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Summary: Diminishing marginal utility
Review: "What if you could find a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide to a thousand different worlds, where it's the same year, and you're the same person, but everything else is different?"When this show started, I couldn't be more excited. What I liked most was that instead of roaming around the galaxy looking for aliens and other civilizations, like star trek and stargate sg-1, a group of regular people are exploring parallel Earths. The first two seasons were great, in my opinion. The episodes were dynamic and interesting. The professor added an eclectic mix of charm, sarcasm, and wit the others just couldn't. Quinn, Wade and Rembrandt were also a good trio of actors. When the Kromaggs were introduced, I thought they were going to become a regular adversary and a thorn in the sliders' backside, but I was disappointed that they didn't do much with them. There were several episodes including the Kromaggs, but they were nothing spectacular. It's a shame, really. They could have been something like the Borg or Star Trek or the Goa'uld of Stargate. After they replaced Arturo and Quinn the show really started taking a downhill twist. As it went on, diminishing marginal utility kicked in and I wasn't excited anymore. Sliders became a hodgepodge of mixed episodes that seemed to lead nowhere. The ending also left a lot to be desired, to say the least. Despite the terrible direction the show took, I would buy the first two seasons, as long as the pilot is included. These boxed sets would probably remain classics for originality, but I don't know about the others.
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Summary: sliders finally arrives on DVD
Review: (...) I am just glad they are out on DVD. Combining the first 2 seasons is great however I wish and hope they put out Season 3 so I can see Seasons Greedings - seeing the professor refute the materialistic nature of xmas would be worth the price of the DVD. This was a great series with a scientifically sound science underlying its premise. I have nothing bad to say about any of the seasons although 1 and 2 are my favorites.
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Summary: DVD is really paying off!
Review: Finally we have a format where it looks like everything at some point will eventually come out.
I can't say that I was surprised to see that Sliders was being released, but I was intrigued. Truth is, is that I haven't seen Sliders for some 6 or 7 years. It's not because I didn't want to, it's just because they stopped showing it. Now before you start thinking "What the hell is this guy talking about?" let me remind you that I live in London, and the BBC was my only way of seeing this programme. Anyway you know the rest. Last episode that I remember seeing of it was something about a world of homeless people or something, and it ended in an alley somewhere. It was pretty dodgy, but I was p****d off that it was the last one they ever showed.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I haven't seen Sliders for a hell of a long time, and for all I know, when I buy it, and see it again, I will hate every minute of it. Now that's just a possibility, but I can assure you, that when I was a kid and this show first started, nothing drew me towards the T.V in quite the same way (Until I found my brothers X Files tapes) and I quite frankly loved every minute of it. If it's anything like I remember it, then it is full of imagination, very fast paced, and anyone should like it.
If you haven't seen it, then I suggest you pick it up, but don't blame me if it turns out to be crap. I haven't seen it for about 7 years!
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Summary: It's about time!!!
Review: I 'SLID' on over to amazon.com and randomly checked to see what would happen when I typed in "Sliders". BOY WAS I SHOCKED when I found out that the studio is FINALLY producing this wonderful television program on DVD. I have waited for these DVDs for what seems like an eternity. I am so excited to re-live all the parallel universes, and acted that were packed into seasons 1 and 2. If you have never seen the first two seasons of this show (and even if you have) I whole heartedly recommend these DVDs!!! 'What if you could travel to parallel worlds? The same year, the same Earth, only different dimension. A world where the Russians rule America, or where your dreams of becoming superstar came true, or where San Francisco was a maximum security prison. My friends and I found the gateway. Now the only problem is...finding a way back home.'
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Summary: its about time
Review: I am one of those hardcore Sliders fans everyone hears about (even have plans to work on the actual concept myself) so i was freaking out when i found out that Sliders had FINALLY come out on DVD, like a few others out there my VHS tapes were getting old. I am glad that is simply seasons 1+2, the best of the series and the most scientifically grounded. By the time the show hit season 3 (excpet for "The Gaurdian" and "Double Cross", the rest was horrible and i had trouble even considering these people the same Sliders as the one from season 1+2). I am preordering this as fast as i can.
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Summary: Finally!!!
Review: I cannot believe it that Sliders is finally on DVD! I've been waiting for the show to come on DVD forever. They said that the show was going to appear on DVD 2 years ago, and since then I thought that entire idea had been trashed. I'm super excited that the series is finally getting some recognition and with the release of seasons 1 and 2 on DVD this is just another step closer for Sliders fans and entertainment.
Seasons one and two were amazing. Not only was it the best becuase of the four main and original characters, but because the writing and the adventures were better. Something new and interesting happened with the Sliders crew in every episode in seasons 1 and 2. You definately have to get it on DVD when it comes out on August 3rd!
Maybe they will reinstate the idea for a Sliders movie!!!
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Summary: Sliders is back
Review: I couldn't believe my friend when he told me that a sliders DVD was coming out. The first two seasons of sliders are the best by far with Quinn, Remmy, Wade, and of course the Professor. This cast worked perfectly together. It was very hard to see the professor and Wade leave as the seasons went on because the four of them made the show what is was when it was on FOX. Yes, do you remember that, the show started out on FOX.
This DVD is definately worth your money. Hopefully in the near future we could see a movie out of this with the original cast. Keep up the support for Sliders!!
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Summary: This is where the real fun was had on Sliders!
Review: I have seen other seasons, and these two are clearly more fun, lighthearted, and focused on the premise of the show.
It couldn't last forever, and we get a taste of that with the Kromaggs introduction.
Later seasons will appeal to people who like drama and the spectre of death, but the first 2 seasons are just good clean fun, and highly recommended for any Sci-Fi fan.
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Summary: Started off promising, but then became formulaic...
Review: I managed to catch the first season of this show when it originally aired on Fox. The first three episodes (Pilot, Fever, Last Days) were very promising, but unfortunately the show's quality started to fall after that, so I quit watching after the end of the first season. I never really came back to it until this DVD set came out. I took advantage of zip.ca to rent out all the discs of the set to take a trip down memory lane and find out where the show went. As I said, the first three aired episodes were really, REALLY good. Little did I know at the time, but Fox aired Fever and Last Days out of order, presumably to show off their best episodes early and build a fanbase quickly. Also, these episodes dealt with the building relationship between Quinn and Wade, which unfortunately was all-but axed for the rest of the show (another reason for why I dropped the series). Most of the episodes for seasons 1 & 2 started to fall into a formula: slide into weird world, get split up, fight to get back together, and slide out just in the nick of time. Some of the worlds were fairly interesting, other worlds were just bland (take the episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Wealthy", for example). Also, the episodes didn't link up into any kind of story arc... you could miss 10 episodes and not miss a beat. I guess makes it easier for new fans to join the series, but it doesn't exactly give the viewer much to look forward to when the stories just seem to be looping over and over. The series was shot in Vancouver, Canada. Although I live in Canada, I can't give them many points for shooting up here, because it really kills the believability that they're supposed to be in San Fransisco. Come on, you're trying to make me believe that SF is so cold that you can see the breath from the actors in most of the episodes? There's even snow in some of the episodes... does SF even HAVE snow?? I now understand why people like David Duchovony wanted to move the X-Files production shooting to the U.S. Another example was when I watched the first 10 or so episodes of Stargate SG-1, but ended up quitting because I was getting really sick of seeing episode after episode of the characters visiting alien planets that strangely looked like B.C. rainforests. Anyway, the Sliders series FINALLY starts to get promising near the end of the second season with episode "Invasion". It seems a radical race of ape-like earthlings called the Kromagg have mastered sliding, and are able to dial-an-Earth to conquer any destination they'd like. The episode ends on a cliffhanger (maybe the second season was supposed to end with this cliffhanger; the episodes were shuffled again this season). I wonder how well the Kromagg were incorperated in future seasons... If you're a sci-fi freak who can't get enough of weekly sci-fi shows (no matter how thin they stretch their budgets and stories), then this show is for you. If you have just a casual interest, rent out the first couple of discs from your local Blockbuster, NetFlix, zip.ca, etc.
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Summary: Truly, a classic series
Review: I'm SO glad that Sliders is finally coming out on DVD. Plus, the first two seasons are sold here together and that was the series at it's best. The writing was still at the top of it's game. It was during the third season that things went downhill, so much so, that John Rhys-Davies (Arturo), actually wrote a two part episode himself halfway through the third season, "Exodus" where he had himself killed off! Rest assured though, that for the very best in Sci-fi entertainment, these first two truncated seasons (the first being 9 episodes and the second being 13), are the very best of Sliders and I can't recommend it highly enough!
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