Just skipped ahead to the end episode

Some people think that Sam just kept on leaping forever. Other people think that because of all of the changes he made in history that Sam couldn't leap back to the home that Sam knew about. In reality Quantum Leap got cancelled at the last minute so the people that made the show tried making it a series finally instead of a season finally.

Does my back hurt because I have bad posture or do I have bad posture because my back hurts?

Even though I disliked the final episode since it was never meant to be the final episode with a slapped on ending (I think the should kept the original ending on it and it would have made for a nice series finale). Al the bartender told him that he was in control of his leaps, and he could easily leap home if he wanted to BUT since Sam is a do-gooder, he decides to keep on leaping since he was putting things right that once went wrong, and felt there would always be something that need to be fixed. Personally, I think the final season was not that great since they were grabbing for ratings by leaping him into Dr. Ruth, Elvis, Lee Harvey Oswald and what not. I did like the civil war and evil leaper episodes though.

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Sam ended up living out the rest of his life in an alternate timeline from the one he came from. He had his own body and his memory back but he was left stranded by the bartender in a kind of other dimension. You know, when you think of it, there could defintely be an interesting reunion show if they wanted. It could begin with Sam 25 years later in the alternate timeline-mabey he has a job teaching physics at a local varsity-and Al is happily married with kids, and it could have Sam's narration about how only he knows the specific changes that were made when he told the woman that Al was alive and changed he and Al's personal history. The plot could get thicken when he sees the woman who was his wife in the episode The Leap Home, but she doesn't know him of course, and he kinda begins stalking her and finding out where she lives etc. Then the "bartender" could show up again and mabey reveal his origin to Sam (mabey he could show holographic images of an intergalactic alien race he belongs too). Then Al mabey could start having these weird dreams about how he came home from Vietnam and found his wife remarried...... I don't know, it could be called Quantum Leap Revisited? Opinions anyone?

Though I don't think it was the greatest finale generally, I've come round to quite like the "Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home" reveal.

It's sad, obviously. But it was sort of memorable. You'd just had the reveal that history had been changed for Al and Beth and you were quite upbeat. So the sad ending for Sam came as a surprise, like a sucker punch. And was memorable because of it.

I'd always assumed in the last episode he'd get home. That somehow would've felt less memorable.