The house doesn’t bother me. A time traveler is going to be way ahead of the game when it comes to investing, or even gambling on sporting events. And the timeline fits. They moved there 8 years ago, which is about the time that he’s traveling back and forth to.
I liked the fact that he didn’t just have to make one change to make the timeline all better. He really had to shepherd things along.
I actually liked it much better than most of the other responders. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that it’s the best new show premiere this season out of the other one’s I’ve seen (Chuck, K-ville, The Big Bang Theory, Reaper, and 1 or 2 others that don’t immediately come to mind).
While the time-travel thing has been done before, I thought the show was well-written. It moved the story along and didn’t drag things out, yet portrayed that there is a LOT more to the situation than is immediately apparent. It also doesn’t hurt that Livia is hot. (Did I say that out loud?) 
J.
I liked it. OK, I’m an easy mark. I liked Independence Day despite its flaws.
But I was a Quantum Leap fan who would have appreciated more interaction between Sam & the people from his own life. So this appeals to me as an attempt to do that kind of thing. I don’t know the lead actor from anything, but he’s remarkably convincing as Reed Diamond’s brother, especially for a Brit.
The implications of the love quadrangle are provocative if not terrifying. (Put in spoilers but really, this is part of what makes this so different from other time travel shows, so I almost didn’t: )He married his brother’s ex after his fiancee died, & now he finds out his fiancee is alive–sorta.That’s a high level of potential drama from the main characters, & as long as they strike a balance between that & the project of the week instead of being all one or the other, I think this will be quite different from QL/Early Edition/Sliders/whatever.
And, c’mon, Moon Bloodgood!
I watched this straight after I caught up on my House & Heroes episode premieres, having had tagged it as a shadowy horse in the TV Line-Up 07. Also, I’m still pissed they canceled Day Break, and I need my timeshift fix. Further, even being a strongly heterosexual male, I cannot exclude sweaty mansex with Lucius Vorenus if we ever stranded on a desert island. (In other words, an awesome actor who’s shows and movies I’ll I give chances)
They could stand to lose or swap a few of the faces, though. His wife was pondering, reactionary, oversensitive and produced the same sound you get from scratching isopor on cold, wet iron on a freezing winter’s day, in my neck. Not her voice, mind, just her presence. She’ll have to have a damn sight more impressive role written for her in future episodes if she’s going to be liked.
Just saw this. Boy howdy, anyone from SF is going to laugh their asses off at this show.
Golden Gate Park…with the Golden Gate Bridge looming in the background as if you were levitating near Baker Beach 200 yards from the span.
A guy tries to kill himself in 1987 by stepping in front of a vintage streetcar on the F Market line
He lives in a house in St. Francis Wood but in the background…the Transamerica building. (And he’s a reporter for the Chronicle - serious '77 Superman Lois Lane apartment stretching going on here)
He follows a guy from Washington Square and they end up at the top of Potrero Hill
And yet they obviously filmed scenes on Market street…I mean, normally I’m used to the “SF landmark” curse, but this was ridiculous.
I liked it. I also liked Quantum Leap, but this is more of an everyman’s Quantum Leap, where you do not normally time travel and you end up having to convince your loved ones you’re not crazy.
It appears Livia is also a traveler…she says she wasn’t on the plane that crashed. If so, why didn’t she return to Dan? Was it her first “leap” and she got scared and confused, and by the time she figured it out he’d already moved on to Katie? That’s a storyline I want to see…how did Katie leave Dan’s brother? That’s pretty cold.
I wonder if following Jacob Gaines is his assignment, or if he will find someone new to rescue/save/stop?
I liked the little time touches…old news stories featuring Bryan Gumbel and Jane Pauley, the huge cell phones, the way the restaurant name kept changing.
Plus, it’s Vorenus. I’ve seen his naked butt. 
“You should see this guy next to me - ‘Beam me up, Scotty.’”
I liked it, but I admit I’m primed to like it because I adore Kevin McKidd. (Maybe in one episode, he’ll go fight werewolves in ancient Rome, and someone will write a musical about it!)
I liked how Livia said, “You look different . . . tired,” the the ten-years-older Dan. And how they changed her look to show she’s older in her time-travelling mode. Somehow, she’s still unbelievably beautiful, but noticeably different.
I too am intrigued about the relationship quadrangle, and how Livia and Dan both wound up travelling, and who or what is engineering their travels. We’ll keep watching at our house, that’s for sure.
I think she said she wasn’t on the plane when it crashes, so maybe she “leaped” right before the crash. And my theory of why she didn’t return to Dan is that she travelled into the future and saw him with Katie and realized they were not meant to be together, and having him think she was dead was for the best.
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Never caught that!
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Well, saw the second episode and it’s not an improvement, trying to out-Leap Quantum Leap in all its sappy “use your unexplained ability to do good deeds” glory.
It’s all one big misdirect in an effort not to save the sleazy banker, but the noble pilot who went on to fly humanitarian missions or some such thing. Personally, I’d’ve liked it if the pilot went on to heroically bomb Iraqis or at least something less Mother Theresa-ish. Combined with the first episode, this isn’t only Quantum Leap but has a strong dash of Touched By an Angel thrown in, with the mysterious former girlfriend as co-angel.
Yeah, but I liked Quantum Leap.
I do give the show credit for being realistic in showing the side effects of being randomly transported back in time (being put on the no-fly list, on the verge of losing his job, being accused of drug abuse, etc.). In Quantum Leap Sam was completely broken out of his timeline and we only very occasionally got glimpses of what it was like to be the person who Sam leapt into.
The current wife is still kind of a blah character though. Perhaps this is intentional, as Livia is obviously Vorenus’ Beatrice and current wife can’t possibly compare to his lost love.
But a 747 from SFO to PDX? What in what crazy world would an airline would run a route like that? And no real San Franciscans use a cable car to get around town. I’m pleased to see the show is continuing to be shot on location in SF though even if they get the geography wrong.
It was so blatantly Quantum Leap that it began to be puzzling that the characters themselves didn’t mention the resemblance. I mean, if you had to explain to someone that you were being sucked back in time to do good deeds, you’d just say, “like in Quantum Leap” and that would explain everything.
The good deeds themselves are pretty uninteresting, but I like the way his wife is starting to get a handle on things. When he disappeared on the plane, she didn’t freak out, but calmly covered for him. It looks like they are about to adjust their lives around the fact that he is apt to disappear at any moment.
I find it annoying when they show previews for something and it doesn’t happen in the episode, it’s actually from another not yet aired episode. I kept wondering when the earthquake was going to happen.
I call that “The Zombie Paradox”. Every zombie movie is apparently the first recorded incident of zombies- nobody’s ever even heard the Z word before.
And he… jeez, what’s his name? It’s a bad sign that I can’t remember any of the character’s names after two episodes… Anyway, he really should realize that any jump could be his last- he could be killed, or stranded, or whatever. He should at least do some investing in the past to take care of his family and friends.
The same thing happened in Day Break. “Like in Groundhog Day” would have made Taye Diggs’s explanations a lot easier.
I also really like that. I like that he had to go pick his car up from the shop since he crashed it last episode, and he has to be a lot more careful driving. I also like that he’s adapting to the time traveling. He’s not an expert, but he’s learning.
When he was running from the cops this episode, I thought about how it’ll be interesting if he does ever get arrested, especially with him having a cop brother.
Overall, it’s not a great show by any measure, but it’s enjoyable, and Kevin McKidd is awesome in it. So I’ll keep watching and if it gets canceled I’ll be disappointed but not exactly heartbroken.
While I like the show, the thing I’m having trouble with, is his inability to tell anyone what’s going on. What’s worse is that he’s a writer! he should be able to tell a story. This is right from the top of my head:
Honey, I’m going to tell you a story. There’s a woman who gives birth to her love child on a plane. Years later that child is resenting her mother for the fact that she doesn’t know her father. After the mother dies, she seeks out the father only to be rebuffed. That is until the father is dying of leukemia and she re-bonds with him over the fact that she is a better person than him. And by joining the donor database to save her father, she ends up saving a humanitarian who today is saving lives in Darfur. And honey, I made all that happen; I delivered the baby, I got the mother to tell her about her father, I was there when she met her father for the first time, I convinced her to see her father before he died. All because of me this humanitarian is alive and saving lives. And that is why I missed dinner.
oh and I’m seeing my dead wife who didn’t really die, so much as leave our timeline.
It’s a great story that his wife, his boss and ex-best friend should all hear. They may be ok with his disappearances if they did.
I’ve been watching and overall, I like the show. My main criticism is that every one of his time “leaps” takes him to a critical juncture where his course of action is obvious.
He “leaps” just in time to save a man from killing himself.
He “leaps” in time to deliver a baby.
At least in Quantum Leap, Sam had most of the hour to fumble around in the other person’s life while he tried to find the handle.
I’d like it more with some ambiguity (and, maybe for variety’s sake, a mis-step or two that he has to then correct in a future "leap.)