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Revisiting the show Sliders

Candleicious Ghost said:
Was that on Sliders? I don't think firearms handling accuracy was on the top of their production list.


I thought some of the guest stars were kinda hot like that doctor on Dream Masters and the other lady doctor on Just Say Yes.

also the sliders may have accidentally killed a world or two, the moment when they had landed I remember a few bugs coming out the wormhole from the previous Earth they were on and they were kind of giant, deadly and multiply fast
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Yes. That was on Sliders, where Maggie is an US Marines Pilot, a fictional character Kari was playing who should have received intensive weapons training.
 
bdub76 said:
Another approach is stick around until John Rhys-Davies leaves the show.
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Even as someone who only ever saw a handful of episodes I suspected that anything prior to that point was likely to be better than anything beyond that point.
 
DonIago said:
Even as someone who only ever saw a handful of episodes I suspected that anything prior to that point was likely to be better than anything beyond that point.
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Babylon 5's Peter Jurasik is the season Long bad guy tormenting, testing and challenging the Sliders in season 5, and it is awful.
 
I'd like a reboot, if they did it right.

BUT

If they didn't do a reboot, if they had a continuation of just Seasons 1-2 while ignoring S3-S5, then you could have a situation where the Sliders missed a slide and were stuck on a particular world for 29 years.

1996 + 29 = 2025

It would line up perfectly. Everyone's moved on with their lives for the past 29 years, they've established themselves on the world they're on, and they're at point where they're wondering if they want to leave. Something would have to happen or have to have been happening to make them want to slide again. There could be a story there.

Just treat Sliders Seasons 3-5 like it was following an alternate version of those characters.

If it were just a one-time special, I'd like a what I described above. If it were an actual series, then I'd prefer a reboot.

A reboot has limitless possibilities. Imagine a world where Gore won in 2000, or if Covid was worse than it was, if Trump hadn't been elected, if the Internet didn't take off, if we had flying cars, etc., etc. etc.
 
camdudetenger2018 said:
i think that happened in a season 1 episode where they returned home but they thought it was some other earth because of the gate then when the gang left threw the dimention slider her mom comes outside with some dude and she mentions to him about the gate finally getting fixed
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Google AI.

The gate at the Quinn Mallory's home in the TV series
Sliders was fixed by the gardener in the episode "Into The Mystic", which was the second episode of Season 2, first aired on March 8, 1996
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Of course the Mallorys were god damned filthy Liars from a completely different world! But if that was actually true, then 1. Shouldn't mum and dad have recognized his siding tech in the basement, and second shouldn't they have been "easily" able to head out into the multiverse and rescue their idiot boy?

Unless Quinn is not a Genius, and his parents (elves in the shoe shop) were checking his math and "making/fixing" his sliding device all along in secret, while he was sleeping, so that he could figure out for himself who he really was, destroy the Cromags and rescue his brother from Amish World.

Or?

Where Mum and Dad abducting copies of their child, and throwing them into the multiverse hopping to make headway against the Cromag Vanguard?
 
So for 2025 I wanted to do fanart for if a lot of the 90s sci-fi shows, but with the idea of if we picked up 30 years later and did a legacy series. One of them was Sliders.
My idea for the show was to do 3 one hour or feature length specials. It would be to do some follow ups to the whole run of Sliders and wrap up the 1995 show's storylines and possibly set up another series but if it didn't it would stand on its own.
The first special would open in perhaps a San Francisco hospital where a vortex opens up and a soldier from Earth-Prime arrives and is pursued by a Kro-Magg soldier. The human soldier kills the Kro-Magg and gets the help of a nurse or doctor. I thought one of the soldier and nurse is male and female but hadn't decided on which. It's revealed this Earth is Earth-Alpha, which is our modern Earth. The soldier's sliding device is damaged but they know somebody on this Earth who should be able to help them: this Earth's Quinn Mallory. He's living in the same house from the pilot and they head there. This Quinn never perfected sliding technology but still has the original timer. They meet Quinn (and maybe his wife Wade?) and take the timer. The soldier is going to slide out by themselves and is saying goodbye to the nurse but more Kro-Magg's show up at that moment, so they both slide out together.
So that might have been the end of the first special. Maybe they also get unstuck and have to keep jumping around. I'm not sure. Maybe there are a hints there is more going on.
The second special would be like a classic Slider what-if episode from Season 1. Originally I had envisioned them jumping to a futuristic world like what the end of Season 3 implied but that felt at odds with what else I had envisioned. I think it just needed to be some classic episode about a divergent point in history and what that world looked like but with modern day budget and immersion, like the Red Universe from Fringe.
The third special would be where I would try and tie off everything from Sliders 1995. You'd find that in the meantime a human resistance has developed across multiple Earths, led by all the main characters or variants thereof, and a multiverse war is in motion. I'd try to bring in all eight main characters from the original series. Somehow the nurse and soldier characters are rescued and taken to Reistance-Earth. The idea would be to end the war somehow but so far the only idea I had was human scientists had developed a way to send a signal into the multiverse and force the Kro-Maggs back to their point of origin and disallowing them sliding in the future. I hadn't thought this through and not sure if this was really how I wanted to end that story. In the end it works and the war is over and the Kro-Maggs are defeated and everything is great.
So the soldier and nurse are gonna go their separate ways but still have Quinn's original timer, which is perhaps reset. My idea going forward after this is that could both choose to go worlds they have coordinates for or to randomise locations, and so the ticking clock element is kinda gone but replaced by saying something like the timer needs X-amount of time to recharge. They're no longer lost but choosing to explore.
I'd named the three specials "The Way Home," "Time Is On My Slide," and "The Multiverse War."
 
Lord Garth said:
It would line up perfectly. Everyone's moved on with their lives for the past 29 years, they've established themselves on the world they're on, and they're at point where they're wondering if they want to leave. Something would have to happen or have to have been happening to make them want to slide again. There could be a story there.
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I don't think it would be possible to come up with an idea that makes sense if they had been somewhere for 29 years. Like you said, they would have established themselves there and build lifes for decades, they would have careers, friends, possibly families etc., why would they throw all of that away just to slide through the multiverse in hopes of finding their original earth that probably wouldn't even feel like home anymore after three decades?
And if some event forces them to leave it would be awfully convenient if it happened just in time for the timer to give them a way out, it would feel forced.
 
Takeru said:
I don't think it would be possible to come up with an idea that makes sense if they had been somewhere for 29 years. Like you said, they would have established themselves there and build lifes for decades, they would have careers, friends, possibly families etc., why would they throw all of that away just to slide through the multiverse in hopes of finding their original earth that probably wouldn't even feel like home anymore after three decades?
And if some event forces them to leave it would be awfully convenient if it happened just in time for the timer to give them a way out, it would feel forced.
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That's why a clean reboot would work best, new cast, new characters someone else invents the sliding technology and maybe it all has different rules this time
 
Haven't watched the show since it aired in the 90s. Have no problem with a reboot. I do know it's time to rewatch of the show, which I plan on doing at some stage. *Adds it to my list*
 
Guy Gardener said:
Google AI.



Of course the Mallorys were god damned filthy Liars from a completely different world! But if that was actually true, then 1. Shouldn't mum and dad have recognized his siding tech in the basement, and second shouldn't they have been "easily" able to head out into the multiverse and rescue their idiot boy?

Unless Quinn is not a Genius, and his parents (elves in the shoe shop) were checking his math and "making/fixing" his sliding device all along in secret, while he was sleeping, so that he could figure out for himself who he really was, destroy the Cromags and rescue his brother from Amish World.

Or?

Where Mum and Dad abducting copies of their child, and throwing them into the multiverse hopping to make headway against the Cromag Vanguard?
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You do know that, originally, the whole plot of Quinn being a kid from a more advanced world and having a brother was all supposed to be revealed as nonsense right?

It was going to turn out that the Kromaggs never conquered Earth Prime and Colin was actually an altered clone of Quinn created by the Kromaggs to spy on the Sliders.
 
Candleicious Ghost said:
That's why a clean reboot would work best, new cast, new characters someone else invents the sliding technology and maybe it all has different rules this time
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Although there might be some potential in having a new cast at some point encounter the originals in some manner.

Though, if the new series felt inferior to the original, that could just be a painful reminder. I might recommend that that kind of encounter not occur during the first season, to give the new show time to establish itself before invoking nostalgia.
 
Anwar said:
You do know that, originally, the whole plot of Quinn being a kid from a more advanced world and having a brother was all supposed to be revealed as nonsense right?

It was going to turn out that the Kromaggs never conquered Earth Prime and Colin was actually an altered clone of Quinn created by the Kromaggs to spy on the Sliders.
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I fed what you wrote into into google AI and that son of a microship said "You are obviously referring to Detective Joey Quinn from the TV Series Dexter" but a few results down the page, the machine churned out "This never happened to Harley Quinn" so it seemed like you were just having a joke at my expense.

:(

But then I refined the search, and the answer machine tells me that Collin was originally supposed to be a Cromag Spy, and then my horseshit memory kicked in, amending my early assumptions, that the mom and dad who raised Mallory were not his real parents. It was a whole Superman/Moses dealio because the Sliders Writers Room were a bunch of hacks.
 
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