ian2k6 said:when al is unable to provide proof that sam is time-travelling, couldnt he just take a photo or video of him in the past?
alsplacebartender said:Sam should have used the trick from The Leap Back and just mailed a letter to the committee via western union or certified mail kind of like they also did in Back to the Future Part II.
That's a great explanation... I was going to say that, too! It would almost seem , though, like he could record audio... it must be weird for Al to hear and see everything "in his head" only.leaper1 said:Presumably because the hologram in the Imaging Chamber is tuned to their brainwaves (pilot ep "Everything around you is a hologram to me," etc) any picture taken in the Imaging Chamber would just show the empty chamber with Al standing in isolation.
bluedana said:Perhaps they did. I don't recall any episodes after Shock Theatre where the Committee was said to be threatening to pull the plug. Perhaps Al took one or two of the members into the Chamber and let them see Sam. That would certainly shut them up and keep them funding the billions of dollars, even if they could only see him but not hear him, right?
leaper1 said:But surely they would see the leapees aura and not Sam as Sam?
bluedana said:I like the way you people think. (Adds to personal QL mythology that at some point after ST, but at least after Raped, Al took committee members into the IC, touched them flesh to flesh, and prove that some random person in the past was Sam by interviewing him and letting them hear - or at least read - his answers. Works for me.)
leaper1 said:But surely they would see the leapees aura and not Sam as Sam?
asearcher said:Yeah...interview him. If he knows things that only Sam would know. Questions that Al COULDN'T have coached him on before. Then seeing him in the aura would just prove the rest of the story.
Personally, I think the lockbox one would be even more airtight. How do you get a letter from the past that answers the exact questions you just asked and receive it in a sealed box that only you (the committee) has opened and which has an airtight guarentee that the box has been in storage since the time in the past when it was sealed. That's pretty strong evidence.
Snish said:I think, since Al sees Sam as Sam, anyone seeing the image by touching Al would also see Sam as Sam. I'm not certain of that, since they never confirm what Verbena saw, or the girl in Raped, but to me it makes sense.
Sam Beckett Fan said:Not to me, Al is the only one who's brainwaves are connected with Sam's hence him being able to see and hear Sam at all let alone as himself. Just touching Al does not create a brianwave connection between Sam and a third party.
Yes he could have.cookiemom6067 said:If that were true, Sam couldn't have seen Verbena or Katie McBane, because it would work both ways, wouldn't it?
Sam Beckett Fan said:Not to me, Al is the only one who's brainwaves are connected with Sam's hence him being able to see and hear Sam at all let alone as himself. Just touching Al does not create a brianwave connection between Sam and a third party.
Snish said:The thing is, without a brainwave connection, how would it work? Why would simply touching Al cause another person to see an image that's generated inside Al's brain? They don't explain how it happens, but it has to be causing the image to appear in the third person's brain also.
Cookiemom's point is valid--if there's no brainwave connection with the third person (Verbena or Katie), Sam wouldn't be able to see that person either.
The whole thing is pretty hokey, I mean, there's no attempt at a technological explanation. It's magic. But I happen to like this kind of magic.
asearcher--what is "proff"? If it's not in Webster's, I'm clueless.
Yes...I've been known to make a typo or two. I'll go back and fix it. Thank you for pointing it out.asearcher--what is "proff"? If it's not in Webster's, I'm clueless.
Perhaps I'm a little dumb to be a QL fan.
isz said:I have a question,that may be a bit out of context,but i'll ask it anyway -
Is Al seeing the people in the waiting room as who they are,or as Sam?! What about the rest of the crew,that works in project "Quantum Leap"?
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