Poll Which is more popular: SeaQuest or Sliders?

[MacLeod]

I haven't seen either show in years

Sliders was never the same show once John Rhys-Davies left the show and the final nail in the coffin was when Jerry O'Connell left.

As for Seaquest from memory I preferred the tone of S1 to that of S2, the third season had some decent elements. Though at times I think they veered too far into fiction rather than keeping it closer to possible reality.

 

[Finn]

I'd have to say Sliders. Over the years, I've noticed that people who aren't sci-fi fans are more likely to recognize Sliders when the topic turns up in a conversation.

Seaquest seems to be pretty much forgotten from where I'm sitting...especially Jonathan Brandis.

 

[Galileo7]

That was a HUGE deal, but it wasn't just the cast, it was the tone. Tracy Torme left, and once that happened, they got into too much with the Kromaggs instead of exploring different Earths. That show had infinite possibilities. With the right writers, it could have been a Doctor Who level show. Maybe not then, but today. It just couldn't be on a major network. Today, done on streaming? It could have an amazing run.

Seasons 1 through Arturo's death in Season 3 were amazing. And what's even more amazing is they had an in universe way to get the original Arturo back.

I don't mean a double either.

Yes. Absolutely agree with you that the whole Kromaggs instead of exploring different Earths was a huge mistake and derailed the potential of the series.

Sliders problems were the cast change as much as the Kromaggs.

 

[Finn]

Really, both shows jumped the shark badly.

 

[RandyS]

Really, both shows jumped the shark badly.

Or the dolphin in this case.

But I agree. Both shows had great first seasons.

After that.......

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Its very rare that I find someone that knows what SeaQuest is, but I've seen randos know what Sliders is so I voted Sliders.

Personally, I LOVED Sliders right up until it got ruined when Rhys-Davies tapped out. The following stuff with Maggie and Quinn's brother were...fine, I guess, but I was really off-put with what they did with Wade. I didn't watch the seasons where they changed the lead actor.

My experience with SeaQuest was like...waiting for it to be as good as TNG and never being satisfied.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I've only seen a couple episodes of both shows. I barely remember anything about the SeaQuest episodes I saw but I still remember both of the Sliders episodes pretty clearly. There was the one where the woman won the lottery, only to discover that it was actually population control. And then there was the one where the black guy was a famous singer that everyone thought was dead.

I give way more points to Sliders for being an original-ish concept that had to be done. SeaQuest never seemed to rise above being a mediocre Star Trek ripoff.

I will say this--is there any show that has a bigger Jump The Shark moment than Sliders? It's the world's biggest no brainer.

Probably Happy Days. Jus' sayin'!

I also liked Early Edition (in German Allein Gegen die Zukunft). Gary Hobson gets the newspaper of tomorrow, every day, brought by a cat..... They never finished the show properly....

Because no one cared after Chuck Fishman left after the 2nd season.

 

[Kilana2]

Because no one cared after Chuck Fishman left after the 2nd season.

They had great guest stars like Robert Duncan McNeill and George Takei...... But the stories kept repeating themselves....

 

[tharpdevenport]

SeaQuest didn't just jump the sharl, it BEAMED THE SHIP. So, yes, there is a bigger moment. Maybe worse than the Indiana Jones "nuke the fridge".

 

[Ithekro]

I think I only watched two seasons of Sliders before I started to lose interest. Its a interesting concept, but it started to have problems.

Seaquest I watched until they cancelled it. While Seaquest2032 was quite a different show than Seaquest DVS, I actually liked the world building that was going into it.

 

[DrCorby]

My wife and I watched both series for a couple of seasons, but as others have said, changes in both shows made them harder and harder to watch. I'd say we preferred Seaquest DSV over Sliders, in general. For one thing, the production values on Seaquest were a lot higher than on Sliders; as a Spielberg production, it had a lot more money to throw at the screen than Sliders, which unfortunately sometimes looked like it was being thrown together on the cheap.

I'm usually a sucker for alternate history stories, but after a while the world "concepts" got a little silly and/or terribly contrived. (I don't remember details, but those are my lingering impressions.) The cast changes just made it even more of a struggle to watch until we stopped.

Seaquest had some fairly solid stories in the 1st season about life and conflict under the oceans, with a few clunkers. (I remember the writers bragged about not liking or knowing much about science fiction, and it really showed at times.) When they wholesale dumped the cast for new actors who were all under 30, and shifted a lot more of the spotlight onto teen-heartthrob-of-the-moment Johnathan Brandeis (who unfortunately suffered from all the attention with heartbreaking results), it became much more standard action TV fare and less exploration of (mostly-)plausible undersea human civilization. When they returned from fighting in an alien war (all off-screen!) in the 3rd season and lost Scheider, we lost all interest.

 

[Jayson1]

I might be wrong but I think "Sliders" might be more important of the shows for one reason. I believe when they choose to make new episodes after the show was canned by Fox that might have been the Sci-Fi channels first scripted tv show or for awhile it had to be it's most high profile show except for Mystery Science Theater 3000. Without it we may have never gotten Farscape,Battlestar Galaticia,new seasons of Stargate etc.

Jason

 

[thribs]

Sliders should come back. Due to the material, it could be a reboot and a continuation.

 

[Guy Gardener]

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They did a frozen San Francisco in the very first episode.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Plus it hurt that by the end only Rembrandt was around from the original cast.

As an aside, it did leave it as one of the few shows with a black lead and actually half the leads ware black.

 

[Finn]

it was contrived as hell by then, unfortunately.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I re-binged Early Edition 5 years ago.

I got through half before fatigue set in.

Very early on, I'm noticing that Marissa, the female lead, 90 episodes, is very attractive and quite a nice person on several levels... But neither Chuck nor Gary notice, despite that they are continuously on the make, trying to trick every random woman they meet into removing their clothing.

It's ###king weird.

 

[RPOW0614]

As much as I tried I could never warm up to SeaQuest.
Sliders was good parallel universe adventure show.

 

[Kilana2]

Jerry O'Connell slid into the past where he met Wesley Crusher. Ooops.