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From: sasha@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (David A. Tumarkin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL Season Premiere -- Comment (No Spoilers)
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:17:10 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

Not once in the entire episode did I hear Sam utter "Oh boy."  Is this a 
first?


                                      - Sasha

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From: aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Drew's Spoiler Reviews -- LHO
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:43:53 GMT
Organization: Ord High School, Ord, NE

rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong) writes:
>whelan@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (John T. whelan) writes:
>>eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:
>>>andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) says:

>>>>[This post contains spoilers for the season premiere of "Quantum Leap".
>>>> Those heathens who have not yet seen it are advised to go boil yourself
>>>> in oil for the duration of this review, which follows after the ^L.]

>>>>I have a few complaints, however.  First, I didn't like Al taking a pistol
>>>>into the waiting room; in fact, I'm still not overly happy with the waiting
>>>>room as depicted.

>What ever happened to the "all-white room," presumably with doctors
>and other medical staff on hand?

I don't remember an "all-white room" being mentioned in the series at
all, but I did most of if not entire second season.

>>>As head of security (I assume he's in charge), I have no problems with
>>>Al carrying a gun, but you are right.  There is no way that he'd take it
>>>into the WR.  Besides, it's not like he can shoot the guy...that's SAM!

>>*We* know Al's not going to
>>shoot Oswald, and *Al* knows he's not going to shoot Oswald, but
>>*Oswald* sure as hell doesn't know that.  It was a very good bluff.

>Wait, hasn't it been established now that it's Sam's and the
>leapee's *bodies* that are being exchanged? If (*IF*) Al did shoot
>Oswald, he'd only "injure" Sam's aura, right? Would Sam's aura
>retain the bullet wound after Oswald leaped out?

There's still bits of Sam's mind in Oswald in the Waiting Room, and I'm
sure he wouldn't want to kill off those parts of Sam's mind.

>Robin C. Kwong ("er)

-- 
aberigan@nde.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)
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From: jmsmith@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY MARTIN SMITH)
Subject: Re: QL: Where'd he leap from?
Originator: jmsmith@c00811-247dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: jmsmith@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY MARTIN SMITH)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:57:00 GMT


If I remember right, That leap was from the end of "The Leap Home" Part 1.
Sam is leaping out of himself at age 16.

L8er,
Jeff
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Subject: Re: QL: The imaging chamber notes. (possible SPOILER)
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 13:29:12 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown) writes:

> I saw Dennis Wolfberg on Night After Night on (I think it was) Thursday,
> 
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> and he said that in an upcoming episode, Gooshie will replace Al in the 
> imaging chamber for a while (possibly for most of the episode).  This
> wil occur in possibly the third or fourth episode (depending on how they
> order these when they air them).  AND... he said that Gooshie IS having an 
> affair with Tina.  I'm assuming he's serious about this (if he ever IS 
> serious :).
> 
> And no, I didn't record the show, sad to say. :-(
> 

Yes, that episode is called "Killing Time" I believe, the one where Sam
leaps into a Killer, that we'd heard so much about a few weeks ago.
I have a friend that works in post production on QL, so I occasionally get
tidbits.


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From: barry@jab.tucson.az.us (Barry Mishkind)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: SCI-FI Channel
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 23:59:21 PDT
Organization: Just Another Bbs. Tucson, AZ

Just so I've added my two cents.... I have really had enough psychic ads,
and programs that start ahead of schedule, and programs that don't run at 
the times we were led to expect (2AM Monday was supposed to be the Prisoner 
rerun), and a 1/2 hour Dr. Who Hour.
 
Maybe my clock is off .. or I misread the schedule as listed, but I find 
that
many of the programs are not as expected?

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From: sll28@cc.usu.edu (Lorna Payne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL primer and FAQ request
Date: 5 Oct 92 09:23:08 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

I've tried repeatedly to ftp to get the Quantum Leap primer, FAQL, and
episode guide, but have had no luck.  Could some kind soul please email
it to me?

Lorna 
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From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Where can the observer go? Theories
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:47:43 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Thursday, 1st October 1992 at 3:47pm BST
Originator: imc@msc8.comlab

In article <6896@transfer.stratus.com>, hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship) wrote:

>Of course, the most useful spying activity would be to leap back only
>a few minutes (not decades).

You mean, so you can answer questions like "Now where did I put that damn
pen?  I had it here a moment ago!"...  :-)

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
From: dickenjd@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (DICKENJD)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Highlander TV show
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:14:00 GMT
Organization: Vanderbilt University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	Greetings. I was flipping through channels the other day and
came across a 30-minute spot on my local Fox affiliate about the
making of HIGHLANDER the series. I am a Highlander fan, and had no 
idea this was in production. When is it scheduled to begin? Does 
anyone have any details on it?

Thanks....
Jeremy
From: greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL:  Syndication Episode list
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:47:12 GMT
Reply-To: greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas)
Distribution: na
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Annapolis, MD

Is there a listing of QL episodes that are running on USA?  I would
like to have them emailed to me if possible.

Leila


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From: whelan@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (John T. whelan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Drew's Spoiler Reviews -- LHO
Date: 28 Sep 92 05:35:18 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv

eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:
>In a previous article, andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) says:

>>[This post contains spoilers for the season premiere of "Quantum Leap".
>> Those heathens who have not yet seen it are advised to go boil yourself
>> in oil for the duration of this review, which follows after the ^L.]
















>already).  And isn't Dean just a regular kick in the butt.  His expression
>in the school book depository after JFK was shot was incredible, not to

	I was half-expecting him to say "Oh boy!", but in retrospect I
realize it would have been inappropriate.

>>I have a few complaints, however.  First, I didn't like Al taking a pistol
>>into the waiting room; in fact, I'm still not overly happy with the waiting
>>room as depicted.

>As head of security (I assume he's in charge), I have no problems with
>Al carrying a gun, but you are right.  There is no way that he'd take it
>into the WR.  Besides, it's not like he can shoot the guy...that's SAM!
>It does make a nice threat, though, and we get to see another side of Al's
>personality.

	That's just the point, though.  *We* know Al's not going to
shoot Oswald, and *Al* knows he's not going to shoot Oswald, but
*Oswald* sure as hell doesn't know that.  It was a very good bluff.
					John Whelan

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From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Higlander: The Series
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:43:01 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Oct6.151601.20721@njitgw.njit.edu> bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler) writes:
>>The premier episode introduced a new immortal to the Highlander mythos. His
>>name is (I think) Duncan McLeod, a cousin of the Lambert character ( I am
>>Connor McLeod, of the Clan McLeod, born on the shores of Lochshire... blah,
>>blah, blah). The actor who plays the character is obviously North American and
>>does a bad Scottish accent.

>The ONLY saving grace for this episode was Lambert's appearance.  
>Without him, this show is going to go downhill FAST.  The acting
>(especially those AWFUL accents)

With all the accent-bashing going on, I just thought I'd like to point out
that Adrian Paul isn't even attempting a Scottish accent.  That's his real
British / Canadian voice.  Like Kevin Costner before him, he didn't even
feel the need to attempt an embarassing accent.

This does make sense, actually.  Considering that my British friends living
in this area have almost completely lost their accents after five years,
it kinda fits that someone who's been hanging around North America for
centuries would have their accent drift a bit.  That said, the ancient
flashbacks did have a touch of the Scot in his voice... but not much at all.

I remember the time when I was visiting London and accused of impersonating
a very bad American accent.  :-)
From: nobody@KODAK.COM (Todd Perlmutter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Bat-Voice
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:00:21 GMT
Reply-To: perl@ektron.kodak.com

4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John P. LaRocque) says:

> (Night Court's Richard Moll, who is the voice of the Bat-computer on 
> Batman the Animated Series). 

	Actually he does a good deal of the voices on Batman the Animated
Series (Two-Face for example) as do Mark Hammil and Adrien Barbeau (?).

					---> Todd <---

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From: jseaver@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: WOOPS! I shouldn't have had the TV on!
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:42:27 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Sep28.131149.1@skcla.monsanto.com> jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
>WOOPS!  I shouldn't have had the TV on Sunday night.
>
>Seriously.  It's about as lame as high concept can get.
>It's pretty much a Sixes Company with no chance of getting disturbed by the
>Ropers, just giant spiders.
>
>The whole thing should have been a 5-minute SNL skit, not a weekly sitcom.
>
>Bleah!

	Actually, I didn't think it was THAT bad.  It did have a lousy pilot,
but there have been shows where the pilot stunk and the series was great and
vice versa.  This show could get much better - it's got about the same basic
premise as Red Dwarf, and if the writers are clever enough to come up with 
good ideas (which is promising, it comes from the producers of The Golden
Girls & Empty Nest), the show could be excellent.

	Or it could suck.

						-Jay
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Subject: Sci-Fi Channel Alliance membership notice
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 02:56:35 GMT


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From: aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL Season Premiere -- Comment (No Spoilers)
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:49:51 GMT
Organization: Ord High School, Ord, NE

sasha@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (David A. Tumarkin) writes:

>Not once in the entire episode did I hear Sam utter "Oh boy."  Is this a 
>first?

"How do you say `oh boy' in Russian?"
   -- Sam

-- 
aberigan@nde.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)
From: wixer!cactus.org!wixer!pro-smof.cts.com!rfletcher@cactus.org (Robert Fletcher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Woops! is nowhere near Gilligan
Date: 1 Oct 1992 03:49:55 -0500
Organization: The SMOF-BBS: Science Fiction Online Since 1985 [512-467-7317]
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

  You titled " nowhere near Gilligan " needs some texts.
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From: ins598w@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Roger Tall)
Subject: QL:  Episode info needed (Aust)
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 04:50:46 GMT


Here in Australia we have just finised (I think) the 1991 season of
Quantum Leap.

Well it is the episode where Sam leaps into an asylum and is given
electric shock treatment and in the end he leaps with Al.  But we
discover that Al is the one that actually leaps and Sam is the 
hologram.

Now, the network (channel 10) in their wisdom??? has decided to start
showing repeats of old QL episodes from next week.

What I would like to know is who has Al lept into and what the story is
all about.  Also any follow up episodes that swap back Al and Sam.  
I don't care if you are going to spoil it for me but I need to know!!!!

Well thank you in advance to whoever hears my plee!!!  
--

Roger Tall
2nd Year Computer Science
Monash University (Clayton)
AUSTRALIA 

e-mail:  ins598w@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au

	"Have you ever heard of the Klingon proverb:
	 That revenge is a dish best served cold...
	 It is very cold in space...!!!"

	(Khan:  Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan)


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From: @apollo.HP.COM (Jennifer E. Levine)
Subject: Re: Covington Cross
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:46:12 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

I must admit that I have only seen 2 episodes of the show. However, I think
it has a lot of potential. The concept is good. But the writing needs some work.
I must admit that last Sat's show was hysterical (IMHO) 

Hopefully, the writers will learn a little more about the period.

	--Jennifer
	jlevine@apollo.hp.com
From: barry@jab.tucson.az.us (Barry Mishkind)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Anyone getting the SciFi Channel in Stereo?
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 12:22:41 PDT
Organization: Just Another Bbs. Tucson, AZ

It seems to be in stereo on satellite, but the time I ran it, it was a bit 
noisy.


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From: wfrey@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Warren Frey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: First Surround Movie (Re: Anyone getting the SciFi Channel in St
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 22:38:01 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar) writes:

- In article <1992Oct1.064556.19519@netcom.com> saf@netcom.com (Steve A. Feinst
- >
- >Well here in Palo Alto, the Stereo light on my TV comes on when I tune
- >to that station.  I remember hearing that Star Wars was the very first
- >movie recorded in Dolby [s]tereo (a.k.a. Dolby Surround) so on Blast Off
- >night (last Thu), I flipped on my Surround Decoder, and sure enough.
- >Blasters to the left of me, Vader to the right... Quick , Duck!
- 
- As a point in film history, I think The Who's `Tommy' was actually the
- first film in surround.
- 
- 
- 
- 
- -- 
- Tom Kuchar			  
- kuchar@buast7.bu.edu		  -or-                      kuchar@plh.af.mil
- Department of Astronomy                              Phillips Laboratory/GPOB
- Boston Univerity		                                  Hanscom AFB

Well, if you want to get technical, Disney's Fantasia was the first 
actual surround-sound movie, with what Disney dubbed "Fantasound". The 
first Dolby movie WAS Star Wars, of that I'm fairly sure.

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From: michaell@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Michael Lazarou)
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap Premise
Organization: University of Sussex at Brighton
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:06:24 GMT

Ryan, Edmund (KL62%MARISTB@VM.MARIST.EDU) wrote:
: Greetings:
:
: I find the basic premise of Quantum Leap absurd in that Sam
: changes lives on a personal level and not on a societal level.
: In many science fiction stories about time travel, individual
: events have been shown to influence societal events. Even
: in Ray Bradbury's story, ?????? (about the dinosaur hunting
: time travellers), history was changed by killing a butterfly.
: The changes made in the time continuum as in Quantum Leap would
: have an eventual effect on society and thereby change history.
: Even the most seemingly insignificant individuals you can
: imagine eventually have some effect on society.
:
: If the writers of Quantum Leap really understood, they could
: have some real fun and have Sam alter history as to improve
: the present state of things.

This is much too hard to do in a televison series and I can't imagine that the
writers could do a good job of it. Television doesn't have enough depth to
sufficiently explain the consequences of mucking about with time. The only
option for the writers would be to make the series like Twin Peaks and be
completely incomprehensible to make the viewer decide whats going on because
that would make more sense than writing anything sensible.

--
INSSOMNIAK
From: hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Where can the observer go? Theories
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:37:42 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Sep30.122835.1@skcla.monsanto.com>, jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
> Okay, here's another stinger on the science behind Project Quantum Leap.
> 
> It appears from various episodes that Al's view of the past is much
> better than Sam's view of the Imaging Chamber.  Al can see people that Sam is
> not touching, can see things Sam does not see, such as on the other side of a
> wall, and can even be moved to other locales in the episode ("Gooshie!  Center
> me on ... now!").
> 
> So it seems possible that Al, or another observer, could be put anywhere or
> anywhen needed.  This would be an EXTREMELY useful feature to the government,
> as they could examine (to beat a dead horse) all angles of who shot JFK,
> wheter the missles actually removed from Cuba, how much Teddy drank before
> Chappaquidic (sp?), anything at all in history.  This is the success of PQL!
> 
> To mitigate this, it may be that Ziggy can only move the observer within the
> timestream of something that has been leaped.  To use some pseudo-science,
> perhaps they are following the superstrings.  Once there is an anchor in the
> timestream, they can wander from it, to people in the same general physical
> neighborhood.  
> 
> It may still be possible to observe where Sam has been, if the leaps pull out
> the loop in the string.
> 
> It may also be possible to follow a leap of an inanimate object placed in the
> accelerator.
> 

Of course, the most useful spying activity would be to leap back only
a few minutes (not decades).  And a very useful feature would be to
leap, say, a trained assasin into (for instance) Saddam Hussein's body guard.
Kill him, then leap out before the other bodyguards can kill the leaper.

Like Star Trek, once you start examining the pieces carefully, they basically
add up to something different than what we see.  I would prefer Quantum Leap
to be straight fantasy, rather than wierd schlock-science fiction.

-- 
"I can't believe I had the Anti!"
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