What Would You Change? "Weaker Sex"
Date: 01/13/2004
From: SynthIA
More Quinntum Leap DVDs for the latest players...
DieselMickeyDolenz wins "The HoloMan!" In this episode, a lightning bolt switches the places of Quinn and his holographic double (who in the interests of brevity, we'll call "Jerry.") Starved for intimate contact, he immediately proceeds to stake out women's changing rooms across the city, observing "it's amazing what you can do when you don't have to look at your doubles in the mirror anymore."
Recall317 wins "The New Home!" Quinn leaps into a NASA scientist charged with evacuating a couple hundred of the agency's highest-ranking accountants to a parallel world before the Earth blows up. However, he is too busy making time with another scientist's wife to scout a suitable world in time, and with minutes to spare, ends up submitting his phone number as space/time co-ordinates.
gdzilla65 (WWYC?: "Fever") wins "The New Home II: Vietnam!" The less said, the better.
MissingSliderRyan wins "Deliver Us From Evel!" Quinn's latest double is none other than motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, who on this world heads up a polygamous biker gang. Quinn's task is to convince Knievel's harem of wives to strike out in search of a better life... but not before bedding them all at once in a lovingly Peck-directed montage. His job is enhance...er, complicated, by the presence of evil Quinntum Leaper Logan St. Clair as one of the wives, and *her* holographic counterpart, "Zoe."
BLINKER: So, "The Weaker Sex"... wait, shouldn't this be the Rename Game?
SYNTHIA [shrugs]: Switched it with "Eggheads." Seemed like more potential.
BLINKER: Very good. Okay, I'd remove Arturo's "hit on the mayor" scene. Sure it's hysterical ("It would be my pleasure to press your button"), but it's a little out of character. Has he ever behaved like such a sex-starved boor in any other episodes?
SYNTHIA: Outside of "Love Gods"? Maybe not. But then, in the shows to date, he's hardly gotten the chance... and this one would go a long way toward curing him of chauvinistic attitudes.
BLINKER: Damn impossibility of nitpicking S1... okay, I'd remove the couple "Pilot" frames of Quinn landing in the basement that got left at the end of the opening wormhole shot.
CALLIE21V: Hey, don't steal my observations! It's unseemly.
SYNTHIA: Fine, you can guest star tomorrow or something. My change: Mayor Ross' "Bold Leadership for the 21st Century" poster. Unless she's running for a six-year term, it's not what I'd call honest advertising.
BLINKER [withering look]: That made my suggestions look valid in comparison.
SYNTHIA: Okay everyone, put us to shame!
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Synthetic Intelligence Avatar #385D
Jagged Metal Timeline
Date: 01/14/2004
From: Recall317
That was a regular timeline.
(Cough, gasp.) It's poison.
Jacob Epstein (why not? He had to have some role, right?):
"The only complaint I had with this story was the incongruent timeline. On the one hand, Arturo's election runs around six weeks. However, Rembrandt's story seems to unfold in mere days. Remmy doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would have taken six weeks of abuse from that female Mike Nelson-lookalike. Speaking of that, wasn't that just creepy?"
John Rhys-Davies: "I'm just worried that Arturo is turning into a clichι. Thirty-eight minutes of screen time just isn't enough to fully develop him."
I love ya, JRD.
R317
re: What Would You Change? "Weaker Sex
Date: 01/14/2004
From:
gdzilla65
I think that Quinn should have taken the bullet for Arturo.
"Get in my belly!"
Date: 01/14/2004
From: MissingSliderRyan
BT knows that my entire lame reply was erased from existence which is good because it contained a horribly lackluster scene... Quinn... Veiled Harem Girl Logan dancing the Dance of the Veils... asking Quinn if he wanted to stay... Quinn saying yes and Logan pulling a knife telling him to prepare to be a eunuch.... Peck cuts the scene and decided naked chicks like the scene from 'Don Juan Demarco' was better... Jerry agrees saying, "Can I have a spacesuit."
Like I said really lame.
Peck:
Cut the scene where Arturo kisses the babies and replace it with Arturo breaking into Mayor Ross' office and planting incriminating evidence... think of it like the Waterford Burglary.
Grip:
That's WaterGate! Waterford is crystal.
Peck:
Yeah that too.
MSR, hoping she picked the right episode ;-)
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