While it’s a credit to the reboot that it keeps adding soft ties to the original series in relatively fun ways, it’s a questionable choice to lean into the evil leaper, which was one of the most controversial and arguably weakest parts of the original series’ final season.*** Of course, it’s too early to say whether this is a good decision. They found out who the Project mole is (Ziggy!), what Ben’s goal has been this whole time (to save Addison from Leaper X), and that there was an evil leaper* similar to Leaper X during the original Project (Alia, supported by her own holographic assistant Zoey** and the evil computer Lothos). In the present part of the episode, Magic and the Project team learned a few important things while trying to help Ben achieve his leap goal. Watching this episode of Quantum Leap, I couldn’t help feeling a cognitive dissonance throughout, which we’ll get back to in a bit. Eventually, my brain and body came together and said “quit it,” and I did. My brain had to square the fact that I knew this was a terrible thing, yet I was choosing to still do this terrible thing. An easy example is smoking - I was a smoker for the better part of twenty years, despite losing a parent to cancer and fully understanding the harms of those stupid tar-laden sticks. ![]() ![]() Herein there be spoilers …Ĭognitive dissonance is a psychological concept about the mental toll taken on us when we have contradictory actions and/or beliefs. As the Quantum Leap reboot winds up its first season, let’s talk about this week’s episode, “Ben, Interrupted” (that title being a play on 1999’s Girl, Interrupted).
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