I do think that a woman with Moon Bloodgood’s ethnic background would be pretty rare in 1948. She’s an adult in 1948, so she had to be born in the 1920s. Even in San Francisco, she would have stood out at that time.
I’m curious as to how she gets the right period clothing for each era.
I could be mistaken, but I’m pretty sure that Livia gave the bag back to Dan before he “leaped.” He only needed $20k to get in, and he had more than that in the bag.
I think he did, in the beginning, although he may have originally offered it up as “a really strange dream when I blacked out.” Didn’t his brother demand to know what was going on in this episode, and Dan replied “I already told you and you didn’t believe me, so I’m not going to tell you now”?
Although I like to a certain extent the realism of his not being able to control when he disappears leading to trouble like his car crashing, and losing his son in a crowd - I’m a little confused by the apparent contradiction: While whatever is controlling his jumps doesn’t seem to mind the inconvenient troubles (and possible danger - he once was transported in front of a moving train!) it causes him, it does from time to time do things like leap him into a situation that will help him like giving him a lot of cash right before he’ll need it, or leaping Livia into the future to remove the cash before it can be found.
I’m also wondering how much Livia knows about her situation - at first it seemed like she was avoiding some of his questions because she wasn’t allowed to tell him certain things about the reason behind the travelling. But now it seems like she was just not telling him everything about her own situation (being from the past, travelling before she met him) and maybe she doesn’t know much about what’s behind the whole thing (her telling him “good luck with that”.
But yeah, I love this show despite the similarities to Quantum Leap. I’m sad that the ratings aren’t great though. I hope if it does get cancelled that they’ll allow for a real finale that explains some things and wraps up some of the story arcs. I’m actually surprised that the studios don’t make this a general protocol. Even if a tv series doesn’t last long enough to reap the benefits of syndication, they could recoop a lot of their money in a lost series by giving the story enough of a satisfying conclusion to be worth buying on DVD or itunes.