{"id":2833,"date":"2022-09-10T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2022-11-24T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T19:26:48","slug":"oh-boy-quantum-leap-trailer-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/oh-boy-quantum-leap-trailer-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, boy! Quantum Leap Trailer Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been cautiously optimistic about the upcoming <em>Quantum Leap<\/em> reboot\/continuation series since it was first announced. Now that the official trailer dropped yesterday and we&#8217;re a little over a week away from the premiere I&#8217;m getting amped. I honestly haven&#8217;t been this excited for the debut of a new TV show since the original QL back in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figured I&#8217;d throw down some play by play reactions to the trailer (along with a few predictions) to get them on the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check this out if you haven&#8217;t already, then meet me down below&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iavhTGFDqUE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The backward stuff here and on some of the teasers is a little lame, though I doubt any of it will come into play on the actual show.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I love &#8220;Oh shit!&#8221; as the modern take on &#8220;Oh boy!&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The new accelerator interior looks awesome, and I&#8217;m intrigued by the choice to show a lot more of the present day project than the original series did.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A lot of the promotion has focused on clips of real historic events which were (mostly) a no-no in the Sam Beckett days until the final season. I&#8217;m starting to suspect they&#8217;ll come into play more in this one. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The first leap-in disorientation and arrival of the hologram is pitch perfect, and the hologram glitching when people walk through Addison is a nice modern touch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My wife watched the trailer and said &#8220;He&#8217;s from 2022 but can&#8217;t drive stick?&#8221; I reminded her I&#8217;m from 2022 and can&#8217;t drive stick. It&#8217;s a stretch to say a hologram can teach someone who doesn&#8217;t know for the first time on the fly, but I&#8217;m betting he does know but swiss-cheese forgot and this scene is intended to show how lost skills can come back to him. (I don&#8217;t have a good excuse as to why I can&#8217;t drive stick.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;You&#8217;re the getaway man. Get us away, man!&#8221; is a funny line and very true to the spirit of the original series.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hologram Addison riding in a car with Ben is also a good throwback since Al often did that even though it never 100% made sense with the hologram thing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The original briefly had a &#8220;we&#8217;re not allowed to share last names so we don&#8217;t mess with time&#8221; thing they don&#8217;t seem to care much about here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a relationship that you don&#8217;t remember and I can&#8217;t tell you about&#8221; is a nice take on the swiss cheesed leaper \/ observer relationship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The actress in the rockstar mirror shot looks really familiar to me but I can&#8217;t place her.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s fun that a lot of the leaps they show here are similar to ones Sam had previously (rockstar, soldier, boxer, robber, astronaut (albeit Sam was a space chimp&#8230;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Changing history for the better&#8230;&#8221; YES YES YES!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That catwalk in the imaging chamber seems like it would limit movement of the holographic observer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great casting on the new Gooshie. Also wondering if Ziggy will use they\/them pronouns in a nod to the he\/she switch mid-series last time around.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Really excited for Ernie Hudson as former leapee Magic heading the project, taking on half of Al&#8217;s old role.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Find out why he leaped&#8221; is an interesting line, as is the big focus in the synopsis of the mysterious circumstances around Ben&#8217;s decision to step into the accelerator. My wild theory: Sam Beckett is ready for retirement but needs to find a replacement. So he leaps into Ben, steps into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanishes. We&#8217;ll learn this in the season finale or a later episode at the Al&#8217;s Place bar where Sam is now the bartender.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;If you fail, there&#8217;s a 100% chance this ship will crash.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to remake history&#8221; is a pretty perfect tagline for this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was speculated that Sam would die if his host did, but God\/Fate\/Time\/Whatever always seemed to leap him out the few times it came close to happening.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One other random prediction: There&#8217;s an episode set during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake &#8212; originally intended to be the pilot but re-edited to air sixth after the network felt a better setup was needed. I think attempting to retrieve Ben causes the quake, much like trying to retrieve Sam caused the great northeast blackout of 1965 in the episode &#8220;Double Identity&#8221; back in 1989. Coincidentally, that episode of the original series was intended to air second but also got moved to episode 6 when Don Bellisario thought an episode with a double leap (seemingly to prevent Sam&#8217;s death) airing so early would confuse the heck out of people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been cautiously optimistic about the upcoming Quantum Leap reboot\/continuation series since it was first announced. Now that the official trailer dropped yesterday and we&#8217;re a little over a week away from the premiere I&#8217;m getting amped. I honestly haven&#8217;t been this excited for the debut of a new TV show since the original QL&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time-travel","tag-quantum-leap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-JH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":537,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/the-tweet-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":2833,"position":0},"title":"The Tweet Back","author":"LBDG","date":"March 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"To date, I haven't exactly been the model Twitter user.\u00c2\u00a0 I have it set to automatically send tweets whenever this blog or LB-DG.com are updated (via twitterfeed), but aside from that I've rarely touched it. 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