QuantumMechanic

A retro experience for a retro show! 😎

You should at least watch the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", starring the actual voices of several ST:TOS stars.

Well, death date minus a year. But yeah :)

One thing I’ve found interesting about this season is that the songs are much more 1:1 with specific songs. Last season while there were a few of those it was more general style parodies. For this season I really recommend going on YouTube and watching a bunch of songs from Sweeney, Chicago, Pippin, Cabaret, etc. For example, you’ll appreciate much more the geekiness of the writers if you watch “Magic to Do” and “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin, “Mein Herr” from Cabaret, “Worst Pies in London” from Sweeney Todd, and so on. The breakdown articles that Playbill is doing are also really useful.

Well, I was right that it was Sondheim-y. But it was a patch on "Worst Pies in London" from (what else :) ) Sweeney Todd.

They also played some “Into the Woods”-y riff in the underscore back when Josh and Melissa were in the woods looking for Schmigadoon in the first episode of the season.

That song pinged some Into the Woods feelings for me. I can't exactly say why, but it definitely popped in there.

Yes, definitely. Thought the same thing.

Here's another interview (or different writeup of the same interview?) https://collider.com/quantum-leap-season-1-finale-martin-gero-interview/

Sigh. That was an irritating episode. So much pointless technobabble and ad hoc-ery — even for this show! We couldn’t roll our eyes hard enough at the “the Ians have to enter the code at the same time” babble as just one example. Ben still has better chemistry with anyone other than Addison than with Addison. The end was a cop-out too, though I suppose it made a modicum of sense if when this ep was made it had to function as both a season finale and a series finale. (Did it? I don’t know the production timeline.)

Is the Riptide crew actually a bunch of total assholes or do they just play one on TV?

Well, I see just like last year the Crows stuff is infinitely more interesting than anything involving Alina and the Boyfriend of Blandness.

I didn’t mind the “wokeness” (though I did think it came out too pat). What I did mind was the overweening anviliciousness at times — in particular the scene at trans group when that father is delivering his monologue and we have that series of 4th-wall-breaking zoomins on the kids staring straight into the camera. The mark of very sub-par writers.

The puzzle-box part of this show is so stupid and forced. The pathetic and unrealistic ways they stall and stall and stall giving any information is ridiculous. If that's how you're going to play the present day part of the show then please for the love of god eliminate the present day part of the show.

Well, the one on the 16th made total sense — no point competing against an NFL playoff game. I don’t understand the one on the 23rd though. Is there some big awards show or something on another network?

Yeah. I actually found the finale pretty boring because of that. "Oooh, carry three guitars down the street" Yawwwwwwwwn. When I become Race Czar :). one thing that's gonna happen is there will be a 2hr penalty for each time a team asks a bystander to look something up on their phone or to borrow their phone.. I was confused by that as well and eventually came to your conclusion. Because when Phil first said what the task was we were thinking "if someone plays piano and has a good ear they can just do the task without worrying about the images!" So doing what they actually did prevented that.

Apparently a couple of days ago he said he has 500 pages left. This is what ChatGPT is for.

I think he looks more like a young Kyle McLachlan. Maybe he’ll get to eat some imperial cherry pie…

I turned to a friend after watching S4E10 and said "Boy, that's daytime soap level insanity."

We kinda knew that already because when Phil was talking to the second-to-last team on the mat the editors left in him saying “I see another team coming.”

That kind of cash really makes me wonder/worry about a Disney baleful influence on the show.

There’s really no excuse not to end the “recover Eden” subplot really soon at this point. Which of course means they’ll probably excruciatingly strrrrrrrrrretch it out over at least the next 7 episodes.

Rats! Another day, another episode of Angelina not being shot in the head.

Given Zeke’s reaction after touching the Chinese guy I wonder if he’s turning into something like the title character in ST:TOS’s “The Empath” episode.

That was the first episode that really seemed something like an old-school episode. Thumbs-up! I think overall it's been improving, though I still think it was a HORRIBLE idea for love interest to be the hologram, especially with such a meh actress. 2+ month mid-season hiatus sucks, though. I wonder how badly that's gonna hammer ratings as people find other things to watch and don't come back.