UNCUT REACTION - Quantum Leap ep7 - The Color of Truth
Added 2023-09-13 15:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Same here, just rejoined their Patreon to watch them finish off season 1. Would love to see them continue as the show only gets progressively better with each season (IMO at least lol).
HS
2023-09-15 20:51:32 +0000 UTCWatching this episode in the early 90s. I always thought this was a take off of Driving Miss Daisy which was a huge hit in 1989. This is inspired by that, but the stage play not the movie. This episode aired 6 months before the movie came out. I always wondered if this was cross promotion worked up behind the scenes. This is the best episode of season 1, where they were able to talk about real issues in the show. Media at this time had a lot of discussion of the civil rights movement, with commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the events of the late 60s and multiple well done movies and documentaries. I also would love to see you do more. I always thought this show could be good for a slot like what you were doing with BSG because you can go awhile without having to remember what happened last unless it’s a two parter.
Jonathan
2023-09-14 16:23:11 +0000 UTCMan, I wish 89 was 24 years ago. I would still have half my 20s left. Thank you for making me feel old Josh. I'm teasing. I would love you guys to continue the show. Season 1 is a rough around the edges. Season 2 and beyond is when this show starts to get really good, and they do all the great stuff that you can expect from a time travel show. They start experimenting with the format more, playing with the rules, putting Sam in those cool, dramatic, interesting places. Not always. He doesn't drop into a "person you know? every five minutes, but they start to sprinkle some of that in there. Yeah. I mean it lasted five years on network TV, it must have done something right. Right? I just got back from my second bout of laser surgery and came back to rewatch this reaction. I was paying more close attention to you guys. I was a little disheartened to see the immense discomfort you guys were feeling. I understand why, i'm not oblivious to it, but I think when you pull back from the episode. A TV show made in 89, about 55, and we're looking at it in 2023... How far have we come? Yes, there are still problems, but my God we have to take some measure of hope from the fact that all the cross burning, segregated stuff, all the Jim Crowe laws, all of that stuff has been done away with and just about everybody today agrees it was wrong and it is wrong. That's a lot of progress for less than one century of time. And it was a very painful process to get there.
Steven Johnson
2023-09-14 02:27:21 +0000 UTCI hope you do continue watching as this was why I joined your Patreon. There really isn’t anyone else doing reactions to this show and I enjoy hearing your commentary. I remember watching this show and anticipating each new episode. I will say I don’t recall if I actually started with the first season live, but I do remember watching later seasons and being bummed when they canceled it as by then it was my go to show.
Michelle Denny
2023-09-14 00:46:16 +0000 UTCone of the good things about this show was not shying away from the ugliness of the past Also, yes I'm down for going on past season as long as you guys are
Retro Tom
2023-09-14 00:26:15 +0000 UTCI'd love it if you'd continue the show, if you enjoy it enough (don't worry later seasons shorten, then completely drop the elevator pitch intro)
Andreas Schmitt
2023-09-14 00:24:25 +0000 UTCI think the story also made the most sense from his perspective, BECAUSE he's a white guy doing completely normal things, suddenly getting treated completely differently.
Andreas Schmitt
2023-09-14 00:21:31 +0000 UTCThe sad thing is that I feel in the late 80s we were a lot further ahead in many ways regarding not caring do much about color anymore. Still needed some progress, and in the 80s himosexuality certainly got still portrayed as disgusting often, but it made rapid progress and by the 90s it seemed we had overcome all this. Sadly to me as a soon 44 year old it often seems everything has turned backwards again since 2000 and now everything is suddenly about gender, race and sexuality again.. . pretty sad. It's one of the reasons I prefer Media from the late 80s and 90s. Sometimes those times feel so much less obsessed with that stuff than today.
Andreas Schmitt
2023-09-14 00:18:10 +0000 UTCGlad you guys enjoyed the episode. It would be great if you guys continued on with season two eventually 👍
Matthew
2023-09-13 18:28:18 +0000 UTCThey were going to have to face this sooner or later and I'm glad they started off in the first season, and without flinching at the rougher historical elements. Sam was always an example of a sort of sheltered starry-eyed 90s liberal and it's good when he faces some hard realities.
JD Nevesytrof
2023-09-13 18:04:42 +0000 UTCI watched this in the original run and it was kind of a big deal. This episode really brought a lot of attention to the series, because no one expected this goofy time travel show to handle such a dark and heavy topic. I’m African American and was 14 when this aired. Everyone in my family watched this episode, including my mother who never watched sci-fi. This episode brought a whole new POC audience to the show and significant buzz and ratings. It seems crazy by today’s standards, but this kind of diversity was huge. If you notice there really hasn’t been much diversity in the show until now. It also helped open the show to much greater possibilities for the writers, because if Sam just leapt into some random White guy every week, how far can you go with that? More or less, this is the episode that made Quantum Leap a series to pay attention to, and not just for sci-fi geeks, but for critics and all types of audiences.
Darien Sills-Evans
2023-09-13 17:50:47 +0000 UTCFamily Guy has at least two Quantum Leap references. One featuring Scott and Dean, the other featuring Jesus... Because it's Family Guy. I always laugh when I hear some dippy college student talk about racism today. They clearly have not read a book or seen even one movie on the subject. Individuals are certainly still racist, but we wiped out the vast majority of this stuff. With the blood of many innocents along the way. Theres certainly more to do, but good lord we can't lose sight of just how far we've come, either. Things used to be B-A-D. I've always loved this episode. It's unwilling to pull its punches. It lays it all out and humanizes everything. Both sides are human, even in their ugliness. So many little touches. I love that the Sheriff, though he downplays a lot of the bad things going on has to agree in the end, and it's not hateful it's like a shoulder shrug. "Yeah... Yeah, you're right."
Steven Johnson
2023-09-13 16:48:48 +0000 UTC
