“Journeyman” — Pilot
NBC
I’m going to keep this quick. I’ve only seen one episode of Quantum Leap, but I know a copy-cat when I see one. That being said, Quantum Leap was hugely popular (it seems) and maybe those people that absolutely must have a weekly fix of random time-travel based entertainment won’t mind the similarities.
The premise of the show is about Dan Vassar a reporter in San Francisco who finds he is inexplicably traveling back and forth through time. He is able to change some peoples lives but not always for the better. He also is able to see his old girlfriend who had died in a plane crash. You know, your typical space-time-continuum mumbo jumbo.
It was a fine pilot, but after an hour I felt like I had seen all I needed to see. Mark this as the first show that will not make my cut for a second episode. It was one of those hours of television where you can’t say what you saw was particularly bad, but maybe bad in a completely different and unexpected way: leaving absolutely no impression on you one way or the other.
