Quantum Leap

[TheVileOne]

First couple episodes looked really cheap and low rent to me, especially when this is being marketed as a special effects sci-fi series.

The first episode didn't look remotely 80s at all in terms of costuming, production design, sets, anything.

The acting is all very generic to me. Just felt like generic TV performances. I kind of feel like we are never going to get a satisfying answer to the mystery of why Ben leaped. Also, I'm not understanding the necessity of this project. Doesn't it also contradict things that happened at the end of the series? But isn't messing with time just a recipe for disaster?

 

[Dark Raven]

So at the end of the latest episode

Spoiler

There was someone who recognised Ben Song. Was he an evil leaper or someone else?

Also the next episode, episode 6 was originally meant to be the pilot.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Decided to give this a go since I was bored....but as of episode 4, it's sadly VERY generic and vert NBC procedural.

 

[Dr.]

Watching the latest episode and I’m thinking… either that’s some pretty good green screen work or they actually shot in Egypt. Well, it appears they actually shot in Egypt.

 

[Dr.]

Like the first season, I found the second season to be… serviceable. But things got more interesting in the two-part finale — where there was more emphasis on time-travel tropes like “predestination” and “butterfly effect.” Perhaps too little, too late. Apparently, the show is “on the bubble” and its renewal is uncertain.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

I lost interest in this show during season one because I just did not care about the B plot every episode involving The Project, with the cheap looking procedural show sets and the JJ Abrams mystery box plot that got made pointless when Scott Backula said he wasn't going to appear on the show. The time travel stuff is what Quantum Leap is about. The stuff in the future played very little importance in the old series.

Also, I think when the only time travel you can do with your main character is 1980s and upwards because your lead is a millennial, that limits your time travel. The whole "can only leap into your own lifetime" thing was fine with Sam because he was born in the 1950s, so you could go back into the 50s and 60s and 70s, as well as the 80s. Those decades just feel a lot more different from each other then my lifetime does.

 

[Dr.]

Sequel series cancelled.

‘Quantum Leap’ Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons

NBC has decided not to proceed with a third season of its Quantum Leap reboot starring Raymond Lee.

deadline.com

 

[Dark Raven]

Sequel series cancelled.

‘Quantum Leap’ Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons

NBC has decided not to proceed with a third season of its Quantum Leap reboot starring Raymond Lee.

deadline.com

That's sad. I was hoping to see adventures with both Ben and Addison now that they were reunited. Hopefully another channel can pick it up.

 

[blueharvest]

Sequel series cancelled.

‘Quantum Leap’ Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons

NBC has decided not to proceed with a third season of its Quantum Leap reboot starring Raymond Lee.

deadline.com

Not surprising, unfortunately.

 

[Teelie]

I knew it was 50/50 they would get a third season but was hoping it would. At least now they are sort of, kind of reunited. Maybe in 30 years we get another reboot.