Michael E Johnson
Banned
Alasdair Czyrnyj said:
Dont know if you know but first 2 seasons are on dvd-this one is on my wish list-when the price goes down.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...31271/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/104-8256014-4053556
Sliders - Remember it?
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Dont know if you know but first 2 seasons are on dvd-this one is on my wish list-when the price goes down.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...31271/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/104-8256014-4053556
personaly i liked the show. The only thing that annoyed the hell out of me was the fact that it was so very much VS orientated. They did not pay much attention to european or oriental alternative timelines. There are so many interesting alternative timelines thinkable if you start in for example europe.
I do understand it though, the reason was probably becourse the audience was mainly the VS.
Evertjan van de Kaa (Dutch)
I do understand it though, the reason was probably becourse the audience was mainly the VS.
Evertjan van de Kaa (Dutch)
ejvandekaa said:
You are right of course...but they did explain that in the show. The wormhole dropped them in the same physical location on the new alternate earth that they left from on the previous earth. So if they slide out of San Francisco on one earth, then they slide into San Francisco on the alterate earth.
Leo Caesius
Banned
By VS I assume you mean die vereinigten Staaten or whatever the Dutch equivalent is?
I did mean the united states of amerika which in dutch is de verenigde staten van amerika. I thought it went to far to just call it amerika. that would almost be the same as calling the netherlands holland.
Leo Caesius
Banned
Perhaps. In English as she is spoken, "America" can only mean one thing - the US, unless you're talking in the context of the Age of Exploration, in which case "America" can mean the New World. Perhaps our British, Australian, or Canadian friends can offer a broader perspective on this, but my perception is that whenever someone utters the word "America," the US is the first thing that leaps to mind, for better or worse.ejvandekaa said:
Mind you, I wasn't confused by the fact that America can potentially mean all of North America and South America, but with the fact that VS usually stands for "versus." If it weren't for German, I'd probably never have guessed it.
Leo Caesius
Banned
What did you expect us to name ourselves? The United States of the East Coast of the Middle Part of North America? The Founding Fathers certainly did not have power over English or other languages, such that they could ensure that the adjective describing the New World in their time would come to refer specifically to their country. In some languages (like Italian) people can say United Staters, but it sounds terribly artificial.
I have yet to hear Egyptians and Libyans complain that Moroccans have unjustly appropriated the name of their region (which is al-maghreb, same as the name of Morocco in Arabic).
Come to think of it, VS could make an acronym for Vespuccian States, which actually could have been the name of a country in the New World.
I have yet to hear Egyptians and Libyans complain that Moroccans have unjustly appropriated the name of their region (which is al-maghreb, same as the name of Morocco in Arabic).
Come to think of it, VS could make an acronym for Vespuccian States, which actually could have been the name of a country in the New World.
By 'America' I think of USA first then 'North America'. I use it historically (in class or in an essay) as the New World.
In a coversation I usually refer to the US as "the States" or the US, never just America.
In a coversation I usually refer to the US as "the States" or the US, never just America.
Leo Caesius
Banned
How do you refer to people who live in the States?fortyseven said:
I can't think of any acceptible adjective but American. When you consider the connotations that accompany the word "American" (which I won't go into at this point) it may even be a good thing in many parts of the world that most people don't consider Canadians or Brazilians under the rubric "American."
Abdul Hadi Pasha
Banned
Michael said:
Excuse me, how's life in your glass house? What exactly is the name of YOUR country?
Abdul Hadi Pasha
Banned
Or how about the Sudan, which has taken over the name for about half of Africa?
Leo Caesius said:
When it first started, in was an okay show. Then it went down hill, but it got better when it moved to SCI-FI. The last season was total garbage.
The thing that got me was that there was that they only created one alternate race, the Kromaggs. Basically, misplaced Klingons. I would have liked if it they met a race that had evolved from dinosaurs. They also never went to a world where Sliding was an everyday thing, or a world with an interdimensional market. The other thing that got me was 29 year wait between wormholes. Someone were to create a new show, they could throw in the idea from THE ONE, a wormhole tracker, and opening device.
The thing that got me was that there was that they only created one alternate race, the Kromaggs. Basically, misplaced Klingons. I would have liked if it they met a race that had evolved from dinosaurs. They also never went to a world where Sliding was an everyday thing, or a world with an interdimensional market. The other thing that got me was 29 year wait between wormholes. Someone were to create a new show, they could throw in the idea from THE ONE, a wormhole tracker, and opening device.
I liked Sliders, even though it was kind of awful. It was, if you will, compellingly awful. Besdies, I had a crush on the large man who sang opera.
It jumped the shark after a few years and I stopped watching it.
Re America, as a Canadian I am just as happy to cede the word "America" to the USA. I think calling it "the United States" is just as problematic because isn't Mexico actually called the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)?
It jumped the shark after a few years and I stopped watching it.
Re America, as a Canadian I am just as happy to cede the word "America" to the USA. I think calling it "the United States" is just as problematic because isn't Mexico actually called the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)?
I thought Sliders was generally decent -- at least before the Sci Fi Channel got a-hold of it and -- as they do with most good things they get -- f***ed it up beyond all recognition. They down-turn probably started w/ the death of Professor Maxamillian. They always kill off my favorite character first (like Zhan(sp?) in Farscape). Anyway, the first few seasons were pretty good from my memory. At least the first episode was good -- the one where the USSR occupied the US. They even went so far to explain the POD in that one -- the US lost the Korean War, rather than just fighting it to a stalemate. I also remember one where there was a comet that was going to hit earth, but Einstein had intentionally disproven the possibility of making a nuclear bomb -- it was mentioned that the Pacific War lasted until 1949 or so, so the professor had to invent one.
That episode sort of inspired me -- years later -- to make my own TL about the Cold War w/o the nuclear bomb. I know that sounds contradictory on the face of it, but the US and USSR still would have been the 2 most powerful countries in the world, so they'd be wary of fighting each other even in a conventional war and still diametrically opposed.
That episode sort of inspired me -- years later -- to make my own TL about the Cold War w/o the nuclear bomb. I know that sounds contradictory on the face of it, but the US and USSR still would have been the 2 most powerful countries in the world, so they'd be wary of fighting each other even in a conventional war and still diametrically opposed.