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DVD : Sliders - Third Season |
- SLIDERS is sliding!This third season suffers severely from the loss of Professor Arturo and lower budget(cheesy and simplistic sets and poor special effects). Nevertheless it is worth having for a few good episodes in it. Overall: DECENT.
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- ""What if you found a portal to a parallel dimenision..." where the DVD case didn't suck..Sliders was a great show that I watched back when I was a kid and just getting into the sci-fi genre. I was really psyched to find they made DVDs for the show.
I never got to watch much of the third season, but upon picking it up--I'm kind of glad I didn't. Definitely not anywhere near as good as the first and second seasons.
The DVDs menus are easy to navigate, have plenty of info, and most of all, have a 'Play All' feature--which is great for when you just want to have some background noise.
It seems like they didn't learn from the season 1 & 2 DVD case, though. The case is a hard orange plastic that hardly moves. I wouldn't be surprised if it just breaks at the creases one day.
The DVDs are double-sided, which to me is kind of a downer. This is a great age of technology and we're having to treat this like they're Laserdiscs? Only difference is I don't see any DVD players that'll read both sides... Anyway, yeah--These DVDs are very vulnerable to scratches.
Reading other reviews, I agree that if you get any of these Sliders DVD sets, put them in some other kind of case, cause these certainly aren't safe if you plan on keeping them for a long time, or plan on watching them a lot.
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- slide onI love this episode of sliders. I am a sci-fi fan and this is as good as it gets. I know after this season the show changes from its original format but I still want all the seasons.
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- good showsI like adaventure I never get out of my house, it would be fun to explore new places
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- Well, FOX got its hands into the series and season 3 is what we gotSeasons 1 and 2 allowed more creativity because they were filmed in Canada, with Tracy Torme having more input. FOX, claiming bad ratings and pretending they know anything about sci-fi (or drama for that matter), change the premise of the series to allow our heroes to slide anywhere in a 4500 mile radius (said to be only between San Francisco and LA; never mind 400 mile radius could land anywhere and not sequentially either).
FOX not only allowed the season to end on a cliffhanger (involving time travel, if things weren't daft enough already) but the whole season changes from an action/what-if thoughtfest into a movie ripoff of the week with sappy, maudlin characters. There's more to sci-fi than character interaction, and seasons 1 and 2 managed to do everything right. So what happens in season 3 that comes crashing everything down? Obviously, the core necessity for any television -- the storylines themselves. And trust me, I'm being lenient with 3 stars thanks to the small handful of decent entries...
Now add in some atrocious incidental music and wince until you puke. Then continue to wince. Yuck.
Tracy soon left the show, but keep an eye open for his penned episodes "The Guardian" and "Double Cross" - these stick to the proper premise of the series.
And now to rate these stories:
1- Rules Of The Game- 8/10
The group lands on "arcade world" - an acquired taste, but works if you can suspend disbelief.
2- Double Cross- 10/10
Quinn's double on an Earth suffering energy shortages has a clever twist - best of the season, and sadly never brought through to any proper continuation, nor conclusion
3- Electric Twister Acid Test- 2/10
"Twister!" 'nuff said
4- The Guardian- 10/10
Parallel universe running on a slower elliptical curve; Quinn sees himself at an earlier time and interferes with his development
5- The Dream Masters- 2/10
Dweeby brats go into peoples' minds and kill them. Trite at best. Shock jock blood; nothing special. I'm sure they shamelessly ripped the idea from someone else; but even if they didn't, it's obscenely bad.
6- Desert Storm- 1/10
See "Mad Max" - Worse, this story is dedicated to a stunt man who died while making it. A real tragedy, as the story is so much rubbish. :(
7- Dragonslide- 4/10
8- The Fire Within- 7/10
The show finally addresses what happens if they land on a parallel earth that might prove less than capable of supporting life. About time too! With some interesting ideas afoot, let down by more trite garbage and it seems the same computer platform has become standard on every parallel universe they go to too... roll with the ideas and it'll work.
9- The Prince Of Slides- 3/10
Guess who gets pregnant?
10- Dead Man Sliding- 3/10
*sigh* If only the title was referring to the mental state of the people watching this episode...
11- State Of The A.R.T.- 2/10
Well, he played Freddy Krueger. He played a friendly lizard in a landmark sci-fi miniseries that had a lot more cranial work put into it... So what's he doing in this garbage as an android?
12- Season's Greedings- 1/10
Never mind "Lois and Farce - the new adventures of Stuporman" (ABC) having a story of the same title; but the Jeffersons don't guest in this dog of an episode. If only they had, I suppose... You can guess the plot... it's about greed at Christmastime...
13- Murder Most Foul- 1/10
No comment. With a title like "Foul", it's too easy.
14- Slide Like An Egyptian- 5/10
Okay, they land on a world where the Egyptians maintained their society and somehow developed technology. With all that silica around them, it'd have been easy enough... Unfortunately, this story is more or less an excuse to get a new stylish looking timer, it could have been so much more - but am glad we got as little as we had.
15- Paradise Lost- 4/10
By this time, try "Fanbase Lost" instead.
16- The Exodus, part one- 7/10
Co-written by John Rhys-Davies, and is also his swansong. Not the best way out; but by now it makes sense why he wanted out. :( A terrific premise, but I have to wonder how much was edited or removed from JR-D's control...
17- The Exodus, part two- 1/10
If only Roger Daltry stayed on further epidodes for the new quest and bash a few guitars along the way... JR-D's demise is so incredibly unworthy and undeserved.
18- Sole Survivors- 2/10
The title must be a euphemism for the 2 people still watching the show, perhaps?
19- The Breeder- 1/10
20- The Last Eden- 2/10
21- The Other Slide Of Darkness- 2/10
22- Slither- 1/10
"Anaconda" - 'nuff said.
25- Dinoslide- 3/10
They go back to a previously visited world, but it's not the one from "In Dino Veritas", unfortunately...
23- Stoker- 2/10
"Dracula". Yawn.
24- This Slide Of Paradise- 4/10
"Island of Dr Moreau" with the stupidest ending ever as Quinn and hottie Maggie are separated from (what FOX deemed deadweight) Rembrandt and Wade.
Now Season 4 picks up a bit, but has to retcon the entire series' premise in order to do it. Pity... "Sliders" to me, will always be seasons 1 and 2; FOX slowly and brutally kills it in season 3, and Sci-Fi channel bastardizes it onward. That's not to say there aren't good episodes in the future, but with so much damage having been done, Sci-Fi had no choice...
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