Quantum Leap
Mar 17, 2007 13:50:32 GMT -5
Post by tvilike admin on Mar 17, 2007 13:50:32 GMT -5
I like this show alot and want to pick it up on DVD in the future. Does anyone remember it from back in the day? Here is a summary of it....In the near future (about 1999), at a highly classified U.S.-government-funded research facility somewhere in the desert of New Mexico, physicist Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) is working on a grand experiment to prove his time-travel theory. Sam is working alongside Gushie, the lead programmer of Project Quantum Leap. Gushie also works the controls for the imaging chamber. However, the funding for the project is about to be cut. Sam's colleagues protest that they're not ready, but in a last-ditch effort to prove that his theories are correct, Sam steps into the project's "accelerator chamber" and vanishes.
Sam appears in the past with no memory of who he is or where he is. This side-effect of uneven amnesia is called Swiss-cheesing or (as a technical term in the show's universe) magnafluxing, which prevents him from remembering most of the details of his own life. His friend from his original time, Albert "Al" Calavicci (played by Dean Stockwell), appears to him as a holographic projection from the "imaging chamber", usually only visible and audible to Sam, but also small children, and animals. Al is the project observer and a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. It is revealed that Gushie made a frantic call to Al when Sam vanished in the project accelerator and called him in to work on the situation. Gushie continues to work alongside Al in Sam's original time. Along with the (possibly) sentient supercomputer named Ziggy, Al is able to help Sam "set right what once went wrong" before he leaps out into the next person. I enjoyed seeing Sam jump from person to person correcting their past mistakes and sometimes saving their likes. The different people he leaped into was so interesting: A death row inmate, female lounge singer, Stephen King and many more. I like when he would look in the mirror and see his reflection as the person he was leaping into. The clues they had to figure out to try to fix thing were cool cause Al would use the super computer Ziggy to get past info and clues to put the pieces together. Each leap could lead him closer to home.
Sam appears in the past with no memory of who he is or where he is. This side-effect of uneven amnesia is called Swiss-cheesing or (as a technical term in the show's universe) magnafluxing, which prevents him from remembering most of the details of his own life. His friend from his original time, Albert "Al" Calavicci (played by Dean Stockwell), appears to him as a holographic projection from the "imaging chamber", usually only visible and audible to Sam, but also small children, and animals. Al is the project observer and a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. It is revealed that Gushie made a frantic call to Al when Sam vanished in the project accelerator and called him in to work on the situation. Gushie continues to work alongside Al in Sam's original time. Along with the (possibly) sentient supercomputer named Ziggy, Al is able to help Sam "set right what once went wrong" before he leaps out into the next person. I enjoyed seeing Sam jump from person to person correcting their past mistakes and sometimes saving their likes. The different people he leaped into was so interesting: A death row inmate, female lounge singer, Stephen King and many more. I like when he would look in the mirror and see his reflection as the person he was leaping into. The clues they had to figure out to try to fix thing were cool cause Al would use the super computer Ziggy to get past info and clues to put the pieces together. Each leap could lead him closer to home.