Nah, I fucking wish because ~~Captain Archer~~ Doctor Beckett would actually try to do some good lol
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Wellllll akshually, he didn't necessarily do good things every time. He did the things that were supposed to happen. Like that time he leaped in Lee Harvey Oswald, and had to kill Kennedy. Obviously not killing Kennedy would have been the good thing, but as it was supposed to happen, Sam killed Kennedy.
The leaps we saw, were the good leaps. I'm sure there were a few that he had to be an abusive pimp to keep the timeline from collapsing or maybe commit a little war crime here and there in the name of history.
He doesn't do things that are supposed to happen, though. He makes sure not to screw up History as he knows it, except he always comes across a little thing that went wrong in his timeline and had a ripple effect of bad consequences, and he fixes them by doing good and creating a good ripple effect. It's never suggested that any of those things are "supposed to happen," just that they did happen in his timeline, and he finds better ways to fix them, without fucking up everything else, and creating a better timeline that is not his original one. The very fact that he risks fucking up big things show that nothing is "supposed to happen." The opening narration mentions he strives to "put right what once went wrong", so it's strongly suggested that, if anything, he's "meant" to do good, which is his own conclusion as the show goes on, somebody set him on this path to do good.
It's never suggested that "putting right what once went wrong" means committing a crime that didn't happen because without this crime, things were supposed to go worse. He fixes bad things by doing good. And, sure, we're never shown that he needs to make sure a crime happens, but that goes against what's suggested most of the time - imagine writing a show remotely hinting that maybe some war crimes that happened are justified or else it would have been worse. When he jumps into someone who's about to do a bad thing, he just doesn't do it and does good instead, the suggestion is that there's no "'supposed to."
The Kennedy episode heavily suggested that he was being influenced by some kind of psychosis from Oswald and he was going crazy himself, unable to stop himself from shooting, and that tracks with other episodes where he was sometimes overwhelmed by traits from his host, rather than having to make sure the crime does happen. He tried to save both Kennedys, and he failed JFK, but he saved Jackie. It's not suggested that JFK "had" to die, it's suggested that he "failed" half of it because the host's influence was too strong.
Your stance is supported by the show adding "evil" leapers in its later seasons. They were sent to specifically do evil acts, to create evil ripples.
Took me a second to remember who the fuck Dr. Sam Beckett was. lol
"Ziggy says you gotta restore American democracy to jump again, Sam!"
How the fuck do I do that, Al? I leapt into a goddamn psychopathic moron.
"Oh boy"
Tell me there’s a Quantum Leap community!
The look when you fart and its shart
What does this mean?
Quantum Leap memes are for old people
Can confirm.
Source: am old
Oh, come on now, man.
Good Sci Fi is for everyone
Yeah but this younger generation had a quantum leap with not Sam and not Al that was objectively dog shit. We had the good Quantum Leap with Sam and Al.
Hey man, we also got MacGyver with Not Jack O'neill
I refuse to acknowledge a reboot of MacGyver.
How do I join the MGU (MacGyver Union)? I have to cobble together some kind of device that hacks me in, don't I?
There's a Quantum Leap remake?
Technically a sequel series, which already had 2 seasons and was cancelled. Sam was mentioned but never appeared in it.
Point taken lol
No cap
Hurray! I’m young! 😂
Just wait until 2052 and someone makes a skibidi meme.
I love this show, and I'm not old.
I used to watch it when it was new
There was a show in the 80's-90's called Quantum Leap, where the aforementioned character keeps waking up in other people's bodies at different periods of time. The premise is that he needs to solve some sort of problem for them that changes the course of history before he is able to leap to someone else, in the hope that he changes enough to one day "leap home."
In this photo, Kash Patel looks panicked and confused, which mirrors the character's behavior when he suddenly finds himself in someone else's body and has no idea what's going on.
Thanks, might have been a tad too young around that time 😊
It's good tv, even now. Hokey at times, but in a largely good way.
One of the main characters is written as sexist in a stupid way, but it was done intentionally so the show could work into his character development.
there was a show “quantum leap” where every week the protagonist would “leap” into a different time, place, and person. After solving whatever problem that person had he would get to leap again. Hoping, each time, that the next leap would be his leap home.
Thanks, had not heard of this 😊
Kash definitely has those “crazy eyes”
Do we know what it actually is? Like is he just ODing on stimulants daily?
Unironically, he is a psycho/sociopath.
He doesn't have genuine emotive expressions.
He only has performative ones.
... This is resting psychopath face.
https://psychcentral.com/health/identifying-psychopathic-stare#non-verbal-cues
Of course the stare alone isn't enough to 'diagnose' him but uh, combine it with the rest of his personality traits and history... doesn't seem too unreasonable.