Same here. And I can't stand Kari Wuhrer.
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Christopher;2654819 Well... yes and no. It's complicated. What with the various cast changes said:
True, it wasn't. At least I got used to Maggie. It was the next set of changes that I never really liked.
I hear you. Didn't like "Mallory" or all of the "unstuck in time" BS. Always liked Kari, though.
Maggie Beckett was a complete non-entity in Season 3, since the writers at the time were completely inept at characterization; she was just there to be the sex object. But as I've said, S4 & 5 were vastly better-written, and in those seasons, Maggie became a completely different character -- or rather, became a character at long last -- and was far more likeable. I think it was probably one of the only times in Kari Wuhrer's career that she got to play a character who was 3-dimensional in more than just her measurements, and it brought out the best in her. I quite liked Wuhrer's performances in S4-5.
And I think the S5 cast gets a bum rap. Yes, the cast changes may have been gratuitous and the fates of the characters unfairly nasty, and the whole "Quinn merging with Mallory" notion was pretty silly. But the four cast members in the final season had terrific chemistry together, as good as the chemistry of the original foursome. It seemed as if they enjoyed working together (though from what I've heard since about behind-the-scenes politics, that may have been an illusion), and that made them entertaining to watch even when the scripts were weak (as they often were in S5, though it was still Shakespeare compared to the back half of S3).
And I think the S5 cast gets a bum rap. Yes, the cast changes may have been gratuitous and the fates of the characters unfairly nasty, and the whole "Quinn merging with Mallory" notion was pretty silly. But the four cast members in the final season had terrific chemistry together, as good as the chemistry of the original foursome. It seemed as if they enjoyed working together (though from what I've heard since about behind-the-scenes politics, that may have been an illusion), and that made them entertaining to watch even when the scripts were weak (as they often were in S5, though it was still Shakespeare compared to the back half of S3).
I hear you. Didn't like "Mallory" or all of the "unstuck in time" BS. Always liked Kari, though.
[/quote]I didn't like them either. <g>
Even though I watched the whole thing, the show just wasn't the same after season one. Season two's sole redeeming quality was that it had the original cast intact, and that one episode with the blue Golden Gate bridge (something that I wish would happen for real). When season two started with the "Golden Gargyole Gate Bridge" episode, I knew the show was in trouble, and sadly, never recovered.
Such a fine show, started off so well, with a premise with endless possibilities, and it turns into shit so fast.
Oh well.
Such a fine show, started off so well, with a premise with endless possibilities, and it turns into shit so fast.
Oh well.
I remember that episode. ( The blue Golden Gate Bridge ). I thought it was an interesting concept that they were on a world very much like there own except for a few minor things.
Also I just watched the season 3 episode where they were in 1996, but it was actually 1984 where Quinn got to meet his younger self so-to-speak. I really liked how that played out at the end.
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I've been watching this a lot for the first time on Netflix and I am really impressed by the series. I remember seeing previews for this show when it first came out back in the 90's but it didn't seem like it was going to be all that interesting to me. Boy, was I wrongI really like the idea of having a show involved in parallel universes to see what Earth could of been like. I admit a lot of the acting (especially by Quinn, Wade, and the Cryin' Man), is a bit campy. (I'm still in seasons 1 & 2) but overall the show is really fun. I felt bad for them in the episode "Into the Mystic" when they did finally reach home, but because of the gate issue they decided it wasn't and if they had changed their minds, they could of realized they were back home.
Anyone else watch this show either first runned or at all?
I thought this was a White Castle thread! Anyway, Sliders was a great show. Kari made it pop!
I'll third that. The Professor was my favorite character in the show, and his presence really made the show special for me. And, to add insult to injury, they replaced him with Wuhrer, who I thought was just a God-awful actress, and the character was absolutely nothing special at all.
With Sci Fi's emphasis on non-space/spaceship based programming, I kind of figured they'd bring Sliders back at some point. Ideally, I'd love to see some sort of miniseries to wrap up the show's storylines, and then let Torme and Weiss go ahead and do a movie with the original four.
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Then we're all in agreement!
That being said, I watched Season 1 & 2 today on Netflix, but after that I started to lose enjoyment of the show. The first season is definitely my favorite.
J.
As I recall, that was the show's original creator's last episode. And it was probably the last truly great episode of the entire series.
The first season only had 6 episodes.
Pretty much my feeling on the subject. Without Wade or the Prof, there just was no real point I could see.
Yeah, "Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome" was one of their best episodes. But the whole "Azure Gate Bridge" thing annoyed me. That was a classic case of Did Not Do the Research, as they say over on the TV Tropes wiki. No matter what color the bridge was painted, it would still be called the Golden Gate Bridge, because it's the bridge that spans the Golden Gate strait, which was named that over 90 years before the bridge was built (it was named in honor of the harbor of Byzantium). In fact, the GGB isn't gold in color; it's orange vermilion (or officially "international orange").
Not to mention that painting it blue would be stupid and dangerous, because the reason it's painted international orange is to maximize its visibility in the fog. Paint it blue and you'd have small planes and boats smashing into it all the time.
Agreed on both counts. "The Guardian" was Tracy Torme's swan song, and the only really good episode of the third season. And though the fourth season was pretty good overall, it had nothing on a par with "The Guardian."
Nine episodes, actually.
Maybe the earth of the Azure Gate Bridge named it the Azure Gate Strait and uses sonar to naviaget ships and boats! Just kidding.
Yeah, I know what the bridge's paint is called, and why it is so named. I've crossed that thing so many times in my wheelchair that I see it in my sleep. I don't think painting it blue would be stupid. Dangerous maybe, but not stupid. And, simply because I think blue is a better color than orange. I don't actully expect it to happen, just think it would look nicer.
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Deliberately doing something pointlessly dangerous is stupid by definition.
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