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Sam did leap into the 1860’s in the original series, but the explanation given was that a “glitch” sent Sam into someone along his genetic line of ancestors.  Also, the rules seemed to no longer be relevant for Sam in the original series finale.  Sam was even choosing where he wanted to go at the end.

If it’s not Sam, another explanation could be a kind of pre-destination.  QL never really dealt with this before, but what if the mystery person is someone who Ben hasn’t met yet but will meet?  Ben may be chasing this person somewhere in Ben’s future.  Kind of like how River Song and The Doctor were almost never in sync.

Watched episode four, and it continues the vast improvement started in the previous episode.  If you go back and re-read my comments, episode four checked several of the boxes I was talking about - mystery; a Person of Interest style twist; personality; heart.  Episode four was a true Quantum Leap episode.  It had the formula.

The show is finding its footing.  A shame those first two episodes turned people away; but hopefully they’ll give it another shot.

I agree, and it goes along with my comments on Amazing Stories. Episode 3 of the new Quantum Leap had heart.  Vast improvement over the first two episodes

https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/digi … ntum-leap/

Watched the second episode, and it continues the tone of the first episode.  No real mystery - just problem solving.

At its most successful, Quantum Leap was somewhat like the first season of Person of Interest.  A mission is presented; but as you delve into it, the whole thing turns on its head, and it turns out the mission wasn’t what you thought it was at all.

An example for Quantum Leap is the episode when Sam leaped into a bounty hunter.  The mission is simple - transport his tricky, sneaky bounty to a certain city without her being killed.  But as we delve into it, we find out why she was killed in the original history.

She was a Robin Hood who stole from a crooked banker so that she could return the money to the everyday people he stole from.  Sam successfully exposes the crooked banker and the crooked law enforcement helping him, and gets her to turn herself in safely.  Ultimately she faces no harsh penalty due to the circumstances.

But Sam’s accomplishment doesn’t trigger the leap because he realizes that wasn’t his full purpose for being there.  He gives her his cowboy hat and proposes the idea that she become a bounty hunter herself.  She likes the idea and goes on to help a lot of people in the new history.

Given that the new series seems intent on making this something of a procedural and spending half of the episode in present day, I would suggest this.  Instead of having the computer just spout random probabilities of what Ben is supposed to do, have the present day team investigating the present day circumstances that came from the events Ben is living in the past.

But what gives it a twist?  What makes it something different?  As Ben lives out the past, his changes are rippling through to the present. The present is changing as they investigate and it creates unexpected twists and turns.  The team in the present narrows down what Ben is supposed to do based on what his changes are revealing in the present.  It’s like sifting flour or panning for gold.

And the big overarching plot the second episode just hinted at with Ben having created an algorithm to find a certain point in time?  Forget that.  The mission is likely to get Sam home.  For five seasons in the original series, they tried to bring Muhammad to the mountain; but Ben has the idea to instead bring the mountain to him.

Ben’s algorithm was not created for a chase through time.  Instead, Ben’s idea was to try to reshape present day reality into where Sam will be.  He’s not bringing Sam home.  He’s bringing home to Sam.

Had a chance to watch it; and it’s competent, but it’s missing an element.

In the original Quantum Leap, our only connection to the future was Al; and the future looked crazy.  Al always showed up in these flamboyant outfits; or he would appear in fishing gear when he’s supposed to be in a sophisticated imaging chamber of a military facility IN THE NEW MEXICO DESERT.   It was off-kilter and kept us off balance as an audience.  Was this real?

What we’ve been given so far in the new series are characters with a straight up mission with parameters to solve.  The feel of a mystery is missing; and part of that mystery was wondering if the main character was really just losing his mind.

And why isn’t Ziggy talking?  And what about someone who looks like Ben in the waiting room?  When it was Sam, his seeming presence in the future led even the government to question whether this was time travel or someone having a mental breakdown into multiple personalities.

It just seems like they’ve forgotten the show’s personality, and that’s a shame.

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For those who remember Warehouse 13, what we needed for the holographic guide was someone like Claudia:

To be blunt, we’re instead getting some sad lady who has the presence of cardboard.

Could Universal Studios end up the home of Superman, Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo in the end?

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/warner-bros … universal/

Well, there is something I’ve expected, but it’s getting worse.  I’ll give an example from where I live.

Sunday night, a group of men in Louisiana broke into someone’s  home to burglarize it, but the home owner was there.  The home owner began shooting at them with his gun, and the criminals ran to their van and sped away.

End of story?  No.  The homeowner jumped in his car and chased them for 20 miles into my state; the homeowner still shooting at them along the way.  The van finally wrecked.  The homeowner came to a stop, jumped out and was still shooting at the criminals as they spilled out of the van running on foot for their lives.  Blood in the van and on the ground suggests some were hit, but they managed to scramble away out of view and haven’t been located yet to my knowledge.

Bail reform.  Being softer on crime.  Defund the police.  It all seems good on paper, but the reality is that nature abhors a vacuum.  Everyday people are becoming more and more willing to act, and their actions even endanger other everyday people.  It’s a spiral of revenge that ends in anarchy.

People may not like the police, but they have a structure.  Look at your neighbor.  Would you rather him enforce his own personal law?  That is what’s happening more and more

It won’t be about politics.  It’s personal.

Now this is interesting:

https://quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Her … 2_Williams

In the new series, Ernie Hudson is playing a character that Sam leapt into during season three of the original series.  His character is likely where he is because Sam changed his life

And another:

https://www.eonline.com/amp/news/134416 … sert-storm

Sliders made the list:

https://screenrant.com/most-underapprec … eddit/amp/

Jerry and his twin brother are sure to be proud

Don’t remember seeing this before:

https://insidethemagic.net/2021/09/toy- … etion-ks1/

Made me think of Jeff Foxworthy in a Sliders context.  “If you’re seeing things in Toy Story 2 that you’ve never seen before, you might be in another reality!”

The Warner Discovery actions are getting sleazier.  HBOmax has been removing content lately as a “cost cutting measure”, but how would that action save significant money?  The reason is residuals.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/08/19/her … tform.html

By not having the content available to view, Warner Discovery does not have to pay anything to the creators.  On just the things they’ve already removed, it is saving the studio millions while creators are left out in the cold.

https://mobile.twitter.com/juliapott/st … 4594082816

Such as Julia Pott who is a creator from the cartoon Summer Camp Island.  Cartoon Network has at least pledged to continue airing the series so that the creators will get residual through that means.

This is already affecting DC content as well.  The recent Aquaman: King of Atlantis was pulled.  How long before the DCAU or Arrowverse is taken off?

These are some really poor business practices all around for Warner Discovery.  I remember Zaslov before the merger stating he was creator focused and wanted to give them a compelling environment to come work for Warner Discovery.  What he’s done since has been very much the opposite

Quantum Leap pilot episode replaced.  The original pilot will now be dropped later in the season as a regular episode

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/qua … 22040.html

Not entirely unusual (even Star Trek had a second pilot), but it does show there were problems

lol - thankfully, it wasn’t much.  I figured there would be an opening slide and did a scan until I saw the vortex appear.  Then I figured there would be an exit slide, so I just skipped directly to the end and there it was.

Also going back to your original observation, porn does seem to be incredibly racist.  I remember a random article years ago talking about the difficulty for black women in getting roles, and white women getting paid more for their first film with a black man.  So yeah, that appears to be a thing.

Definitely.

I sped through for the only parts I cared about - what did the timer and vortex look like?  (and that is a dude in the background, so no need to censor)

Production values were on par with season four, and it included a legally distinct version of the opening monologue of each episode.  They also did respect the worst parts of the formula (including turning back to talk before the exit slide).

Been a long time since I’ve seen the 1987 live action Masters of the Universe film, but I’m stunned to see the Sliders vortex appear

https://youtu.be/CF20B8p4F08

Around the 24 second mark

Had never heard of this, but it’s a perfect background drop in a Sliders episode.  Nothing else needed but to show the DuMont logo flash on a tv as station identification:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_ … on_Network

DuMont is the forgotten fourth network partnered with Paramount Pictures.  They filmed some 20,000 episodes of television between 1942 and 1952.  That library included the first ever tv sitcom, first TV game show and the first minority focused programming (including black and Asian hosts of programs).  DuMont was also where Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners was born (though the actual series was later greenlit by CBS).

All of the DuMont Network film library was dumped in the East River of New York City - considered garbage.  It’s still there, and a small portion has been excavated by divers.

Looks like the Batgirl decision is actually a tax dodge:

https://www.cbr.com/warner-bros-cancele … -write-off

Though not planned, it’s Springtime for Batgirl

They keep emphasizing in the press that the series seeks to solve the mystery of why Dr. Seong would step into the Quantum Leap accelerator.  Unlike Sam, Dr. Seong would know what would likely happen if he did it.

I’m thinking Sam is going to be the answer.  Dr Seong was looking for Sam, and Sam is going to find Dr Seong.

Time traveling within one’s own lifetime focused on the past during the original series, but it should also include the years you would have had but for leaping.  Scott Bakula is still alive, so odds are Sam would be too if he hadn’t leaped; and that means he could leap into Dr Seong’s time all those decades later.

So, the CW was just sold to Nexstar for zero dollars:

https://insidethemagic.net/2022/06/cw-d … llars-al1/

In the deal, Nexstar instead assumed $100 million in debt.  The channel apparently hasn’t been doing as well as it appeared.

Haven’t watched the Flash finale, but I read there was a hint of the villain Cobalt Blue.  That was an awful storyline featuring Barry’s long lost twin brother he never knew existed

In our reality, scientists were inspired by Star Trek to make fiction into reality through innovations in technology and aeronautics.

In another reality, scientists were inspired by Looney Tunes.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 … nto-space/

We can accomplish most anything with inspirations to drive us.

A few stills from the first footage of the new Quantum Leap:

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/nbc-show … evival?amp

Eventually, it comes back around to series Universal has a stake in; and there’s not a huge list of those that had value at one time.  Currently, there’s Fast and the Furious and Jurassic Park.  In the not so distant past, it was Battlestar Galactica.  Knight Rider is another Universal keeps going back to.

Sliders will have its time.  It’s just a question of whether it will be a good one.

My co-worker passed along another one of these:

https://rumble.com/v10mnew-live-world-p … water.html

The short of it - COVID-19 is not a virus and instead cobra venom dumped into the water supply.  As most conspiracy theories do, they make some compelling arguments, but they overlook one thing.  Even in targeted areas, I can scarcely imagine the scope and scale of the operation needed to dump sufficient amounts of venom to effect this.  The entire public would have to be “in on it” and making it happen.

And that’s when it hit me, and this is the reason I look at these things.  This could be a good Sliders story.

Years ago on Turner Classic Movies, I watched a 1936 film on the life of Louis Pasteur:

https://youtu.be/zeO8ZOYTa3k

The film depicts how Pasteur was treated as a mad man for pointing out the simple reality that germs exist.  Before and after the movie, they also had commentary and shorts discussing Pasteur’s theories about intentionally poisoning the body in measured amounts to kill the illness without killing the host.  These ideas would later develop into our medical treatments today (most well known as chemotherapy for cancer).

Our medical history and advancement accepts that poison can cure.  If civilization had accepted this concept sooner and on a broader scale, how could it have been applied?  Might we have developed some form of snake venom to dump in the water supply to act as a prophylactic against certain diseases?

Our Sliders land on this world and start to get sick one after another.  They begin to be seen as patients zero of some unknown illness that can’t be explained; but the truth is that their bodies aren’t conditioned to the venom in the water.  The cure for them is to stop using the water and get away from that world; but can they do it in a world growing increasingly afraid of the “disease” they carry?

As for why civilization would have taken this path accepting snake venom?  It’s an interesting thing also mentioned in my co-worker’s video.  Many see snakes as evil, and that’s rooted in religion (The Garden of Eden).  What if there is a world where people didn’t blame the snake?  In Demonic possession stories, we see the person as the victim. Why isn’t the snake a victim?

There are many great ways to tackle an X-Files crossover.  My thought was always that Mulder and Scully would be pulled into a murder investigation of someone who isn’t dead.

Arturo’s body is discovered in San Francisco in what appears to be a pretty cut and dried murder; but the X-Files come into play when Arturo is sighted in another part of San Francisco even though his body is in the morgue.  Mulder and Scully catch that one and begin interrogating when they get report that a third Arturo has been sighted.  Then another.  And another.

I see it as an Agatha Christie type mystery where everyone involved is Arturo.  And, of course, our Sliders land in the middle of it and get pulled in.

So what amounts to the Al role (the hologram) is going to Caitlyn Bassett - a former Australian sports star?

https://deadline.com/2022/03/quantum-le … 234974313/

Speaking of QL reboot news:

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/quantu … 235196426/