does anyone know if this show is on anymore, it as great!!

I think Killing off the Prof. , And changing a number of the characters wasn't such a good idea to the series success.

Then to add an alien race that they kept having to fight with, really killed the entire plot. The later series I think eventually called for it's cancellation, which is a pity, because it did have an original touch to it.

It's quite funny I had been thinking about starting a Sliders Topic myself... seems you pipped me to it....

So which Episode was your Favourite?

The show was great! It got cancelled though even thought it was scifi's channels most popular show until farscape came along. there are no plans for a movie and no plans for a new series, I try to keep up with these things.

My favorite episode was definantly not the final episode of the series (the seer) it sucked and deserves a wayyyy better ending. I miss maggie.

wasn't remmy the only one to stay? the original cast was great!

I've heard that Sliders will be back on the scifi channel sometime this spring. I don't know if it's true or not.

They arent making new ones or new series. I looked into a while back and just now after you mentioned it (and i mentioned before that i keep up with these things) that there will not be another slider, maybe in 20 years we'll get Sliders the next generation!

I only really enjoyed the first series of Sliders, there were some episodes I liked from the second, but I kind of lost interest after the third and stopped watching. It was a great series though, but I was never really sure about the Quantum leap style wandering from one place to the next each week trying to get home, I spose they needed that to keep things going, but it was still good fun.
I remember BBC2 used to show it on friday afternoons at about 6pm in the UK , a couple of hours after I got home from school, which used to be a nice way of rounding off the week. Wasnt there a rumour of a movie with the original cast re-uniting?

Read my previous post it is just a RUMOR.

Read the interviews and follow the news as it comes in from SLIDERStheMovie.com at http://www.slidersthemovie.com

Stretch your own creative imagination by joining the ‘SLIDERS’ Brainstorm at
http://pub45.ezboard.com/faarontologyfrm6

And open the sliders x-file at http://pub45.ezboard.com/faarontologyfrm12

The Sliders make the scene on a world of celebrity cloning, intellectual
property litigation mania and Rock and Roll politics in 'SLIDERS: Worldstock:'at http://www.foolquest.com/star_trek_the_ship_of_fools/sliders-worldstock.htm

Sliders was a terrific show when it first started. It went downhill after the Professor's death and the introduction of the Cromags made it even worse.

My enjoyment of it was ruined further by the TV station here not showing it in its right order. One episode the Professor wouldn't be in (because he was dead) but in the next episode shown he would be back. It made the show very confusing.

A good rule that the Networks should have let the creators stick to, is not to do anything on 'SLIDERS' except that which cannot be done elsewhere in the same way. And that means the particular Speculative Element and unique character driven stories.

(And this is the rule I strive for on my collaborative Fanfic brainstorming forums which I so shamelessly plug. See you all there?)

But while I must agree as to obviously banalizing factors in the downhill slide on TV, the confusing out of order show with Arturo still alive is the order in which the shows where actually first aired, and not the fault of the Tasmanian rebroadcaster.

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But while I must agree as to obviously banalizing factors in the downhill slide on TV, the confusing out of order show with Arturo still alive is the order in which the shows where actually first aired, and not the fault of the Tasmanian rebroadcaster.

Really? Everyone got them in the same silly order? I had no idea that this was the cas, thanks for enlightening me
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Syndication generally follows original broadcast order rather than that of production and intention. For better or worse...

What I liked about the Sliders is that the whole premise could be true - that is the Multiverse thing. Rest is basically junk.

If we find out that we can actually move between universes, what would we as people and government do? Turn in to Jet Li?

Respectfully, I must disagree with your appraisal. As well as the Science Fiction premise of Alternate History and transit between and Parallel Worlds, the earlier episodes offered uncommon character oriented stories, where in events are driven by pivotal individual motivation, rather than the usual plot oriented stories advanced simply by the situation.

But as to Speculative plausibility, they never did explain how they managed to travel between worlds, coincidentally(?), that displayed unlikely parallels emerging after the point of historical divergence.

As for the premise of worlds where sliding becomes more common place, and speculation as to the impact there of, from the sublime to the ridiculous! that might somewhat depend, also, upon other conditions of the society in question, and also how the technology is introduced.

But for more on such themes, browse 'SLIDERS: Worldstock:' at http://www.foolquest.com/star_trek_the_ship_of_fools/sliders-worldstock.htm and then add your input to the ‘SLIDERS’ Brainstorm at http://pub45.ezboard.com/faarontologyfrm6


Oh, and regards your Alvin Toffler footer quotation, do be sure to check out http://foolquest.com/casa.htm
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Aaron:

It was just an opinion and I still stand by it. Oh, yes - the first few episodes were good, but then it got boring.

Because one of my future goal is to do experiments on hypercharge and space-time matrix on a micro-level, I was more interested in learning something from it. Several people I have talked to in my meditation class have experienced alternate reality in the dream state. I am trying to determine, if there is any useful information that can be garnered - and hence my interest overall....

I am a little confused about your CASA site. It took a long time to load and a quick glance did not identify what it does and how successfully?

The good "first few episodes", I take it, would include the entire first season, and some of the second, *ahem*, sliding downhill from there.

And there is no reason, in so far as I am aware, to suppose that the study of dreams needs to be transferred from Psychology into Physics. When Physicists make breakthrough from their dreams, it is may more likely be because dreaming reflects the contents of the mind, albeit the mind of a Physicist. But the Paranormal remains unsupported by the evidence.

And CASA does nothing, yet. It's a proposal, as stated in line one of the document!

I agree with a lot of sentiment already stated. First season was pretty good, the Cromags sucked. One thing that really bothered me was that a lot of episodes had an "anti-science" theme. Science and technology was viewed as bad and evil at times. A strange thing for a Science Fiction television series.

Yes, the same repetitious shop worn and implausible Ludite cautionaries are tiresome. So are such generic alien invaders as the Chromags.

Such masterworks as 'Frankenstein' and 'The War of the Worlds' did it first and did it best.

Let's see if I can break this down:

Television programming order
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Makers of series often leave a small problem for the programmers, the entire "What order do you show these in". This occasionally occurs, and is occasionally why a series might be shown in the wrong order.

Another reason is censorship, one episode might be seen as unsuitable for viewing at that time. So they might move the times to reflect the censorship change.

Another reason is the guy that's doing the running around with the reels (Tapes/cds etc) isn't always kept in the loop in "Which episodes have been shown", so he'll be sent into a dingy little archive (in some places... the others have palaces) and probably pick up the one he thinks is the right one.

(Now if there is another little roust-about that isn't happy with him taking his job, he might just switch the labels, so it's too late when it's shown)

Multiworlds
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The state of modern technology and direction of modern science has proven that parallel worlds didn't just exist, but are created.
The intire interpretation that "A world is created when some change differs from the original timeline" is actually false.
What actually occurs at that change is it just "switches tracks to the the alternate".

This means that if no parallels were created for 50 years, and someone suggested that parallels existed then, they would, but the forking point would be 50 years in its future.

There was something that a friend of friend (who I class as a friend) said about "Your only 3 seconds away from alternate reality."

Some people stringently believe that parallels don't exist because they can't see them. The same was once said about germs.
Parallels exist, and there are people that create them. Of course they have to use computers and the whole "3 seconds to change a decision".

(The things is during the creation of a parallel there can be quanta spikes while the universes tear themselves apart like a replicating DNA strand. The spikes are basically your world quanta spiked with a "holographic" world as it disapates into it's own worldstate.)

Thoughts on what could of occured in the Series
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I always thought it amusing that "Quinn" supposedly invented the device for "sliding". I had this suspicion that if I was writing an episode, I would have had Quinn find out that the truth of his whole reality was that he was a labrat stuck in a laboratory maze computer. Where he wasn't actually a subject, but one of those single ants in the ant farm that just happened to find a method of backdooring the systems conduits. Travel by wire.

It's known that such computers exist, but perhaps not originally on the multiworlds terming, parallel processing information to gain the correct answer faster by following all avenues.

(Of course the speed increase in gaining that answer, adds to the parallel worlds. This is most noticable with the first computers, as the answer would have taken many extra hours, so the parallels occur.)

There is a point that if Quinn and his associates had passed through the same world a couple of times, then the future of that world could split into mutliple directions yet again. (Perhaps technology changes, advances etc)

Maybe if I actually get around to finishing some literature I start writing I might be able to show just what I see.

I am not aware of any conclusive discovery of divergent alternate realities, and certainly not as indisputably as the evidence of microbial life!

But as to explaining the one out of sequence 'SLIDERS' episode, I can speak with confidence and even with Empirical support.

And as for your story concept, why not go ahead and pitch it to the 'SLIDERS Brainstorm? http://pub45.ezboard.com/faarontologyfrm6

Stryderunknown

I am hard at work trying to change my reality but having a tough time because it is interlinked to two other people. I am still trying hard and will post when it is working....

Someone said that if you took an infinite number of monkeys on typewriters, eventually one would write an exact copy of some Dickens book I think it was.

Or Tolkien, or Heinlein, or...

Transuniversal travel...

Does anyone even read the back posts before replying?

Original post:

does anyone know if this show is on anymore, it as great!!

Since the show is dead, we keep talking about possibilities in these areas.

Someone said that if you took an infinite number of monkeys on typewriters, eventually one would write an exact copy of some Dickens book I think it was.

That seems to be true on the basis of Church-Turing hypothesis, an explanation to a child - the deeper meaning can be had from the book "A new kind of science" - which can be the fundamental theory for the next century.