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From: ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host)
Subject: Re: QL: Al's skills
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:55:46 GMT

jrjj@moscom.com (Jad Jordan) writes:

>"When I saw Black Magic Turner (or whatever) in the waiting room, I had to come
>see you as fast as I could." (Al toured with this pool shark guy.)

Yea. I have noticed that Al seems to be more suited for most of these
situations than Sam.

Look at some of skills that Al had that Sam needed:

He spoke Hebrew & Italian
He played pool
He piloted a plane (a couple of episodes of this)
Boxed
Played baseball
Real good with the ladies, Would have been really glad to do Sam's job :)
Acted
Singing
Navigate

Except for Ancient Languages and Medicine Al seemed to have most of
the skills necessary for the situations Sam has been in

Plus Sam's skills would much better at fixing Zyggy and explaining
the reasons the quantom string theorem and why Al would have to do
the job to leap.

Has Anybody composed a list of Al's skills?
Of course if Al was the leaper it would have disappointed some
of the ladies with some of the scenes :)
-- 

                      Glenn E. Host - Reston, VA
Very grateful guest of Openage - the best SCO service shop in the area
************* my views represent no one - not even myself. ****************
From: cgregory@ziggy.cs.uiuc.edu (Christine Gregory)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Leaping w/o Net Question
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:34:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: sunb10.1992Oct16.163431.11424
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In article <5129@calmasd.Prime.COM> mas@calmasd.Prime.COM (Marisa SorBello) writes:
" In article <1992Oct14.094332.59691@cc.usu.edu> sll28@cc.usu.edu (Lorna Payne) writes:
" >This question pertains the the episode shown on Tuesday, Oct. 13 on USA
" >(Leaping in Without a Net):  towards the end of the episode, when Sam
" >and Eva are finally Doing It (the Triple, people.  Some people's minds--
" 
" As much as I enjoyed this episode, it brought to mind one of my
" pet peeves about TV, which is telling the audience that the char-
" acters are of a certain ethnicity, but then making no attempt to
" make it believable.  NO Hungarian would EVER pronounce Eva with a
" long E sound -- it is always prounounced as Ava (like in Gardner),

Or Gabor?  :-)

" A Hungarian girl calling her
" mother "mama" -- now, really!

OK, so what *would* she call her mother?

" The pronunciation of Eva's name bugged me every time I heard it;

Did Eva or her father ever say Eva's name?
I think it may have only been Sam and Al who actually said it...
or maybe not.
From: jrjj@moscom.com (Jad Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: This weeks episode was *not* a smart idea.
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:30:43 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY

In article <1992Oct7.045250.22453@netcom.com> sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:
>Well, I hate to tell you this, but you ARE wrong on this fact.
>
>Sam is always Sam. He always has his own abilities. When he leaped
>into a blind man, he wasn't blind. When he leaps into old people,
>he doesn't have arthritis, etc.

That's true, Sally. But some of the best "Things that make you go hmmmmm" is
when Sam kind of inherits some of the symptoms of the leapee. Like when he was
having stomach pains o?f the pregnant woman. Or the clumsiness of the boy who
was retarded. You get the idea. I was half-expecting Sam's legs to fall asleep
from sitting in that chair for so long, so he would stumble alittle when he
stood up out of the chair. That would have been cute. Oh well.

Great episode, though.

-Jadley
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From: dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner)
Subject: GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE
Keywords: Godzilla Japan Monster Biollante
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:53:30 GMT

GOJIRA TAI BIORANTE, released in Japan in December, 1989, will be
finally coming out here in the United States in December.

HBO/Canon Home Video will be releasing it on home video. The film
will not be playing in theatres here.

This means that GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE might be on HBO sometime
next year.




David Milner  Columbia University
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From: sdeering@athena.mit.edu (Scott E Deering)
Subject: Re: QL: My Evil Leaper Theory
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:36:51 GMT

In article <1b9hmdINNgu2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:
|> 
|> 
|>  
|> Since everyone else is coming up with ideas on this, I'd like
|> to add mine.  Please, let me know what you think.
|> 
|> I don't think that the Evil Leaper (EL) is evil.  I think that
|> she is, like Sam, trapped in time and not at all in control of
|> where and when she goes.  Now, since we already know that she has
|> an Observer (Zoe), perhaps it is this woman who is telling her that
|> she must do evil things in order to get home. Think about it...Al
|> is the one, with Ziggy's help, that is telling Sam that he must
|> save so and so, or do such and such, to leap and perhaps get home.
|> Now, if Zoe and their equivelant of Ziggy, is telling EL that she
|> must KILL so and so or mess up such and such to get home, don't
|> you think she'd do it?  She may not be evil but the person(s)
|> contolling her and feeding her information may be.
|> 
|> Just my $.02
|> -- 
|>              Beth Hlabse    eah4@po.CWRU.Edu     Assistant Sysop
|>                 The Science Fiction and Fantasy Sig (GO SCIFI)
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|>  QL QL QL QL QL   Every week is Leap Week on the USA Channel!   QL QL QL QL QL


This theory brings up an interesting question; 

With two accelerator chambers running simultaneously, what kind of interesting
side-effects and "cross-leaps" could you have? For example, could Sam find 
himself in the EL accelerator chamber and waiting room? Can Al interact with
the other observer (probably; this is to good a plot point to miss) and how? 
What if the other "parallel-hybrid" computer has a bigger ego than Ziggy or
a serious mean streak? Will having another leaper in the same time period
cause interference or play havoc with Ziggy's ability to find Sam? Is the EL
actually smarter than Sam, or unimparied by her leap. Will she have a few 
extra tricks up her sleeve that Sam will have to match. Etc, Etc....

This could and should be a very complex, yet fun episode...


-scott

scott deering							<><
sdeering@athena.mit.edu
From: meyers@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Woops!
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:51:25 GMT
Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA

In article <j728403@pro-smof.cts.com>, wixer!cactus.org!wixer!pro-smof.cts.com!rfletcher@cactus.org (Robert Fletcher) writes:
> 
>   This new Fox show has a problem, is a plot with no where to go. Even with
> this in mind I think the show Whoops! can be fixed. The writer of the show
> should let the character discover that they are no longer on Earth but on
> some other planet or a parallel Earth. That would give the character some
> hope of rescue from the deadend story line.
> ----

"Gilligan's Island" in space, now that was a dead-end storyline. After
watching the first show and last nights installment I think this show
has lots it can do. The characters themselves bring a certain amount
to the storylines that, if used properly, can have this one run for
years. A group of diverse people as the only survivers of the world
and what a group. The show has the ability to say something every week
about the way we are, do it with humor and not be preachy. The plot
last night was predictable, but it was fun getting there. It was
nothing that we had not heard before. Having them alone means they
must deal with all the things they learned from the sixties to the
nineties and try for better.  The characters may seem sterotypical and
they are, but funny nevertheless. Come now Alice's Resturant!!!! If
Whoops! becomes one of the we can be rescued and returned to our old
ways shows show it will loss a great deal. Last night I thought how
many years can this work, at the end of the episode I said a long
time. The use of the diary leads one to believe that in the end you
could show the descendents reading the diary and getting a handle on
how they came to be. In that respect it is much like us reading the
"Bible" or your book of choice to learn how we came to be here.

Owen
meyers@mcclbo.med.nyu.edu 

"I don't understand why you make such a big deal out of
everything...haven't you learned; if it's not happening to me it's not
important."     ____Murphy Brown___
From: thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: HighLander
Date: 12 Oct 92 04:15:15 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

A)  I agree that the swordfighting is unrealistic but, this is 
    entertainment people *not* real life.  Who wants to see a 
    normal boring swordfight?

B)  The show has too damn many commericials even more than Star Trek.


Alex

I like the QL theme song but, I'm beginning to dislike the show  :(
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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: Re: QL: This weeks episode was *not* a smart idea.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:52:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.205142.7224@ms.uky.edu> thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell) writes:
>Spoilers below by the way ...


>I was *very* disappointed.  Sam was able to overcome the abilities
>of someone he was leaped into.  This can't happen.  If he is a 
>parapeligic then he is a parapeligic.  He's always had to adapt
>to the abilities of the person that he was in and work within those
>constraints.  I was *not* happy.  Maybe I'm wrong on this fact but
>I didn't think he was able to do stuff like that.

Well, I hate to tell you this, but you ARE wrong on this fact.

Sam is always Sam. He always has his own abilities. When he leaped
into a blind man, he wasn't blind. When he leaps into old people,
he doesn't have arthritis, etc.

And a picky correction: the guy Sam leaped into wasn't a paraplegic,
he was a double amputee. *BIG* difference.

IMHO, this was one hell of an episode -- and I'm buying Tommy
Thompson a drink the next time I see him.

Sally

-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
From: lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Fox SF - Alien Nation, St:TNG, etc
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:01:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Oct7.210158.13499
Organization: Western Washington University


 
    Latest issue of Broadcasting (Sept 28 92) has an interesting
short article on p. 18.  Two in fact.
 
    The first says that while Paramount is considering a seventh
"and final" Star Trek movie with the original cast, W. Shatner
is pitching a tv series based on the Tek science fiction
novels he wrote.  (The article says he wrote them "with Ron
Goulart" which is the first time I've seen that
officially acknowledged).  SOmebody describes the series as "TJ Hooker
in Outer Space," which is the knid of dumb think tv execs say.  Shatner
would be a guest star, not a regular.
 
     But the main reason I'm writing is another article on the
same page that says Fox is considering several SF series.
 Supposedly they have committed to making a pilot based on
the Circuit Trilogy, novels by Melinda Snodgrass (MS wrote
ST:TNG's "The Measure of a Man" and was promptly hired as
their script supervisor, or some such title...from what
I have heard she deserves  much of the credit for TNG's
drastic improvement between seasons 2 and 3).
 
     Joe Manowski and Brannon Braga, also out of ST:TNG
are supposed to have a commitment from Fox for six episodes
of an SF series to be called Real Time.
 
     And finally....drum roll please...
 
     "It was also rumored that Fox might try to resurrect
Alien Nation, which has established a small cult following,
or at least produce new episodes for the Sci-Fi Channel."
 
     (Sci-Fi Channel has purchased the rights to show the AN
reruns).
 
     Fox spokeswoman has not verified any of the above rumors.
 
 
Robert Lopresti                    "It would be a better world for the 
Wilson Library                      children if the parents ate the
spinach."
WWU, Bellingham, WA                                   -Groucho Marx
98225-9103                     lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu
             MY OPINIONS AND MINE ALONE...............
 
 
 
henson[4]:
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From: jeckard@.oracle.com (Jon Tyler Eckard)
Subject: Re: will sf channel survive?
Organization: Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:43:14 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <20835@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
>I question whether sfc can survive for more than a couple of years.
>There is oonly so much sf out there, and a lot of that is BAD sf. 
>
>I just can't see watching BG and Lost in Space year after year.
>Any thoughts?
>
	I agree that we can't watch Lost in Space forever, and I'm sure the 
producers of the Sci-Fi Channel know it as well.  

	I think they've started out with a great format, yes some of it is BAD,
but give 'em a chance, they're still infants in the big picture of cable TV.
There are alot of Sci-Fi movies that never won an Oscar but enjoy a tremendous
cult following, like the "Killer Tomato" (Ask Dan Quail if there's an e on the
end) movies, granted, poorly done but they're cult classics.

	I, for one, welcome the new channel.  It's revived alot of the good 
oldies of sci-fi that I remember as a kid. (Yes I'm that old.)

>-- 
>Brett Person
>Guest Account	
>North Dakota State University
>person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet
>"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to loose"

Ty Eckard
Oracle Corp.
Bethesda, Md.
jeckard@us.oracle.com

My opinions are my own (luckily) and do not reflect the opinion of Oracle Corp.
From: lau@avila.ai.sri.com (Stephen Lau)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL: Ideas on last episode
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:10:20 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA


Somebody a few messages ago came up with an idea for the last
episode. I've always thought it would be interesting if the
series ended with Sam leaping into himself to prevent himself
from leaping in the first place. If he doesn't leap does that
mean all the people he helped orginally would never be helped?
It would lead to an interesting predicament and provide a complete
circle affect on the entire series. 

Just some rambling thoughts...

Steve

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From: Mark Shaw <mshaw@uiuc.edu>
Subject: QL: What happens to people after Sam?
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From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: Re: rec.arts.tv.quantum-leap?
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 17:20:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.141722.16486@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
|> alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy) writes:
|> 
|> >_WILL_ there be a rec.arts.tv.quantum-leap?
|> 
|>     I seriously doubt it. There is just no way that a single television
|> show would get enough support in a CFV to get its own rec.arts.* group.

Of course not. I mean, you'd never see anything like rec.arts.drwho, would
you? Or an entire rec.arts.startrek.* hierarchy, either. There just would
not be enough support in a CFV to get support for these, and there would
not be enough support in a CFV to create rec.arts.tv.quantum-leap or
rec.arts.quantum-leap either!

(NOTE: The above paragraph is meant as sarcasm, and not as a flame. It
       was written by a Leaper who probably should cut down on the amount
       of Coca-Cola he drinks. :-) :-)

I think I speak for Canada when I say, ``Go Blue Jays!!!''' :-)

(By the way, please don't try to e-mail me between September and December
1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
Thanx. (However, feel free to e-mail any flames! :-) :-)

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From: gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay)
Subject: Re: TV Highlander
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:00:42 GMT

In article <BvpJ96.J42@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip Russell) writes:
>This is something I have been worried about. Most shows made from movies
>blindly follow the same format as the original movie and never grow.

>How about episodes devoted to Duncan's problems with living longer than
>his mortal friends and girlfriends?

	Doesn't this question contradict the previous statement?  (Didn't
we already go through the immortal-mortal friend/love problems through
Connor (Conner?) in the original?  I'm sure we'll see it in the series, too, 
though.


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From: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Subject: Re: QL: This weeks episode was *not* a smart idea.
Reply-To: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 23:16:28 GMT

In article <DLB.92Oct8154335@fanny.wash.inmet.com>, dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton) writes:
[cut]
>
>In my humble opinion (IMHO), you miss the whole point of that
>magnificent episode.  Sam was completely  normal, with all his
>faculties.  He was reacting entirely to the expectations of the people
>around him.  One accident, and he found himself being hyper-careful
>with the things around him.  As frequently happens, this resulted in
>more accidents.  For you or me, this would be a bad day; for everyone
>around Jimmy, it was "proof" that he was retarded.
>
>How many people do we keep in bondage to a label?  How many "retarded"
>people would function near normally, with their reactions a bit slow,
>perhaps, if those around them would cut them the same amount of slack
>they cut each other (or a twelve year old child)?
>
>"Jimmy" packs its power because Sam was still Sam.  He seemed retarded
>because the people around him treated him that way.
>
>					Dave Barton
>					dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com
YES!!!!
(I think this one is my favorite episode. My favorite line is, 
"You don't have to be a rocket scientist [to fix a bicycle chain]."
Enormously humorous when you consider that Sam is more than a 
rocket scientist.)
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From: slrosser@whale.st.usm.edu (Sandra Lynne Rosser)
Subject: Re: QL: Al and Sam... and cutting too
Followup-To: Rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Summary: Last night's All American Episode
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:42:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.081557.28836@wixer.cactus.org> guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
>On tonight's USA episode of QL "All Americans" Al was explaining just
>how close friends the two boys were, and Al said something like "They're
>really close, just like us" and from that Sam knew that his leepee(?)
>couldn't go to college without his friend. So, Sam and Al are a lot
>closer than people think, and they've been friends for an awfully long
>time.

>jam 

I watched that episode last night, and I -loved- that bit...it seemed to
me to sum everything up in half a phrase.  Beautiful.  Can't wait to see
what happens tomorrow, because like I said, I'm new to this...But I
have to say, Sam is adorable.  Al, too.  *sigh*

--Meredith

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From: driskill%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Hank Driskill, GSH3D)
Subject: Re: Highlander: Series and third movieJust some comments about the new series, and about the possible
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:50:46 MDT
Organization: Grad Student From Hell (in 3D)

In article <92281.111530JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET> <JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
> 
>     The time-period of the show: I'd put it in the early 80's, before
>the first movie.  That took place in 1986("I'd like to ask you about a
>six-foot lunatic with a broadsword in 1986, New York" - or somthing
>like that, said by Brenda).  The presence of so many older model cars
>suggests this to me.  I think the reason that Conner is about is be-
>cause Russel Nash is about to inherit the anitique store, but Conner
>has to spend some time away before he can take a new identity, give
>the neighbors time to forget him.
> 

Since people keep posting about this, I thought I'd pipe in: from my poster
for the Highlander movie... (paraphrased, since I'm at work)

"He fought his first battle in the Scottish Highlands in 1537.  He will fight
his greatest battle in New York City, 1987.  His name is Connor Macleod.  He
is immortal."

Like I said, paraphrased... but I'm 99% certain the movie poster says The
Gathering is in 1987.  I'll look when I get home tonight, and post if I'm
mistaken.

Hank.
From: RCUTSHAL@VUNET.VINU.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Addr: Deep Space Nine
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:56:01 GMT

Does anyone have any info on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series
that will begin airing soon?  I feel like I'm in a black hole on this
new series.
Rex Cutshall
<RCUTSHAL@VUNET.VINU.EDU>
From: aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap - Brooke Shields Episode - maybe spoilers
Date: 15 Oct 1992 04:15:22 GMT
Organization: Ord High School, Ord, NE
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nde.unl.edu

mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:

>Now, about Nickos:  It seems as if they have all they need to survive.  If  
>Nickos really needed clothing, they could make it from some of the  
>wildlife that grows on the "previously" DESERTED island.  Basically what  
>I'm trying to say is, he doesn't need clothes!!!!
>
>Al told Sam that Nickos and Ms Foster (Brooke Shields) were going to have  
>six children.  That tells me that neither of them wore any clothes.

As you mention the children, don't forget them as well.  I guess they
didn't wear any clothes either.  I guess they became one big happy nudist
family.

>   mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu is
>        Marc Meltzer

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