Sam has a daughter in the "Trilogy" three parter who apparently works at the Leap project in the present. However, she was born in the 1960s so probably wouldn't work as the lead character...
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I wonder if they'll break the "one can only time travel within one's lifetime" rule. Otherwise, I'm not sure how interesting it will be to only travel within the last 30 something years. Those years aren't quite as interesting as the years Sam was able to travel to.
Power with Girl is better.
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If they are doing short seasons (10-13 episodes) I could see the whole first season being sort of a search for Sam thing with them saving Sam but in the process the new person gets stuck jumping like Sam did.
That's the thing with the old show was that Sam was perfectly positioned in time and age to go back to times in the mid-20th Century, which was a very big time of social change in the U.S. and the world. I'm not sure times since then will have the same "oomph" in a lot of ways.
For me, a lot of it is just that the '80s is part of not just my lifetime but my adult lifetime so I don't really think of it as the past. Had my father watched the show, maybe he would have had the same problem with only being able to get back to the '50s.
But good point about the 50's and '60s feeling like a pivotal era. But that also depends on what sorts of social issues they focus on. I cannot help but notice that people who loved the original Star Trek and its messages are- sometimes- the same people who call it woke when a show or movie deals with issues that have become far bigger since that time. But a "Quantum Leap" exploring not just civil rights stories based on race or sex but also on things like sexual orientation and trans issues and exploring the development of those social developments in a personal way could make a '80s/ '90s/ early 21st century version very interesting.
Power with Girl is better.