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 ====== Sliders ======
-A 90s [[offtopic:USA|American]] science fiction TV series. Not about kids skidding at a local ice rink. The series instead told the tales of a four-strong team of people travelling and adventuring throughout the multiverse. They were forced into this involuntarily, after a freak accident with the titular "sliding technology" removed them from their own timeline (analogous to [[OTL]] in the mid-to-late 1990s, and dubbed Earth Prime). Essentially a "lost in space" style setup, but with alternate versions of Earth as the "planet of the week", instead of... well, planets. The series offered [[ATL]]s both on the more realistic and more [[ASB]] side, various strange parallel worlds, even other civilisations that developed "sliding" and explored or tried to conquer the multiverse. //Sliders// was to be the ultimate, dimension-and-timeline-hopping adventure show.
+A 90s [[offtopic:USA|American]] science fiction TV series. Not about kids skidding at a local ice rink. The series instead told the tales of a four-strong team of people travelling and adventuring throughout the multiverse. They were forced into this involuntarily, after a freak accident with the titular "sliding technology" removed them from their own timeline (analogous to [[OTL]] in the mid-to-late 1990s, and dubbed Earth Prime). Essentially a "Lost in Space" style setup, but with alternate versions of Earth as the "planet of the week", instead of... well, planets. The series offered [[ATL]]s both on the more realistic and more [[ASB]] side, various strange parallel worlds, even other civilisations that developed "sliding" and explored or tried to conquer the multiverse. //Sliders// was to be the ultimate, dimension-and-timeline-hopping adventure show.
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 The higher quality and relatively innovative nature of the first two seasons are often overshadowed by the diminishing returns of seasons three, four and five. The series is, in and of itself, worthy of a POD, as often expressed by its loyal fans: Had the OTL season three not have happened, or only kept its better episodes and its original cast, there was still hope for the show. It was starting to find its footing. Sadly, due to many of the initial characters and writers leaving, and the execs focusing on how to actionise or sex-up the series, an improvement in quality was not to be.
-/10 for the premise and basic ideas, 3/10 for the execution (relative to the entire series), 23/30 frommages for the cheesiness factor.
+/10 for the premise and basic ideas, 3/10 for the execution (relative to the entire series), 23/30 //fromages// for the cheesiness factor.
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+==== Re:Sliders: Matt Mitrovich reviews Sliders ====
+Since 2019, [[offtopic:Mitro]] has been gradually reviewing the //Sliders// TV series episode by episode, in narrative chronological order.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w116Z5gZk3E|Intro and the Sliders pilot]]**
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITK8LwylIlc|Summer of Love]]**
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdxUJKzdlM|Prince of Wails]]**
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJghelogNL8|Fever]]**
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtjhL7A8DoQ|Last Days]]**
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_JnJiWS9w|The Weaker Sex]]**
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbBmT-T8l9w|Eggheads]]**
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+==== Other external reviews ====
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6RH80TH74|SLIDERS (1995-2000) - Gone But Not Forgotten]]** - Video retrospective at the JoBlo Originals channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX8fqen43qM|Why SLIDERS Is A Cult Sci-Fi Classic - Lost and Found]]** - Video retrospective at the Nater Tot channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Q8-_JopMQ|Forgotten Television - Looking Back At The TV Show Sliders (Part 1)]]** - Video retrospective at the rangerreview channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-HEVnZyRx4|Forgotten Television - Looking Back At The TV Show Sliders (Part 2)]]** - Video retrospective at the rangerreview channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfyzifAqsvY|Review of Season 1]]** - Video review at the Slider's Prime channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nBLhSICJp4|Review of Season 2]]** - Video review at the Slider's Prime channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSoCmk_6NbI|Review of Season 3]]** - Video review at the Slider's Prime channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VW4kJ__W98|Review of Season 4]]** - Video review at the Slider's Prime channel.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDyVrHoumtw|Review of Season 5]]** - Video review at the Slider's Prime channel.
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 ==== See Also ====
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 **[[https://earthprime.com/|Earth Prime]]** - A long-running fansite (ca since 1998, with a nice modern revamp since 2012), that documents, examines and //picks apart// the series and all its anciliary materials. Behind the scenes stuff includes rare things that you can't find anywhere else on the net. If there is one fandom that //knows// their own show hated them and their intelligence, it's this one. The website's authors openly admit that, but work on the site and keep it running as something of a memento about series with a neat premise that were dreadfully mismanaged. The critical essays //[[https://earthprime.com/essays/genesis-the-destruction-of-the-sliders-concept|Genesis: The Destruction of the Sliders Concept]]// and //[[https://earthprime.com/essays/abusing-the-audience|Abusing the Audience]]// are a particularly biting read about the show's gross mismanagement during seasons three, four and five.
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNrSB_S_W14|John Rhys Davies shares Sliders regrets and reboot hopes]]** - From an interview at a con.
 **[[https://entertainment.theonion.com/sliders-ended-two-seasons-too-early-if-you-ask-me-say-1819571639|'Sliders Ended Two Seasons Too Early, If You Ask Me,' Says Sliders Creator To No One In Particular]]** - A 2010 satirical post-mortem article about the series, from parody news site The Onion.
+**[[https://twitter.com/Sliders_S14|Twitter of an ATL where Sliders was a hit show that lasted for 14 seasons]]**
+**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtasHWLKWSM|Sliders the Movie]]** - Satirical short at Funny or Die about a potential reboot. They got Jerry O'Connell for the short !
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