Quantum leap revival/reboot

This comes up once a year or whenever Scott gets interviewed.

I was just going by the fact his wife was white from what I remember. Not that that ever stopped changes being made, I suppose.

Didn't Sam father a child while in someone else's body as well? I seem to remember something about the kid inheriting Sam's genes rather than the host's.

Eh? NCIS?

That one is cancelled which is probably why he's talking about this again to get himself more work

At least Sam is still alive the last we saw him. Quinn and the Professor were written out

Yeah that was hinted but it seemed like they forgot it in later episodes from the episodes I saw. And they'll probably find a way to save Quinn or use an alternate Quinn.

But yeah I would like more Quantum Leap. As long as they don't feel the need to make it more action packed or something.

By the end of Trilogy III, Sam's daughter, Samantha, is confirmed to have grown up, become a scientist as accomplished as Sam and is working at Project Quantum Leap, trying to get the man she now knows is her father, back home. It's also more than possible that Donna conceived a child in the episode where Sam and Al switched. We know that Al was generally very sparing with the truth about Sam's personal life. In fact in that episode, we/Sam learned that he never told him that the earlier changes he'd made in Donna's life had resulted in them getting married and Donna working at PQL. So it's more than possible that Sam had a child in his own time that he never knew about. For all we know, Donna/Al wasn't telling him that in this timeline, they had 10 kids at home before he leapt.

A Quantum Leap revival with Samantha as the main character has been suggested quite a few times. But has been prevented, mainly due to rights issues. There is also the very valid point that the main hook of Quantum Leap, just doesn't work in this era. The race and gender/sex switches would be impossible to get right. The leaper would have to only ever jump into the bodies of physically similar people. (Though I'm pretty sure Sam did jump into white men far more than anyone else put together.) I think if it did happen it would have to have a heavier sci-fi theme rather than the sci-fi being a vessel for a social history show. And a lot more focus on the Evil Leapers, who I think would have to be determined to not be evil but rather just scientists who believe that going back in time and changing things is dangerous and leads to bad unintended consequences.

Well no hope of Dean Stockwell coming back in the Quantum Leap revival so when it happens. May he Rest in Peace.

Pilot order given by NBC

Yay but I fear it will be ultra woke and miss the message of the original series

Let’s be honest they won’t and can’t replicate the format of the show for a 2022+ audience. It doesn’t work. Stand alone episode’s don’t capture the attention these days. Audiences want 6-12 episodes of a single story per season.

The best thing they could do would be to do a limited series that focuses on his son or daughter or whoever trying to find him and for every leap to get them closer to him. Then Bakula could appear in the final episode or two. It wouldn’t work if they just had someone new jumping around time with a swiss cheese memory. It would feel like a poor imitation very quick.

No one loved quantum leap more than me when I was a young lad....i remember sky 1 would show the same episode at 5pm and 10pm (they did the same with star trek tng)...sometimes i would watch both showings!

Watched a few episodes recently on syfy and just felt very underwhelmed......i found myself questioning the stories & plotlines that my younger more innocent self would let slide!

‘Quantum Leap’: Helen Shaver To Direct & EP NBC’s Reboot Pilot

Could say that about a great many shows from the 70/80/90's - be the same in 40 years when you look back at stuff from now probably

Loved Man from Atlantis, Tomorrow People etc - looking at them now they are terrible

I suppose they were novel for their time and pushed the envelope back then. Now the envelope has been pushed way beyond that show and its gone from being novel to being old hat.

I also think I probably enjoyed it because I was a child. I had a childish sense of humour and the shownwas suited to me back then. There's no way I'd watch it now if I'd never seen it before. The nostalgia is the best aspect of it for me.

Fair enough if they want to remake it. I probably wouldn't watch it. But I don't watch most TV shows that are made so it'll be no skin off either my, or the production's nose.

This will drive the anti woke crowd mad. But the whole show was very woke for its day, though that herm wasn't in use at the time. It pushed the envelope, hitting the hot button issues of the day in a very liberal direction, back when it was made and it will do the same in the reboot.

Transgender stuff, asylum seekers, people who can't afford healthcare, people living on minimum wage, immigrants, BLM, feminism and so on. It'll drive those people who oppose this stuff bonkers and they probably won't realise the original was doing that stuff with the contemporary issues of the day - but they were young back then and probably supported the Liberal stuff back then.

Not familiar with the actor but look forward to seeing how he gets on.

Ha! He goes through the whole process and the final eposode of the final season is where he leaps into Sam and we realise it was actually a prequel to the original, not a sequel.

Erine Hudson joins the cast.

Hudson portrays Herbert “Magic” Williams, a Vietnam veteran and head of the time travel project at Quantum Leap. Using a bit of politicking and his military know-how to keep the Pentagon at bay, Magic buys the team some time to rescue Ben but expects answers once he’s back.

have you quantum lept in from 2016? being primarily excited about the show hopfully "annyoing the right people" sorta implies that you are only secondarily concerned about the show being any good. Also if we are playing the imagination game I'd more wager that the "anti woke" reviewers for example wont be angry but that if the show parades itself as going to be "super woke" then the reactors can enjoy the schadenfruede that the show most likely will not be any good and falling ratings etc. so at least their ire if any would be directed at the producers and writers, not other fans

I liked the show but dont remember much about it now however to the extent that it might have shown marginal people and make a point of it, by definition it would have been a little edgy for the time. That doesnt apply today when they are nonstop discussions in the media and social media so it wont be edgy just boring and predictable.

At the end of the day most people dont care about 80's reboots outside of very particular shows and this wouldnt be one of them so i dont think there are going to be any great gotchas for you to enjoy.