ireactions wrote:I'm afraid getting Scott Bakula back to play the lead character again (if that's what you're saying, I may have misunderstood) is a non-starter. Bakula does not accept roles where he has to stay on the set past 6 PM. He lost his marriage during the original QUANTUM LEAP because he was never around, and he made a promise to his second wife that he would never let that happen in their marriage.
I don't believe Bakula is as uninvolved in the new QL as he claims, especially when he offered no reasons for "passing" on the revival despite him being the one to constantly bring it up from 1994 to 2022; if he passed on anything, it was a larger role that would keep him away from home later than he wished.
I'm afraid getting Dean Stockwell back to play a regular character (if that's what you were suggesting, I may have misunderstood) is also not possible unless you have some way of reviving the dead.
Some shows take time to build their audience. Some shows take time to find their way. I'm guardedly hopefully that NBC, having retooled QL three episodes into filming and debuted it during the sportsball, will give QL some room to improve.
I didn't realize that about Bakula but kudos to him for priotizing his family over profession that would intefere.
Yes, Stockwell is gone.
I think my general point is, sometimes utilizing old properties to make things "new" can fail because they fail to have something that hooks the audience, such as the special thing that the original may have had. For SLIDERS it was team work and the bond between the characters. Now if you did a new SLIDERS, would execs feel they've exploited the concept, only to miss the central reason the show originally worked?
So my point is, maybe sometimes they get too ballsy with reinvention rather than just using the old formula and continuing it. Including as much of the old cast or archetypes as they can. Maybe that's just stale for some. For me, I don't mind it.
Ultimately though I am fine with this quantum leap as well. Serviceable, glad to have it. First two episodes were fine, I enjoyed, kinda gave me the feel of Timeless.
The third episode was even more interesting, and others here seemed to have liked it. So that's good. And I am fine with a new set of characters for this or old. I just think sometimes Hollywood's desire to do a new version of everything rather than just going back to the old characters and formula can be a bit dismissing and cocky, where people often feels the end result doesn't live up to the old one. And they could have just done the easy thing... and done the old one.
