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Summary: Best scifi series EVER
Review: Okay, all that's known about this release so far is it will feature the 23 episodes from the first two seasons and probably contain a pilot commentary. But then the special features shouldn't matter because the first two seasons of sliders imo are some of the best television ever. And I have no problem in paying this price for the set.Sliders follow the adventures of Quinn Mallory, his friend and love interest Wade Welles, Professor Arturo, and Rembrandt Brown around different dimensions of our very own earth. Here alternate history has happened, like in one world the atom bomb was never created so an asteroid is headed towards earth and they don't have the means to destroy it. Or another where Quinn's double is the origin of a disease which they can't curve because no one ever discovered penicillin. There are even worlds so similar just a tiny detail makes it different from their own. The pilot begins with Quinn finding the gateway to these worlds and inviting his friends along for the ride while Mr. Brown is accidently swept up into the vortex. The first twenty three episodes (or twenty two if you count the pilot as one) are amazing and feature just the original four sliders with none of the crap that happens in the later seasons. Truly some magnificent televison and world owning on DVD! What if you could find brand new worlds right here on earth? Where anything is possible. Same planet, different dimension. I've found the gateway! Sliders...
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Summary: Definately a must own!!
Review: Quinn Mallory ( Jerry O Connel)is trying to create an anti-gravity device and accidentally creates a device that opens up a portal. His physics professor Maximillian P. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), and his girlfriend Wade Wells (Sabrina Lloyd) want to accompany Quinn through the portal to see where it leads. A washed up singer named Rembrant Brown (Cleavant Derricks)is also accidentally dragged along for the ride, when he is walking buy and sucked through the portal with them. Quinn and the rest of the group "slide" to another dimension of earth. The Sliders soon realize that they would much rather return back to their own dimension, but things are not that easy. Once you have entered through the portal, you have to keep traveling to different dimensions of earth to find the right one that will lead back home. Each episode deals with Quinn, Professor Arturo, Wade, and Rembrant exploring each dimension to find their way back to their own dimension. Unfortunately, once the Sliders have entered a particular dimension, there is only a limited amount of time to reopen the portal, and there are only a few select places within each dimension they can do it from. Finding the right place to open the portal is often a challenge to the group because each dimension is different than their own, and can be life threatening at times. I have heard people often refer to Sliders as a rip off of Quantum Leap. While Quantum Leap was a better show, Sliders is completely different. Quinn, Professor Arturo, Wade, and Rembrant are not traveling through time. They are traveling through other dimensions of earth that differ from their own. This is what makes the show so great, because it is very interesting to see how each dimension will be different than the next. The show also offers tons of suspense. There is a "race against the clock" type feel due to the fact that the group only has a limited amount of time to find one of the few places within the dimension they can "slide" from. Jerry O Connel and the rest of the cast were excellent in their roles, and it is their performances that make the show so entertaining, especially the performance given from Cleavant Derricks as Rembrant Brown. The funniest thing about his character, is that Rembrant never asked to go with them, and was dragged along accidentally. So he often complains about each situation which usually provides for a lot of laughs. Unfortunately, Sliders did not manage to stay great for the entire run of the show. I have to agree with many of the fans and say that the show went seriously downhill during season three when Professor Arturo left the show. Seasons four and five would become even worse, because the show left FOX to air on the Sci-Fi channel, and by the end of the show, Rembrant was the only original character left. However, the first two seasons of Sliders are what make the show rank among the top of any television show in the sci-fi genre. The best thing about this DVD package, is the fact that you get the two best seasons of the show in one set. While it is a shame that the extras are somewhat limited, this set is worth owning just for the episodes themselves. A solid 5 stars...
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Summary: The long long wait is over!
Review: Season 1 and 2, what more do I need? Just a few shows from season 3 maybe! All the rest of the seasons DVD's are good only for coasters, not worth watching, a completly different show in my view. I really didn't think they were going to release this, the show has quite a following, could never figure why they wouldn't release the DVD. I'd say "buy it quick" before they stop producing it and do what they did with 'This Island Earth'!
Great first two seasons, a sci-fi must have.
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Summary: FFFFFFFINALLY.......
Review: Sliders fans have been waiting for this DVD set for years and finally we are getting what we have wished for. Seasons 1 and 2 were probably the best of the series but in all honesty the entire series was excellent. What I don't understand is how these other reviewers can say that all of the other seasons were bad. None of you guys are true fans if you didn't enjoy any other season except for 1 and 2. In my opinion the show was still good even after they moved it over to the SCI-Fi Network. Except for Jerry O Connell's brother and his horrid acting, the show was still better than any other sci fi crap that was out. Universal- PLEASE release the other seasons as fast as possible because there are still some true fans out here that loved every single season and not just the first 2!!!! And DO NOT LISTEN TO REVIEWERS LIKE dpcole7. How dare you say that season 3 was "99.8% crap."
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Summary: The dream re-lived
Review: Sliders is one of those rare shows. The first two seasons are almost like magic captured on film; and each episode feels like a theatrical event unto itself. High production values, memorable actors and intelligent writing quite literally take the viewer to new worlds of entertainment with each episode. Sliders is also one of those series that was ahead of its time in many ways. Similar to the original Star Trek series, the first two seasons of Sliders often tackled serious social commentary just under the surface. The pilot movie took us to a frozen San Francisco that evokes commentary akin to what "The Day After Tomorrow" has brought to our lives. "Summer of Love" presented a modern America where privacy was eroding while the nation was embroiled in a new Vietnam-style conflict - not so distant echoes of present day. However, the most important aspect of Sliders seasons one and two is that they are fun. You will be entertained; and the memory of that entertainment will stay with you and possibly even inspire you. I know that Sliders has done that for myself; sparking my imagination into a jump start of ideas that has even led to my own independent creations in the worlds of storytelling. The only disappointing note for this release is the lack of more extras. There were many more things Universal could have easily included (such as important deleted scenes, bloopers and even additional commentaries from the cast and crew); but ultimately these extras are truly what their name implies - just something extra. Clear and clean copies of the original episodes with good sound are worth the price for Sliders season one and two; and that is what we are going to get (note that the Digital Mono listing in the specs is a mistake on many of these recent Universal releases - the modern series sets have actually included a Dobly Surround track).
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Summary: Sliders is the best
Review: Sliders was one of the best TV shows - especially the first 2 seasons. Too bad all the actors started leaving / getting fired and the network had to mess up the story line by adding Kromaggs and Maggie Beckett. Towards the end of the series, after Jerry O'Connell left, the show was actually unwatchable. However, as for the beginning episodes, I still watch them everyday on the Scifi channel. Can't wait for the DVD's to come out!
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Summary: A great show given poor treatment by the network
Review: The first two seasons of Sliders are fantastic. Unfortunately, the seasons following were much less so. But with this set, you get the good stuff. Grad student Quinn Mallory creates a device that allows him, two friends, and an innocent bystander to "slide" between parallel Earths -- but unfortunately, they can't choose their destination, and must continue to slide until they find home.
I'd love to give this set 5 stars, but can't for two reasons. First, as mentioned by just about every other reviewer, the packaging is HORRIBLE. I don't know if this was done for aesthetics or cheaper manufacturing costs (I suspect the latter), but it's just inexcusable. The other reason is the "Invasion" episode: series co-creator Tracy Torme wanted to do "hardcore" and "dark" science fiction, but this episode goes beyond that: it casts a shadow of doom over the entire series -- the Kromaggs are out there, and they are coming. Not only does it establish this ever-present threat, but it also lays the groundwork for further damage to the series later on -- in an episode of a later season, it is establish that Quinn is NOT from our world, but rather from a world where his "real" parents were sliders who placed him on our world to escape the Kromaggs, and that he also has a brother on a different Earth. This episode is more destructive than any other episode I've seen of any other series. Not to mention it's got an EXTREMELY weak script, with dialog that would make Ed Wood blush! Ironically, the network was opposed to this one -- for once, the suits were right.
One other point of interest: the episodes in this set are presented in broadcast order, not the order they were intended to be shown. Several season one episodes were written and filmed to lead into the next, but because the network shuffled them around there were minor continuity issues. One of the other reviewers posted the correct order of the episodes (thanks!), but I'm not going to reprint it here because I don't want to steal that person's helpful votes. But I recommend finding that review, and watching the episodes in the intended order.
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Summary: ignore "jane-searching-for-young-quinn"'s review.
Review: the first two seasons of sliders are the epitome of original science fiction/fantasy in this day and age, from the pilot episode to the end of season two, i feel there was only one weak episode in the lot, titled "obsession". the remaining 20-odd episodes are very well done, both in script and performance.
never mind what the reviewer in the title of this review says: she is WRONG!!! this IS the complete collection of the first two seasons. she must not be aware that the first season was only a nine-week run in '95; the second season started the following year with "into the mystic", for a 13 or 14-week run if she was, her review would not be the horrendous piece of horse hockey that it is.
take it from a sci-fi enthusiast like myself: everyone thinks they know it all about sci-fi. that's not true. if you don't have all the facts, then you should shut the hell up and go away.
that goes double for the reviewer named in the title.
all in all, this is one of the best sci-fi series to appear on dvd and i look forward to the remaining sets to be released very soon.
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Summary: Im A Slider
Review: The Sliders collection season 1 & 2 are great. Hopefully the other seasons are to be released. It would be a great let down if they are not. The story's that the writers have come up with are amazing and alot of things that's shown on the slisers series are happening in this day and age. I recommend that if you are a SC-FI Freak, the SLIDERS collection is a must have. I cannot wait till the distributers release the entire series for in my opinion there are thousands of Sliders fans out there that would love to have the collection and be apart of SLIDERS. It would be a dream if a sliding timer was ever invented! What at hing that would be! Buy the series, you wont go wrong!
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Summary: Im A Slider
Review: The Sliders collection season 1 & 2 are great. Hopefully the other seasons are to be released. It would be a great let down if they are not. The story's that the writers have come up with are amazing and alot of things that's shown on the slisers series are happening in this day and age. I recommend that if you are a SC-FI Freak, the SLIDERS collection is a must have. I cannot wait till the distributers release the entire series for in my opinion there are thousands of Sliders fans out there that would love to have the collection and be apart of SLIDERS. It would be a dream if a sliding timer was ever invented! What at hing that would be! Buy the series, you wont go wrong!
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