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I would recommend this DVD to everyone. It was great to watch it again after so many years. I love the way it makes you feel good after each show.
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when I watched 'Quantum Leap' on the tv it was a great show. so owning the first season seemed like a good idea. I WAS NOT disappointed in the least. It delivers with a knockout punch and continues on. Sam Beckett and his faithful hologram buddy 'Al' have a working relationship unequalled in tv. they keep you guessing on every plot, and make you want to run back for more. Part of you keeps hoping Sam will get home, but part of you knows that then the show would be over, and so would the fun, not to mention all the great changes these two bring about in others lives through time and space.
this series is worth the time, and WELL worth the money. If you are a Scott Backula fan, which I am, you'll more than enjoy these dvd's in your collection.
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This is a great sci-fi show, I enjoy watching it, and ad it to my collection.
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You will find yourself repeating this phrase, an ad-lib by Scott Bakula that became the trademark of the show, a lot. It's already managed to worm its way into my everyday conversation, without me even realising.
I never really knew much Quantum Leap. I never watched it when it was originally on TV, but I was only 5 when it first appeared. I borrowed this from my boyfriend, to make a small difference to watching Friends & Lois & Clark constantly!
It did get off to a shaky start, with the pilot episode, I felt like there should still be a lot more explaining to do, but it's to keep you watching isn't it? Little snippets of information are revealed throughout the series, just to keep you watching, without revealing it all in the first series. It's a shockingly short first season, but had it been known that it would take off so well, then they probably would have made it to the more standard length of a TV season, around 20+ episodes.
Scott Bakula (Sam) & Dean Stockwell (Al) make a great comedy team, and bounce perfectly off each other. Al is the women obsessed, cigar smoking, weird dressing hologram, who walks through things and thinks everything else around him is a hologram. Sam is the man who's quite literally lost touch and forgotten about everything in his own time, and is now bouncing around in his lifetime, trying to get back to his own time and his own body. He's quite the goody two shoes to Al's leering over the women. There are many different people he leaps into, including a boxer, an English professor, a Humphrey Bogart lookalike, a black man in the 50s, and many others. What was my favourite? I'm not sure. I quite liked Sam leaping into the black man. It was interesting to see a period of time when everything was so segregated. Sam also manages to run into some stars of the future: in one of the earlier episodes, he runs into a young Buddy Holly, and influences him to change the name of a song he's improvising to "Peggy Sue"; he runs into Michael Jackson in a bathroom, and "shows" him how to moonwalk; and also in the last episode, he meets a young Woody Allen. The latter was a reference that went completely over my head, as did a lot in that episode. All the references to Humphrey Bogart and all the old detectives were lost on me.
Many TV series these days have the all too familiar guest stars, but Quantum Leap manages to steer away from this. That was always a problem with Friends, it's like lets recognise the famous face this episode. The only faces I managed to recognised were a very longhaired Teri Hatcher, Jason Priestley, and Joey's dad from Friends.
I'm not too sure how this show is going to last the five series it did, but my boyfriend does have them all on DVD, and I've already borrowed the second season, so we'll see how it pans out. He's refusing to reveal the ending, so I guess I'll have to keep watching, so I'm very curious. The show will ultimately always be about leaping about, but judging by the ending, Sam will leap into a woman, which will make it slightly different, and hopefully, the show will keep changing, just to keep it fresh and new.
I can't wait to see the next season! And even moreso if Scott keeps appearing topless as much as he did in this! What, was it written into his contract that he HAD to appear topless? If you've got it flaunt it. And he certainly did that.
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This review is for the show as a whole, all five seasons. Quantum Leap has a wonderful time travel premise, supported by terrific acting and the endearing main characters of Sam Beckett and his holographic friend Al. The different situations and eras each week that Sam leaps into, often hold the viewer's interest due to their diversity. The real compelling force here, however, is the multi-talented Scott Bakula. His range as a good athlete, tuneful singer, and arresting actor is potent enough to have given this show a 5 star rating.
The problem is, some of the more socially significant and moving themes (mostly related to racism, many to the Vietnam war, and some to sexism) are interspersed with silly, stupid, "throw-away" episodes. My bigger problem relates to the excessive violence in at least one-third of the episodes. I think the tension could have been sustained without all that blood and gore.
Season 5 really falls apart, both in the shoddiness of the presumed science and in the failure of the writers to tie up loose ends (probably because it wasn't clear whether or not the series would continue). The uneven plots, the illogical premises, and the gore all bring down the rating to 3 stars.
Nevertheless, this is a show worth watching, if for no other reason than Bakula's stunning acting.
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