From: billoj@aix.rpi.edu (Jeremy Louis Billones)
Subject: Re: QL: Moments to Live (Sp**l*rs)
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:16:01 GMT

Alright, that's it.  Everybody stand clear...

cgregory@ziggy.cs.uiuc.edu (Christine Gregory) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.171742.18151@infonode.ingr.com> tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer) writes:
>" In article <k!4tvmj@rpi.edu> billoj@aix.rpi.edu (Jeremy Louis Billones) writes:
>">When I get the time, I need to go back and watch some episodes from
>">the first two seasons.  I don't remember QL being so, well, dull.

>Dull?  Oh, like you must see people chained up and shot at every day... :-)

They were not going to shoot him.  Sam wasn't going to do anything to
make them shoot him.  NO STRESS WHATSOEVER.  No suspense either.

>"  This is one of the worst episodes of QL this season and there have
>"  been some real dogs. My wife walked away in the middle to go fold
>"  clothes when she came back the plot had not changed or been developed in
>"  any significant way.

>Lemme guess... when she walked away, Sam was chained to the bed.
>While she was gone,

>Norma tried to get things started, hubby was watching and had some rules.
>Norma got upset about the rules and ran out of the room.  Hank ran after her.
>Sam jumped through the (closed) window, ran to a pay phone, called the
>police, Hank came after him and shot the phone to smithereens, pointed
>the shot gun at Sam, and...
>...Then Sam was back in the cabin and chained to the bed.
>Gee, too bad nothing happened during all that time...  :-)

One more time, for the hearing impaired - THE PLOT HAD NOT CHANGED!
There had been a gag or two, but nothing new or important had happened.
Nobody knew where he was (no change), they were still going to make him
father her child (we knew that), she's nuts (news flash).  No new plot
points.

>"  Did anyone care why Sam was there.  Was there a point. was there humor
>Yes.                                   Yes,		  Yes.
>(See?  I can do it, too.)

OK, what *was* the point?  I couldn't find one.

>If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it!  Sheesh!!
>Well, if you really want to...  Maybe you two should get an act together.
>"Kermit and Jeremy -- On Quantum Leap"   Tonight we review _Shock_Theatre_:
>HATED IT!

I'll take that as it was intended, and let it lay.

I *like* Quantum Leap.  Bakula and Stockwell are excellent actors, and
there's a lot of talent behind the camera.  But for most of this season,
they've been wandering from the basic premise (a well-heeled WASP scientist
gets thrown into unknown situations, uses his intuition and humanity
to solve the problems he finds, and learns a little something about himself
and others).  Can you honestly tell me that Moments To Live can even
hold a candle to any of the episodes from the first two seasons?

{BTW - Shock Theater eats Moments to Live for lunch, It's a Wonderful
Leap for dinner, and has The Play's the Thing for dessert.}

That's the real reason I'm waiting for "Curse of..." because Chris
Ruppenthal appears to be the only staff writer who remembers how
they got there.

Jeremy Billones     billoj@rpi.edu  or  jbillone@jarthur.claremont.edu
"Who gave you the right to go meddling in time, putting right
what I made wrong?"
					"I'm just trying to get home."
"Well you're not going to make it..."
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