ButJFK still died. And Vietnam still happened, some PoW got home earlier
Will Sam Beckett Return Home? NBC Orders Quantum Leap Reboot Pilot
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Doing something during a multiyear war is not the same as doing a story about a single famous historical event. And he did the assassination years into the show, as a conscious exception to the well-established pattern. Out of 97 episodes, only a handful broke the usual approach. I'm not saying there can't be exceptions. I'm saying that if this revival intends the same approach as the original, we shouldn't expect them to rush into something like that in the first season. And conversely, if they do rush into something like that, then it means this show won't be as distinctive in its approach as the original. Because that's what every other time travel show would do.
Yes, obviously, of course. The show often tackled social issues. What I'm saying is that it mostly didn't do the usual time travel cliche of only doing famous events from the history books like the Titanic or Pearl Harbor. It found a more nuanced way to talk about history, one that wasn't just about the headline-grabbing events but was more ground-level.
Those were something I felt the original show overdid. It gets very improbable when the same guy happens to be accidentally responsible for inspiring so many famous people. That's the same kind of gimmick that the show avoided in its main plots.
IIRC, Sam didn't actually teach Michael Jackson how to do the moonwalk. Sam just leaped in as some kid in like 1962 and happens to meet young Michael, who already knows the moonwalk and demonstrates it for him.
That said, the thing with Chubby Checker was
ing hilarious.
Sam saved lives in both stories, though the big historical events still happened
And I’m not saying that it will, that I expect it to be, nor that it should be the norm for the new show to do something like the Oklahoma bombing every week. Just that events like those could be done, as an exception - same as the original - in several ways. It’s not impossible, as some have posited.
You’re reading and replying to something you think is in my posts which just isn’t there.
Potato, potato. They weren’t exactly littered through every episode and they were fun but of brevity when they did happen.
But, hey if you want to poo poo what could have been a bit of fun speculation rather than indulge, whatever floats your boat.
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Yep. Big events aren't changed, individual lives are. Though the season two premiere shows how individual lives can have a big effect.
Is anyone worried that this show premieres in less than a month and we've had no promotion at all?
Well apart from this forum I have not seen a peep mentioned about it anywhere else but then we are not in the States so that's another issue.
I don't watch a lot of network TV, could they be promoting it on NBC and we're just not seeing it?
I think Sam's "kisses with history" were often great, and I'll be disappointed if they're done away with on the new show.
Every now and then would be cute. It's the overuse I had an issue with. Some things are nice when they're rare, but get devalued when they're routine.
I have a theory why we see Sam always dealing just with, well, "mundane" cases. Do you remember the episodes with the "Evil Leapers"? One of them said something like "Would you like to go back to doing the really awful and terrible things we did before? Be glad we deal with things like marital infidelity or the like."
Here, my theory is that Sam is a "Good Leaper" who deals, in fact, with "little things". There are other "Good Leapers" instead who deal with preventing nuclear catastrophes and the like. If it weren't for them we would now be extinct or in a post-apocalyptic world
Just my two cents.
Here, my theory is that Sam is a "Good Leaper" who deals, in fact, with "little things". There are other "Good Leapers" instead who deal with preventing nuclear catastrophes and the like. If it weren't for them we would now be extinct or in a post-apocalyptic world
Just my two cents.
I have a theory why we see Sam always dealing just with, well, "mundane" cases. Do you remember the episodes with the "Evil Leapers"? One of them said something like "Would you like to go back to doing the really awful and terrible things we did before? Be glad we deal with things like marital infidelity or the like."
Here, my theory is that Sam is a "Good Leaper" who deals, in fact, with "little things". There are other "Good Leapers" instead who deal with preventing nuclear catastrophes and the like. If it weren't for them we would now be extinct or in a post-apocalyptic world
Just my two cents.
Or maybe we're wrong to assume that what defines the cosmic importance of a change is how famous the event was.
I've seen quite a few commercials for it while I've been watching American Ninja Warrior, America's Got Talent, and Password.
My only complaint is that they keep showing the same vague teaser, that doesn't include any real footage from the show.
This is the Canadian CityTV versions, but it's the same trailer just with airing information for CityTV instead of NBC.
About the only "kiss with history" I couldn't stand was the Buddy Holly one. To think that "Peggy Sue" started out as a song about a pig... 
where is the new QL actually filmed - Vancouver, LA, Toronto, NY, Atlanta - someplace else?
the teaser shows a waterfront street sign and what could be the gastown steam clock in Vancouver.
the teaser shows a waterfront street sign and what could be the gastown steam clock in Vancouver.
IIRC, the pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver but the rest of the show is filmed in the US
I haven't really seen much promotion for any new show this fall on any network.
QL Teaser Promo
new catchphrase? "Oh?!"
glimpses of other leaps at the beginning?
new catchphrase? "Oh?!"
glimpses of other leaps at the beginning?
- Astronaut
- Construction
- Baseball
- Navy/AirForce/Military
- Doctor
- Wild West