Quantum Leap getting a reboot, What do you think?

[Nardpuncher]

^^ I agree.

maybe I'll regret saying this later if the show starts, but they need a more complex story with arcs and maybe some sort of...dare I say it...future threat of some sort...someone from the far future that Sam would have to deal with...or even someone from the past.

TV shows like The Fugitive and The Incredible Hulk and even Knight Rider got kind of old with the lone man going into a small town and sorting stuff out before carrying on. Quantum Leap was a bit like that too, what with Sam leaping into housewives and then a waitress and all that.

 

[the Dagman]

NBC/Universal already did something of a reboot/revisioning of Quantum Leap. It was called Journeyman. And they axed it before it ever really got solid footing, even though it was solidly received by a small fan base and critics. All we ever got from that was 13 great episodes with a small bit of acceptance and closure at the end.

 

[od0_ital]

^

Journeyman sucked out loud. Or, at least the first episode did. I didn't bother with any more than the pilot that was on that preview disc from Blockbuster.

 

[Hermiod]

I'd prefer to see a continuation than a reboot.

Sammie Jo Fuller, workin' at Project Quantum Leap, finds out from Al that Sam is her father, that he leaped and had an affect on her past. And now Sam is gone from the project.

In an attempt to find her father and return Sam back to his proper time, not realizin' what happened between Sam and Al/God, Sammie Jo becomes a leaper, who is assisted by Al, at first, and then, one of his own daughters takes over as an observer.

Ya give Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell special guest star status for a few episodes, and have a main cast of two, maybe three, regulars.

We can do without another Dollhouse style super ninja action woman show.

Better to remake the show with someone else as Sam Beckett.

 

[Icemizer]

Journeyman was so much better than Quantum Sleep.

 

[od0_ital]

I'd prefer to see a continuation than a reboot.

Sammie Jo Fuller, workin' at Project Quantum Leap, finds out from Al that Sam is her father, that he leaped and had an affect on her past. And now Sam is gone from the project.

In an attempt to find her father and return Sam back to his proper time, not realizin' what happened between Sam and Al/God, Sammie Jo becomes a leaper, who is assisted by Al, at first, and then, one of his own daughters takes over as an observer.

Ya give Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell special guest star status for a few episodes, and have a main cast of two, maybe three, regulars.

We can do without another Dollhouse style super ninja action woman show.

Well, I wasn't thinkin' they should get Eliza to play Sammie Jo or anything.

The series established that both Sam & Al had daughters in the end, why not let the literal "next generation" take over the project?

Better to remake the show with someone else as Sam Beckett.

Ya really think so? You're a fan of the reboots we've gotten lately, familiar character names with unfamiliar actors & altered histories?

 

[Deckerd]

Re Dean Stockwell. Was he ill in the last few eps of Battlestar? Because he looked terrible.

 

[od0_ital]

^

Old age will do that.

The guy has been around forever...

 

[Deckerd]

But he looked fine up until the last few eps when Cavil reappeared for the big finale.

 

[Hermiod]

We can do without another Dollhouse style super ninja action woman show.

Well, I wasn't thinkin' they should get Eliza to play Sammie Jo or anything.

The series established that both Sam & Al had daughters in the end, why not let the literal "next generation" take over the project?

I would just like to have something to watch before I lose all interest in TV completely. Inevitably, a show with two female leads is going to go all Joss Whedon on us. It'll turn out that Sam's daughter is a Krav Maga expert and she'll be beating up 250 pound guys within 10 minutes of the first episode.

No doubt whoever replaces Gushie will be some stereotypical male nerd with no social skills who pines over one of them with no chance of ever getting anywhere.

Sorry to be so down on your ideas, but I've seen too much American TV to not know where an unhealthy network interference would take a show like you suggest.

Better to remake the show with someone else as Sam Beckett.

Ya really think so? You're a fan of the reboots we've gotten lately, familiar character names with unfamiliar actors & altered histories?

Well, I'm a fan of Battlestar Galactica and the new Star Trek movie. Write the new Sam as a good guy and I'd be happy.

If I was to write a list of the top ten male role models for boys in TV history, Sam Beckett would be very high up on that list. There really aren't any characters like him on TV anymore.

 

[Mistral]

I'd prefer to see a continuation than a reboot.

Sammie Jo Fuller, workin' at Project Quantum Leap, finds out from Al that Sam is her father, that he leaped and had an affect on her past. And now Sam is gone from the project.

In an attempt to find her father and return Sam back to his proper time, not realizin' what happened between Sam and Al/God, Sammie Jo becomes a leaper, who is assisted by Al, at first, and then, one of his own daughters takes over as an observer.

Ya give Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell special guest star status for a few episodes, and have a main cast of two, maybe three, regulars.

Dear God! Someone posted with foresight, innovation and intelligence! Well done!

 

[Mistral]

^

Journeyman sucked out loud. Or, at least the first episode did. I didn't bother with any more than the pilot that was on that preview disc from Blockbuster.

Then you denied yourself a wonderful, heart-breaking experience.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I read an article on trekmovie.com where Quantum Leap might get a reboot on scyfy. I was a huge fan of Quantum Leap in the 80's and 90's and am a big fan of Scott Bakula. I would love to see a continuation of where the show left off rather than an anctual reboot, however I would be down with a reboot if it were done well and wasen't all about drama. The drama is good for BSG, but not Quantum Leap. I know many of you don't like Quantum Leap or Scott Bakula or Enterprise, but I'd like to know your opinion anyway.

I actually happen to like all three of those things.

(Shrugs)

And a reboot doesn't sound like a particularly awful idea.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I thought the show got interesting once they threw in historical events and the evil leaper. It was about time they did something besides stories about ordinary people in the 1950s and 60s south.

I really didn't care for the evil leaper story. The series didn't need a "villain."

I'd prefer to see a continuation than a reboot.

Sammie Jo Fuller, workin' at Project Quantum Leap, finds out from Al that Sam is her father, that he leaped and had an affect on her past. And now Sam is gone from the project.

In an attempt to find her father and return Sam back to his proper time, not realizin' what happened between Sam and Al/God, Sammie Jo becomes a leaper, who is assisted by Al, at first, and then, one of his own daughters takes over as an observer.

Ya give Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell special guest star status for a few episodes, and have a main cast of two, maybe three, regulars.

Nah, keep the show simple. Sam Becket traveling through time putting right what once went wrong. That's QL.

 

[Messianni]

I love Quantum Leap, I wouldn't mind at all if they rebooted it even if it went so far as to recast Sam Beckett. I'd at least stick around for the first season and see what they did with it.

 

[Marc]

Would a show like QL be cheap or expensive to produce? You have to regular actors on the payroll e.g Bakula and Stockwell but that's nothing really in the way of standing sets or but the would be building new sets each week but might also be able to make use of studio backlots to a large extent.

 

[Messianni]

Expensive. Lots and lots of location shooting, period costumes and a long, rotating list of actors. Then again you would really only have two leads.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'll believe it when I see it!

 

[Aragorn]

Ziggy was created by man... He evolved... He rebelled... And he has a plan!

I can't wait for the obligatory 9/11 episode.

You already know how they'd do that episode. In the "original" timeline, United 93 hit the White House. So Sam or whoever helps prevent it from happening.

 

[the Dagman]

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Journeyman sucked out loud. Or, at least the first episode did. I didn't bother with any more than the pilot that was on that preview disc from Blockbuster.

Thusly, you have negated any credibility your opinion may have carried.

Journeyman was a step up over QL in that it showed many of the ramifications that someone time traveling without personal control would have on his present day life. Like accidentally wiping his son out of existence and replacing him with a daughter he never had. Or that child kidnapper/killer he stopped in the past getting out of jail in the present and coming after his own family. Or even just spending a contemporary twenty dollar bill fifteen years in the past before they started updating the currency.

Rarely has there been a show as smart and well thought out as Journeyman was, not to mention as well acted. You missed something that was really special and if you and more like you who did not watch would have given it a real chance, it would likely still be on the air.