Qunatum Leap Play It Again Seymour

Welcome dorsum to our journey through the lifetime of i Sam Beckett, as nosotros follow him through lifetime subsequently lifetime of righting the mistakes of the past. This week: Sam hops into a private eye and gets to live out his Humphrey Bogart fantasies, quite literally. It'south the season finale, and so instead of awkwardly bridging two seasons, "Play it Over again, Seymour" gets its own write upwards.

1. Premonitions

This episode teases something utterly fascinating that turns out to be, while not a cop out, a disappointment. Early on, Sam seems to know what is about to happen next; information technology is almost like he'southward both in the story and above it all. While at that place could be a fun story in there, it would've fundamentally changed the series, and information technology seems like a bad thought to do that simply as the first season is wrapping upwards.

Instead, it appears that Sam read a volume based on this story as a kid. It's pretty far fetched that a guy who can't remember whatever details of his life can recollect when a bald detective enters a room from a volume he read equally a child, merely this is television, allow's just roll with information technology.

two. An bodily good mystery

The all-time part of this episode was the mystery itself. We know that Nick, aka Sam, was hovering above his partner Phil'southward expressionless torso, but who killed him, and how/when will they try to kill Nick? The show introduces a number of suspects, from Phil'south wife Allison, who was two-timing him with Nick, to Seymour, the newsboy downstairs who is a constant source of gumshoe slang. It turns out that the bodily murderer is a minor graphic symbol we met before, but wasn't as telegraphed as it would've been had it been Seymour or Allison. The mystery is well developed and keeps the viewer's attending in a different mode than most of the Breakthrough Leap episodes, which often accept things that need solving, just rarely such a straightforward mystery.

3. Ok, cool information technology on the Bogie stuff

And so Nick looks in the mirror and thinks that he's actually Humphrey Bogart, but it turns out, he's merely a dude who looks a lot like Bogie. Equally seen below, he bares a passing resemblance, merely isn't exactly the spitting image, either.

People walk upwards to this dude all the time thinking he'due south a movie star. I call up the 1950s, collectively, needs their vision checked.

4. Why bring Woody into this?

As we've established firmly in the beginning flavour, Breakthrough Leap loves cypher more than a historical visit. Hither, we become a young Woody Allen, approximately 17 years old, coming together Nick and mistaking him for Bogart. That is fine, I approximate, just he basically launches into a stand up routine about his therapist, and it gets cool. Information technology may exist the worst brush with history yet, and that's saying something for a series that had Buddy Holly singing "Piggy Sooie" a few episodes ago.

Oh, Sam likewise introduces the phrase 'main clasp' into the lexicon in this episode. That's somehow less silly.

v. Futurity Goggle box stars

This episode had 2 guest stars who would air current upwardly making their mark on different shows a few years after. Allison is played by Claudia Christian, who is a big part of our Monday Idiot box Binge Babylon five, and Seymour is played past Willie Garson, who would gain most prominence for his role on Sex and the City. Shows like this are oftentimes chock full of fleck players who, somewhen, get big deals on other serial, but this is the first time that I think two recognizable guest stars earlier their big suspension.

The Oh Boy Teaser

OK, so here is where things go a little tricky. In this teaser, we run across Sam spring into a woman for the first time. An episode was shot at the tail end of this season, but was always intended to exist the flavour two premiere. And and so, if we follow that logic, "What Cost, Gloria?" should be the next one we watch, which is how this is presented on NBC.com.

But the plot thickens!

That episode was actually aired fourth in flavour two, and so we have to make a decision. Do we go with broadcast order or the intended sequence? To find out how I go, tune in next week!

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