From: akilgour@thinkage.on.ca (Anita Kilgour)
Subject: Re: QL: Moments to Live (Sp**l*rs)
Summary: I don't understand these people!
Organization: /etc/organization
Disclaimer:  My boss has nothing to do with this.
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:28:06 GMT

In article <j45tszj@rpi.edu> billoj@aix.rpi.edu (Jeremy Louis Billones) writes:
>Alright, that's it.  Everybody stand clear...

>>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.

Welcome to the real world, Jeremy!  This is a television show that only has
two (count'em, TWO) regular characters (I'm not talking about people who are
mostly only referred to (Like Tina, etc.)).  Of course Sam isn't going to 
die!  We *know* that!  That's like panning Star Wars because we *knew* that 
the Rebels would succeed in blowing up the Death Star.  It is just one of 
the things that you need to 'voluntarily suspend disbelief' to enjoy.  Christ,
you must be tonnes of fun at Christmas.  "Ohh...Uncle Jeremy, look, it's 
Santa Claus!"  "No, it's not, kid. Santa Claus doesn't exist.  That's just
a jerk who's getting paid to do this.  

Clue time, child.

>>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.

Yeah, and your point is...  Would you like to give the rest of us obviously less
brilliant members of the human race an idea of what you expected the resolution
to be?  I'm sorry, but until I saw the ending, other than knowing that Sam
wouldn't die (see my point above), I did not know HOW!!  And that is one
of the other reasons I liked this episode!  

Well, genius??  Care to enlighten us mere mortals??

>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?

Explain something to me then.  If you like the show so much, why do you seem
to spend so much time panning the blasted thing?  I found Moments To Live
entertaining, funny, with a good measure of suspense.  In other words, it 
was a pleasant hour for me.  That is what I look for in a good TV program.
Not inanities, or people making fun of races, places, and faces.  I have to
hand it to you.  I have never seen a person talk out of both sides of their
face at the same time this well.  Congratulations, Jeremy.

Anita Kilgour
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