I've just found out that the next issue of SFX magazine will have a 2-page feature on whether 'Quantum Leap' ever Jumped the Quark. I'll keep all of you posted when I get the mag.:hmm
alsplacebartender said:
LadyKayoss said:At the risk of sounding like a moron...
Uh... "Jump the shark?"
leaper1 said:You beat me to it!
I think I've sorta worked out what it means from the context of the weblink - I might say 'lost the plot' or 'gone off the rails' or something like that.
But I echo LK - "Jump the shark"??? Huh? Why jump the shark???
ziggysego said:Enterprise, when is this copy out? I might be interested in obtaining a copy myself. There seldom is anything in magazines now about Quantum Leap. So whenever there, I snap it up.
PS It never jumped
Enterprise said:(and yeah, QL NEVER jumped... except maybe when the themetune was changed but that was only the titles and no reflection on the episodes so it doesn't count).
I wasn't totally against it being used I just didn't like it. But that's just me of course. Everyones got their own preference.CarolD said:I remember Scott saying at one of the Creation QL cons that changing the theme had been his idea -- he thought updating the theme would give the show a fresh look, or something to that effect. He said he was very disappointed/dismayed when there was a huge uprising against the new theme.
Myself...I do love the old theme. I don't dislike the newer one, but the old one (along with the saga cell, or sell, whichever) was really an integral part of the show.
As for jumping the shark -- I don't think it did. Don had to cave in to a lot of little weirdnesses coming from the network suits, but I don't think the essence of the show changed. (I remember from that same con, they referred to season 5 as "the tabloid season" -- what with its use of Elvis, Marilyn, Bigfoot and so on.)
EmmaCMF said:For me, QL never jumped the shark, but it came periously close with Blood Moon.
Mesmer Ice said:I am sad to say it jumped the shark when they started messing with actual historic events like the Lee Harvey Oswald,the Civil War?The Elvis and Marilyn Monroe episodes it just showed the writers couldn't think of any more plotlines with "normal" people.I have plenty of plots they could have used.
Ok I did enjoy the Vietnam and Watts riots episode and have no problem with the actual historic events once in a while.But at the end of the show you could tell they were desperate for ideas.jmoniz said:I'm willing to give Lee Harvey Oslwald, Elvis and Marilyn as "messing with actual historic events" but not the Civil War. If that's the case then there are many other episodes that would also fit the description. "Black on White on Fire" which involves the Watts Riots, "Rebel Without A Clue" where his meeting with Jack Kerouac gives him pause to rethink his ideas, "The Wrong Stuff" and it's relation to the space program. In different ways all of the episodes dealt with changing history and even though they may have been personal changes for the people Sam affected, they would have had wide ranging changes just through a ripple effect.
The sidekick might have been interesting once in a while sometimes they just happen to leap into the same time.Imagine they are at the opposite ends but they both have to take the path to save someone.Like a Democrat vs. Republican.alsplacebartender said:The last season showed pressure from NBC to do episodes like that into real people. Don didn't want to go there, but wanted the series to stay on the air, so he gave in and tried it.
He finally ended the series on NBC when they wanted him to leap into the future possibly with a teenage sidekick.
That's the real reason behind the 5th season celebrity leaps and ultimately the end of the entire series.
Mesmer Ice said:Like a Democrat vs. Republican.
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