The Great Singularity in the Fictional Universe - CHUCK & Reverie are Prequels to ...

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... QUANTUM LEAP (in case you can't see the picture). Think about it. QUANTUM LEAP is an old series about a scientist who invents a machine that (we're supposed to suppose ) 'leaps' his consciousness into people's bodies in the past so he can influence their lives to 'make things right that once went wrong' so he can 'leap' his conscious into some other past person the next week. CHUCK (in which Scott Bakula--who was the scientist in QUANTUM LEAP--plays 'the scientist who invents a machine that jams a computer into his son's consciousness) is about a guy whose father invents a program that turns the guy's brain into a spy-computer (and whose mother was also a spy). Reverie ... I just started watching, so I basically just have its premise---something about 'going into mental patients' minds to help them find the solution to fix their brains.' That gets into the QUANTUM LEAP-story because of sort of a fan-theory I have about QUANTUM LEAP. You see, QUANTUM LEAP ends with ... SPOILERS! enough space? if not, I'll come back and add some more ... Sam Beckett 'fixes something,' and he leaps ... out of existence, for all we know. My fan-theory is ... well, my first thought is 'maybe it's one o` those "the whole thing was a dream"-shows (kinda like the first Roseanne-series ... hey! maybe if they reboot QUANTUM LEAP, Sam can make one of the "cool" networks pick it up instead of 'the out-of-touch geezers at ABC' ' Anyway, maybe 'Sam Beckett' was just the code-name that Chuck Bartowski used (the way Sarah Walker's name 'really was' "Sam," the way John Casey's name was really "Alex Coburn"). And you remember Sam & Al frequently mentioned 'the Swiss-Cheese Effect' the Leap machine had on Sam's brain (no "real" holes in it, but spots of Sam's memory were missing---including the fact that he had a wife waiting at home!) Anyway, my fan-theory is that Chuck "Sam Beckett" Bartowski's Leap-machine actually just fried him right then and there, and they rushed him over to the Reverie-machine to set his mind at peace---sort of like the main character of Reverie did for a murderer who was dying in the hospital (handing his dream-self 'a picture of the wife & son he murdered' so he could remember what they looked like and his brain would let him die). Sound logical?