Quantum Leap, Reboot Set At NBC With Pilot Order

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https://deadline.com/2022/01/quantu...steven-lilien-and-bryan-wynbrandt-1234912430/

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Yep its quantum leap, yes its a reboot, will i watch it even tho big fan, probably not as dean and scott were the show and their chemistry, without them i dont think id be bothered even if it still had leaping and moral play of the week etc.

Just gutted dean died last year and its just too late all of this, it shoulda been brought back years ago.
 
Even if it's done really well with lots of love for the original TV Show, whilst it maybe A Quantum leap, it'll not be MY Quantum Leap so I'll probably give it a miss.

***Just to add it's set 30 years after the original series but in the same universe with a new team, so it's less of a reboot (something which disregards continuity from the original) but more of a sequel instead.***
 
I watched the original series on Freeview a year or two ago. Great show. Can't say I'm looking forward to yet another (probably woke) show reboot/sequel, but will watch a couple of episodes before forming an opinion. Unlikely to be anywhere near as good though. More TV execs with zero imagination trying to relive their glory days.
 
A TV show about a man who jumps into the body of other people in different times and solves problems. The original was great the final season and final episode were amazing I remember how I felt after the last episode.

Please let this fail at the pilot. There is no way Hollywood can make this without totally screwing this up they will want to insert "the message" with all the subtlety of the Mongol Horde coming to town.
 
ianh said:
Even if it's done really well with lots of love for the original TV Show, whilst it maybe A Quantum leap, it'll not be MY Quantum Leap so I'll probably give it a miss.

***Just to add it's set 30 years after the original series but in the same universe with a new team, so it's less of a reboot (something which disregards continuity from the original) but more of a sequel instead.***
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Thats interesting because I just happened to catch some of one the other day with two of the people in the 'moment' were both time jumpers (or what ever Sam is) both with the hologram manager. Funnily enough two women.

PlacidCasual said:
A TV show about a man who jumps into the body of other people in different times and solves problems. The original was great the final season and final episode were amazing I remember how I felt after the last episode.

Please let this fail at the pilot. There is no way Hollywood can make this without totally screwing this up they will want to insert "the message" with all the subtlety of the Mongol Horde coming to town.
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throwaway4372 said:
Of course it won't be a white guy. They can't bring anything back without messing with it. Guaranteed woke trash.
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Certain people are going to lose their **** if they jump into a different sex/race body.
 
bazzabear said:
God help us if they dare to put a women or a black man in a major role. This forum will explode. ;)
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I was wrong. Didn't require them to cast anyone not a white male, just needed someone to suggest they might. :cry:

it's hilarious that people are wetting themselves that Quantum Leap - a series which delighted in constantly pushing moral messages - might 'turn woke'.
 
Excited to see the return but yeah its a hard one since Sam and horny Al just worked on screen so well, really the writers would have to come up with something a lot more better then just set 30 years after and trying to work out how it worked does not cut it really. Really hope there is a better reason
to return to it, if they do get Scott backula back that would certainly help.
 
bazzabear said:
it's hilarious that people are wetting themselves that Quantum Leap - a series which delighted in constantly pushing moral messages - might 'turn woke'.
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Probably because to most people being "moral" and being "woke" are two vastly different things as, to most people, "woke" usually involve forcing changes to a persons morality with some form of 'punishment' if they don't change i.e morality is something you chose within you whilst "woke" is something pushed upon you.

Personally, with Sam jumping into people of every colour, creed, sexuality, gender, ability, age etc you got to see a great range of lived experiences every week which was great for story telling. Plus Sam was always a person with a very strong sense of morality, of what is right and wrong, and this seemed to match how most American's (on both the Left and Right) believed themselves to be like at the time.

However, as the gulf between how Americans see themselves on the Left/Right has widened, the recent trend towards "woke" isn't how most American's see themselves (even some of those on the Left), which is why most "woke" things tend to fail as their audience is aimed at the minority of Americans who feel this way. So I can see why people who enjoyed the original QL are concerned that Sam, a strongly moral and religious man, is being superseded by someone who potentially could be a worse "woke" person (in their mind) overall.

In the end I just think that this will fail/succeed on the quality of the writing more than anything else and, sadly, most modern screenwriters (well the ones which actually get a script sold to a studio anyway) tend to be garbage and it will be them who will wreck the reboot, not because they're "woke" etc but because they're just low skilled hacks compared to writers previously.
 
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