Bakula was willing to play the clown in this fish-out-of-water series, mugging for the camera and thereby bringing a verve to life-and-death stakes. Where Bakula brought a bewildered sitcom energy to his misadventures, Song is playing this as a straight TV drama. While the show's concepts are similar, the reboot's creators forgot their hero should be fun to watch. Want more about the latest in entertainment ? Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter today. Ben saves the day despite the amnesia that strikes after every leap (aka the "Swiss cheese effect," as it was known in the original series), with the help of his own Al (aka Addison, who'll we get to in a bit). In the premiere episode, titled “July 13th, 1985,” he’s an undercover cop tasked with saving the life of a restauranteur who’s dealing in bank robberies, bombings, and the theft of the Hope Diamond to pay for his under-insured wife's expensive cancer treatment. Ben Song, who - like Sam before him - leaps into the quantum accelerator without warning his team and is plunged into the past to set right an old wrong. Ben Song is the new Sam Beckett… And he sucks. The new Quantum Leap picks up in 2022, where the supercomputer Sam created, Ziggy, is back in action with a new team of scientists looking to correct that glitch that threw Sam’s leaps to the will of fate or God or what-have-you.īut how does this Quantum Leap reboot compare to the original? Let’s break it down. Navy rear admiral who appears "in the form of hologram only Sam can see and hear." (Opens in a new tab) After 97 episodes of derring-do, a caption onscreen during the finale informed audiences Sam never made it home. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) made these journeys guided by Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell), a U.S. Though noble, the impetuousness of his first leap leaves him jumping across time, into different bodies to save various days, hoping each leap will be the leap home!įor five seasons, quantum physicist/noted genius Dr. The broad strokes are the same: A scientist, clad in a white bodysuit, jumps into an experimental time-travel project, using himself as a human test subject and launching into the past to right what once went wrong. Nearly 30 years since Quantum Leap aired its series finale, NBC has rebooted the sci-fi adventure series with a new cast.
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