tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post1488295089885836026..comments2024-03-27T00:26:22.316-05:00Comments on The MacGyver Project: Quantum Leap -- Episode 3: The Right Hand of GodNicholas Sweedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-59031594694987654342016-08-15T17:21:59.793-05:002016-08-15T17:21:59.793-05:00Problem with this episode is the timeline. The Rum...Problem with this episode is the timeline. The Rumble in the Jungle was October 30, 1972. The leap date is 24. October. We are supposed to believe that less than 6 days Sam gets in great physical shape, trains himself to be a professional boxer and is even able to win the match? Yeah right.pp81https://www.blogger.com/profile/16286700568858943855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-1854925649338409642016-07-31T17:36:11.571-05:002016-07-31T17:36:11.571-05:00You got me to laugh out loud with this one! You got me to laugh out loud with this one! Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-69949612888096521372016-07-30T14:52:34.517-05:002016-07-30T14:52:34.517-05:00Oops..I forgot. In the introduction, an Italian w...Oops..I forgot. In the introduction, an Italian word caught my attention. Sam says, the experiment went a little "cacca." Translated this means, "shitty." I guess they could not say 'shitty' on television so they chose a word that many people would not understand. But I heard this word in my household on a regular basis.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02342174424018623586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-10634368007538308652016-07-30T14:44:02.304-05:002016-07-30T14:44:02.304-05:00This is the first hint that God has something to d...This is the first hint that God has something to do with where Sam is landing. Al reported that the Ziggy predicted he would go to Texas in the 1950's. That is in fact where he ends up in S1E4. But he got sent to California in 1974. <br />Sister Sarah (the older of the two nuns), who came into the dressing room with his contract, is a veteran actress. She is Nancy Kulp and she played Jane Hathaway in 246 episodes of Beverly Hillbillies. At first I did not recognize her face (especially in the habit), but her voice is totally unmistakably familiar.<br />Also, Father Muldooney, who as a short role at the championship fight is Lewis Arquette, the father of Rosanna, Patricia, and David. <br />I was surprised that Sam was classified as a Heavyweight. I thought that a fighter had to be over 200 pounds to be in the category. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02342174424018623586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-88305591868546451952016-05-22T22:23:56.005-05:002016-05-22T22:23:56.005-05:00That's interesting -- maybe it doesn't hel...That's interesting -- maybe it doesn't help that show titles often sound the same (like in MacGyver you have The Survivors, The Outsiders, etc).<br /><br />I am going at a fast pace lately! No need to keep up, though -- the posts aren't going anywhere.Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-31968419032752661512016-05-22T21:05:10.268-05:002016-05-22T21:05:10.268-05:00The brain is a funny thing. I looked at those ser...The brain is a funny thing. I looked at those series' rankings a couple of times and remembered them forever. The only TV show I'd have the same level of recollection of in terms of titles is "MacGyver". By the way, I'm gonna be falling way behind in my reviews with the Flash Gordon pace at which you're posting them. Just letting you know.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-89813398097754256852016-05-22T20:59:05.121-05:002016-05-22T20:59:05.121-05:00That sounds pretty good, I may have to check that ...That sounds pretty good, I may have to check that out.Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-13204731155299459422016-05-22T20:58:22.329-05:002016-05-22T20:58:22.329-05:00It surprises me that you'd have trouble rememb...It surprises me that you'd have trouble remember the episode titles but you can remember where every series ranked in the tv ratings over a period of 10 years.Nicholas Sweedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00437092592253460266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-29422241635804703292016-05-22T20:28:07.791-05:002016-05-22T20:28:07.791-05:00One thing I keep meaning to mention is that my fir...One thing I keep meaning to mention is that my first memory of Scott Bakula is from a 1986 "Disney Sunday Movie" called "I-Man", which despite the immature title was actually a fun little action-adventure flick. I still remember the final scene where they drove a semi truck with a bomb in the trailer off a huge cliff into a lake. I just looked the movie up on Wikipedia and apparently it co-starred Ellen Bry (the captain on the MacGyver episode "Countdown") and none other than John Anderson (Grandpa Harry).Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788875373841955612.post-88214395510168430002016-05-22T20:23:58.852-05:002016-05-22T20:23:58.852-05:00This was one of the episodes I saw back in the ori...This was one of the episodes I saw back in the original airings. NBC repeated it on July 4, 1990, even though it was apparently a first season episode and I was watching what I thought were season 2 episodes. I actually liked it. The conflict was nice with Sam's conflicting motivations. It was absurd that he had to train how to fight a professional boxer with zero prior experience--in a few short days...and ended up winning--but it made for fun TV. I loved how Sam broke his dilemma by betting on the Ali v. Foreman fight even though his remembering the outcome of that fight right down to the round where a victor was declared by had no recollection of Watergate in the prior episode didn't make a lot of sense. I know you said it was revealed later in the series that Sam's memory historical context was like "Swiss cheese", but viewers have not yet been made aware of the week to week difference did not go unnoticed.<br /><br />I recognized Alex Colon from "Mountain of Youth" right away. The trainer was gonna quit because he was "sick of training a fighter who always threw his fights", so it didn't make sense that Cody had just won the fight at the beginning of the episode despite the other guy's big punch at the end when it was Sam. I also didn't get the point of the nuns insisting Sam move in with them when they knew he had a girlfriend....did they want to get him away from the topless go-go dancer? Agreed that the heavies didn't come across overly terrifying and the extent to which they simply rolled over after Sam failed to dive as they told him to do. So yeah there were a few plot holes but I did enjoy it and thought the conflict was more challenging than the previous week where Sam basically made it all about his ex-girlfriend who he happened to conveniently stumble into despite her not being part of the mission. I'd rank this one #2 so far, but it's gonna get confusing ranking these dozens of episodes in since I won't remember all of the titles.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953380288384883179noreply@blogger.com