# Television-Now we'll NEVER know! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905 "2010-05-18T17:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/81 "2010-05-21T23:15:31Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Huh? The whole point of God’s Truck Stop was that Sam had a choice - he could go home or he could just spend the rest of his life doing good. He chose to do good. Sam says: “I’d like to go home. But I can’t. I’ve got a wrong to put right, first.” That implies that after he helps Beth and Al, he will then leap home, even if is only a “sabbatical” as suggested by the bartender. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/82 "2010-05-21T23:47:18Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Another shout out for **Nowhere Man.** Gah, that one really pissed me off. I still remember the name of that damn photo: _The Hidden Agenda._ But there were two sort-of endings, there. In one of the last episodes he discovers that he was an FBI agent trying to unveil the conspiracy. Because the conspirators didn’t knew where he hid the evidence, they erased his memory and made the whole set-upso he would piece the puzzle together and find it for them. Then, in another episode, he goes undercover in a training camp for conspiracy hopefuls. There he’s restrained by some sargeant guy that respectfully thanks him for the sacrifice he decided to make before attempting to kill him, with the implication that he himself was a conspiracy leader, and had his own memory jumbled just to make sure that the whole thing was safe even from a resourceful lone individual trying to expose everything. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/83 "2010-05-22T00:29:49Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Did the short-lived _The New WKRP_ reveal anything about the cliffhanger deal struck at the end of the original _WKRP_ between Andy and Mrs. Carlson? I don’t believe they did. And didn’t that one end on a cliffhanger of its own, with Mykelti Williamson’s character in a possible plane crash or something? > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > New Amsterdam-he finally meets his true love and she can’t accept his immortality? So she just leaves him there to bum around New York forever? > [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > I thought that in the end it wasn’t the Doctor? That was my understanding as well. He was still immortal, hence she wasn’t his ONE TRUE LOVEtm > [@monster](#): > > I loved **The Nine**. > > What happened in the bank that bonded them for life, dammit??? Until proven wrong, I’m going with gang bang. :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/84 "2010-05-22T07:17:57Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > Sam says: “I’d like to go home. But I can’t. I’ve got a wrong to put right, first.” That implies that after he helps Beth and Al, he will then leap home, even if is only a “sabbatical” as suggested by the bartender. I got the impression that by changing that particular history, Sam was never able to get back home. Kind of a variation on the Grandfather Paradox ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/85 "2010-05-22T17:36:40Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I think the worst one that I’ve personally experienced was the season finale of _John Doe_, which I’ll post in a spoiler since it was such a huge shock: > > The big bad guy turns around just as John Doe has failed to catch him… and is revealed to (apparently) be his best friend. Was it really Digger? We’ll never know. Agreed. This one made me sick. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/86 "2010-05-22T17:45:42Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I got the impression that by changing that particular history, Sam was never able to get back home. Kind of a variation on the Grandfather Paradox When I get really, really deep into my cups about the _QL_ finale, this is the conclusion I come to, as well. Al was who he was when Sam met him because, in large part, of what happened to his marriage with Beth. Fix that and Al isn’t the Al Sam meets the first time around, drunkenly assaulting a vending machine at Project Starbright. They might not even meet at all. No Sam + Al = no Project Quantum Leap, that much is clear. No Project Quantum Leap, no first trial, no “went a little ka-ka,” and Sam is no longer a time traveller, but essentially now a angel, free to go wherever he is needed to set right whatever is needed. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/87 "2010-05-22T19:52:16Z")
Whether or not Angela finally hooks up with Brian on My So-Called Life. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/88 "2010-05-22T20:47:28Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > The one I’m still majorly pissed over is _Crusade_. TNT promised JMS complete creative control and then proceeded to meddle it into a mess and then cancel it because they didn’t understand what they had or what it needed. Add some fist fights! There isn’t enough action! Why isn’t the action working for this show? Change the uniforms, maybe that will fix things! > > To this day, I still want to put a few steel-toed boots into assorted dark and hairy places at high velocity. Bastards. Oh, me too. Grrrr. And I don’t like season 5 because of Byron. Just shoot him already. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/89 "2010-05-22T21:32:14Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > We never did find out–at least not from watching the show–what the hell [Coronet Blue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet_Blue) was all about. > > _Deep down inside my brain I keep hearing that wild refrain…_ That was the one that I came in to mention. While I’m grateful that Wikipedia was invented to supply the answer, it’s too late to matter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905.md?page=4)