Quantum Leap Fans Have Been Left STUNNED.. Here's Why

Quantum Leap Fans Have Been Left STUNNED.. Here's Why

Welcome back to Film Tremble. NBC's Quantum Leap relaunch has found a way to break its most important rule, sending Ben Song further back in time than Sam Beckett typically traveled. Quantum Leap's time travel has always been more of a plot device than anything solid and concrete, but there have still been a few rules baked into the core concept. The most important (only broken once in the original series, with the breach explained as being due to genetics) was that leapers like Sam Beckett and Ben Song could only travel back within their own lifetimes.

Quantum Leap episode 5 breaks this rule, however, sending Ben back to the year 1879. This was actually set up in previous episodes, with the Quantum Leap project team realizing he was building up a sort of temporal momentum to break the normal barriers imposed by the Quantum Leap form of time travel. It was compared to a slingshot effect, where a ship builds up momentum by using the gravity of a star or planet. The analogy is an intriguing one, in that it implies Ben's initial leaps were deliberately chosen in relation to some major event in world history, one that would boost his travels through spacetime. In related news, Quantum Leap episode 4 finally answers that question, in a striking scene in which Herbert "Magic" Williams reveals he remembered what it is like to be leaped into. A soldier in the Vietnam War, he was originally supposed to die in the conflict - along with Sam's own brother. Sam Beckett changed the timeline, however, leaping into Magic's body at just the right moment. Magic remembers experiencing a strange feeling, as though he was stood in front of a door and could choose whether to open it or not. Curiously, he chose to accept the experience, and then seemed to black out. When he "awoke," it was a week later, and he learned he'd just gotten his band out of trouble yet again. This is the first time Quantum Leap has ever addressed what it feels like to become a leaper's host.

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