Quantum Leap in Boredoms

One of my favorite shows, strong nostalgic ties to my younger days. I've been watching through it again recently (I own all 5 seasons) and, while I still love it dearly, I can't help asking questions. For those who don't know, Quantum Leap is a show about a genius scientist named Sam Beckett who develops a time machine that works by sending him into the bodies of other people at various points in his own lifetime. An unknown force hijacks the project (strongly considered to be God) and uses him to right the wrongs in these people's lives so he can leap out and into the next person. My curiosity comes from the moments at the end when he leaps out and that person gets put back in.

Very little attention is given to the goings-on in the future where the latest target waits around in Sam's body being confused as shit about what they're doing there. In many cases, Sam radically alters the person's life in ways that person wouldn't have based on their personality or any other number of factors...so what do they do to prepare the person for when they get back? Maybe they just tell that person everything? But then how do they keep that person from going: "HOLY SHIT, PERSON-IN-MY-LIFE, YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHERE I WAS!" And a couple of these people were on the verge of being institutionalized before he leaped in so a story about being taken to the future while a scientist piloted their bodies wouldn't help much. The show does make liberal mention of the leaping process putting holes in the memory so likely they just don't remember being in the future...but then they just lost a few hours/days/whatever and in that time they've altered their lives and the lives of those around them and they'd have no memory of having done any of it.

I know this is just a case of me needing to not read into things that deeply but I can't help it. I can go on forever about things like that but who the fuck would want to read it? I have a weird thing I do for video games, too, when I kill things. I've done it the most with Assassin's Creed. I think about all the rooftop guards I murdered out of necessity/boredom/frustration. I know I'm thinning out ranks of Templar scum and everything but...it could very well be possible that a few of those guys just needed money to support a family and the city guard paid well. Maybe they don't know jack about the Templars or don't really support their cause but can't afford to actively stand up to them. I find myself sometimes just saying "Sorry, buddy" after I kill them. Unless they started it, then it's just business.

I was thinking about WWII shooters earlier. I liked them pretty well back in the days. Played all the CoD ones, Medal of Honor, even Wolfenstein 3D. Those were really nightmare hellscapes. Granted, war is already pretty nightmarish when you're in it but you watch all your comrades fall around you and at some point you realize...they all have the same face (or 2 or 3 faces), same build. Think about how you knew these guys. Maybe from as far back as boot camp, or maybe you just joined up in their platoon but you've talked...you know them...not just by name but you may even know about where they grew up, a sweetheart they have back home, family. But then each one of these guys looks the same once they fall. They're all just identical corpses and you feel sick just then because you ask yourself: do I look like them, too?

I might be a little crazy.