Quantum Leap (2022) has at times struggled with what kind of show it wants to be. I would have preferred something a lot more intimate, very much like the original Quantum Leap. I've given up on that as no one makes TV shows like that anymore. Every show has to be an ensemble cast, every TV show lead has to have an entire team, not just a buddy.
I was willing to buy into that and I set aside my expectations for what Quantum Leap means and how much I enjoy the original. My personal preferences aside, it has mostly worked. I have issues with one episode but you can check my review on that. It's not like every episode of the OG was perfect either. This Season 2, however, has failed to spark anything within me (so far). I'm just not interested in a three-year time skip on a second season of this show. I don't know why it's there. I don't know what I'm supposed to be taking from this. It feels like in the TV world having someone move on so harshly in 3 years is wicked fast. Maybe it's not but regardless, I'm not an invested in their drama. This is weird because I like Ben and I like Addison. I weirdly never just cared about them as a couple. Unfortunately it looks like that's the only drama that is going on (at least right now). At first I thought this was just a ploy to make Ian the person in the imaging chamber and I was actually interested in that. I think Ian's an interesting person and it would have been fun to see Ian as a hologram. At this point, I'm not sure that's what they're doing.
This episode features a sort of modernism that I find really pretentious. There's a point where Ian is the hologram and Ian is standing in a desk. Ben notices and gestures to Ian that Ian should step aside. Ian looks down and screams in shock, but why? It's the silliest scene and it doesn't make any sense and it feels like it completely is there for modern weird jumpscare short attention span tick tock sensibilities. It would have been much more interesting to see Ian casually step aside. I'm pretty sure Al did that in the OG.
In general Al was a lot more "cool" about being a hologram than the people in this show are. It gave the sense that the hologram technology itself was so old hat. They didn't send a scientist or a specialist. They just sent his buddy. After all in the future holograms are just the way we do things. Except here where people get amazed and shocked at being a hologram. I suppose that's the effect of telling Quantum Leap that takes place in the future vs Quantum Leap that takes place now.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2023-10-12T15:00:43Z— updated 2023-12-27T04:21:42Z
Quantum Leap (2022) has at times struggled with what kind of show it wants to be. I would have preferred something a lot more intimate, very much like the original Quantum Leap. I've given up on that as no one makes TV shows like that anymore. Every show has to be an ensemble cast, every TV show lead has to have an entire team, not just a buddy.
I was willing to buy into that and I set aside my expectations for what Quantum Leap means and how much I enjoy the original. My personal preferences aside, it has mostly worked. I have issues with one episode but you can check my review on that. It's not like every episode of the OG was perfect either. This Season 2, however, has failed to spark anything within me (so far). I'm just not interested in a three-year time skip on a second season of this show. I don't know why it's there. I don't know what I'm supposed to be taking from this. It feels like in the TV world having someone move on so harshly in 3 years is wicked fast. Maybe it's not but regardless, I'm not an invested in their drama. This is weird because I like Ben and I like Addison. I weirdly never just cared about them as a couple. Unfortunately it looks like that's the only drama that is going on (at least right now). At first I thought this was just a ploy to make Ian the person in the imaging chamber and I was actually interested in that. I think Ian's an interesting person and it would have been fun to see Ian as a hologram. At this point, I'm not sure that's what they're doing.
This episode features a sort of modernism that I find really pretentious. There's a point where Ian is the hologram and Ian is standing in a desk. Ben notices and gestures to Ian that Ian should step aside. Ian looks down and screams in shock, but why? It's the silliest scene and it doesn't make any sense and it feels like it completely is there for modern weird jumpscare short attention span tick tock sensibilities. It would have been much more interesting to see Ian casually step aside. I'm pretty sure Al did that in the OG.
In general Al was a lot more "cool" about being a hologram than the people in this show are. It gave the sense that the hologram technology itself was so old hat. They didn't send a scientist or a specialist. They just sent his buddy. After all in the future holograms are just the way we do things. Except here where people get amazed and shocked at being a hologram. I suppose that's the effect of telling Quantum Leap that takes place in the future vs Quantum Leap that takes place now.