The tragedy here is how transparently underwhelming the writers are from minute one of the show.
It felt like they were sprinting as fast as they could to get us into the first leap. It was an ugly exposition dump that seemed to be trying to hit a checklist of items. It had the exact same emotional weight as if they'd just started the show with a narrator saying: "this is Quantum Leap. You know the deal. This guy is the new Sam. This girl is the new Al. Let's get into it!"
It felt like an unforgivable missed opportunity to intelligently build on the lore surrounding the quantum Leap project, or to give us an introduction to the characters in a way that would actually make us care about them.
I know the writers want to build tension by making it a big mystery why this new leaper with step into the machine without telling anyone why he was doing it... The problem with that is that there can be no possible explanation that will ever be satisfactory. They hung the show on a mystery that's simply doesn't pass the smell test. And everything else the writers have done in this episode demonstrates that they lack the skill to pull off anything clever.
It's sad to see yet another sci-fi property get destroyed by by writers who don't understand or care about what they've inherited. It happened with Star Wars. It happened with Star Trek. It happened with Jurassic Park. Quantum Leap deserved better.
It felt like they were sprinting as fast as they could to get us into the first leap. It was an ugly exposition dump that seemed to be trying to hit a checklist of items. It had the exact same emotional weight as if they'd just started the show with a narrator saying: "this is Quantum Leap. You know the deal. This guy is the new Sam. This girl is the new Al. Let's get into it!"
It felt like an unforgivable missed opportunity to intelligently build on the lore surrounding the quantum Leap project, or to give us an introduction to the characters in a way that would actually make us care about them.
I know the writers want to build tension by making it a big mystery why this new leaper with step into the machine without telling anyone why he was doing it... The problem with that is that there can be no possible explanation that will ever be satisfactory. They hung the show on a mystery that's simply doesn't pass the smell test. And everything else the writers have done in this episode demonstrates that they lack the skill to pull off anything clever.
It's sad to see yet another sci-fi property get destroyed by by writers who don't understand or care about what they've inherited. It happened with Star Wars. It happened with Star Trek. It happened with Jurassic Park. Quantum Leap deserved better.