“most of them were commercial failures AKA they lost money ... origin stories that really failed to get any interest”

I had the same thought when Red Skull started talking about summoning a creature to lead HYDRA and destroy the world.  I was like “Oh shit, is this an AoS callback?”

That is such a great issue. If you read the parts of Amazing Fantasy #15 after Peter gets bitten and before Uncle Ben gets shot, he is totally on the trajectory to becoming the character in that What If issue. It’s basically a super-villain origin story, with him getting powers and using them for personal gain, and…

Yeah, the talk at the time (and that’s all it was - a lot of talk) was that they weren’t going to have Selleck appear, but having Al *embody* Selleck’s Magnum by dressing like him would have filled that gap.

To me, Bruce McGill will always MacGyver’s friend, Jack Dalton.

That season 2 premiere was where the “God or Fate or Time” thing started. Season 1 was only 8 (?) episodes and during those episodes the viewers were told that it was the experiment leaping Sam around. But in S2E1 Sam decided that it was G/F/T doing it, and they ran with that for the rest of the show (and definitely…

According to the rumor he would have leaped into Tom Selleck, not Thomas Magnum. So he would have had to act just like Magnum for whatever script they were currently filming when Sam leaped into him.  Same as when he leapt into the actor playing Don Quixote - he didn’t change the play, just did the acting job while…

And to talk to John Noble on the set of Lord of the Rings!

Then they must have been planning this episode for years because those rumors started as early as season 3.

They already did a reboot of Quantum Leap and it was pretty awesome.

The Crying Man approves.

I loved when they rebooted/revived Due South and couldn’t bring back the original Ray, instead of giving Fraser’s new partner a new name, they just said he was the same Ray and had everyone else tell Fraser “Yeah, this is Ray, this has always been Ray”.

But he had a dog named Cujo and a car named Christine!

LONG JAUNT!  LONG JAUNT!

“Trust me. I know what I’m doing.”
(nuclear bomb explodes)

“they not-so-winkingly acknowledged that God himself (or, as they called it, “God or Fate or Time”) was actually behind Sam’s leaping.”

For a long time there were rumors that Bellisario tried to do an episode where Sam leaped into Tom Selleck on the set of Magnum, P.I.  They planned to use footage from Magnum episodes and have some of the cast (not Selleck) guest star as themselves.

“It feels like there had to be a much easier way for Bishop to get an earpiece. He had Sara all that time, she had one on her. Heck it wouldn’t have even transfered to her clone. Seems like a lot of risk to take just for that.”

I was thinking of this but replace “windmills” with “DNA”:

The Legion of Doom were awesome.