same year same person but the opinion is different (Sliders)

Member Name: cyberphonze

Product:	Sliders
Date:	27/02/02 (159 review reads)
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Advantages: witty, wicked science fiction show

Disadvantages: addictive

“What If You Found A Portal To A Parallel Universe?
What If You Could Slide Into A Thousand Different Worlds?
Where It's The Same Year,
And You're The Same Person,
But Everything Else Is Different,
And What If You Can't Find Your Way Home...”

This quote is said during the opening credits, and from there the show caught my imagination. We have all been at sometime plague by thoughts of ‘What If’. Sliders embraces this ‘What if’ with the theory that there are parallel universes and that every decision you make has two outcomes, therefore has two parallel universes, resulting in infinite universe so through the series’ sliders encounter worlds where the Germans won the war, where caffeine is illegal, or even worlds where dinosaurs exist.

Series one began with physics student Quinn Mallory (Jerry O’Connell) discovering inter-dimensional travel, while working on an anti-gravitational device in his basement. After a confusing trip through this vortex into a world where red stoplights mean go and green means stop he returns to discover that his double from a parallel world has been wreaking havoc. Amazed by his discovery he immediately informs his college professor; Professor Maximillion Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), his best friend Wade Wells (Sabrina Lloyd) of his discovery. During his demonstration of the device they are all sucked into the “Wormhole” and as it grows larger it sucks in the forth member of the sliding gang Rembrant Brown (Cleavant Derricks) an ex rhythm and blues star. Presented with a baron world the sliders are soon forced to break the first rule of sliding “don’t slide before the timer says so”, this puts them in an ever continuing spiral through parallel universes trying to find their way home.

Series two saw the group encounter many different worlds and getting to know each other better.

Series three is renow
ned with its blatant movie rip offs, including one of tremors, and Jurassic park. The series also saw the firing of John Rhys-Davies over a pay dispute and the entry of a new female character Major Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer), this caused unrest in the sliders foursome, therefore the family atmosphere that had plagued the last 2 and a half series’. This is my second favourite series as you have both Maggie Becket (very very nice) and Arturo in it. The Kromags are also discovered in this series, they are an evolutionary marvel, as they evolved from snakes.

Series four sees the sliders return minus Wade as she left the show in-between series, this is explained in the story line as she has been captured by the Kromags. In her place is Quinn’s brother Colin (Played by Jerry O’Connell’s real brother Charlie O’Connell).

Series five sees a total change around sees Colin and Quinn ‘killed off’ (well they aren’t exactly killed off Colin becomes ‘unstuck’ and Quinn is merged with a new Quinn known as Mallory, and this all in the worse sequence ever where two actors who look nothing like Quinn and Colin play the back of there heads). Two new characters are introduced in this series Dr Diana Davies and Mallory.

Series four is defiantly the best as it features the Kromags a lot and I love a good sci-fi villain. having said that as a program it is my favourite science fiction show of all time.

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