🐱 '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.

 

[LaxerBRO]

How is the original Quantum Leap? Is it worth watching?

The show is the creation of Donald P. Bellisario who created, Magnum P.I., Tales of the Gold Monkey, Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS.

Such, the shows are designed to appeal to center-right to right-wing normie persons with interest in things military but probably have not served or served in a combat role.

I liked watching most of those shows as a kid and even have a few of the series on DVDs. They are decent non-cringe shows to watch on a lazy afternoon if you don't want to nitpick over details.

 

[Pop pop fizz fizz]

From what I remember from watching reruns of this show, isn't the existence of the Western Christian-styled God and the Devil established plot points in the show? Wonder how the wokesters writing now will handle that...

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Another point about Sam keeping into woman and shit--it was played for laughs, in a fish out of water way in the beginning of the episode, which then morphed into him learning to understand that person and their struggles.

Today it would be a very heavy handed scolding about "lived experiences" as he respectfully already understands their lack of privilege for being a poor Hispanic or gay Indian or whatever.

I can see why they couldn't let a huwhute actor do this, but wouldn't even having a white-adjacent Azn straight male "playing" as black, women, gay, jewish, Mexican transgender, etc, be massively offensive to leftists?

I predict there will be massive critical backlash and the show will get eaten alive by fellow leftists and cancelled over that. I always said QL was a show that could never be made today. Watch any 3 episodes now and you'll see why.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Leaked episode synopses. They might be out of order, there were no episode numbers.

Bottom's Up

Spoiler

Sam leaps in to the body of a 17-year-old boy questioning his sexuality. The boy is being propositioned by an older man. Ziggy says the boy's first sexual experience was traumatic and they have to do something so the boy doesn't become a self-hating repressed homosexal. So Al guides Sam through diet, enema use, and how to use poppers so his first time bottoming is enjoyable. There's a brief but tasteful sex scene, and we freeze frame on Sam's O-face as he leaps out.

Transformation

Spoiler

This is a lab-heavy episode. Sam leaps into the body of a pre-op MTF transsexual. He's scheduled to undergo gender affirmation surgey, to include penectomy, orchiectomy, and neovagina construction. He objects to this because they would be operating on his real body while the transsexual is in the waiting room. He asks Al if they can't just perform the surgery on the person in the waiting room, which may be the trigger for his next leap. The Quantum Leap team desperately runs simulations but time is running out, Ziggy says if Sam doesn't undergo the operation there's a 41% chance the transsexual will kill herself. Al urges the team to find another way, but Sam says he'll do it. Even if his genitals are removed, he still identifies as male and that's what matters. There's an operating room montage and when he wakes up, he tentatively feels his groin area. At that moment he leaps out.

Insurrection

Spoiler

Sam leaps into a composite character based mostly on the QAnon Shaman. Because of his Swiss cheese brain, he rampages through the Capitol hardly noticing Al. He moves podiums, breaks a window, and even shits in Nancy Pelosi's desk. Finally Sam's real personality breaks through and he tearfully informs Al he failed, he wasn't able to stop the insurrection. But Al informs him he didn't fail; in the original timeline, the Mike Pence was hanged outside the Capitol. Realizing that saving even a Republican's life is worthwhile, Sam leaps out.

I liked this one because it's kind of a callback to the Lee Harvey Oswald episode, but it deals with a much more serious event in our history.

 

[frozenrunner]

I hope this new series has the same ending as the first one.

 

[Spud]

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ole Ernie Hudson, just happy to be included.
eta:

For a "diverse" cast they sure look rather bland

 

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So this show is far from great, admittedly.

But with this last episode, they really outdid themselves. I am 15 min in and I want to punch walls.

To anyone who wants to torture themselves, you can check out this great troon story line for free here

Watch Quantum Leap (2022) - Season 1 Episode 12 - Let Them Play english subbed at WatchMovie

Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, follows a new team that must restart the project hoping to understand the mysteries behind the machine and its creator.

watchmovie.ac

ETA; I gave up. This was like this episode was written by a troon with down syndrome. The plot only serves to teach us about troonery and how hard their life is, and they are normal people etc... Fuck this shit, I am never even background watching this on a pirate site again.

 

[WonderWino]

SAM: I'm a woman?
LEFT-WING AUDIENCE: YES!
RIGHT-WING AUDIENCE: NO!

I don't recall if Sam ever actually leaped into a woman but if he did it was incredibly offensive by today's standards. I know he leaped into a retard and a monkey.

Yes

The left would lose its shit if that episode aired today

ETA; I gave up. This was like this episode was written by a troon with down syndrome. The plot only serves to teach us about troonery and how hard their life is, and they are normal people etc... Fuck this shit, I am never even background watching this on a pirate site again.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me. The more I see these reboots the more convinced I am that the lefts general idea with them is to take something that was popular years ago, recast it, add a bunch of woke stupidity into it and assume everyone who liked it before will automatically like it now that its been heavily altered and injected with idiocy. They really don't get what the issue is and keep doing exactly the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Makes me really wonder what the new fraiser show is going to be like - I won't be surprised if he's back in boston (confirmed to be set in boston at this point) and running a pro troon radio show thats all about validating their delusions and telling them they're the sane ones

Give it time and we'll probably see a mash reboot with female soldiers, klinger as an actual troon and the north koreans fighting the war because they hate gays and troons or some such bs

 

[Standardized Profile]

So this show is far from great, admittedly. But with this last episode, they really outdid themselves. I am 15 min in and I want to punch walls. To anyone who wants to torture themselves, you can check out this great troon story line for free here

Watch Quantum Leap (2022) - Season 1 Episode 12 - Let Them Play english subbed at WatchMovie

Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, follows a new team that must restart the project hoping to understand the mysteries behind the machine and its creator.

watchmovie.ac

ETA; I gave up. This was like this episode was written by a troon with down syndrome. The plot only serves to teach us about troonery and how hard their life is, and they are normal people etc... Fuck this shit, I am never even background watching this on a pirate site again.

My stupid plot summaries were jokes! They weren't supposed to develop them into scripts and shoot them!

They could at least credit me and pay me a few shekels....

 

[Hitman One]

was Quantum Leap even good? i remember xbone shills talking about it as it was the second coming of Christ but was forgotten as soon as the show and "game" came out.

only reason i rememver it is beacuse CIA guy was the main bad guy

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I enjoyed Quantum Break. Despite its faults it told an interesting story and the time powers were neat. Remedy are the only AAA game studio I would even consider pre-ordering from now, looking forward to Alan Wake 2 and the Control sequel.

 

[OrionBalls]

From what I remember from watching reruns of this show, isn't the existence of the Western Christian-styled God and the Devil established plot points in the show? Wonder how the wokesters writing now will handle that...

They haven't, yet.

 

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Somehow that doesn't surprise me. The more I see these reboots the more convinced I am that the lefts general idea with them is to take something that was popular years ago, recast it, add a bunch of woke stupidity into it and assume everyone who liked it before will automatically like it now that its been heavily altered and injected with idiocy. They really don't get what the issue is and keep doing exactly the same thing over and over and expecting different results

This is the part that is almost comedic.

They are doing all top down, telling you what you like, what you think, who are the good and the bad people, what the right opinion and attitude is, what are the right and the wrong questions to ask etc...

These people are so far out of their mind that they forgot that what made them was entertainment. They don't even try anymore.

They like to think of themselves as geniuses and influencers of the future. They can't afford to wait for you dumb dumb to catch up with their superior intellect. Yes, this retard who did not finish his art college has an important message for you.

And then, they wonder why they don't make money. You don't like this piece of shit with black trans midget fucking snow white in Tokyo? Surely, it's because of the ism and the phobia. People are so afraid and hateful of fucking freak and retards, sad....

As much as I like to think that they are speed running into bankruptcy, new media like Google are probably heavily invested in this, and that's why they've been pushing MSM so much on YT, for example. I don't see any other reason.

 

[Iron Hamster]

I hope this new series has the same ending as the first one.

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One of the saddest scenes on television

 

[870EVO]

was Quantum Leap even good? i remember xbone shills talking about it as it was the second coming of Christ but was forgotten as soon as the show and "game" came out.

only reason i rememver it is beacuse CIA guy was the main bad guy

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In one way it was good because it forced you to think about others situations in history. And yet at the same time, it was a product of it's time, the very optimistic 80's. Where at the time you'd plausibly believe billions would be dumped into a time machine, where he then discovers he has to fix the past in order to make the world a better place, and they continue dumping millions in to support him.

Know what I know now, they'd leave Sam for dead and pull the funding.

 

[Karma Khan]

Know what I know now, they'd leave Sam for dead and pull the funding.

Given how it ended at the time, one could argue that they did just that.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

What do I do Al?

No one wants your shitty show.

 

[Snekposter]

Makes me really wonder what the new fraiser show is going to be like - I won't be surprised if he's back in boston (confirmed to be set in boston at this point) and running a pro troon radio show thats all about validating their delusions and telling them they're the sane ones

If they're bringing Kelsey Grammer back in any form, not at all. The man himself has been outed as gasp, a Republican.

Grammer is a supporter of the Republican Party and endorses the Tea Party movement on economic issues such as small government and lower taxes; City A.M. described him as "one of Hollywood's best-known Republicans, a rare spark of red in a blue sea of Democrats."

A New York magazine profile published in 2010 described him as pro-choice. In 2015, however, his wife posted an Instagram photo of Grammer wearing a T-shirt from the anti-abortion group Abort73.

Grammer is supportive of same-sex marriage, stating "I think marriage is up to two people who love each other." He has expressed disbelief on the scientific consensus on climate change, comparing the California wildfires to alleged global cooling from his youth and criticized the 2011 and 2018 climate meetings. Additionally, he stated in a 2016 interview with The Guardian that the person he admired most was Vladimir Putin "because he is so comfortably who he is." In 2019, he issued a controversial statement in support of Britain leaving the European Union.

Grammer has labeled Washington politicians a "bunch of clowns." He has expressed an interest in some day running for United States Congress, Mayor of New York City, and the presidency. Grammer was a guest at President George W. Bush's first inauguration. Grammer endorsed Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 presidential primary and later campaigned for John McCain in the general election. Grammer also promoted RightNetwork, a conservative start-up American television network. He endorsed Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Grammer later endorsed Mitt Romney, after he had won the nomination. He supported Ben Carson's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, although voiced support for Donald Trump when the latter was selected.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

If they're bringing Kelsey Grammer back in any form, not at all. The man himself has been outed as gasp, a Republican.

Now then you mention it, will Kelsey Grammer provide the voice of Sideshow Bob again?

 

[SBG]

Looks like ratings went to shit for the reboot.

Shame they screwed up so badly, but then I've tried watching a handful of network TV shows recently and it's amazing how bad most stuff on TV is now.

Suppose everyone with any talent got a deal on a streaming service.

So for Quantum Leap, prior to the hiatus, the last episode that aired Nov. 7 saw 2.65 million viewers tuning in, but upon returning on January 2nd, over 300k viewers forgot about it, as again, 2.31 million viewers tuned in.

However, this past Monday’s episode has the worst ratings of the series as only 1.704 million viewers tuned in, according to the preliminary numbers, with a 0.3 rating.

That’s a loss of around 600k viewers from the previous episode and a loss of almost 1 million viewers from before the hiatus and a full drop of a point in the ratings, not to mention a loss of around 50% of the viewers from the first episode.

What that low number might be saying is that some viewers figured they would give Quantum Leap another chance after the hiatus, but didn’t think much of it and tuned out Monday’s episode.

https://cosmicbook.news/quantum-leap-ratings-nosedive-loses-million-viewers

 

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Wait for these reviews on IMDB to be removed for hate speech