Quantum Leap - Why Didn’t Same Ever Return Home ? #quantumleap #tv

[nlrproductions]

I have a theory that might have been said before. Bartender Al mentions that there might be a next level of leaps, Sam ask if the leaps will get harder. Maybe Sam’s body is now leaping with a body to jump into like he helped Beth. So since Sam is now more like a guardian angel of sorts. He never returned home because Sam entered the next level of leaping through time. Idk just throwing that out there.

[documentmedic]

Unfortunately, it was never really explianed, possibly because the episode was not supposed to be the series finale. NBC asked Bellisario to end the episode in a cliffhanger. So Bellisario wrote the episode with the idea that they lost the ability th track Sam tand Al was to becomie a leaper to look for him. However, NBC canceled the series after the episode had been shot. so they had to alter the ending to say he never came home.

Sam might have made a decision to continue helping others through leaps . Such a decision would be true to his character and Bellisario did explain as much years later in an interview; however, I do agree that his decision seems a bit selfish to his family, particularly his wife.I also tend not to take what writers say as canon because they can change their minds I think this is why a number of Leapers (myself included) want to see Sam appear in the current series. We want some answers as to why.

My guess is that the leap after the final leap that was shown (in which he appeared to Beth as himself) possibly caused him to forget he had a friend named Al who wanted him to return home. (He had already forgotten that he had a wife and probably had forgotten that he had a daughter.) It's also possible that Sam telling Beth that Al was still alive altered the timeline so that Sam never met Al and Project Quantum Leap never got started or that Project Quantum Leap did not accomplish what it was supposed to accomplish. Therefore, Sam needed to remain a Leaper in order to correct the timeline so that he and Al did meet and Project Quantum Leap did, in fact, happen. Perhaps the process.became extremely complicated because the situation couldn't be fixed with just a few leaps.

Also, in the show, Sam's body did leap. Apparently there was some sort of illusion that appeared over his body to make him look like the other person and vice versa. Admittedly, it was not clearly explained in the series until the episode Eight and a Half Months, in which he became a pregnant woman.(I am also not sure that it really works, which is probably why they don' t have a waiting room in the current series.), . My guess is that in the last episode Sam attained a certian level/proficiency in his leaping that enabled him to appear as himself during a leap.

[PureHangout]

Watched this show in Sunday as a kid, I never knew if I was watching in the correct order or not. And I know I missed a lot of episodes. I never found out he didn’t make it home until looking it up online years later. Was really sad to learn that.

[biguy]

Sam couldn’t accept that he subconsciously controls his leaps. Donald was planning another season. He was going to have Al Leap after Sam to find him. He was also thinking of sending Sam’s daughter, Sammy Jo, to leap after Sam but that never happened because the show was canceled.

[LisaLoves]

I can’t 100% remember, but Document Medic sounds spot on. I know this much. I want to see Sam (and it’s gotta be Scott Bakula) pop up in the new series.

[cybertrix-kid]

In the finale it was revealed that Sam had the power to control his leaps. I suspect that by going home, everyone would try to stop him re-entering the chamber to travel through time. But by continuing his journey, others would perhaps in time accept his destiny.

[MattVs_Movies]

I'd have to watch it again must be an explanation how he got back in this own body wasn't there symo leaps made in the final season as well? All a blur some years since I watched it

[smore]

This isn’t complicated. In the finale, Mirror Image, Sam leaps into himself at the moment he was born and into a setting that’s supernatural. This should be apparent because of all the faces from previous episodes. And the bartender (Bruce McGill) is clearly God or some incarnation thereof. This is a special episode in a special place with special people and a unique circumstance. As God / Bruce McGill explained to Sam, in order for Sam to return home Sam needed to accept that he (Sam) was in control of his own destiny. Sam adamantly refused to accept that, insisting that God or fate or time was responsible for his destiny. In the one moment at the end of Mirror Image where God / Bruce McGill could send Sam wherever he wanted to go, Sam chose to save Al’s marriage instead of going home. This creates all sorts of Back to the Future / space time continuum type problems, but that’s another matter entirely. So Sam missed his one opportunity for God to intervene and send him home. Thus, despite all his good deeds, Sam never returned home because he refused to assume moral agency and responsibility for his life and, thus, Sam refused to accept control over his own destiny. This raises more problems if the reboot somehow tries to bring Sam home. If the writers use technology instead of addressing the loose end around Sam’s moral agency, then the writers/producers will subvert and undermine the finale of the original series.

[Paulaston]

Isn't it that Sam by the end had been away so long his family must have given up so decides the best thing to continue to do good and now he had control of the leaps means he could do God's work. And that was his life. He must have been I'm the chamber for years so his real life body unless kept well wouldn't have been worth going back in. Plus universal could not keep the budget alive any longer 6 years was enough for everybody. ❤️They also felt it was better to be leaping around was better idea than him coming back to get old. Etc...