Revisiting the show Sliders

[Candleicious Ghost]

How would you feel if they did a reboot of the show?

I'd feel very cautious about this one having seen what happened to the Quantum Leap reboot. I really thought they had a good thing there but then it got cancelled due to ratings or whatever the reason was, I think it was declining ratings wasn't it?

Anyway if they did try a new Sliders what would you like to see?

 

[DonIago]

Regarding QL, I can't speak to the ratings in terms of viewership, but it only had a 57% on RT, which is a bit discouraging.

I think I saw the pilot of Sliders and that was it. The idea was interesting but I think I didn't really connect with the core cast at the time. Still, I think maybe I tried to follow it but maybe early on it got preempted or moved around and I didn't try that hard.

 

[E-DUB]

I liked "Sliders" a lot although to say it was uneven is understating the case.

 

[Hawku]

Loved this show before the Kromagg stuff. I'd want a continuation but in a resetty way.

Rembrant is living on a saved Earth Prime, but wants his friends back. Quinn gets unmerged. Wade's mind is reintegrated back into a parallel body. The real living Arturo got separated from the group in Season 2. Then back to universe of the week episodes.

 

[Anwar]

Watch Seasons 1 and 2, then bail on Sliders. You'll be doing yourself a favor

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Watch Seasons 1 and 2, then bail on Sliders. You'll be doing yourself a favor

Seasons 1 and 2 were indeed the best.

On one world Quinn's counterpart was a girl, Logan St. Clare which makes me wonder if everyone on the show had alternates on another Earth somewhere what are the odds they'd be the opposite gender?

 

[Tosk]

Sliders was one of the two shows of the '90s that I recall taking an absolute nosedive in terms of quality. Some of those later episodes, holy cow.

(The other show was season two of seaQuest. Yikes.)

 

[James Cole]

Sadly original show creator (and early TNG vet) Tracy Torme is no longer with us. Without him available, I'd lean more towards a full reboot.

Parallel universes coupled with political satire is an evergreen concept after all -- it just needs the right creatives onboard. Would be interesting to see how modern serialization could be used if said creatives wanted to hold onto the characters lost and "can't find their way home" conceit.

If anything, the dearth of series centered on the multiverse as a storytelling avenue seems rather conspicuous by their absence from televised Sci Fi. Shows like Fringe have had "an" alternate universe with doppelgangers, but the only series featuring multiple parallel Earths I can think of from this century are the short lived South African filmed Charlie Jade and the more alt-history focused The Man in the High Castle.

 

[FredH]

If anything, the dearth of series centered on the multiverse as a storytelling avenue seems rather conspicuous by their absence from televised Sci Fi. Shows like Fringe have had "an" alternate universe with doppelgangers, but the only series featuring multiple parallel Earths I can think of from this century are the short lived South African filmed Charlie Jade and the more alt-history focused The Man in the High Castle.

I liked Charlie Jade quite a bit, and was sorry it didn’t continue.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I liked "Sliders" a lot although to say it was uneven is understating the case.

What I heard at the time, is that despite sucking and tanking, that the show was still renewed year after, when it really should not have been, because one guy at the top, who had the final approval on these things, just really, really liked the show.

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