The settings
You have to imagine the writers’ room for Quantum Leap is dominated by a giant whiteboard with potential leaps scrawled on it, which are then narrowed down to destinations that offer the right combination of drama, humor, and danger—plus the opportunity to inch Ben’s emotional journey forward a bit, and just enough WTF-ness to feel like a complete 180 from the previous adventure. So far my favorites have seen Ben helping the residents of a rough-and-tumble Wild West town work together (nonviolently, he’s a pacifist!) to defeat a common enemy, and—in a nod to classic Quantum Leap’s fondness for working horror themes in from time to time—a Halloween Exorcist homage that saw skeptical science guy Ben poking into the realm of demonic possession.
