jayseven Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 (edited) Don't suppose many people will reply to this thread. My sister gave me the "Dual Dimension Edition" (season 1 and 2) of Sliders for xmas and I've just gotten round to watching it. Every bit as fun as I remember it! The world where Rembrandt's double is bigger than Elvis, the world where Women are the 'superior' gender, the world where intellect is more popular than sports... At the end of the first season is the perfect-world-lottery place, and what annoys me is that some dude slides with them at the end of that episode then the beginning of the next series they just say "oh he walked off somewhere" and don't address it at all. Plus the show had some of the best intro music everrr. They changed it each season, iirc. ^ Ominous EBM/pseudo-industrial intro for season 1. ^Adrenaline-soaked runaway for season 2. Also! I recently learned that Quinn 'Q-ball' Mallory; ... Is Verne from Stand By Me, but all growed up! Weird. Edited February 11, 2011 by jayseven
Mundi Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 I am debating with myself wether I should watch beyond the second series. I really liked them but when I heard that beyond series 2 it's all about the inderdimensional alien threat and all that jargon and less about going into different version of reality. Also: No John Rhys-Davis in latter series: Fail.
Jonnas Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 Slider was awesome! Man, I remember watching this when I was little. A friend of mine rediscovered this series a while back, and told me that the later seasons suffered a lot of meddling by the TV station. But the episodes I saw in my childhood were amazing, even after they introduced a villain that can also slide. I remember that "Communist USA" episode. Probably the first time I had seen anything about Communism in fiction.
Dante Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 Its a shame the TV heads started to mess with series after series two. All the information behind the scenes can be read here.
ViPeR Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 I loved it, own series 1, 2 (double pack) and series 3. Series 2 intro is the best out of the lot. I can't watch the latter half of series 3 as you can see how bad it was starting to get and because of the obvious event half way through that series...The first series will remain one of my favourites, it's awesome! It's a shame that it degraded in the way it did as it deserved an end with the ORIGINAL cast. It was such a great concept but when they started just ripping off films and other ideas towards the end of series 3 that was it for me. It's such a delightfully cheesy show but i'm glad I didn't watch it until the end as I read up on it and it didn't even have a satisfying conclusion.
Mr_Master_X2 Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 One of my favourite ever shows. Me and my bro have watched the first two seasons a ridiculous amount of times. 5 seasons total. You could sortof tell the show had problems from the start (mostly higher-ups messing with it and budget). Oh, that guy who just vanished was really meant to stay, and I think he was going to spy for the kromaggs and sell them out (it's been while since I looked at this so I may be wrong...>>>>>) Go here for the full story... http://earthprime.com/ When you realize what they really had planned you'll want to hunt down those who ****ed the show over. Still a really great show even with all those trying to destroy/end it. This is one show that could definately do with a reboot. ^Viper Although it didn't satisfyingly conclude, the last few seasons still had solid writing quite alot of the time, even if it only had one of the originals left and the budget was nearly non-existant. Though you'll know doubt feel cheated and gloomy the orginals aren't in it and the main story was dropped, it's still got that Sliders feel.
ViPeR Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 (edited) One of my favourite ever shows. Me and my bro have watched the first two seasons a ridiculous amount of times. 5 seasons total. You could sortof tell the show had problems from the start (mostly higher-ups messing with it and budget). Oh, that guy who just vanished was really meant to stay, and I think he was going to spy for the kromaggs and sell them out (it's been while since I looked at this so I may be wrong...>>>>>) Go here for the full story... http://earthprime.com/ When you realize what they really had planned you'll want to hunt down those who ****ed the show over. Still a really great show even with all those trying to destroy/end it. This is one show that could definately do with a reboot. ^Viper Although it didn't satisfyingly conclude, the last few seasons still had solid writing quite alot of the time, even if it only had one of the originals left and the budget was nearly non-existant. Though you'll know doubt feel cheated and gloomy the orginals aren't in it and the main story was dropped, it's still got that Sliders feel. One episode that always got me (and kinda made it nearly ok about what happened in series 3) is the fact that Arthuro was swapped with a double in series 2. I know it's debatable about which one went through the vortex but i'm pretty certain real Arthuro got left behind. I still can't believe that the show went so far as to kill off Wade! Not to mention Quinn having a brother join the group and then splicing the two to create Megamallory. Did Maggie even make it to the end? She wasn't an original but she was a good character Edited February 12, 2011 by ViPeR
somme Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 Watched them all through a couple of years back. Loved it as a kid, not so much as an adult. And it gets, so, so terrible.
Hamishmash Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 I used to love Sliders but on a rewatch recently I don't think it ever reached its potential. I think its deserving of a reboot to be honest... though you wouldn't be able to replace the Crying Man.
Daft Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 Yeah, I've been waiting for them to reboot this. I enjoyed it back in the day.
The Mad Monkey Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 I used to love this show, although the quality was well dodgy at times, last episode was classic though, where they land on a world where their adventures are a TV show.
flameboy Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 Awesome show didn't realise it went on as long as it did. Sounds like I didn't miss out On much late on tho!
jayseven Posted February 13, 2011 Author Posted February 13, 2011 It's heart-wrenching to hear how bad it gets. Still enjoying 2 and - yes - a reboot would be great, but they'd have to essentially reuse the ideas from the original quite a lot (which stole a lot of ideas from Quantum Leap in the first place :P).
ViPeR Posted February 13, 2011 Posted February 13, 2011 It was gutting how many times they made it back to Earth Prime but for various reasons couldn't stay. I think it could benefit from a reboot but I don't know I just think the actors were so perfect the first time around. There were so many ideas that could have been explored but got replaced with 'monster of the week' storylines. I really liked the episode where time was moving in the opposite direction. I think they ended up destroying that entire universe before they left lol.
Mr_Master_X2 Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 ^If you go by the original writers, then yes it's 100% official that at that time, they did indeed leave with the wrong Arturo. Due to messing around by the PTB though, they wanted done away with "continuity/arcs/etc." it was quickly hush-hushed away though. **WARNING, MY FAN, REAL ENDING** I still like to believe the real Arturo eventually developed tech and went after them, eventually catching up, tried to lock onto their wormhole, snagging away Quinn and Colin during the same incident as the german dude, and the guy who got fused Quinn parts just got "residual wormhole copy parts". They go after the unstuck Colin and save him, only to find out he leapt to a world with Wade. They then go and rescue her (the Wade that died simply being a Wade who slid with her friends just like she did from an almost identical world). eventually they get back to home earth just in time to meet Rembrandt who's just got their with the Kromagg weapon (end of season 5). They save that world, but then realize it isn't theirs after another Rembrandt, Arturo and Quinn turn up. Turns out it's the home of the Sliders who slid from their Earth the exact same time they did (the other Wade that died...) Think about this people, it always bugged me how they just said "this is our world, we found our homeworld" during season 3 and accepted it as 100% fact. It didn't make any sense. They had no proof it was theirs, there's an infinite number of worlds. The only difference could have been some guy in iceland was called chuck instead of john or something. Colin begins to wonder if he's really the Quinn he's been travelling around withs brother or the one from this world... The other Quinn's advanced sliding tech shows that our sliders aren't in "quantum sync" with that universe as final proof this was never their Earth. They prove that they themselves are and that Colin's quantum signatures from the same Earth as their Quinn. After a touching goodbye , Colin and the "copy Earth" gang leave, to prevent a retaliaton from the Kromaggs. Just moments after the copy Earth sliders leave than another wormhole open up and...CONRAD BENISCH JUNIOR!! Ours, that is. Screaming at our sliders and asking where Colin is and that he and Quinn are needed to save their earth. Turns out? Copy sliders just tricked ours, taking the real our Colin... So they set off to get him.
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