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[mYm|17|]

the opening theme song/intro is great

 

[Woody Invincible]

Ya'll stop hating on Janeway. You see her crew, I'd be trying to murder most of them myself. She's the goat.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

I think he actually DID leap home, ultimately, and had some further adventures, particularly in his later years, with his children.

Oh hey, check out this character, Steve Bartowski! He's a scientist whose kids grew up without him for a good chunk of their childhood because he was missing, having some manner of adventure that left him a little bit... loopy.

See also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Expy

 

[SturokBGD]

I think Scott Bakula still has the chops for it but the problem with it being anything other than a reboot is that obviously 20 years have passed since the original "Project Quantum Leap" but for the show to reference any real life events Sam would be leaping into moments in time that he didn't experience in his lifetime so he'd have no context for them.

Wibbly wobbly time stuff.

 

[xxracerxx]

How about we leave it a fond memory instead of fucking it up with a new series?

A new series wouldn't necessarily make those fond memories go away.

If I could grab the showrunners from one current show for a reboot, I would grab the Limitless team for a QL remake.

 

[Balphon]

Yup. As a kid that stuff didn't even register, but good lord, imagine the shitstorm if Beckett so much as kissed a girl while pretending to be somebody else's SO in Quantum Leap 2016. And you know, rightfully so. In retrospect, through adults eyes, that's pretty creepy. Imagine being the person to go back into their body. They just lost track of days, weeks, even months. While being gone, all this cool shit went down that they weren't a part of. Oh, and the body snatcher responsible banged your SO.

And, IIRCC, there were two versions. One, the displaced person was wholly unaware of what was happening. They basically blacked out and woke back up missing a chunk of their life. Again, with a banged O who is wondering exactly where their SO picked up that trick with the pinky. Pretty scary, right?

But not as scary as version 2. In some parts of the show, wasn't it hinted at, or shown, that the displaced person watched it all go down? So, they were 'a part of it' but not in control? Isn't that the scariest shit ever? You're taken over by a mysterious force and made to do all this shit you have no control over. That's not the stuff of a lighthearted, Jesus-friendly sci fi show. That is some straight humanity horror, right there.

From what I recall they actually switch places with Sam and spend their time hanging out with Al in a clean room in 1999. There's even the one episode where the dude escapes as Sam and Al has to go find him.

 

[ag-my001]

I thought they implied that the "Swiss cheese brain" effect was from Sam merging memories with the displaced person. Sam would retain some of his own knowledge (like speaking Japanese or figuring out how to delay labor) but also sometimes randomly remember things from the other person. When he leapt out, the other person retained the memories of what Sam had done, while Sam forgot.

 

[Lagamorph]

the opening theme song/intro is great

Until they ruined it in season 5 anyway.

 

[Polioliolio]

Yup. As a kid that stuff didn't even register, but good lord, imagine the shitstorm if Beckett so much as kissed a girl while pretending to be somebody else's SO in Quantum Leap 2016. And you know, rightfully so. In retrospect, through adults eyes, that's pretty creepy. Imagine being the person to go back into their body. They just lost track of days, weeks, even months. While being gone, all this cool shit went down that they weren't a part of. Oh, and the body snatcher responsible banged your SO.

And, IIRCC, there were two versions. One, the displaced person was wholly unaware of what was happening. They basically blacked out and woke back up missing a chunk of their life. Again, with a banged O who is wondering exactly where their SO picked up that trick with the pinky. Pretty scary, right?

But not as scary as version 2. In some parts of the show, wasn't it hinted at, or shown, that the displaced person watched it all go down? So, they were 'a part of it' but not in control? Isn't that the scariest shit ever? You're taken over by a mysterious force and made to do all this shit you have no control over. That's not the stuff of a lighthearted, Jesus-friendly sci fi show. That is some straight humanity horror, right there.

Well hold up. That's one reason I don't like 'the waiting room'.. But there are plenty of episodes where Sam is heavily influenced by the person he leaps into. It's almost more like the person is still that person, but Sam is also there with outside info and has power to lean things in one way or another.

 

[Zeus Molecules]

There was talk of a new series, starring Beckett's kid trying to find Beckett.

I would watch that ..... I would watch the hell out of that.

 

[davepoobond]

I just finished up quantum leap this month. Such a great show, the whole enjoyment really is just the interaction between Sam and Al.

It's sad because the way it ended, you could basically extrapolate that the Sam we know probably never goes back home and the Sam and Al in the alternate future never meet up because the Quantum Leap project didnt need to exist

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Yeah, a TV movie was supposedly in the works for either NBC or Sci-Fi that would've had his daughter Sammy Jo from the trilogy of episodes they did in the last season where she goes through time trying to find him, they had already established that she was working on the project. It never went anywhere thought.