#Rjalker watches Quantum LEap 2022

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"Yes we literally both work for a time travel agency and have for years now but I really seriously don't believe you when you tell me that you're from the future."

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and then that "you MUST forgive your abusive parent or you're a bad person who should feel bad" moral was shoved down our throats /three episodes in a row/.

Btw I’m sorry but I’m never going to watch the quantum leap reboot because it doesn’t have Sam and Al in it. Like I don’t watch quantum leap solely for the concept I watch it for the characters. Without Sam and Al it’s like any other time travel thing really. Idgaf about new characters

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this is what's happening right?

[ID: A meme from the Office showing a character originally whispering, "I'll kill you", now edited so the character is labeled, "This trans writer".

A cropped screenshot from Quantum Leap 2022 has been added, showing a drawing of Ian.

The dialogue from the trans writer reads, "Let this nonbinary character have an actual role in the story or I'll kill you.".

End ID.]

my hopes are not up, though. Ziggy's still been reduced to just being a computer.

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is this the trans writer saying "you have to do something with this character or I'll fucking kill you"? because that's what I'd be doing if I were a temporary writer on this show.

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you know what? they are like, obligated to do an episode about 9/11, actually.

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This is an operating room. Why is it so fuckng dark. it's 2023 now. why the fuck are these people refusing to have lighting in their fucking show. they're in an operating room. It's not the fucking apocalypse. they have lights. they're just fucking refusing to use them.

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"I know we both work for a time travel agency but I don't believe you that you're a time traveler from the future, that's just ridiculous"

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"Is that a...hot chocolate? That is adorable"

You know, a nonbinary person tauntingly(??) asking this question of a cis man doesn't make it any less fucking weird bullshit.

"if a man drinks hot chocolate instead of coffee that means he's not a real manly man" is not in any fucking way progressive or funny.

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they're doing the "lets make everything so dark you can't see shit" thing -.-

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pausing pern posting while we catch up on the new quantum leap. newer episodes are not as terrible but these fucking writers are trying to inssit that time travel isn't actually likely to cause changes to the timelike and it's like.....insult of your choice, that is literally the entire plot of this show. Why are you writing episodes for QUANTUM LEAP if you don't want time travel to change the timeline. Go write your boring coward shit somewhere else.

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why is the lighting so fucking terrible. they're in a hospital. a hospital. they're not known for being dark.

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I hate it when there's a sequal or something like Quantum Leap's reboot where people love to defend the shitty writing by saying, "You shouldn't compare it to the show it's literally based on!!! You have to take it just as it is on its own!! Stop comparing it to what came before!!!"

Like, no, actually, you do not get to say that.

If you do reboot of an old series, you are, in fucking fact, inviting comparisons and critiques about what you do wrong that the first one did right. By pure fucking fact that you choose to do a sequel/reboot rather than original fiction.

If you don't want your shitty new version that does everything wrong to constantly be compared to the much older work that is, despite its age, immensely more progressive, then don't fucking write reboots or sequels. Write original fiction.

You don't get to write a continuation for a series, butcher everything that made the original work, and then cry and complain when everyone points out all the ways you're failing that the original got right.

Bad writing is bad writing, and bad writing in comparison to good writing is even more obvious and blatant.

You don't get to be mad when people compare Quantum Leap 2: Electric Boogaloo to the original Quantum Leap.

Especially not when Quantum Leap 2022 is so far racist, homomisic, fucking demonizing wolves in 2023, and had multiple episodes in a row telling abused kids they have to forgive their abusive parents otherwise they're a bad person >.>

Like just admit you enjoy a show that's terribly written. Don't insist that it's above reproach and shouldn't be compared to the show it's literally based on and the only reason it exists in the first place.

"you can't compare this to the literal entire basis for it's existance!"

Yes, actually, I can, and you should, and you're just a boring fucking coward.

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You will never have what Farscape has, Quantum Leap 2022, that would require actually committing fully to the story instead of inserting violence for cheap drama that doesn't even make sense and then still gets resolved before the end of the episode because you refuse to have continuity or actual stakes in your boring badly written show.

These people can't even be bothered to have his memories stay gone even though them refusing to fucking use this narrative tool properly combined with the fact that they keep fucking insisting on showing us what's happening outside the leap....like people you may as well not have given him amnesia in the first place, because you have no fucking clue why that storytelling tool exists in the first place -.-

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how much did they have to pay to put all these songs in

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alright this show's evil for getting this song stuck in my head

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"stopping the United States military from building nuclear bombs is bad"