Maybe Sam Leaps Home In This Episode
These quest shows used to annoy me. Sam Beckett would get close to leaping home in Quantum Leap. Gilligan would launch the homing pigeon without the note. Janeway would close the wormhole before using it. The aborted conclusions kept the series going. I loved when shows like Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica got us to the edge of a major shift, then plowed over that edge. I envied that. Many years back, I got the thumbs up to do the Civilization video game. I failed to deliver and Sid Meier later took up the task to great success. In 1994, I phoned the people who were doing the Tick animated series and could have sold scripts or got a staff gig (see a connection? I pretend to be a programmer and a writer-- I'm a pretend Renaissance Man). That idea died on the table-- not because of their doing. In 2002, I dabbled with writing tech books. One book had an epic fail after the editor tripled the word count requirement, then wanted to edit the book back to allow for more content. The n...