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So Ziggy is a transvestite now? <--more woke GARBAGE!!


I had to stop after the 1st episode!

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Woah, so even computers are changing their sex in tv shows these days. Das woke!

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My Childhood Ruined!!!!

It was so awful CrabgrassWilly....the whole experience!

I threw up.

That's why nobody is watching this junk.

Funny since the last reboot that was actually successful was Roseanne...but Disney fired her :(

So went the 20 million viewers watching...now it's like 2.

Disney=PEDO

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Settle Down Troll Beavis and STFU...😂👍

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WOKE BS = BAD RATINGS!

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Well it's Hollywood now. They want to be all inclusive. Sometimes it works sometimes it's overkill. Not much we can do about it. It is what it is ..

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Plenty we can do about it. Stop watching everything. Money talks.

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There is so much shit out there now...it would be impossible to watch it all anyhow...

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Nope Ziggy is the Computer the Operator of Ziggy is Ian and they're not saying what he identifies as, so not pushing any woke agenda there as there has been no pushing things down our throat, they are all just people going about their day doing a job. So Ian is doing the role like *Dr. Gushman (Gooshie: quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Gooshie) was in the original Quantum Leap as in a computer programmer and the programmer of Ziggy, Gooshie's quirky trait as described in the show being a little guy with bad breath.

It's always been a trait of Donald P. Bellisario and Deborah Pratt who did the original and this continuation, even Al back in the old days was considered quirky for that time with his flamboyant coloured suits and hats.

I'd really love to see what some of you would make of Characters like Abby in NCIS if it debuted now instead of 2003 or immunologist Carol Wilson played by Meredith Eaton in the same show or Hetty in NCIS: LA for that matter (other Donald P. Bellisario shows). Even the same Meredith Eaton in charge of the team in MacGyver if it debuted now instead of 2016, that's actually how short a time that this has all come around 5 years, when before no-one really cared.

And again like mentioned in the thread you deleted your topis title and comments in, 4,179,000 watching, number one new show in 18-49 on Broadcast and number one streaming show on Peacock and more episodes ordered for this season says a lot of people are watching.

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I thought Ziggy was a robot?

I'm curious about your comparison to Abby from NCIS. She's a goth girl/ forensic scientist. What's controversial about her?

Those numbers are much more than I thought. Reading from the reviews, the show doesn't seem to be doing very well. I still haven't watched myself. Not sure if I will, but I gotta finish the original first. To be honest, I'd be disappointed if it is doing well.

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Nothing controversial at all with Abby, just the people who cry out today would likely find it so, her style of dressing, sleeping in a coffin etc., etc. Honestly I only thought of Abby as the other night I saw a repeat episode where the Naval higher ups made her dress in what they considered normal power suits (until Gibbs eventually intervened) so it made me think that's what these It's woke, It's woke people would think she should wear (and cry about it today).

Nah Ziggy is a computer:

quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Ziggy

Ziggy is the super hybrid computer that runs the Project Quantum Leap. It was built by Samuel Beckett and Gooshie, being one of the first creations in the Project Quantum Leap. Ziggy has a sense of humor, which many computers don't have. Sam himself said: "The only thing separating Ziggy from a normal calculating machine is his ego." In fact, he later expanded on this in the episode The Leap Back. In this episode, after Ziggy was being particularly stubborn, Sam lamented about it by saying "Why did I have to give him Barbra Streisand's ego?"


There's a pic in there of Ziggy's brain which is like an earth like globe and it hangs over they leaping chamber (sort of), they kind of do more later on that but seeing your still watching won't link another picture. There were times in the Original where Al said Ziggy is playing up and Gooshie is working on it.

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I guess I was thinking of a computer and robot as the same thing. I know there's differences, but I didn't think calling her a robot was plain wrong.

I always thought Abby was a cool character. Even my grandparents who watched NCIS religiously liked her, and they tend to be less accepting of people that seem strange.

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Yeah wouldn't say it's outright wrong but more in context as a computer for comparison with the series now, as the original poster says Ziggy is a transvestite which isn't the case at all as he's confusing the programmer with the computer. Interesting thing about Ziggy in that original series is it was voiced by a female (Deborah Pratt) when Sam and Al always refer to Ziggy as male, so hey maybe Ziggy was one back then and not now (lol).

As I say Abby was more a thought bubble of I wonder what some the it's woke people would say now, for a lot just pure casting causes them to shout it out, when woke is more pushing/hammering home an agenda not just who's cast (this show has pushed no agenda). Guess I'm looking at as how all groups whether religious or either side political party leaning, vegan, atheist and etc., have extreme versions that seem to get all the media, and the It's Woke ones that seem to pop up on these sites, so curious how they'd react. So yeah just a thought bubble based on seeing that episode recently and thinking I wonder how those "extremist it's woke brigade" would react, again nothing wrong with Abby at all.

More simply it just seems a huge overreaction on the casting of this show and I wonder if with this recent it's woke stuff would they overreact to that type of thing is well, are they only happy when they have something to shout about.

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I didn't realize Al and Sam referred to Ziggy as a "he." I just called Ziggy "her" after that one episode when I heard the voice. I suppose the proper term is to refer to a computer/robot as an "it" or "them" but I usually just go by the voice of a man or woman.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. You have characters that are literal stereotypes of whatever group they're in and make their beliefs/persona their whole personality, while some characters are intentionally created to break the norm that places them in those categories. Some agendas are sneaky and not so in your face, but a lot are just forced and not subtle at all. Technically everything has a message attached to it, whether it be good or bad.

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No Elon changed the quantum program. He’s a qubit white supremcist.

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No Elon changed the quantum program. He’s a qubit binary white supremacist.

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They should leap to your time period when Judy garland doing blackface to win you over.

Or just travel to Robert johnston or John hurt and show the social conflict to be less racist but just enough to keep the anti-woke crowd watching.

Do they travel around like highlander or is it just 50s 60s 70s and 80s?

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