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118 out of 125 people found the following comment useful :-
So much potential, destroyed by talentless hacks, 9 July 2005

Author: Zeuss101 from United Kingdom

An amazing Sci-Fi show that should have had the success it deserved instead of being buried by lame writing and casting.

Sliders focused on a group of 4 people who discovered a way to 'slide' between parallel worlds. Unfortionatley, they got lost in the inter-dimension, and were consigned to wandering between the many parallel universes in the hope of someday finding their way home.

When Tracy Torme' and Robert K. Weiss created this show in 1995, they had truly made something special. Unfortionately FOX decided to completely ruin it.

They began by airing the episodes out of sequence in the first 2 seasons, meaning that there could be no continuity between episodes, so whenever an extra character slid with the Sliders they were never seen again (with one poor exception). In the 3rd season David "Peckerhead" Peckinpah (a man with less talent than a dog turd) became an Executive Producer and many episodes became movie rip-offs instead of 'what if' concepts where parallel worlds had alternate histories to our own. The amazing John Rhys-Davies was then fired mid season 3 and replaced with Kari Wuhrer, a terrible actress who played a terrible character.

FOX allowed the Sci-Fi channel to take over the show for its 4th and 5th seasons. They put David Peckinpah completely in charge of the show, and he buried it by having ape-men called Kromaggs take over the Sliders' home world and by rewriting the backstory of the lead character completely. The premise was changed from finding home to fighting ape-men. In the last season, only one of the original Sliders remained.

When the show finished, it was without any resolution to many of its story arcs or the final episode's cliffhanger.

I feel Tracy Torme's pain. No one could have imagined that they would create a show as brilliant as Sliders, only to see it totally destroyed before their eyes.

Sliders had so much potential, but it was ruined by talentless hacks like 'Peckerhead'.

The first two seasons and the first part of season 3 are really all that are worth watching unfortunately.

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41 out of 42 people found the following comment useful :-
Once a pretty good show, 21 February 2003
Author: Michael O'Brien (girardi_is_god@yahoo.com) from Stroudsburg, PA

I think most people familiar with the show would say that it started off as a really original and interesting show. The 'what if" concept really worked for it. But as time went on, the show became something worse than repetitive. It abandoned the original premise of the show. They stopped being mainly concerned with getting home and started being more concerned with these Kromag things. That's about where the original cast started to fall away one by one. They still show re-runs on the sci-fi channel, and I catch the early ones when I can. That's when the show was enjoyable. In the last half of the shows six seasons, it was unwatchable.

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43 out of 46 people found the following comment useful :-
One of the best sci-fi shows of all time, 18 January 2003
Author: Green Queen from Canberra, Australia

For the first three years of Sliders, this show was an intelligent, original and fascinating example of perfect scifi TV. The acting was mostly above average, but the character dynamics of this odd group (a whiz kid, his wannabe girlfriend, his college professor and a washed-up singer who got into sliding by accident) and the writing were what really made the show. Unfortunately, the show began to go downhill when the original cast was shaken up with the departure of the formidable John Rhys-Davies as the Professor, and jumped the shark completely when it lost Sabrina Lloyd as Wade. I'm sure many salivating teen males would disagree with me on the pointlessness of Kari Wuhrer, but it's clear to me that she added nothing but cleavage to the show.

A show with great potential that should have continued for years.

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34 out of 36 people found the following comment useful :-
many earths, many adventures, 18 November 2004
Author: powersroc from United States

Sliders had the intriguing premise of a group of people being able to open up a vortex & journeying to parallel earths in alternate dimensions.The fact that a college kid in the present was able to create such a device in his basement to make this happen never seemed realistic to me.We are talking about technology such as this as being thousands of years in our future.But aside from that it was a nifty premise,& not one overdone on TV.The cast was wonderful & enjoyed a terrific chemistry.The story lines were endless,since each earth was different from their homeworld.Sliding into a new & unknown world was exciting,we walked with our sliders as they tried to discover what kind of earth they had come to,what were the differences,the dangers,& how best could they survive until the vortex would open again & propel them to their next earth? The scripts could range from satire to horror to science fiction.The early seasons with the original cast intact were always the best.Sadly, as the seasons went on the scripts declined in quality.John Rhys-Davies was the first to quit due to the poor writing of the show & not being allowed mush input.The creators of the series unfortunately had problems with network "suits" as to the direction of the show.That is a problem that happens all too often with TV sf series. By the end of the show's run,only the engaging Cleavant Derricks was left from the original cast.Able actors replaced the originals but were never could recapture the magic of their relationships.It was a disappointing end to what began as a fascinating show.

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30 out of 33 people found the following comment useful :-
A classic, 24 July 2002
Author: Philly-11 from Philadelphia, PA

SciFi has spent this week running episodes of Sliders from the early seasons, and man, did I forget how good they were.

The early episodes of the show, particularly the pilot, were fantastic-- the alternate worlds were well thought out, and I'd think about the plausibility of them as I lay in bed at night before drifting off to sleep.

Too bad they had to dumb it down and start ripping off movie plots in later seasons. I mourned the loss of John Rhys-Davies, his character was great. And to replace him with boobs-on-patrol Kari Wuhrer was pathetic. It was a completely obvious attempt to boost ratings by grabbing the eyeballs of the geek-horndog set that also lusted after Scully and Seven of Nine and religiously watched their respective shows.

To sum up, don't waste your time watching any episodes from the later seasons.

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27 out of 33 people found the following comment useful :-
Casting or Writing: Which Bombed First?, 21 August 2000
Author: James Talley (jtalley4n6@aol.com) from Salina, KS

The original Sliders, featuring O'Connell, Rhys-Davies, Lloyd and Derricks, had potential: a Quantum Leap that held up better from a hard sci-fi POV.

Sure, the alternate worlds differed along only a narrow spectrum (no worlds where Aristotle's corpus was lost at sea or where the Spanish were beaten back by the Aztecs and Mayans--in short, nothing compared to Poul Anderson's Time Patrol novels), but for TV, it was forgiveable. The show could have served a real allegorical purpose, like the original Star Trek episodes, smuggling in controversy in veiled, science-fiction form under the radars of network censors.

And maybe it tried, and maybe it would have tried harder, but either the writing so petered out that the original stars split or the stars bolted and the writers scrambled to patch together the vehicle that had been abandoned. Down goes Sabrina Lloyd, then John Rhys-Davies, then the star, Jerry O'Connell. By the time Cleavant Derricks' seniority finally grants him the dubious honor of doing the opening voiceover narration, the show's been utterly gutted.

Maybe there's something philosophical in the program's blandness: an episode on a world without aluminum doesn't use that lack for anything more than a plot complication amid a standard good-guys vs. bad-guys story. Maybe the message in these all-too-similar worlds is that no matter how wacky the axiomatic differences among quantum realities, it's all same-old, same-old.

Network TV should be relieved at that news.

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my favorite show, next to the x-files., 31 October 1998
Author: mswelles from ca

as a long-time fan of sliders (since it first premiered back in 1995), i have seen its ups & downs, constant cast changes, and the fight to save it from being cancelled year after year.

now in the fourth season and moved to the sci-fi channel, i believe this show is not the same one we watched friday nights on fox. everything has changed -- the characters (jerry o'connell's quinn is not the same sweet wonderer from the previous seasons -- he's mechanical and almost emotionless), the storyline (quinn not from earth prime and having a brother from another earth, an ongoing war with the kromaggs and the quest to find a so-called "superweapon" to destroy them, and to find quinn's "real" earth and parents???), and the overall feel of the show. it's not "what if...?" anymore... it's "we've gotta kill the kromaggs." not to mention jerry o'connell leaving... don't even get me started on that. i'll still watch the show of course, but i'll miss seeing him play quinn every week. i'm happy cleavant derricks is staying (and supposedly for the remainder of the series), as he is definitely a very talented actor and i love his character, rembrandt. i'm disappointed that charlie o'connell (colin) is leaving also, as he seemed to have a lot of potential and one season is not nearly enough to fully develop a character. as for kari wuhrer staying... don't get me started on that one either. what i think the show really needs, to finish off the series and tie up loose ends is one last, 2 hour episode with the entire cast (jerry o'connell, sabrina lloyd and john rhys-davies would be pivotal for this episode) and complete this story arc the writers have going on -- the kromaggs, wade's dissapearance, quinn not from earth prime & his supposed "real" family, and the *real* professor (the one that i, and many other fans, believe was left on that earth in the ep. 'post traumatic slide syndrome') -- and give the fans who have fought season after season to save our show what they want and deserve.

while i have always and will forever love this show, it's not the same anymore. it doesn't have that intrigue, or the thought-provoking storylines.

i'm looking forward to future episodes and seasons, but not as much as i used to.

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i miss this show so much....., 6 July 2003
Author: Psy-T from israel

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in my entire life, only two movies/tv series made me cry, one was the movie "instinct", the other was the sliders episode where they killed arturo....

i would just love it if they would stay in the patterns set by the first season,,, the what if's.... i could watch it for 80 more seasons if they would have sticked to the patterns (and not change the cast). (does anyone else agree with me on that?)

one more thing that in my opinion damaged the show, was the introduction of multi episode rivals (kromags,,, and the guy who killed arturo, i forgot his name)

this was the first time i ever realised how damaging can changing the cast be...

oh, and btw, although i could even manage the fact that they "killed" earth prime, i stopped watching completely after they killed quinn.

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There Will Never Be Another Show As Good As Sliders...., 16 July 2000
Author: (mmc123@hotmail.com) from Canada

Sliders. I Remember watching The Pilot episode on the first night this brilliant television series debuted on FOX on March 22, 1995. I watched it to the end and I wanted more. I couldn;t wait until the next episode. The possibilities of the show were awesome. Four people from our earth couldn't get back home and they had to "slide" from world to world to get home. I loved how they had a timing device to slide with. Every aspect of the show was amazing.

I loved the first season the best. The season finale cliffhanger got me really excited when a fifth slider came along with our sliders, it never happened before, and not only that but Quinn was shot, was he dead or alive? I thought Id never find out because Sliders was cancelled. That p***ed me off really bad. I loved that show....but it came back a year later....

I watched season 2...and it didnt quite match season 1 but I still loved every episode. I loved the episode "post Traumatic Slide Syndrome" because the SLiders thougth they finally made it home and at the end of the episode we didn;t know which of the two professors slid, leaving us wondering if the real one was left behind. Another real interesting episode was "Gillian of the Spirits" "Love Gids", and "El Sid" were pretty good. "Invasions" wasn't that bad either, we learned that the Kromagg species put a tracking device in one of the sliders. Good Season finale, well actually should have been a season finale rather than the episode they aired after it for the finale...

Season 3 began and it seemed okay....actually the beginning of season 3 was pretty much just like season 1. Rules of the game,Dead man sliding, electric twister acid test, double cross, and especially The Guardian were great episodes. It was after those episodes that Sliders changed a great deal. Instead of alternate realities based stories with alternate histories, we had crazy fantasy and action stories. Sliders was different from then on. Three of the original cast mates were taken off the show and the show jumped networks, the budget got decreased, the show moved to LA....

But being a true fan that I am, I enjoyed every episode....some season 4 episodes had their moments, like "Wrold Kill", "Way Out West", "Slidecage" and others were great.

Although the show is done, they should have done one thing before the last episode was completely finished. Get poor Rembrant back home.

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Damn you, FOX Executives!!!, 17 March 2005
Author: crazyrabbits from Canada

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Man, this show used to be amazing. I mean, every week you would tune in and have these cool stories about alternate possibilities in life and with good character development and plotting.

Then the show took a turn for the worse.

What in the blue hell were the Fox Executives smoking? And the Sci-Fi Channel as well! I mean, you put more T&A into the show, killed one of the most likable characters on the show (not to mention sending him off in one of the worst exits in the history of network television; I mean, getting your brain sucked out, being shot, and getting left on a planet that blows up!!!), sent another one to a BREEDING CAMP, killed the main character, replaced him with someone else, bringing in another new character, finding the woman who was in a BREEDING CAMP, with her HEAD BEING USED AS A FREAKIN' COMPUTER, and then killing her off, and then ending the show on a cliffhanger! And let's not forget, the only Slider left at that point was the freakin' lounge singer! Oh my God! It boggles the mind! How could you take something so good and turn it into something so bad? R.I.P. Sliders.

Bottom Line: If you really want to watch this, get the DVD box set of the first two seasons, and never, EVER watch the last three seasons.

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