🐱 'Quantum Leap' Shows Off Diverse Non-Binary Cast

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NBC has released first look images from the pilot episode of the Quantum Leap reboot/sequel featuring the diverse and non-binary cast.

Earlier in the month, the network announced a series order.

The cast is led by Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Seong, who has previously been described as the "spiritual successor" to Scott Bakula’s Dr. Sam Beckett from the original series.

Ernie Hudson, known for the Ghostbusters movies, is playing Herbert “Magic” Williams, a Vietnam veteran and head of the time travel project at Quantum Leap who using a bit of politicking and his military know-how to keep the Pentagon at bay, buys the team some time to rescue Ben but expects answers once he’s back.

Nanrisa Lee is playing Jenn the head of security at Quantum Leap headquarters.

Mason Alexander Park is playing the non-binary character Ian, the chief architect of Quantum Leap’s AI program.

Caitlin Bassett is playing Addison, the project lead at Quantum Leap HQ who operates state-of-the-art technology to communicate with an individual time traveling in the past. Judging from the last image below, it seems likely this is the equivalent of Al Calavicci, played by the late Dean Stockwell as Addison is holding a similar-looking communicator.

Quantum Leap is described as: It’s been 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.

The series hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, with Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt serving as writers and executive producers; original creator Don Bellisario is also serving as executive producer with Deborah Pratt, and Martin Gero.

The show is also said to be set in the present day, with Scott Bakula is not presently said to be involved.

Quantum Leap will air at 10 p.m. Mondays following The Voice in the Fall.
 
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Got around to watching episode 12, and about a quarter of the way in the virtue signalling became very, very obvious. The shots used at the trans support group were something that I'd expect to see in a PSA for starving children in Africa. About 80% of the dialogue was too forced and too preachy.
 
Quantum Leap will always hold a special place in my heart. My old man and I would always watch the show. He served in Nam and always loved seeing the nods to it. The show was not only a heartwarming and kind show, it was rewarding. Every week you'd hope he'd get that leap home, but every episode was so good, you didn't mind if it was /filler/ because they're just such good characters that any time with them was great. Of course it would mix up the formula, Evil Leaper, going into a disabled man, but the show was always fresh. There was so many times the show brought a tear to my eye, Sam pretending to be his dads long lost relative, just so he can connect with his dad, or The entire Leap Home episode where Sam has to learn he can't fix everything. The episode I remember the most was MIA, where Al is trying to get his wife to not move on from him during his time as a POW in Vietnam, which ends up failing. It was the only time I saw my old man cry.

This show has some extremely important memories to me and after watching the reboot, I can say, it's hollow. Empty. Worst of all, it's souless. I can't even bring myself to be angry, it's just heart breaking.
 
TV's Adam West said:
Quantum Leap will always hold a special place in my heart. My old man and I would always watch the show. He served in Nam and always loved seeing the nods to it. The show was not only a heartwarming and kind show, it was rewarding. Every week you'd hope he'd get that leap home, but every episode was so good, you didn't mind if it was /filler/ because they're just such good characters that any time with them was great. Of course it would mix up the formula, Evil Leaper, going into a disabled man, but the show was always fresh. There was so many times the show brought a tear to my eye, Sam pretending to be his dads long lost relative, just so he can connect with his dad, or The entire Leap Home episode where Sam has to learn he can't fix everything. The episode I remember the most was MIA, where Al is trying to get his wife to not move on from him during his time as a POW in Vietnam, which ends up failing. It was the only time I saw my old man cry.

This show has some extremely important memories to me and after watching the reboot, I can say, it's hollow. Empty. Worst of all, it's souless. I can't even bring myself to be angry, it's just heart breaking.
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That's a common theme with all modern western media, PC/woke or not.
 
Standardized Profile said:
Do you think Sam would want to come back to the current year? He'd be leaping around trying like hell to fix it.
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IIRC, the final episode of classic Quantum Leap (which wasn't supposed to be a finale but had a bunch of text slapped onto the closing scene to give closure when the show was canceled prior to airing) stated that in the final episode, Sam had changed his sidekick/guide Al's past by convincing his first wife to never remarry while Al was presumed dead/a POW during the Vietnam War so that he wasn't going to be part of the Quantum Leap project and that as such, Sam no longer had a helper and as such, would never go home.
 
Flammifer said:
How is the original Quantum Leap? Is it worth watching?
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It's super hit or miss. The creators wanted to do an anthology series but had to dress it up as a sci-fi show with the bare minimum of an arc (Sam leaping into bodies to try and get home) as networks were phasing out anthology shows after they briefly came back into vogue in the late 80s.

There are some decent episodes/ideas but at the same time, the main plot almost never advances and towards the end they ended up breaking one of their earliest promises (Sam would only leap into normal people, not famous people) via episodes where Sam lept into Marilyn Monroe and Lee Harvy Oswald for sweeps weeks episodes. The biggest dicktease was the "Evil" Leaper; a poor innocent woman working with an evil female version of Dean Stockwell's "Al" character who kept forcing said female leaper into breaking up marriages/families for the evilulz and doing all sorts of bad shit by telling her "she can't return home" until evil female Al was satisfied. They did two episodes but dropped the entire thing, because the show runner only did it as a ratings stunt and disliked the entire storyline.
 
MirrorNoir said:
It's super hit or miss.
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It's of it's time. Don't go in expecting an overarching plot - anything ongoing about the personal lives of the leads gets reserved for the beginning and end of seasons. Everything else is episodic, even moreso because it's a new setting and cast except for the main two every week.

The fifth, last season was the most gimmicky, where they were clearly under a far bigger threat of cancellation so they broke the most 'rules' - didn't he also leap outside his lifetime via DNA so they could tell a Civil War story? - but in general treating it as an anthology is a good perspective. And it certainly doesn't scream CURRENT YEAR the way the new one undoubtedly does, not even via fashion since none of it is set contemporarily.

Funny how a message of embracing our common humanity and the power in focusing on our similarities lasts far longer than one involving idpol and troons.
 
verissimus said:
Honest question, but how does that even work?
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You shoot a show you know will fail in a tax-advantageous, inexpensive location.

Conspiracy theory, I think the Transformers movies were originally shot in Detroit, the first one for sure, and I think bits of 2 and maybe 3. Now why would anyone film a movie about globe-trotting robots in that specific shithole of a city? That's also in the era of a nationally-known super-corrupt mayor taking kickbacks and bribes for city projects. Imagine being Michael Bay, probably getting paid to film in Detroit(instead of paying the city) because they want the jobs for citizens, the positive press and the future tourism dollars & media events promoting their connection with a wildly successful IP everyone wants to be tied to. I think the car companies also wanted to brag about their big models like the Camaro being immortalized in the films.

Anyways, Michael Bay could have been paying californians wages to film in LA at a significant loss. OR? He could be bringing jobs to Michigan and "helping" break people into the movie industry, and getting big breaks from the state re: taxes on filming there, along with under-the-table deals from that crazy nigger gangster, to make an already profitable movie even more profitable up front. Transformers 'could' have failed, and this would have been padding and money in the pocket before you even pay back investors. That's how shitheaps like Quantum Leap get by sometimes. But in the above case, it actually funded hype-fueled sequels far past their sell date.
 
there has to be a moment where normies get tired of being fed this shit on all the media they consume, right?
 
Best we can hope for is more Ernie Hudson memes.
And maybe some less-than-subtle historical tirades about racism/sexism/gender-nonsense/etc.
 
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