Theory
I think Ben's target is the Bar from S05E22: Mirror Image of the original Quantum Leap project.
In the series finale episode, Al left him at the Bar to figure out what's happening and why the Bar was weird… as per Sam's explanation to him. After that, they never met again.
So, officially, Sam's was marked as 'lost in time' and 'never went home'. But Ben and Al's daughter probably have a theory where to start their search, and that is the Bar, the last known location Al saw Sam.
The only question is, was not that why the Quantum Leap project was restarted? To find and rescue Sam? If so, don't they have a record of Sam's last known location?
It is starting to appear, as of Episode 3, that Al hid the information about the Bar from the records, and years later his daughter figured it out and she convinced Ben to do it her way -- reach the Bar and start their search from there.
This is an interesting twist. Why? If Quantum Leap 2.0, or at least Ben, learns that they can leap whenever and wherever the Leaper wants, it can open up a whole new different plot for this sequel. Instead of it being 'random', they can start adding stories about a real attempt to change the past … and Ben will struggle between following the orders of the Pentagon or fighting back.
It will also open an opportunity to explore what the "Mirror Image" series finale episode hinted at, there are other Leapers.
With that knowledge about Leapers actually controlling their leaps, would it not be amiss if the Pentagon doesn't make use of the opportunity [to start a Temporal (Cold) War]?
Then we have Ben, and his team, trying to correct or stop them?
Theory
I think Ben's target is the Bar from S05E22: Mirror Image of the original Quantum Leap project.
In the series finale episode, Al left him at the Bar to figure out what's happening and why the Bar was weird… as per Sam's explanation to him. After that, they never met again.
So, officially, Sam's was marked as 'lost in time' and 'never went home'. But Ben and Al's daughter probably have a theory where to start their search, and that is the Bar, the last known location Al saw Sam.
The only question is, was not that why the Quantum Leap project was restarted? To find and rescue Sam? If so, don't they have a record of Sam's last known location?
It is starting to appear, as of Episode 3, that Al hid the information about the Bar from the records, and years later his daughter figured it out and she convinced Ben to do it her way -- reach the Bar and start their search from there.
This is an interesting twist. Why? If Quantum Leap 2.0, or at least Ben, learns that they can leap whenever and wherever the Leaper wants, it can open up a whole new different plot for this sequel. Instead of it being 'random', they can start adding stories about a real attempt to change the past … and Ben will struggle between following the orders of the Pentagon or fighting back.
It will also open an opportunity to explore what the "Mirror Image" series finale episode hinted at, there are other Leapers.
With that knowledge about Leapers actually controlling their leaps, would it not be amiss if the Pentagon doesn't make use of the opportunity [to start a Temporal (Cold) War]?
Then we have Ben, and his team, trying to correct or stop them?
The irony of this episode is that there's this running thread that Ian is taking it personal because everyone wants to shut down Ziggy but.... Ian isn't. Ian is very distinctly citing that Ziggy runs EVERYTHING. The idea that "oh we'll just go analog" doesn't work like that and it's silly to see everyone try to suggest it. Aside from that this episode doesn't really do anything other than put Ben in a dress again (and for the record I'm not offended by that).
It was an interesting enough leap. It was a bit murder happy all things considered and one thing I'm realizing is that like with the OG quantum leap I don't care about anyone else other than the leaper and the hologram. The show keeps trying to make a big deal about Ben's relationship with the other people working in the lab but in part because I don't see that relationship in the first episode, I don't care. Everyone time someone goes into the holochamber it's supposed to be this big thing but every time I am legitimately ambivalent. It matters not at all. Which is odd considering how much I do care about their interpersonal relationships OUTSIDE the imaging chamber.
Review by Geonn CannonBlockedParent2022-09-27T14:47:53Z
This really is Quantum Leap in name only. I really wanted this to be good. For years, I said all reboots are unnecessary but QL actually made a kind of sense. You could cover a whole new era (and the time between the original series ending and now has certainly been... busy enough to fill a series). But this is just... not that. It's aggressively mediocre. They insist on splitting time between the leap and the project, where everyone is obsessed with a Big Conspiracy MacGuffin that really just eats up the run time. And because they keep shifting to that story, Ben's leaps are half-baked and rushed. Every emotional beat happens because "Well, we're almost at our quota of script pages, they should make up now." There's no emotional connection to anything Ben is doing in the past because the writers are more interested in filling in the blanks of the cliche conspiracy plot that has been done in every single scifi show of the past decade or so.
I appreciate that they got Susan Diol back for the second episode but at this point it just feels like they're hanging placards on things as a shortcut to making us care. They drop the name DR SAM BECKETT so they don't have to do any work to make you like drbensong. They think uttering the name CALAVICCI will connect you to janice.
It's generic as hell, the dialogue is bad, the characters are cardboard, and it's not going to last long enough to lodge in your memory even if it hasn't been swiss-cheesed.