.

Speaking of other people doing the exact same thing... how did SLIDERS end?

 

[PaperclipGod]

Your mom is a blue whale?

Your reasoning is about as accurate as Sam's leap home.

 

[shortylickens]

Speaking of other people doing the exact same thing... how did SLIDERS end?

All the good cast members were gone by that time so who gives a fluck?

 

[preslove]

Speaking of other people doing the exact same thing... how did SLIDERS end?

*sigh* http://tiny.cc/092mr

 

[Locut0s]

http://tinyurl.com/cgb532

Fail

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+did+quantum+leap+end

 

[olds]

Your mom is a blue whale?

Your reasoning is about as accurate as Sam's leap home.

I read it the same way.

 

[PaperclipGod]

All the good cast members were gone by that time so who gives a fluck?

It'd make my day if the show actually ended with a one hour special consisting of those exact words on a black screen.

 

[Eli]

All the good cast members were gone by that time so who gives a fluck?

LOL, so true.

 

[Anonemous]

/read wiki of sliders.. so sad.

 

[TheVrolok]

/read wiki of sliders.. so sad.

Once John-Ryes Davis, Sabrina Lloyd, and then finally Jerry O'Connell left the show was garbage anyway. I really loved seasons 1-3, but 4 was pretty bad, and 5 was awful.

 

[kia75]

I remember watching the ending back in the day and really hating it. He went through all that crap and never got to go home? wtf. I also seem to remember something being mentioned about there being other people like Sam leaping through time.

Sam did return home. Once he got home he decided to go back to the Quantam leap project.

Season 4 Episode 1: The Leap Back.

Sam Beckett struck me as a guy who did what he was supposed to do. Someone lost through time was supposed to want to go back, so Sam "wanted" to go back. Every time he got the chance though he always rejected it.

Sort of like Voyager, Oh, I just found a deus ex Machina that will send us home. Nope, don't feel like using it, we'll take the long way.

And yeah, in Season 5 there were evil leapers.

 

[Adrenaline]

The bar that Sam was at, there were other leapers there. He actually saw them leaping out of bodies. I do not recall him having to do anything there (saw the episode when it aired long ago but he may have been there to help out miners), just that he was the for information. The bartender had a load of information that he was sharing with Sam. The bartender did tell him that he had the power to go where he wanted and that basically Sam never chose to go home but chose to always help others.

Sam's next leap was for Al, to help fix the thing his best friend regretted the most, the loss of his one true love. She remarried when she thought Al had died in the war and Al was never the same with women afterwards. When he appeared to talk to Beth, it did not show another person's body talking but that of Sam telling her what was on the wiki article. Sam then leaps and the end credits roll. When the end sequence started, it said Al and Beth were celebrating their 39th wedding anniversary and that Dr. Becket never returned home.

If I recall correctly from another episode:

Sam actually did a Leap into a photographer's body during the Vietnam War that was over there photgraphing the war and took a picture of POWs getting drug by their captors which one of them was Al. That photographer won the Pulitzer Prize (I believe this is what the photographer won) for that pitcure.

 

[Crono]

It ended with him searching for a way home.

 

[shortylickens]

/read wiki of sliders.. so sad.

"The nature of the show changed throughout the seasons. The first two seasons focused on alternate histories and social norms, with the consensus amongst the creative team maintaining these two seasons to be largely superior to what would come later on during the series' third season.These stories explored what would have happened, for example, if America had been conquered by the Soviet Union, if Britain had won the American War of Independence, if penicillin had not been invented, or if men were subservient to women.
The third season introduced the first significant changes to the premise of Sliders. As a result of increased Fox Network oversight (and the network-enforced, unwilling relinquishment of day-to-day creative control by creator Tracy Tormé), episodes became far more action-oriented, even going so far as to devolve into riffs on major genre feature films (including Tremors, Species, Anaconda, Twister,The Island of Dr. Moreau, and they even went so far as to copy Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Another noticeable change was that the emotional connection between Quinn and Wade that developed throughout the first two seasons and beginning of the third was abruptly replaced by frequent "love at first sight" interactions with others for both. An example that stands out is "Exodus", an episode described by Tormé as "one of the worst pieces of television ever produced, and the low point of the entire series", where Quinn succumbs to advances from the wife of a disabled man who is helping the sliders.
For the original series' creators, this was the beginning of a downward creative trend, culminating with the firing of John Rhys-Davies by the network, and Tracy Tormé deciding not to contractually continue with the series he himself created, in light of the massive creative interference he was receiving from the network executives.
The fourth and fifth seasons saw the series moved to the Sci-Fi Channel, and a restoration of the series creators' original "alternate history" premise; the other major storyline (begun at the end of the second season, but de-emphasized during Season Three) involved the growing war against the Kromaggs."

God damn!
Its like they tried to fuck it up.
Oh well, Sabrina Lloyd ended up on Sports Night anyway and that was a perfect role.
Too bad THAT show got canned after 2 seasons.

 

[sswingle]

God damn!
Its like they tried to fuck it up.
Oh well, Sabrina Lloyd ended up on Sports Night anyway and that was a perfect role.
Too bad THAT show got canned after 2 seasons.

Thats FOX for ya.

 

[shortylickens]

Thats FOX for ya.

You know, one day, many years from now, they will not be able to milk the Simpsons cow any longer.
And when that day comes, they are completely fucked.