Sliders - Who watched it?
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seconds after finishing seaons 5 I googled for season 6 fanfiction.
It exists.
but I am too afraid.
It exists.
but I am too afraid.
i only saw the first two and a bit seasons before BBC 2 quit airing it. never saw S4 or 5.
All that potential... and all the dumb crap they came up with! There are a few good episodes though...
I thought seasons 1 and 2 sucked, it took it a while for everything to gell but it really found its footing in seasons 4 and 5.......
No, I'm with everyone else, it started off really well but then tanked. I'm a DVD collector but this is a show I haven't picked up.
No, I'm with everyone else, it started off really well but then tanked. I'm a DVD collector but this is a show I haven't picked up.
I remember watching quite a bit of it as a kid. I've been meaning to give it a second look for ages though, as I don't really have any distinctive memories of watching it.
In season 5 they actually started off in a new direction and began to explore the parallel universe concept in more detail. But the acting was pretty awful and I can't say I cared about any of the characters by that point.
A show that started off very good and turned into absolute garbage pretty quickly. No way would it get 5 seasons today.
A show that started off very good and turned into absolute garbage pretty quickly. No way would it get 5 seasons today.
Same here. I stuck with it all the way from it's first episode on FOX until its last on Sci-Fi.
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.
Thanks for the link. You're right, that IS a great site.
This is the type of show that should be remade: one that had a good concept but a botched execution.
You should do as I (and probably many others) did and just get the first set, seasons 1-2. Worth it, even if the eps are in broadcast rather than production order. There are plenty of sites (including TF's) that will tell you in what order they should be viewed.
I'm a completionist, if I got 1 or 2 seasons I would be forced to get them all. Best not even get started on that path.
Every time they got rid of the original cast members, it got worse. It was hard to care about the new characters. I don't even remember how the show ended.
What they said.
The first season was brilliant. The second season was ok. The third season had a decent 2-parter in it, but the rest of season 3 and seasons 4 and 5 were poor.
I watched this show and loved the premise, and the characters. But after Arturo was killed off, it lost most of it's attraction for me. I tried to keep with it, but I ended up hating it. Once Jerry's brother showed up, I abandoned it completely.
Such a brilliant concept and it was completely, completely wasted. Even the dumbest episodes were made watchable because of the interaction between Quinn, Wade, Arturo and Rembrandt (although, I thought he was the weakest character of the original 4). But then they screwed with that, too.
It's too bad. I met John Rhys-Davies at a convention not too long after his last episode aired, and he had nothing but nice things to say about the cast, especially Jerry. He said he'd miss really him, but not the show, and that Jerry called him "Professor" in real life.
I always liked JRD. He was really a class act in person and a TREMENDOUS flirt.
Such a brilliant concept and it was completely, completely wasted. Even the dumbest episodes were made watchable because of the interaction between Quinn, Wade, Arturo and Rembrandt (although, I thought he was the weakest character of the original 4). But then they screwed with that, too.
It's too bad. I met John Rhys-Davies at a convention not too long after his last episode aired, and he had nothing but nice things to say about the cast, especially Jerry. He said he'd miss really him, but not the show, and that Jerry called him "Professor" in real life.
I always liked JRD. He was really a class act in person and a TREMENDOUS flirt.
I'd argue that most hate the first half of season 3 too. All season 3.0 was was movie ripoffs.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
In the last episode there's some fanfare to greet the sliders we they arrive on "We love the Sliders World because a telepath has been spying on you and selling your stories to the media world" and one of the placards on pickets held up by one of the fans amid the throng in legends pronounces "Bring back Wade".
I laughed my ass off.
There was a death slide to earth prime and a Kromag virus courses through Remi's veins and then the screen went blank.
Pissed me off (in a good way) almost as badly as the final Mork and Mindy.
I laughed my ass off.
There was a death slide to earth prime and a Kromag virus courses through Remi's veins and then the screen went blank.
Pissed me off (in a good way) almost as badly as the final Mork and Mindy.
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John Rhys-Davies makes everything better. It's unfortunate that he's the only good thing is a great number of very bad movies.
The first two seasons are mostly semi-hard scifi, demonstrating various versions San Fransisco that differ from ours only due to alternate histories. Season 3 gives us giant monsters, zombies, and Roger Daltrey changing actors due to regular injections of human spinal fluid, and budget restraints.
One episode, thankfully, in the third season. There are however two episodes with human psychics and the Kromags, who are recurring villains in seasons 4 and 5, have wildly fluctuating psychic powers as the plot demands.
The first two seasons are mostly semi-hard scifi, demonstrating various versions San Fransisco that differ from ours only due to alternate histories. Season 3 gives us giant monsters, zombies, and Roger Daltrey changing actors due to regular injections of human spinal fluid, and budget restraints.
I watched this show religiously as a kid, but remember almost nothing admit it now. It's weird, that's just about the only show I loved during childhood that I can say that about. I remember most of them vividly, except some of the Saturday morning cartoons. I don't know how long I watched the show, but there was definitely a period where I was crazy about it. An old friend recently told me that I wrote him a letter circa '95 that I was raving about its greatness in!
One thing I can remember clearly is how awestruck I was by an episode in which the group goes to an alternate universe where traditional gender roles are reversed, as women are the more dominant sex, which objectifies submissive men. I thought the idea was so creative and sexy at my young age, I was really blown away by it. Do any fans here with a better memory of the show remember what season that episode was in?
One thing I can remember clearly is how awestruck I was by an episode in which the group goes to an alternate universe where traditional gender roles are reversed, as women are the more dominant sex, which objectifies submissive men. I thought the idea was so creative and sexy at my young age, I was really blown away by it. Do any fans here with a better memory of the show remember what season that episode was in?
