Shark Bytes

This show could have been so great. It's just so disappointing how everything went. It would have be okay if they did some outlandish parallel earths like the tornado planet, the sorcery planet, vampires, etc. However I thought it would have been interesting if they dealt more with alternative histories that were based on a reasonable hypothosis of how the world might be if key historical events went a different way. John Rhys Davies (I hope I got that name right) was interviewed after his character, Arturo, was killed off. He said they could have researched the science better. I think that's probably a valid point, but I would have been happy if they had just researched HISTORY better. We could have had stories about, "What if the assasin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand had missed his target and World War I never happened?" What if the Golden Horde had not been recalled and succeeded in couquering Europe? Or even less radical ideas, "What if FDR had survived his Fourth Term as president?" What if we had invaded Japan instead of dropping the A bomb? (Admittedly these would still be radical differences,just less radical.}

I hoped they might get some leeway to experiment like this when they went from Fox to the SciFi channell and got away from the tradition broadcast network was of doing things. But no. The have the Kromags invade Quinns world and that whole convoluted plot about not being his parents biological son, but the biological son of their counterparts on yet another earth and having a brother out there somewhere. Even if they hadn't started the whole confusing story line about Quinn being from a parallel earth originally, they damaged the series, just by having the earth had been living on invaded by the Kromags. That earth originally represented OUR earth. The differences of the other earth were in comparison to our world. When the Kromags invaded, we couldn't connect to that earth anymore because it diverged from our own. After all, we didn't see Kromag stormtroopers when we looked out our windows, did we? While I grudgingly admit they did some interesting things with subsequent episode, it all just became to confusing.

The show jumped the shark EVERY time Wade opened her mouth.

Her whining made this show intolerable to watch at times. She wasn't good looking and was barely cute in the right light. Her character's constant bleeding heart crap was annoying since the 4 were trapped in situations that should have brought out more of an 'us first' mentality week in and week out.

if they'd have had maggie from day one the show would have been much better. Unfortunately by the time they brought in Kari, the show had already hit the bottom of the bowl and the handle on the toilet had been pulled.

Col Rickman was the start of the end for me. After watching several episodes off of Netflix, I watched how they made a villian but not just any villian, the most retarded, nonrealistic, lame one they could create. The whole, I must have brain tissue to survive stuff was extremely annoying.

The only surviving factor so far (I am watching season four, just started although those ape aliens are extremely annoying FROM THE START) is that they got rid of Wade and added Maggie, I sure hope Quinn hooks up with her on some level because the boring tension dulled the show so far in the last few seasons.

Never has such a good show taken such a drastic dive.

For its first two seasons, Sliders was the best show on TV. Period. By season 3, it was a steaming pile of crap. Never has a show taken such a heavy dive in the history of television.

1st season Great.
2nd season Good.
3rd season Tanked.
4th season- Have not seen yet.
5th season - From the some of the comments I've read, I don't think I'll bother watching.

Of course my favourite episode is second season's "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome", as I'm sure its many other peoples episode.

I'm sure the "real" Professor is still on that world trying to reconstruct the sliding machine and somehow catch up with the rest of the gang.

Well, its better to have created at least a couple of seasons of decent quality TV than to have never been created at all.

Later
Cory LeGrow

P.S.
If there are alternate realities, then I hope that at least one of my doubles is doing great. Ha Ha Ha.

Peckinpah and Fox can go to hell. Somebody made a bad decision, and don't realize what that they had and could have had.

David Peckinpah completely destroyed the show when he took over around the time of the third season. Fox installed him as a "yes-man" to bring about their wishes for the show to leave it's "what if" alternative history plots and instead be a action-packed "monster of the week" show.

That is when the show truly "jumped the shark." Peckinpahs team alienated Torme (the true brains behind the show) which forced him to leave, then Peckinpah fired Arturo and Wade's characters because he didn't like the actor and actress in real life. He also was sleeping with the girl who played Maggie and she took over Wades role (even though fans hated her).

When the Sliders came to the sci-fi channel for the fourth season Tracy Tormé said he would come back and bring the show to it's roots on one condition: get rid of Peckinpah. Sci-fi said no (Peckinpah was on contract for one more season).

Some people say that blaming one person for an entire shows destruction is ignorance, but in this case it is the truth. Had Peckinpah stayed out of Sliders the third, fourth, and fifth seasons would have been as great as the first and second. Actually, I believe with Torme on board it would have lasted through a sixth season, and possibly more seasons.

The show started out great as a fascinating look at alternate history. A show about all the "What if..." questions you always thought about in history.

Unfortunately, this interesting premise was lost in favor of the monster-of-the-week concept. Those monsters usually included lost of cheesy CGI what looked bad even for that time.

I stopped regularly following it around the start of the third season and gave up when the Kromaggs got to be regular fixtures.

I guess they lost the original creative writers. A sad loss.

Loved this show when it premiered. The very first episode looked very promising and intriguing. By the start of 3rd season and introduction of Kromaggs it all went donwhill. It was no longer fun, each episode became very predictable and was all about escaping Kromaggs. I stopped watching it during a 3rd season and never came back to it.

This show jumped so many sharks, you'd think they are in the middle of the ocean. first, the beginning of season 2, the entire feel of the show changed. the was no longer any humor in the show, everybody was acting all serious for no apparent reason (especially Remmy, that turned from a great character in season 1, to some sort of emo bitch after that). Then, it jumped again with the introduction of the cromaggs, something that they managed to ignore for the entire 3rd season, which actually looked promising (a lot of great episodes), until the killed of the professor, and replaced him with a stupid bad acting bimbo. Then, it managed to jump it once more at the beginning of season 4, when they got rid of Wade, and made up some ridicules story about Quinn and his brother, a story that didn't make any sense, no matter how you look at it (for example, Quinn's mother said that he was brought from another world by her and his father's doubles, after which we see them, and they look nothing like his parents. COME ON!). By that time, the entire point of the show was changed from finding the home world, to defeating the cromags. If you think that's the end of the jts's, guess again. Another season gone by, and they got rid of Quinn and his brother, and "merged", that's right, MERGED them into one character, in one of the must ridiculous stories I've ever heard. Added another stupid character in the mix, and by that time, i couldn't even figured out what the hell the point of the story is. Add the ending episode as a final jump, since we don't actually get a conclusion to anything.
So there you have it, 6 jumps in 5 season.

Definitely jumped the shark with the first Kro-Magg episode, and it was all downhill from there. I didn't even bother to watch the last season, it got so bad. Replacing all the good characters with bad ones was a major cause of the show's decline, but the Kro-Maggs were the most blatant symptom.

That whole Kromag alien thing made the show really lame. And of course, main characters kept leaving one by one. A shame really.

Sliders started off with tremendous promise. However, after the first season, several shark jumping moments came about. In fact, for this show, I sometimes felt that every episode they were "Sliding" over yet another shark! That being said, my biggest complant is that this show had more cast changes than any other show I can ever remember. It was not even minor character cast changes but major character cast changes! The original four that started the series, Quinn, Wade, Remmy, and the Professor, were cast perfectly. Then it seemed that every season, after the first, one by one they would leave and be replaced with very sup par replacement actors. By the time the show ended you were down to, I Think, Remmy and a bunch of lame replacement characters that did very little to nothing to hold my interest. Heres a note for any Tv producer, When you loose more than half of your starting castmembers by a series third season. Do not, Repeat do not, try and save the show. Just bail out as quickly as possible!

Sandra, Stop yelling will ya? Look to the left side of your keyboard. There you will find a button that is marked Caps LockPlease press it!This button will save us all from having to read your yelling.

Oh, and sliders was great until they killed The professor in that horrible and, I think, undignified manner.

I LOVED THE FIRST TWO SEASONS BUT I JUST HAVE ONE PROBLEM WITH THE SHOW. ON ALMOST EVERY EARTH THEY VISITED THEY FOUND THEIR DOUBLES. IF EACH EARTH WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THEN WOULD THEIR DOUBLES BE LIVING IN THE SAME CITY OR EVER BE A LIVE FOR THAT MATTER? FOR EXAMPLE QUINN WAS ALSO SOME FAMOUIS SOMEBODY ON MANY OF HE EARTHS THEY VISITED