Actor Scott Bakula says “significant conversations” are happening about the possibility of a reboot of his early ’90s sci-fi series Quantum Leap, though whatever talks are happening seem to be in the very early stages. On the podcast Bob Saget‘s Here For You yesterday, guest Bakula suggested...
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And before the usual crowd comes in whining that it'll probably be an
icky girl in the show, Bellisario's plan for the sequel series was ALWAYS about Sam's daughter leaping through time with Al's help to try to find Sam. They tried to get that going on the SyFy channel about 10 years ago, but it never happened.
As a big sci-fi fan, I really don't mind them doing something like taking a show and re-booting it with a female main character. I only dislike that if its made super woke, or in instances where they are taking a character, and then just rewriting them to be female. If it's about Sam's daughter that makes sense. If the story was just retconned so that Sam was a woman, I find that annoying because it's like "You couldn't even bother to write a new story, and you were so unoriginal you just renamed Sam to Samantha with most of the same facts about their life."
I feel like Sci-fi is the best place to do something like that. If it's sci-fi you can suspend a lot of your normal feelings of disbelief in a situation so that you can then explore the logic of a situation. As a dude if anything a well written female main character is more of a reason to watch a show than not. I only dislike it when they do certain stereotypical things that I see as lazy writing, or extreme pandering. If you've got a male main character I feel like you usually see more character development and explanations for how the character has their abilities, and earned them. In a lot of movies or shows with female leads you see a lot of "We literally never talked about this aspect of the character until it became critical to the plot, but actually they have all of these skills/knowledge/abilities that is perfect for this exact situation!"
There are exceptions to what I'm talking about, and a lot of that is what I base my judgement on. As a general example, if a character is portrayed as something like a math genius, I want to see some scenes that allude to them studying hard. What I don't want to see, is that supposedly a kid who is twelve is doing math mathematical proofs that are baffling university professors, and somehow they learned this in their average middle school or at the library. In real life even if you had a genius level IQ the amount of time and training it would take to be doing something like that isn't something you are going to get at such a young age except in possibly a really extreme situation that wouldn't even apply to the majority of geniuses. There is simply too much background information you have to learn. This may seem like a minor gripe, but when you understand how much work is involved in developing these kinds of skills it's actually quite maddening to see these portrayals. I'm convinced there are a lot of very smart people who never learn much math/science or get anything close to their potential because they saw a series of these kinds of portrayals, and were convinced that if they didn't understand everything in a math textbook the first time they looked at it, that they are just dumb and shouldn't be trying to learn math.
