Once you got past the initial excitement of him travelling to a new time and finding out who he was, it was usually some tedious soap opera plot that involved a convenient outcome.
You could have just watched a dull show set in the 50s to be honest.
*shrug* for some reason it's still remembered as a scifi show when really that was just the gimmick. There was a lot of shows like this on the air at the time. Like Highway to Heaven and what not. Human interest stories of the week that happened to involve the recurring main character were very common. Especially in Westerns. I think shows like MacGyver probably handled it best. By trading off the gonzo adventure episodes with the human interest ones, creating a fully realized hero to care about. You still see something of it with the new Magnum. People have problems and Magnum is here to help solve them. But I find the flip flopping action chase scenes and gun fights with sappy drama to be a little spastic. You gotta spread that stuff out. It all gets a little samesy.
If I was in charge of rebooting Quantum Leap, I wouldn't actually like the show I'd make. Cause i'd make it a bit more scifi driven, and a little more soulless. I'd keep Sam being a good man trying to do the right thing. But i'd make the agency running him a little sinister, with a bigger game plan for restructuring space and time for a total take over of human history and enslavement of mankind in a grim dark future. And Sam eventually having to keep doing his work while sabotaging that and creating his own secret work throughout history and slowly becoming Doctor Who. I mean i'd go f'n nuts with it. He'd eventually gain control over who and when he could jump into and culminate in a finale where multiple Sams all came together at the same time. There's also a sub story of a resistance who starts abducting the displaced people in the future. It gets crazy.
The show only got mildly interesting when they introduced bad quantum leapers.
shareThis is one of my favorite shows of all-time. It had heart, which was the point of the show. He got to walk miles in other people's shoes, and was humbled in many cases. I also loved how Al was truly the guardian anti-angel.
As for Sci-Fi, there's as much of it as every other time travel show grounded in real life.
its basically the same plot as Sliders, which is really boring too.
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