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Sliders, that underrated 1990s sci-fi show
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Huh. If Canada and the U.S. divide the continent in half, I'd prefer an east-west division and we get west (the only natural feature I've ever envied the U.S. having in the Grand Canyon). I won't give up the Rocky Mountains!
Oddly enough, one of my favorite games, Park Ranger, is set in some weird AU where part of Jasper National Park is located in Washington state, since a popular part of Pinecreek Hills National Park is obviously Spirit Island, that's located in Maligne Lake, in Jasper National Park - in Alberta, Canada. I've written fanfic about this game and just made it an AU setting in which this somehow makes sense and the guy who operates the helicopter that takes medivac patients has about 5 identical siblings who work all around the world since we see him in multiple regions of the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the South Pole (in that gaming company Cruise Director games).
So, about Sliders... I have the tie-in novel of the first episode, and re-read it a few weeks ago. It's a shame no more were written.
I don't get why Maggie rates any liking at all. I never could stand her, not in any of the episodes.
Maggie was awful in season 3. But they wrote her better in season 3 or 4 but she was never as good as Wade.
What I would like to see is if they ever reboot this they focused on the idea that the Sliders we saw in season 3 and 4 was a different group from season 1 and 2. Our main sliders eventually settled down on a earth that is our earth. Wade and Quinn have a twin boy and girl who are both smart and want to go sliding. Arturo helps them who has gone off and done his own thing. Rembrandt owns a club in Vegas.
The twins slide. They find out they can't get home. Arturo betrayed them and then encounter the real Arturo who got left behind all those years ago and new character. His daughter. The 4 of them choose to continue sliding. Meanwhile you have a ongoing B story about Quinn,Wade, Rembrandt and crooked Arturo making controlled Slides to go find the twins and bring them home.
What I would like to see is if they ever reboot this they focused on the idea that the Sliders we saw in season 3 and 4 was a different group from season 1 and 2. Our main sliders eventually settled down on a earth that is our earth. Wade and Quinn have a twin boy and girl who are both smart and want to go sliding. Arturo helps them who has gone off and done his own thing. Rembrandt owns a club in Vegas.
The twins slide. They find out they can't get home. Arturo betrayed them and then encounter the real Arturo who got left behind all those years ago and new character. His daughter. The 4 of them choose to continue sliding. Meanwhile you have a ongoing B story about Quinn,Wade, Rembrandt and crooked Arturo making controlled Slides to go find the twins and bring them home.
My favourite version of the timer was the Egypt one.
Apparently Tracy Torme said that "he believes" the Arturo the group took from "Post Traumatic Sliding Syndrome" was the imposter. There are enough subtle clues, but only just.
Later episodes act as if nothing happened, but a phony Arturo wouldn't turn around and go "Aha! Fooled you!" a la Dark Helmet right away. Had season 3 continued without FOX moving production to Los Angeles and John Rhys-Davies being written out, there might have been a follow-up to that. But there'd be no way to get back to the original Arturo without risking credibility, though I suspect "Double Cross" hints at means in which they could have tried it. (That's the one that I recall is first mentioned that Arturo has an incurable disease; "The Exodus" sees him out completely.)
Loved that video. Season 1 was so refreshingly different, though 2 was quick to be loved despite any nitpicks as well..
I didn't see the video pop up, but found a few, also from youtube:
It has a feel of legitimacy; something they'd really show in a high school classroom. Came from "Eggheads" as I recall...
You know, we are almost 29 years since "POST TRAUMATIC SLIDE SYNDROME". The years would line up right for a follow up...
There is a reality where Cascadia exists and it is heaven on Earth.
And in another reality there is a huge wall between Canada and the USA.
If Trump had won again, I'd have contributed toward a brick (to keep him out). Mind you, I wonder how that would work, given all the water the border runs through.
Actually, the beauty of this show is that it lets you imagine any turning point in history, large or small, that could have had unimaginable repercussions.
That's the whole point. You can imagine anything like in Supergirl one politician wanted to build a dome over the whole city to keep the rest of the country and world out.
Which episode was that?
A hypothetical episode. Or at least I don't remember one like that.
It wasn't an actual episode but one that could exist on another Earth where Sliders ran for 10 seasons and changed cast 3 times
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