Sliders - Who watched it?

[Anthony Sabre]

I never watched this show while it was on the air. I'm considering picking up the series from Amazon. Any suggestions as to whether or not it's worth buying? I also saw a synopsis about them encountering wizards and warlocks. How often did that happen? I'm pretty particular about no (or very little) fantasy elements in my sci-fi.

 

[TheArsenal]

If you have Neflix, it is one of the "Watch Instantly" (watch it on your computer) selections. You can determine whether or not it's worth buying that way.

 

[Mysterion]

The further you get from the premier the sillier it gets. I can get thorugh about the first two and half seasons (about the time a couple of major characters get written off the show) before I reach my BS-limit.

 

[Scout101]

i watched it, both at the time, and later on DVD. (still waiting for the last season, though).

Great idea, and started pretty well, but just disintegrated as it went. Some poor storylines, behind-the-scenes drama, the usual crap. By the time they got to the Cro-Mags, it was pretty much done. A few ok ones after that, but mostly crap.

 

[hyzmarca]

Fox screwed it. And when Tracy Torme left it was screwed even worse. The frist two seasons were good, but after that it was all crap.

 

[bigdaddy]

I bought it, it's not worth buying, just get Netflix.

Plus the order the episodes are on the DVD are completely screwed up.

 

[Mistral]

i watched it, both at the time, and later on DVD. (still waiting for the last season, though).

Saw it at Fry's Electronics last week. Even had the colored plastic casing like the others.

 

[Anwar]

Good premise that was utterly messed up by Network interference, creators leaving and character derailment.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

The Region 2 DVD set of the fifth and final season was recently released in Germany. I don't think it's been released anywhere else yet.

 

[RandyS]

I watched it faithfully through it's first run. The first season was the best, The second was okay, the third will leave you wondering what the writers were smoking and how you could get some, and the fourth and fifth were just going through the motions.

The show was never the same after the first season. I agree with the person who told you to netflix it. Do that before you buy. Also, season five is not yet available on DVD.

 

[ToddKent]

The further you get from the premier the sillier it gets.

Agreed. It started off strong but went downhill the longer it was on.

Also, if I remember correctly, it seemed to be pretty blatant about ripping off popular movies of 90's. Around the time Twister premiered they ended up on a world overrun by tornadoes. Around the time Jurassic Park come out they landed on a world overrun by dinosaurs, etc.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Thanks for the replies. Maybe I'll reactivate my Netflix account and just watch it instead.

 

[GalaxyX]

I liked the series and agreed that pretty much every season spiralled down into Banality. I watched it until the end of S4, and some eps of Season 5. I couldn't even finish watching Season 5, it was just so bad.

Overall my biggest beef with the show is that, I would have to say at LEAST 50-70% of their predicaments could have been solved or prevented if they had armed themselves with at least a handgun or two before sliding.

 

[Gertch]

It was a fun ride for most of it. I really enjoyed it.

This might be one series worth remaking.

 

[Zeppster]

The first couple or few seasons were awesome. But then they started losing characters starting with Prof. Arturo and Wade. The writing and acting just fell way off by the end of the show and it really wasnt' even the same show. If all the people could have stuck with the concept from the beginning instead of adding new people and changing the cast making the show pointless it could have worked. The heart of the first couple of seasons was just the main cast trying to get home.

 

[Chris3123]

I watched it faithfully through it's first run.

Same here. I stuck with it all the way from it's first episode on FOX until its last on Sci-Fi.

The first season was the best, The second was okay, the third will leave you wondering what the writers were smoking and how you could get some, and the fourth and fifth were just going through the motions.

It's as if you read my mind.

I suggest all fans of Sliders visit the website Dimension of Continuity, created by our very own TemporalFlux (who should grace this thread's presence at any time now ). It contains all kinds of interesting information on the show, including a lot of behind the scenes stuff.

 

[Harvey]

The first season is the best, though it is annoyingly out of order on the DVD. The second season is pretty good--there are some tweaks courtesy of your usual dumb studio executives, but it mostly stays true to the concept. In the third season, the creator leaves early on, and by the end two out of the four cast members were forced to depart. It falls apart that year. I haven't seen the last two seasons (or, I admit, some of season three).

 

[DeadmeatDiggory]

For me this sums the whole show up.

In Season One, Rembrant Brown is the comic relief, always on the verge of breaking into song. A fun character, but no real hero.

In Season Five, due mainly to the fact that he is the only original character left, Rembrant becomes the series hero. But it never works. So the character is stuck in this limbo between comic relief and hero, and you never quite know what to make of him, much like the rest of the series.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The first season is only 10 episodes.

The first double sized episode had Harold Ramis working on it up on top which is why it seems almost movie like in quality, that I would almost compare it to a lightly castrated version of Back to the Future or the Last Starfighter in tone.

Each new season was a steady decline into the shit worse than the last.

John Rhys Davies said at a convention i was attending "How do I put this politely about the writers of sliders? People who are stupid... and are lazy, do not good television make."

Though, I just finished watching seaon 5.

Tembi locke is gorgeous.

Sliders got so bad, that they took some of the most amazing actors from babylon 5 and murdered their souls. It's no wonder Jeri Doyle ran away from acting after that blissless experience... Well almost. Holy shit, his first job was as a "David Addison" doppleganger on Moonlighting.

 

[Cky]

I LOVED Sliders, I think I started watching it a few months after Quantium Leap finished, and I thought it was really amazing.

Then they started to intentionally fuck the storyline up during the last few seasons and I got cancelled where I live.