Sliders (TV Series) The Seer (2000) User Reviews

The End?

[NickBOKC · 5/10 · 12 March 2022]

Is this the end? This final episode leaves us with a cliffhanger. It appears as though the series wasn't supposed to end on this note. Did the producers run out of money? It's not fair to the audience. We wanted to witness Rembrandt saving Earth Prime. One more episode would have done the job. I was angry about the original cast not sticking together for the entire run of the series, but the new group could have squeezed another season out of it. The first four seasons were the best despite the professor and Wade leaving.

I was hoping for the final show that Rembrandt and the new group would return to Earth Prime and find Quinn, Colin, and the original professor Arturo who didn't die, waiting for them. The professor could have helped Quinn and Diana take Rembrandt's blood to culture the anti-Kromagg virus. It would have been a spectacular ending with everyone together. Then they could have sent Diana and Mallory back home to their world. They could have explained Quinn by saying that he actually landed on a world with Colin but the other dimensional Quinn landed inside of Mallory, like twin dimensional brothers. Anyway, that dream is gone, and this ending left the door wide open for interpretation.

Ugh!

[That-Writer-Girl · 1/10 · 15 October 2010]

I've spent three months watching this show on Netflix Instant and then the last episode ends in a cliffhanger! I read that it was because of a feud between the writers/producers and the Sci-Fi Channel. So what about the viewers and the fact that the person that's been on the show longer than any other Slider may or may not have died and we will never know because The Seer died? I tried to find some other information online about what might have happened, but that was 10 years ago. I think there should have been something like a book or something like, "Well, the intention was that such and such was supposed to happen." I'm so mad!

The worst way to end such a good TV series.

[theshriketh · 1/10 · 2 April 2021]

The whole fifth season is a mess and a big mistake. When Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and John Rhys-Davies left the show, it turned into a bad parody.

Fake relationship between new characters just distructing. Robert Floyd is a fake Quinn Mallory, just plain desecration.

I just pretend 5 season never happened.

Sliders dies in darkness!

[jpierce-66775 · 1/10 · 30 May 2021]

I have been fast forwarding through most of season 5 until I came to the last episode. Bad acting, bad scripts, bad special effects. I understand character development but you don't need 2 seasons to do it in. (I was waiting for Maggie to ask everybody "What's my motivation".) I kind of liked the first 2 cheesy seasons. These last 2 seasons only had Rembrandt as somebody they could anchor the show on. If a producer had a wooden stake, they should have nailed this series through the heart after season 2.

Cliffhangera and stuff

[gearsmaxprimed · 7/10 · 28 August 2017]

The last 2 seasons of Sliders was on the Sci-Fi channel, so expect a lot of cheese. That being said this final season had some good episodes. However I did hate the cliffhanger on this episode, but reading about the why and knowing that Cleavant Derricks was all for the cliffhanger, I am OK with it now. On a better note, for anybody that wants to know what happened after the cliffhanger or wants more Sliders info, you should head to earthprime where they have a Sliders creators approved continuation story written by the fans that run that dot com. Because 17 years is too long to find out that there's more Sliders.

Ends on a "Trainwrek" calling it a "Clffhanger" is too kind.

[xfmand · 1/10 · 5 June 2023]

This last "Episode" is so horrible, I'm reluctant to call it an "Episode." If you're in any way wondering if you'd be better off not watching it (except to see how bad it really is), you really shouldn't watch it. Many people criticize Season 5 and maybe Season 4 as being so bad that they're not worth watching. I think that's not fair to those seasons, but not hard enough on this last "episode".

People complain this ends with a "Cliffhanger", I wouldn't call it a cliffhanger, I would call it a "total train wreck."

At the end of Farscape, for example, they wrapped up everything in the local episode and the major arc's that were on people's minds, and then, at the last minute, adding in one last (big) problem that happened suddenly and then, when continued (by the TV movie) was wrapped up pretty quickly.

That "Fascape Cliffhander" is an example of what the end of this "episode" and the series wasn't. It didn't resolve any main arcs, it didn't even wrap up what I'm reluctant to call an "episode" it's failure to be "wrapped" up is the reason I'm reluctant to call it an episode in the first place, if we put aside the train-wreck/"cliffhanger" it was Part 1 of a multipart episode where the later parts were never made.

BTW... I've seen a lot of people are article discuss who should be blame for the loss of actors, especially Quinn ad Wade, but I haven't seen any put the blame where I think it belong - on FOX. Fox started a show that provided it could last five seasons (especially if they didn't Quinn and Wade). Fox should have put the main cast on 5-years contracts, and then run the show the 5 years. But regardless of what Fox secretly did with the contracts, it's no secret that the dumped the show after only 3 seasons (leaving Sci-Fi to pick up the mess - thank you Sci-fi.) The was also moved from Canada to Hollywood in Season 3, so that held so possible problems if the actors didn't want to move.

I've like to say more about the ending, but I don't want to make this review as "Spoiler" so I won't.

But I will finish by saying that after spend nearly over an hours think about whether or no there is any excuse for the "trainwreck at the end", I can only think of one.

When you continue a series with a made-for-TV movie, or a new series, the writers tend to try to like to "break everything" so the plot can put it together. The only good thing to say is that helped in that respect - they broke everything for the sake of the possible (but non-existent as of 2023) successors so they could hypothetically put it back together again. So, that the extent to which I can excuse or emphasis with it, which is really not-that-much.

Lastly, I want to say that I think an understated problem with how Season 4 and 5 "went off the tracks" is also often understated.

The main stated goal was "to find a way home", Season 1 through 3 treated the world shown in the pilot, sometimes referred to as "Earth Prime" or "Home" as the fiction version of the dimension we, the audience, live in.

Aside from the undesirable cast change, I think it was the extent to which the show moved the idea of the "Home" they were trying to return to further and further from the "Home" we identify with was a major cause of way people were became less increasing receptive to Season 4 and/or Season was they went on - even if many of those viewers don't realize it. But that's my opinion and my review of end of the show. Hope this helps.