If they can send someone back as a hologram which can see and hear the past, what's the point of leaping in the first place ?
In other words, they're changing all the rules on the new show and creating giant plot holes without understanding why the rules were there.
Unfortunately if you want to get a TV show or movie greenlighted these days, you pretty much have to continue/reboot/adapt an existing book, TV show, movie, or other existing property with a built-in audience. The bean counters don't trust new ideas. So you end up with reboots where the creators wanted to make something new but couldn't, so they went out of their way NOT to watch the source material and made massive sweeping changes, and then the audience is splintered into "just enjoy it, it's more QL" and "this isn't QL" and defenders on both sides.
I wish we could get back to a place where if you want to have a new idea, you can get the money and resources to go make that new idea. And if you want to adapt something, you have to prove you CARE about that property and its existing audience. Instead they waited until Don Bellisario is long since retired and looking at legacy and ran out of reasons to say No.
In Season 6 of Quantum Leap, Sam would have been able to leap as himself and leap home ANY TIME HE WANTED with all his memories, and yet he would still choose to leap into people's lives as he's now committed to "the mission" and working for The Bartender. If you don't believe me, go listen to Sam and the Bartender's final speech about 10 times. So QL would have changed some of the rules no matter what. The QL formula was starting to get a tad stale and needed to grow for the show to continue, and I don't mean whacky leaps like Bigfoot and celebrity leaps.
But so far, the changes they've made in the new QL don't seem to be done to open up storytelling opportunities, but just to be "different" from the original show for the sake of being different. Nobody is saving you can't change things and I am rooting for the new show, but changes in the mechanics of an established show have to be done for some other reason than feeling creatively straitjacketed. Every change should have a reason and shouldn't open giant plot holes. Maybe they'll explore this in Season 2.
Wait...I thought the writers claimed to be fans? How can they not research a show that they're working on a new version from?Given the showmakers have said they did not watch the OG and deeply research it, it comes off much as some OG fanfiction in the 90’s when all we had to go off of was our own memory or the Usenet groups and whatever VHS we may have gotten on our own. (Or the books before the OG show made it factually and abundantly clear that it was a body Leap.)
So those are the sorts of things that feel like rule changes and we’re gonna do what we want. I think I’m not alone in having wanted a true sequel.
I thought your critiques are reasonable, for what it’s worth. I’m not familiar enough with reddit for the downvote process, but one thing I’ve always loved about THIS special place is the respectful discourse among fans.Wait...I thought the writers claimed to be fans? How can they not research a show that they're working on a new version from?
As for my problems with the new series I wrote a detailed post for reddit and it was downvoted to hell which is always nice as I was just giving constructive criticism. I want the show to succeed and get better:
Oh Sam from Fate's Wheel thinks I'm evil incarnate!I thought your critiques are reasonable, for what it’s worth. I’m not familiar enough with reddit for the downvote process, but one thing I’ve always loved about THIS special place is the respectful discourse among fans.
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