WI: Sliders (TV Series) More Successful

Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

Emperor Norton I said:
On the topic of the internet as a topic for the show, one of the problems would be the same problem that there was with Futurama. The further you get away from the point where the character(s) severed contact with your world, the less able they are to talk about recent issues. For example, Fry left in 2000. He has no business talking about an iPhone and yet he does because it was an episode in the late 2000s --- about a decade from when the show started. The same issue would seem to crop up if the Sliders series continued really long and they tried to make references. They become an anachronism, and the culture they left is increasingly different from the one that exists in the present.
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Another good example is the series Exiles (Marvel Comics) wherein the characters riff on the fact Schwarzenegger is governor of California, ...
 

wietze

ZhugeLiang said:
This actually does sound extremely cool.

Imagine a Sliders-Pokemon crossover, or a Sliders-Harry Potter crossover, or a Sliders-Percy Jackson crossover.

Or a Sliders-Harry Potter-Percy Jackson-Pokemon crossover.
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as for weirder crossovers, watch the movie "Stay Tuned" it has some nice ideas for that. (sliders into a tom& jerry universe? lol)
 

Brundlefly

Emperor Norton I said:
On the topic of the internet as a topic for the show, one of the problems would be the same problem that there was with Futurama. The further you get away from the point where the character(s) severed contact with your world, the less able they are to talk about recent issues. For example, Fry left in 2000. He has no business talking about an iPhone and yet he does because it was an episode in the late 2000s --- about a decade from when the show started. The same issue would seem to crop up if the Sliders series continued really long and they tried to make references. They become an anachronism, and the culture they left is increasingly different from the one that exists in the present.
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But that would create interesting plot points on a viewer-response level. As a viewer, you're sort of put into a time machine yourself, as the Sliders crew more or less remains very late 90ies the whole time. There still remains the possibility that they land in another Earth, where Internet-like things exist and they would be overwhelmed by such a technology. This might actually become a bit comedy-esque, though.
 

phx1138

Brundlefly said:
But that would create interesting plot points on a viewer-response level. As a viewer, you're sort of put into a time machine yourself, as the Sliders crew more or less remains very late 90ies the whole time. There still remains the possibility that they land in another Earth, where Internet-like things exist and they would be overwhelmed by such a technology. This might actually become a bit comedy-esque, though.
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It could go both ways. So many AHs depend on tech changes, the worlds they slide into could look like Ancient Rome or something out of "Star Trek" just as easily.

The trouble the writers had was, they didn't bother to think through the changes, they just "flipped" the outcomes. "British America" still has rebel Americans? Seriously? The big change TTL was the Golden Gate was blue?:rolleyes: (Never mind the really good reasons it was orange...:rolleyes:)
 

Scherzo

Emperor Norton I said:
On the topic of the internet as a topic for the show, one of the problems would be the same problem that there was with Futurama. The further you get away from the point where the character(s) severed contact with your world, the less able they are to talk about recent issues. For example, Fry left in 2000. He has no business talking about an iPhone and yet he does because it was an episode in the late 2000s --- about a decade from when the show started. The same issue would seem to crop up if the Sliders series continued really long and they tried to make references. They become an anachronism, and the culture they left is increasingly different from the one that exists in the present.
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Well they're still experiencing time linearly right? I'd think if enough of the timelines they go to are only slightly different than ours (just assuming they happen off screen since they wouldn't make good episodes), I think they'd still be able to see broader technological trends. They wouldn't be cracking wise about Dubya though, if that's what you mean.
 
Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

So I started watching Season 3 again after burning through Seasons 1 & 2 over these past few weeks. And sweet Jebus it reminded me why I gave up on watching Season 3. All that fun and frequent wackiness is gone, and replaced with this lost weekend of really terrible episodes that -except for the few- have nothing to do with an alternate earth. It hints at promise with Double Cross; this tease that this is what the third season could have felt like in another world. But it immediately craps out after that. Double Cross, the one where Rembrandt is King of America, and the Egyptian one are the only episodes I can think of that are anything. The rest are just lousy rip offs of popular movies that don't feel like some alternate earth or alternate history because they aren't; alternate dimensions are just an excuse to showcase those stories.

And I'm reminded of season 4 and 5 where the quality got better compared to season 3, and it went a bit more back to what it had been, but the show had drifted so far from what it started out as in the Torme era. The Kromagg focus was unnecessary, and the revolving door cast just put the damper on it.

So in review, I think the hardest thing about the show is what it hinted that it could have been, the good that was the first two seasons, the interesting start to season 3, and then the cold shower of just the next few episodes.

It honestly put me in this really bad, drained mood right now.
 

omnimercurial

The Guardian was a good episode with a Season 1&2 feel but you are right most of Season 3 was awful.

The Movie Rip Off Episodes were crap too.

I did like the Fat Craving Rage Zombie Episode though and still think it was what inspired the Film 28 Days Later.
 

eltf177

I watched a few of these when it aired but my brother and I bought Seasons 1-4 on DVD and we enjoyed it. Not the greatest show ever but interesting enough to want to see from time to time.

I agree Season 3 was bad and the Kro-Mag theme was badly overdone (as was the General from the earth that went nova shooting himself with other people's spinal fluid)...
 
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