Sliders reboot in the work?

[Guy Gardener]

Isn't the old series available on DVD, streaming and places I can't mention for much less than $144?

Young poor people can't afford a random capital expenditure like that.

6 bucks a month is tolerable, even survivable.

More so if they buckle down, a real go-getter could watch 88 episodes of Sliders in 2 weeks. Or more accurately, quit half way through because of how badly it sucks after the Professor and Wade leave.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Young poor people can't afford a random capital expenditure like that.

6 bucks a month is tolerable, even survivable.

More so if they buckle down, a real go-getter could watch 88 episodes of Sliders in 2 weeks. Or more accurately, quit half way through because of how badly it sucks after the Professor and Wade leave.

If I were young, I'd rather spend $6 on beer than watching Sliders.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's a whole new world.

When I was in my 20s, my choice was to pay 25 dollars a month, for cable, which would show me 4 episodes of Stargate a month, or spend 30 dollars to buy a vhs tape with 2 episodes of Stargate that I could theoretically keep forever.

Cable in New Zealand at that point was one channel with retro tv reruns.

It was another 25 dollars a month to get the movie channel.

Economies of scale.

 

[Christopher]

The existential crisis of people discovering that there are an aleph-null infinity of versions of themselves could well be destructive of civilisation. It could negate many religious beliefs and produce a sense of hopelessness as people are forced to realise they really are unimportant and inconsequential as individuals.

I take it you've read Niven's "All the Myriad Ways...".

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I take it you've read Niven's "All the Myriad Ways...".

I probably have and I've forgotten. I think I've read almost all his stuff up to the early 2000s when I tired of it. I make no claim to be an original thinker.

 

[captainkirk]

It could negate many religious beliefs and produce a sense of hopelessness as people are forced to realise they really are unimportant and inconsequential as individuals.

I'm not sure about that. One of the things I liked about Sliders is that they never acted like anyone was less important just because they're a doppelganger. It's not the same as a story like Moon, for example, where they're all identical and replaceable.

 

[Jayson1]

They should pretend everything after season 2 happened to another group of sliders. The first 2 years are the only years to pay attention to. I would focus on a college aged girl genius who discovers sliding tech in her parents basement and is curious. Her parents are Quinn and Wade who got married and settled down on a world. Basically our world. Arturo and Rembrandt stayed as well. Arturo is teaching at the college this new girl lead goes to. Rembrandt owns a lounge act. Quinn and Wade tell her she shouldn't mess with the Sliding tech because it's dangerous but does anyway. She eventually makes the same mistake Quinn did as well and ends up dragging her and her dad and 2 of her friends and also a not so smart football player into a different world. They get stuck and have to start sliding. But you also have another ongoing story were Arturo Rembrandt and Wade are trying to figure out how to rescue them. With the help of a female Quinn from yet another world.

 

[Christopher]

It's not the same as a story like Moon, for example, where they're all identical and replaceable.

It's been a while since I've seen it, but wasn't Moon critiquing that perception rather than endorsing it?

 

[captainkirk]

It's been a while since I've seen it, but wasn't Moon critiquing that perception rather than endorsing it?

It’s also been a long time since I’ve seen it, but my recollection is that the two clones fought over which one was more valid. I could be wrong, though.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The existential crisis of people discovering that there are an aleph-null infinity of versions of themselves could well be destructive of civilisation. It could negate many religious beliefs and produce a sense of hopelessness as people are forced to realise they really are unimportant and inconsequential as individuals.

I don't agree.

So what if there are infinite versions of me? As Teal'c once put it..."Our reality is the only one of consequence." As far as I'm concerned, those other me's don't even exist. They are irrelevant.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

So what if there are infinite versions of me? ... They are irrelevant.

I hear many of them think the same.

I'm not sure about that. One of the things I liked about Sliders is that they never acted like anyone was less important just because they're a doppelganger. It's not the same as a story like Moon, for example, where they're all identical and replaceable.

We might well never find out. However, say we do find a way to communicate with parallel universes via a quantum computer (one non-linear variant of quantum mechanics permits this) then I think it would be as hugely important an event as first contact with aliens. I find it comforting to think there are alternate realities where things perhaps worked out better for mankind. Maybe ours isn't the best of all possible worlds.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I hear many of them think the same.

Good for them.