Quantum Leap Episode Review: Season Two, Episode One “This Took Too Long”
Ben was supposed to leap home. It didn’t work. The beautiful way the season one finale was handled left the door wide open for what is likely to be a very different second season.
With no help from Addison, Ben finds himself in the body of a radio man working a mission over Russia in the 1970s. Except the mission is a bunch of, shall we say, cast offs, and Ben himself is cast off. No ground support.
He manages, nonetheless, to work his way through the leap. And here be spoilers.
Instead of ending with Ben’s leap out, it ends with Ian showing up in hologram form. They tell Ben he’s been missing, presumed lost in time, for three years. The project has been shut down.
What happens now? Presumably the future team will get back together to help Ben in the past and try to get him home.
Why did Ian look for him now? Ziggy? Does Ziggy still exist?
It offers far more questions than answers, quietly wrapped around a fairly standard leap, albeit one which deals with patriotism and proving oneself.
Raymond Lee has really come into his own and can keep up with Park now. We see the rest of the team only in flashbacks.
I’m intrigued to see what happens next, more so than I was by the leap itself, although it did address the concept of duty.
So, where is Addison?
