Favorite Bakula ever: Quantum Leap
One day I was tip-tapping away at something and the great sea that is teh intrawebs washed up a little note in a bottle’s worth of beautiful, golden information. It said, “Hey, Alyx, Quantum Leap
I pondered that for awhile, ponder in this case being a word than means “ran around the house making noises like a tea kettle in my excitement,” and when I could stay in one place again for ten minutes, I composed an e-mail to an editor for whom I was doing media reviews.
I didn’t mince words. In fact, what I said was, “I don’t know if by any chance you’ve got a copy of QLS1 on your desk and you’re wondering which of your reviewers might be loser enough to want to watch all those episodes again, but if so, I am that person.”
He replied that he had been thinking exactly that–apparently I am telepathic!–and he’d pop it in the mail. And yes, loser’s quite harsh but I didn’t care, because I was gonna get paid to watch Quantum Leap
Over the course of my reviewing career, as it happens, I have contrived to get paid to watch Quantum Leap
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If I had to pick a lifetime favorite (media) thing ever EVER… well, honestly, I’m not sure I could. I’m not overly mercurial, but I’m not as stable as tofu either. I could probably narrow it down to a top ten, maybe even five, and Quantum Leap
Bakula and Stockwell, putting right what once went wrong. I love it. My dead cat Buddha loved it. And you can love it too!
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*No, seriously, she loved it. When we tried watching Star Trek Enterprise 
**Her other four words were No, Ow, Now! and Mwahmoo, which was obviously a poorly pronounced rendering of “Love you.”***
***If you’re not a cat person, you’ll have to take my word for it.
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Dude, you have no idea how hard I heart Quantum Leap. I used to have the official book, the soundtrack, the comic books, the novels, I used to cut clippings out of Starlog every month, I watched some terrible movies just because Scott Bakula was in them…
Good times.
Oh, I know–he’s been in some awful stuff!
I watched it over the summer before season five (I’m a show killer – I started watching Sentinel, Invisible Man and Sports Night all before just in time for the last season.). I thought Sam was such a sweetheart. And then I saw an episode where he takes his shirt off. Damn. What a beautiful back!
He has a very pretty shape. Even Enterprise got him semi-nekkid whenever they could.
Oh man, I loved that show. Sci-fi with one special effect per episode (two if you count the hologram guy walking through things) that still managed to be the best sci-fi on the air for decades. Good stuff, good stuff.
Overall, they had really consistent writing.
I love it when you get SF with minimal effects and maximum story.
Everybody loves a lover, and so everybody loves you.
Awww, that is very sweet of you my love.
Scott Bakula is dreamy.
Word to your mother, citizen. Word, indeed.
It has been way too long…I do believe I need to plan a QL marathon for the weekend.
A little QL makes a good part of a nutritious breakfast! Or something.
I had this random idea for a story where a mildly autistic boy winds up with creative control over a big-budget Dracula reboot, and they cast Scott Bakula in it because every time anyone says “Count Dracula,” he says “Scott Bakula” as an automatic call-and-response.
The final result of the film production is this out-of-control fever dream with ninjas and laser battles and robot dinosaurs, and it winds up making the most money of ANY MOVIE, EVER.
That is all I have to “add” to the conversation about Scott Bakula.