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1. What was the worst movie you've ever seen?
Difficult to pick – but the worst movie I’ve seen at the cinema would have to be The Perfect Storm. I was so bored. I found it to be manipulative – or at least trying to be, but as all the characters wore yellow waterproofs almost all the time, I couldn’t tell which ones were in mortal peril at any one time. I almost fell asleep during it and can remember nothing but water, women in bars and yellowness.
2. Five favorite pairings (gen, slash, het).
Starsky/Hutch (although I love them gen too, there’s so much love there either way)
Sam/Al (again, friends or lovers)
Giles/Xander (adult Xander)
Holmes/Watson
Dean/Castiel (although embrace Dean/Sam and J2 and Dean/John gen/angst)
All my pairings are adult – I don’t like underage slash at all. Not even Weechesters.
3. How do you think "Quantum Leap" should have ended?
Oh, it broke my heart the way it did end. I love the angst and I can totally buy into Sam sacrificing for Al’s happiness, but I can’t bear the thought of Sam out there, leaping alone. I don’t know if I’d like a Happy Ever after either though. Though, if they believed it was all leaping at the behest of a higher power, why shouldn’t Sam get a happy ending? Oh dear. I’m waffling.
Alternate Ending 1:
Sam leaps into himself, days before he stepped into the accelerator for the first time. Al is joyous, telling him that all he has to do is not leap and it will be perfect. Sam is dubious, stating that it’s a paradox and if he hadn’t leapt in the first place he wouldn’t be there to stop himself leaping now, so it won’t work. Al goes ape and begs and chastises and yells, all to no avail. Sam says that if he doesn’t leap, all the people he’s helped will end up suffering and he can’t put his happiness before theirs. He steps inside the accelerator and leaps – but the duplication of Sam being inside Sam as he leaps causes some kind of quantum flooey reaction. It closes the loop, so original Sam goes off to do his deeds, knowing that he will eventually return but older Sam stays inside his body. Al is happy, thinking that it means Sam (any Sam will do) is back and safe, but Sam collapses and tells Al that he realises that this was his chance to ‘never have leaped’, but he did and now he’s stuck in an eternal cycle. He falls into a coma. At first Al is devastated and yells at Gushie. Then Ziggy helps him realise that as Sam is in a loop, they can just wait until he comes round to this stage again and then they can make sure *that time* that Sam doesn’t leap. Al lights a cigar and says something like “what’s another 4 years” and goes off to see Tina. I crossed it out, 'cos I want my second ending so very much more.
Or alternately no 2: The government decide to shut down Project Quantum Leap. Al fights to save it but without avail. The last day, just before the suits go in to turn things off, Al barricades himself in and steps into the accelerator chamber. When the others burst in he is lying, collapsed on the floor, lifeless just like Sam. We see Tina and Verbeena crying as medics wheel two gurneys out – Sam in one, Al in the other, both destined for a life in some medical facility, plugged into life support. The lights go out in Project Quantum leap and we see the card saying Sam and Al never return home. Credits.
Post credits we see Sam is in the weird freaky bar at the end. Seeing his own face in the mirror, surrounded by familiar faces but strangers. He hasn’t seen hologram Al for days. The door opens and Al walks in. Real, no hand control, no hologram. They just look at each other for long speechless moments then hug. A timeless hug. Fade to black.
4. If you weren't doing the job you're doing now, what job would you be doing (not necessarily your dream job, but something you considered a viable option when you were in school)?
In high school I had ideas of being a maths teacher. That went by the by when I forgot how to do math between 5th form and A levels(!). But some kind of teacher would have been an option – and now that my job isn’t 100% secure I have considered Social Work.
5. Five best desserts in the world.
Ooh! Let’s see... Eton Mess, Pavlova, Caramel apple pie, Treacle pudding and finally, chocolate!
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
My questions from
hardboiledbaby1. What was the worst movie you've ever seen?
Difficult to pick – but the worst movie I’ve seen at the cinema would have to be The Perfect Storm. I was so bored. I found it to be manipulative – or at least trying to be, but as all the characters wore yellow waterproofs almost all the time, I couldn’t tell which ones were in mortal peril at any one time. I almost fell asleep during it and can remember nothing but water, women in bars and yellowness.
2. Five favorite pairings (gen, slash, het).
Starsky/Hutch (although I love them gen too, there’s so much love there either way)
Sam/Al (again, friends or lovers)
Giles/Xander (adult Xander)
Holmes/Watson
Dean/Castiel (although embrace Dean/Sam and J2 and Dean/John gen/angst)
All my pairings are adult – I don’t like underage slash at all. Not even Weechesters.
3. How do you think "Quantum Leap" should have ended?
Oh, it broke my heart the way it did end. I love the angst and I can totally buy into Sam sacrificing for Al’s happiness, but I can’t bear the thought of Sam out there, leaping alone. I don’t know if I’d like a Happy Ever after either though. Though, if they believed it was all leaping at the behest of a higher power, why shouldn’t Sam get a happy ending? Oh dear. I’m waffling.
Alternate Ending 1:
Or alternately no 2: The government decide to shut down Project Quantum Leap. Al fights to save it but without avail. The last day, just before the suits go in to turn things off, Al barricades himself in and steps into the accelerator chamber. When the others burst in he is lying, collapsed on the floor, lifeless just like Sam. We see Tina and Verbeena crying as medics wheel two gurneys out – Sam in one, Al in the other, both destined for a life in some medical facility, plugged into life support. The lights go out in Project Quantum leap and we see the card saying Sam and Al never return home. Credits.
Post credits we see Sam is in the weird freaky bar at the end. Seeing his own face in the mirror, surrounded by familiar faces but strangers. He hasn’t seen hologram Al for days. The door opens and Al walks in. Real, no hand control, no hologram. They just look at each other for long speechless moments then hug. A timeless hug. Fade to black.
4. If you weren't doing the job you're doing now, what job would you be doing (not necessarily your dream job, but something you considered a viable option when you were in school)?
In high school I had ideas of being a maths teacher. That went by the by when I forgot how to do math between 5th form and A levels(!). But some kind of teacher would have been an option – and now that my job isn’t 100% secure I have considered Social Work.
5. Five best desserts in the world.
Ooh! Let’s see... Eton Mess, Pavlova, Caramel apple pie, Treacle pudding and finally, chocolate!
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