I stumbled upon the SciFi channel last summer while surfing the tube for something decent to watch. All you can ever watch on it are reruns of series that have ended years, some even decades, ago. One of the shows I watch regularly is Quantum Leap. I knew that I watched that show when I was a child but I cannot really remember episodes or scenes that I’ve watched before. So I was pretty excited to be able to watch it now when I can actually understand it.

The series finale already aired a few days ago, so if you start watching now you’ll be able to watch Quantum Leap’s first season. The series is about a man who travels back in time to change history for the better. Dr. Sam Beckett is a medical doctor who built the Quantum Leap project to help people. He designed the machine that will bring him back in time but only within his lifetime. On the first episode, he leaped into an Air Force test-pilot to save him from dying during a test flight. To be able to leap back in his own time, he must “put right what once went wrong”.

It was said that the season five finale was just supposed to be a cliff-hanger but since the show was not renewed for the sixth season, the last episode of season five became the series finale. So after five seasons and changing the lives of the people he leaps into, Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.

Personally, I love happy endings. When I first found out that the series ended with Sam not being able to return home, I was very disappointed. In fact, I did not even want to watch the next episodes after that. Eventually, I realized that he might not have needed a happy ending for himself. After all the project Quantum Leap was created to help others. So with that, he succeeded.