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DVD : Sliders - Third Season |
- I am so excitedI have read all the other reviews and the once that slagged sliders off are just stupid, or not sliders fans at all, every single episode is brilliant and i cant wait until it comes out in region 2!! I cant wait until season 4 and 5 too!!!
You have to buy this sliders boxset if your a fan, if not then you may not like it and you need seaon 1 and 2 so you can understand this boxset!
BUY IT!!!ITS GREAT!im 14 so it must apply to all ages!
Rating:
- Sliders Gain A New Ally, And Lose A Freind...And A Network..Season Three of Sliders is a lot more uneven than the previous two efforts, most of the episodes were rip-offs of various movie plots, and used banal elements, literally, there was one episode with a TALKING FLAME.
Tracy Torme, John Rhys-Davis, and Sabrina Lloyd all departed the series under increasing tension with castmembers and general disgust with the direction the series had taken, whilst Sliders would never be graced with Davis' prescense as Arturo again, Lloyd did finally re-emerge as Wade in Season Five in a breif guest apperance (although to be honest, she only voiced a cheap looking manequin wax model of herself trapped in a tank)
Fortunatly, there are still some gems to be found among the cheap filler material designed to "spice" up the series with images of a near naked Kari Wuhrer.
"Double Cross" introduces us to the first Earth double with a variant gender: Logan Mallory St. Claire, who intends to use sliding for her own insidious ends, to raid other unsuspsecting alternate universes of thier resources.
"The Guardian", which sees the Sliders arrive on a world that develops, chronogically, slower than our own, but is more or less the exact same as our present timeline,
Quinn sees this as an oppertunity to protect a younger version of himself and prepare him against those who threatened and humiliated him, before he makes the same mistakes Quinn did...
"Exodus I and II", based on a story by Davis, is a fascinating look into the evacuation of an entire planet on the edge of destruction, betrayal, murder, conflcit, and tragedy can be found here in arguably the seasons' finest epic.
The remainder of the DVD is half-assed rubbish sadly, even the episodes mentioned above could'nt save the series from failing ratings, and FOX cancelled it, however, Sci-Fi Channel would pick it up and renew it for a stronger fourth and fifth season.
Rating:
- The last of Torme's SlidersThere was a great deal going on behind the scenes during this season.
Conflict between creator Tracy Torme and new executive producer David Peckinpah resulted in Torme's vision being restricted and him leaving the series.
Star John Rhys-Davies also had many problems with Peckinpah, and always spoke out if he thought a script was rubbish (which most were). Peckinpah didn't like him and this led to him being sacked and his character killed off in two-part episode "The Exodus", although the official statement was that he left because of creative differences.
Further strain occured when his replacement, Kari Wuhrer, didn't get on with other cast member Sabrina Lloyd, which was a one of the biggest factors in her exit from the series after season 3. She said to Peckinpah it was either her or Wuhrer, and he picked Wuhrer.
Again, the Fox Network, in all it's glory, didn't air the episodes in their correct order, although it wasn't as bad a shuffle as on the first two seasons.
One episode, "The Last of Eden" was supposed to air before "The Exodus" since it had the Professor in it, but since it aired after, when he was killed off, they had to quickly add in a bit at the beginning to make it a flashback episode.
Season 3 Episodes (in their correct order!)
1. Double Cross
2. Rules of the Game
3. Dead Man Sliding
4. Electric Twister Acid Test
5. The Guardian
6. The Dream Masters
7. Desert Storm
8. Dragonslide
9. The Fire Within
10. The Prince of Slides
11. State of A.R.T.
12. Season's Greedings
13. Murder Most Foul
14. Slide Like An Egyptian
15. Paradise Lost
16. The Last of Eden
17. The Exodus (Part 1)
18. The Exodus (Part 2)
19. Sole Survivors
20. The Other Slide of Darkness
21. The Breeder
22. Stoker
23. Slither
24. Dinoslide
25. This Slide of Paradise
The 25 episodes of this season are quite mixed, as other reviewers have mentioned. Most of the 'post-exodus' episodes are fairly below average, but there are some 'pre-exodus' episodes that are true to classic Sliders form.
Personal favorites include "Double Cross", "Dead Man Sliding", "The Guardian", "The Prince of Slides" and "Season's Greedings".
There are several movie rip-offs aswell in this season. "Electric Twister Acid Test" was made to cash-in on the movie "Twister", which had recently been released at the time. "Desert Storm" seems to have taken several ideas from the "Mad Max" movies. "Dragonslide" seems almost a carbon copy of "Dragonslayer". "The Prince of Slides" reminds me of a sweet little movie called "Junior". "Paradise Lost" has a creature in it very similar to the one in "Tremors". "Sole Survivors" is just like any typical zombie movie. "The Breeder" is so much like "Species", that a lawsuit could have been issued against the series. Finally, "This Slide of Paradise" is again so much like "The Island of Dr Morteau", that even some of the characters have the same name.
The quality of the storylines was so bad in the back half of the season that you'll laugh. We have zombies, vampires and killer snakes. Personally, I don't tune in to Sliders for that, I'd expect stories like that from something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It looks like the alternate histories premise from season's one and two are well and truly gone.
The extras are a little thin again. We only have the gag reel for this season, plus, quite strangely, an episode of Cleopatra 2525 (or whatever year it is) and two episodes of Earth 2. These are probably to promote the recent release of the two shows.
Still, there is some fun to be had with this season, and I'd recommend it to sci-fi fans, but not necessarily Sliders fans, as it's an insult to the first two seasons.
Rating:
- Mixed seasonsliders season three
1- Rules Of The Game- 10/10
2- Double Cross- 8/10
3- Electric Twister Acid Test- 2/10
4- The Guardian- 10/10
5- The Dream Masters- 6/10
6- Desert Storm- 4/10
7- Dragonslide- 4/10
8- The Fire Within- don't remember
9- The Prince Of Slides- 7/10
10- Dead Man Sliding- 7/10
11- State Of The Art- 3/10
12- Season's Greedings- 9/10
13- Murder Most Foul- 7/10
14- Slide Like An Egyptian- 3/10
15- Paradise Lost- 5/10
16- The Exodus, part one- 8/10
17- The Exodus, part two- 8/10
18- Sole Survivors- 6/10
19- The Breeder- 1/10
20- The Last Eden- 4/10
21- The Other Slide Of Darkness- 2/10
22- Slither- 4/10
25- Dinoslide- 5/10
23- Stoker- 3/10
24- This Slide Of Paradise- 2/10
Extras:
Cleopatra 2525
Earth 2
gag reel
Dinoslide is the season finale of this season, but, this set has earlier episodes after it. The set must be in production order rather than order of airdate.
10- absolutely wonderful
9- really great
8- great
7- very good
6- pretty good
5- good
4- okay
3- so-so
2- bad
1- very bad
The best episodes of this season are: The Guardian, The Rules of The Game, Season's Greedings, The Exodus, part one, The Exodus, part two, Double Cross
The worst episodes are: The Breeder, This Slide of Paradise, Electric Twister Acid Test, The Other Slide of Darkness, State of The Art, Slide Like An Egyptian, Stoker.
The first three discs are double-sided, with four episodes on each side.
The discs have an episode index for accessing indiviual episodes and an episode list. The episode list is only useful for the first disc as it only lists the episodes on the first disc under the episode list on all the discs.
Rating:
- It all levels out.This season, while being one of the most unoriginal of the series, featured some of the best, as well. Episodes such as "The Exodus" Part 1 & 2 and The Other Slide of Darkness, make this set easily worth the price.
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