Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

ichwan_mil Quantum Leap is like nothing you've ever seen on TV. It redefines the meanings of time travel and science fiction at the same time. Sam Beckett, through a scientific project, has his spirit or soul entering someone else's body in the past with means to "put right what once went wrong" of all things surrounding the body he enters .I remember caught glimpses of Quantum Leap in TV a few times at first, but I didn't pay much attention, as I was just thinking, "What kind of show is this? It has different settings in every episode." I just guessed it was like Alfred Hitchcock presents or Twilight Zones, which were not my favorites, until a friend of mine told me about the show and I finally watched (It was a Season 2 episode "Blind Faith"). And boy, was I stunned, and became an instant keen fan. I'd never wanted to miss any single episode ever since.The most extraordinary thing about Quantum Leap is, since Sam leaps into various people with various backgrounds, the setting has virtually endless possibilities. As a Sci-Fi show, it does not try to bother us with much technical jargon or scientific terms that often hinder its viewers from fully enjoying the story. I imagine that even the show can run into thousands of episodes without running out of ideas. Basically it is a sci-fi melodrama kind of shows, but at times it could change into comedy (A Tale of Two Sweeties), war (The Leap Home part 2), thriller (Dreams), and even horror (The Boogieman). I couldn't help but stuck in front of the TV as the show played, as well as curious about whom he would leap into next. I even bought the whole DVD sets containing the whole seasons, while my favorites, among others, are 'Blind Faith', 'What Price Gloria?', 'The Great Spontini', 'Temptation Eyes', 'A Tale of Two Sweeties', and 'Pool Hall Blues'.Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell are just flawless - it is like they were born to be Sam Beckett and Al Calavicci. I couldn't think of other actors that could fit into their characters - Scott is Sam, Sam is Scott, Dean is Al, and Al is Dean, they are inseparable.Too bad, that gem was killed after only 5 seasons, with unsatisfactory conclusions. 'Sam NEVER leaps home'? How's that? Is it fair, for he sacrifices to save someone else he didn't know (at some points that even threatens his life), and he couldn't help himself? It just can't do the justice.OK, I know it's overkill, but I feel somehow sad that Sam is trapped somewhere and sometime out there. Whether he is still fighting to put right what once went wrong, or even thrown in the abyss, we could never tell. So, please, does not anybody out there in Hollywood hear him? Save him, give him a chance to be home, and give audiences more times to venture into the brightest light of fantasy TV has ever seen.

barbourwrites Quantum Leap is a fantasy series about Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist, who enters his quantum leap chamber before it is ready. This one act gave Sam the ability to leap into other's body. Unfortunately, he can only leap in his adult body once. Quantum Leap asked the question, "Can one simple act make a difference?" The answer is always yes. Dr. Sam Beckett only leaps into the average person, never the famous. The series' undertone message is one small act can change a person's life. In the series finale Dr. Sam Beckett sealed his fate when he told Al's first wife "Al is still alive." By changing the course of Al's younger life, Sam and Al (may have) never met. Even though, most fans want to believe Sam will stopped leaping for ever, one of the best ways to remember Sam is to think of him as a traveling spirit. So if one day your life suddenly changes for the better and you don't remember how; Sam leaped into your body.

edwithmj Quantum Leap is a bizarre show which is classed as science fiction despite there barely being any references to the genre throughout the show.The programme never seems to evolve. It started out from season 1 as a show where Scott Bakula (who has the most irritating voice and face on TV) goes into other persons' lives and puts "right" what once went "wrong". Firstly, it's pretty arrogant and egotistic of Sam Beckett: a man who jumped into a dangerous untested time machine not bothering that he might kill himself and make his wife a widow or get brain-damaged; Al Calavicci: a serial womaniser with the morals of a pimp; and a computer called Ziggy who isn't human to make judgements on what the "rights" and "wrongs" might be throughout each episode.The "rights" and "wrongs" are just based upon Political Correctness even to the point of Sam teaching people politically correct terms to people. Most of the characters on the show have been victims of discrimination at one point and as a result the deep south is visited far too many times. Character development is very poor. In almost every episode, Sam attempts (and succeeds) in turning various bigots to his value system. The various characters are shallow, predictable and just seem to be there so Sam has someone to talk to. So to recap Sam assumes the roles of and/or has to deal with women, ethnic minorities, racists, the aged, mentally disabled people, animals etc. Whatever one's political opinions it gets boring very quickly which leads me onto my next topic.As I stated the topics for the episodes are far too based upon the liberal agenda and there aren't nearly enough episodes which answered the scientific questions in the show like how does "leaping" actually work, what it's like in the future, who's controlling his leaping etc. All we ever get are episodes which say they're set in 1964 or whatever but never mention the date again. An example of the good episodes were the Captain Galaxy one as it dealt with another (almost) leaper, the evil leaper episodes, the episode where Sam and Al change place. The evil leaper episode ended so cheaply. I wanted to know WHO she was and who Lothos and Zoe really were, where they came from and WHEN they came from but instead they just ended it all with "she's free now". What an insult (!) and next episode it went back to the standard formula of Sam rescuing someone at the last minute or challenging someone's hatred of goats or whatever. Those episodes I mentioned were the only unpredictable ones; every other one never got me interested.Sam seems smugly to end each episode having converted the impious to his moral code, and grinning with a girl in his arms. Sam never seems to sleep or have any breaks; in fact he's constantly running around stopping domestic violence and other trivial crimes. Take the Marilyn Monroe episode for example. Sam goes through all that just to have her make one last film and they find out she dies anyway. Does God or the oft-mentioned clichéd "Higher Power" really think that's more important than stopping a war or a rape or something?! The last episode has Al the bartender spouting some nonsense about how Sam changing a few lives is actually changing a lot more because the lives he's saved go on to do good. I don't buy that for a second. That assumes that all the people he saved and their children, friends etc go running after people and save them from quitting dancing because of Deafness etc like little Jesuses as Sam did. Rubbish. You're seriously deluded if preventing a divorce equates to stopping wars etc.The goofs in Quantum Leap are numerous. I cringed the number of times Sam's "reflection" was out of sync. Al's shadow is constantly seen, and shadows fall on him; when Al does that disappearing thing it's so obviously the cheap camera trick of stopping the film as the background changes slightly. Sam's real reflection is seen many times too. They just didn't bother with the sci-fi part of the show. The scripts, the effects and the ideas weren't geared towards sci-fi at all. It's like they couldn't be bothered to think outside the likes of "let's have Sam leap into a PETA activist who tries to change the attitude of a squirrel hunter in 1970!" Because of the lack of sci-fi, the idea of time travel was limited to getting cheap ratings by having Sam leap into famous people. This got so prominent it got embarrassing: he even leaped into Doctor Ruth. What next? Leaping into Arnold Schwarzenegger to make sure he plays a part in The Terminator?!The best episode ironically was the last one. Sam finally has the chance to get some answers and even meets another leaper but what happens? The network cancels the show (just when it was getting better) and treats us with a disastrously soppy ending of Sam making sure Beth doesn't remarry. Two things about that: one, why does God or His liberal appeasing name of "Higher Power" think that's more important than stopping a death etc; and two, how do they know preventing Beth from remarrying is a good thing? Perhaps Al starts to beat her or betrays her (he is a womaniser after all); or perhaps the children Beth has with her new husband are never born. That's not nice is it? Erasing someone's existence just to mend Al's broken heart. They never thought it through. The moral messages of the show are messed up and the show is just a soppy drama with (very) slight sci-fi undertones.In short, the show wasn't sci-fi enough for a sci-fi show and the idea of rescuing oddballs and misfits through time got tired very quickly.

Bolesroor I used to love "Quantum Leap." Scott Bakula was perfect as the earnest Sam, and Dean Stockwell was great as the crusty Al: their chemistry was made in heaven. The show, of course, is about a scientist who gets lost in time, leaping into the body of various people and striving "to put right what once went wrong." The weekly cliff-hangers were possibly the most brilliant in the history of television. I remember watching the show every Friday night and not being able to wait for the following week's show to see how Sam was going to possibly get out of another impossible scenario.As great as Quantum Leap was, the show hasn't aged well for me. Watching the episodes today I am struck by how PC the show is... just as political correctness was taking over American culture back then it is obvious- in retrospect- that the writers of the show were also in the grips of this sensitive liberal movement and allowed it to affect their work. Sam is always urging a woman to leave an oppressive man, always liberating a town with rock 'n roll, always protesting the war. In one episode he leaps into the body of a black man in 1955... his mission is to prevent an elderly white woman from dying, but that doesn't stop him from trying to single-handedly end racism in America even though he knows by the history books that segregation won't end for another decade... and that racism has yet to run its course TO THIS DAY. This was the kind of thing that seemed sweet back in 89... today it just seems naive.Some of the show is just as great as it was back then... the episode where Sam meets Al's wife is beautiful, the first encounter with the Evil Leaper is great... and the episode where Sam leaps back to his boyhood home is acted so well you will feel the nostalgia for this childhood that isn't even yours. "The Leap Home" also contains my favorite moment in the series: Sam, as himself in 1969, convincing his little sister that the Beatles are going to break up by playing her a song that has not yet been written: John Lennon's "Imagine." She knows her brother can't possibly see the future but the camera holds on her face as she listens to the tune... and the fact that she cannot deny what she is hearing causes her to shake her head and burst into tears... heartbreaking.To watch the show now is to go from leaps that are corny, sometimes maddening, to those that are brilliant or just fun... but even the bad ones are anchored by the magic of Bakula & Stockwell. As a kid I would have given the show an A+... but today I'd have to give it a B. Maybe I have gotten jaded... maybe times have just changed.