SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from Tuesday’s season finale of Quantum Leap on NBC. The two-part finale of NBC‘s reboot of the popular 1990s sci-fi drama wrapped in a tidy and uplifting manner — meaning it could serve as a series finale if the drama doesn’t earn a third season pickup.
Here, co-showrunners Martin Gero and Dean Georgaris talk about how long they’ve been planning that happens in the season 2 finale, along with why it was so important to feature a massive Butterfly Effect, and what fans could expect if the series makes it to season 3. DEADLINE It feels like you’ve crafted this to potentially work as a series finale.
Was that the plan? DEAN GEORGARIS Interestingly, we actually didn’t craft it to be a series finale.
The fact that Ben [Raymond Lee] and Addison [Caitlin Bassett] are in the same physical space can feel like a completion, of sorts, of the first part of their journey.
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