On the cheesy front, I just put together in my brain that this episode aired while Jackie Kennedy was still alive (she died two years later).  So, that really makes it a bit too-close-for-comfort.  I know it was right after the Oliver Stone JFK (which is almost certainly what inspired the episode), but it seems a…

There's also the whole thing with Sam's daughter from the Trilogy episodes, who later signs up to work for Project Quantum Leap.  It's not 100% clear, but the implication is that Al remembers the timeline before she was there.

The JFK assassination doesn't seem that implausible if you knew the parade route, which was publicly advertised so that people could go see it.  You just had to scope things out a few days in advance, figure out what the best place to get a good line of sight was, and then sneak up there day of.  It was made all the…

That's impossible!

Except the situation in Bosnia was pretty much untenable.  The assassination was the event that lit the powder keg, but it could have just as easily been something else.

Given the shit economy/hyperinflation at the time, I also suspect it was nigh impossible to be a successful painter.

Yeah, I also thought it made sense to say that Sam was meant to leap, and would keep doing it for the rest of his life, but it would have been so much more emotionally satisfying if he got one last chance to go home, say goodbye to his wife and daughter/co-worker, and then tell Gushie to flip the switch, while he…

Well, it wasn't so much the writers.  They were hoping for a last minute renewal, so left things open, while still sort of resolving some of the long-standing questions.

Damn, just made a joke about that upthread, not having read down this far.

Yeah, they were hoping for a renewal, but it wasn't clear, so they did an episode that could work as a finale.  When the cancellation news came, they tacked on the "Poochie died on his way back to his home planet" narration.

@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus And I loved that his daughter ended up working for Project Quantum Leap, so they presumably did get to share some time together, even if no one realized the connection.  Not that Sam remembers it.

Oh, many, yeah.  This show was on at like just the right time for me—when I was ten to fourteen and right when I was really getting into sci-fi—so I was all over it.  The problem was, it aired at 10pm, which was when I usually went to bed (since my middle school started at an ungodly early hour).  But I remember…

@avclub-62812d8eb06386505986efff8b5e43ac:disqus Yeah, he went straight on to the next person, without any control, to the point where there were a few episodes where Al/Ziggy couldn't find Sam for a while after the leap.
And, yeah, he wanted to be able to leap home, but you got the sense that what he really wanted was…

@avclub-10002631234370cc43d1ef36d9fd2f5b:disqus Yeah, I don't so much mind any of the Greys/Summers, just find it hilarious that there are now so many of them and that we now have several instances of the same person existing twice in current continuity (Cyclops/past Cyclops; Cable/Nate Grey).  That said, it could get…

Just so long as the villain doing the shooting/dismembering/etc. is Wiliam "The Refrigerator" Perry.

Yeah, I suspect we'd see a few Ultimate Universe castaways, in much the same way that the X-Men franchise is made up almost entirely of Grey/Summers children from alternate universes and time-travelling versions of Greys/Summers.

It's not that I'm bitter toward Saga or anything, but I was sad that it's sweep meant that Matt Fraction went home without anything for Hawkguy.  Sure, Aja won a couple of awards for the art, but it would have been nice for Fraction to get something for the writing side.

The inner monologue was great—the little cartoony Kates were hilarious.  I loved how Pulido took inspiration from comic strips, with all the stereotypical/stylized imagery that is mostly absent from mainstream comics today.  It would get old quick if that was all they ever did, but it worked really well for this…

It's almost like they're doubling down on the "adults have no idea what it's like to be a kid today" meme by asking, "you thought it was bad to just be a mutant?  Well, let us tell you our backstories…"

I haven't picked up the new volume of Young Avengers yet, but have read through the older stuff on Marvel Unlimited.  Since it's been one of the more marginal Marvel properties, there isn't a ton to catch up on—you can probably do it in one evening, two at the most.  And that's assuming you've read nothing and want to…