Sliders was initially a very good concept. We'd label it ASB, but it was at least interesting. If you are unfamiliar, the series involved a group of people who "slid" from parallel dimension to parallel dimension, trying to get back to their original earth, and going through all sorts of alternate histories along the way. Seasons 1 and 2 were rather solid. However, by season 3, the network interfered and took creative control away from Tracy Torme, and appointed David Peckinpah as executive producer, and the series really went down the tubes. Scripts got much worse, the canon got wonky, and the alternate realities became more excuses for action movie themes more than alternate histories; French world is alternate history, while an episode that's a ripoff of a popular film is not. This in turn lead to a revolving door for the cast and staff, and the thing collapsed.
What if the series had been more successful, and how could it have been so? Not necessarily in terms of viewership success, but definitely in terms of the show more or less staying thematically on course and doing what it set out to do.
What if the series had been more successful, and how could it have been so? Not necessarily in terms of viewership success, but definitely in terms of the show more or less staying thematically on course and doing what it set out to do.