From: rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Drew's Spoiler Reviews -- LHO
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:29:32 GMT
Reply-To: rck1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <whelan.717658518@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu> whelan@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (John T. whelan) writes:
>eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:
>>In a previous article, andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) says:
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>>>[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.]
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>>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
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>	I was half-expecting him to say "Oh boy!", but in retrospect I
>realize it would have been inappropriate.

Yeah. The entire shooting scene was extremely intense, but intense
in the way of "Whoa! What's happening??"--something like an
adrenaline surge. But when they showed that close-up of the look on
Al's face, the intensity changed to one of a purely human
*emotion*. It took me quite a while to recover from the shock of
that scene, thank you. 

>>>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? Why put a mirrored table in there
where the leapees can easily see Sam's image (other than for
dramatic effect)? Why aren't there any chairs or any other
furniture in there--Do they keep the leapees standing around the
entire time? (Sit on the table, perhaps?) Yeah, sure, it's
aesthetically beautiful, but in terms of being *functional*...

My theory would be that this is a *different* Waiting Room, one
that is only used when the leapee needs to be *seriously*
questioned and they don't want any distractions. (Although, what
would count as "serious"? And it still doesn't explain the presence
of that mirror in there...)

>>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.
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>	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.

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? (Which leads to:
if the leapee, while in the WR, dies, what would happen?) Where
does the aura stop and the body begin?

Anway, I agree it was a good bluff...What disturbed me, though, was
how readily Al took to yanking around and threatening to blow the
head off of someone who appeared to him as, for all practical
purposes, Sam. *Especially* since he knew that there was more than
just a bit of Sam in the leapee this time around.  


Robin C. Kwong ("er)
			Leapers do it with *flash*!