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Sliders “Desert Storm” – Season 3 Episode 6

movie guy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:02:39 +0000

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The Desert Storm finds our Sliders upon a desert world that is suffering from severe scarcity and drought. The water is incredibly difficult to find on this world and therefore is incredibly expensive. To further complicate matters they don’t accept cash. They only trade in usable and useful goods.

The Sliders are out wandering in the desert and end up finding this town. They see a girl who is tied up and gagged and this black guy and a white guy talking between themselves. One of them says “We’ll settle on a price later”.

The Sliders assume that this is the slave trade but the guy says that he doesn’t deal in the slave trade. “Too much bad karma”.

Our Sliders think they are doing a good thing when they take the girl away. And she wants to be taken away because she does not yet know her destiny. She believes she is part of the family of the desert people but the truth will soon be revealed.

Anyway she goes in a truck with the Sliders and they’re driving out into the desert. These Mad Max looking gang of desert bandits complete with motorcycles, go cart looking deals, and bows and arrows come after them. It has a real ThunderDome quality to it.

Once they see that the water witch is with them they agree not to harm them. She gets out of the car and goes into this weird trance and tells them there’s a ton of water right beneath their feet right now.

So they decide to make camp for the night.

During the night the original white guy who had attempted to take the water witch comes back and mistakenly kidnaps Wade. He thinks it is the water witch who is named Devon.

He discovers his mistake the next morning and starts to tell Wade the true story of where Devon comes from.

They start walking and talking and she decides that he is telling the truth. So the Sliders are now allied with this guy to get Devon back to her place, back amongst her people.

At first she is unconvinced but then she does this weird telepathic communication with her mother and then is on board. They get to where her family lives which on this world is called Eden. Most people think it’s just a myth like the lost city of Atlantis we have here. It isn’t a myth it’s just that her people choose to keep it a secret.

Upon touching the entrance to her real home she sees the truth of how the desert people killed her father and stole her when she was about five years old.

She is happy living with her people. But the desert people have followed them out there and gain entrance into Eden. Devon has the unique power to basically erase someone’s mind and so she does that and the desert people never find her again. It basically makes their leader sound like a lunatic saying that he is found Eden but he does know how to get back there.

The Sliders end up giving them the beautiful vortex show as they slide out of Eden and onto the next adventure.

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Sliders “Season’s Greedings” – Season 3 Episode 12

movie guy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:45:45 +0000

So we land on consumerism world with its political and socioeconomic message. This episode was all about the strong message and the anti-consumerism high-mindedness. It’s okay for a Christmas episode but other than that I would definitely skip over it.

Recently the sliders run out of the world that they were just in and nearly trample this nativity seen on this in the New World.

They are all in a huff and angry at Wade because she apparently smiled at one of the pygmy natives. In the world they were just in when a woman smiles at a man it means she’s willing to bear his children.

And they don’t take misunderstandings well. When it was cleared up and Wade said that she was only smiling and did not intend to have his children the natives got incredibly restless. Quinn and Rembrandt come through the vortex holding a shield each with five or six arrows in them. So clearly the natives have gone rogue and attempted to kill them because of this miscommunication.

The first two minutes were the most exciting parts of this episode.

The rest was basically a sermon raving against consumerism and subliminal advertising. I’m no fan of subliminal advertising but I’m also no fan of overarching sermons either.

They did make this a Christmas story in that on this world they have these crazy sky malls that are literally in the sky and they look like they’re floating on clouds. Wade’s father and sister Kelly in this world work at the sky mall and they meet up with the Sliders. They give the group a job because Kelly is the manager of the sky mall.

Some of the key elements though are that they will make $200 per day, $100 per day will go to their housing, the other $80 must be spent however they choose meaning they can only save $20 per day. This is how this world works. You have to buy stuff and buy lots of stuff.

They uncovere this scheme of the head manager over the entire mall how he is using subliminal advertising to artificially and illegaly juice profits. This is highly illegal even in this world but he has been getting away with it since no one has discovered it or called him upon it.

But the Sliders do call him to the mat for this once they discover it.

They go into his office to get the evidence and find all they need. They download the financing company data with his shady loans as well as the data on subliminal advertising onto a disc and then nail him to the wall for it.

One of the more unsavory victims he had was this young mother who at the beginning of the episode left her baby in a church with sliders. She did this because she did not want him to grow up in debtors prison the way she was currently. On this world if you can’t pay your debt on demand they own you.

They can literally put these bracelets on you that restricts your movement until your debt is paid off. The problem is the interest, loans, and the way they make you spend most of what you make that these kind of loans will never be paid back even over a lifetime. That means you are at best an indentured servant and at worst a slave.

So the Sliders free this young mother and reunite her with her son.

And they all spend Christmas with Wade’s dad and sister Kelly. It was a wonderful little family Christmas and a small little piece of home that the Sliders get to enjoy. Only Kelly knows the truth about Wade’s true identity.

They take a sappy picture and then walk out the back door opening the vortex onto the newest adventure.

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Sliders “Paradise Lost” – Season 3 Episode 15

movie guy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:52:50 +0000

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The Paradise lost episode. The title should tell you all you need to know about this episode. It’s not actually a place of paradise like a paradise island or a beach or something. Paradise is the name of the town. It’s not a terrible place either it’s just nice.

This seems like a nice quaint little town. It’s almost like a town that is from the 50s or 60s has been transplanted into the 1990s. It’s very small and everybody seems nice to the point of being nauseating. But they’re very tightlipped and don’t give up any information either. So it’s a fake sort of nice.

We first see this guy out in the woods in a tent and he’s made some startling discovery. He calls up his partner to tell her of his info and that she has to see this data. Then there are these three guys who come and grab him and dump him down into this pit that’s on the beach. Then this crazy thing like something out of the movie Tremors starts moving the ground and grabs this guy sucking him under the sand.

We later find out it is a crazy wormlike being that has mutated because this town was located on a uranium mine. It’s never said whether there was some sort of accident or some sort a uranium spill that caused this worm to mutate. But it is absolutely massive. And it feeds on human flesh of course.

The one saving grace and reason this town doesn’t annihilate this creature is because when it feeds on human flesh it leaves behind this goo that is kind of like an oil slick. Only the oil is something that’s consumed by these townspeople which keeps them forever young until the day they die.

It doesn’t give them immortality. It may have a slight effect on keeping them healthier for longer. But they still die pretty close to the regular time they would have died. But instead of looking like a 90-year-old man they stay looking like whatever age they were when they started consuming what they call “the gift”.

It basically retards the aging process of your physical body but apparently not your internal body. So from the outside you look like whatever age you start eating this oil slick gel. But you have to keep consuming it otherwise the effects wear off.

The whole town is in on this gig.

When the Sliders first arrive they see one of the townspeople is about to hit this woman over the head as she is changing a tire. Quinn asks him what he’s doing and it stops in his tracks and he walks away. She now joins with them as the five outsiders who go into town.

Wade finds out just how sinister this is when she sees all the townspeople going into this one building late at night. They’re all moving very secretively and they close the door behind them saying that business is closed. She of course is curious and has to go in.

Obviously, you can tell from the foreshadowing that she is going to get caught after she stumbles onto information she is not supposed to have.

Sure enough, one of the townspeople catches her and says, “you weren’t supposed to see this”.

It’s basically a ceremony where they worship this worm and they all get a dose of the oil jelly to eat.

They feed the professor to the creature and the Sliders start to get suspicious when they haven’t heard from the professor. Rembrandt notices that three people have disappeared over the last two days and he tells the sheriff if he’s not going to do anything about it then maybe the state police will. At this point the sheriff knocks him over the back of the head.

They intend to feed all the Sliders to the worm.

But the Sliders intend to kill the worm and so they take explosives and gasoline into the creature’s lair. They set the dynamite charges and find that there is a brood of these creatures because the original creature is pregnant and has given birth to lots of eggs.

The professor tells Quinn they have to destroy this thing and so they set the charges and they get out of there. There’s a big explosion and the creature is killed.

They never show what happened to the town but we can only assume that they age rapidly and probably died soon after. Quinn invites their new ally to slide with them but she says she enjoys exploring this world too much to leave. So they’re off once again just the four of them.

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Sliders “As Time Goes By” – Season 2 Episode 13

movie guy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:32:02 +0000

This episode starts out with our Sliders as immigrants looking for day labor. Apparently Mexico is the dominant force in the Western Hemisphere and controls the entire United States. White people are only from Canada in this place.

It’s a strange and unusual world and the immigration police come for them as they are looking for some work.

All of the day laborers scatter but Quinn is the only one of the four Sliders who gets away. The other three are captured and put onto a deportation trial. They get this lawyer who basically does nothing for them and they are ordered to be deported to Canada in the morning. They’re obviously worried about missing the slide and don’t want to spend the rest of their lives in Canada.

Quinn was running away and happens to run into the love of his life from his world. This woman on this world obviously knows nothing about him but has compassion on him. She and her brother wish to get her fiancé out and will help Quinn because it also helps themselves.

They do a raid on the deportation truck and stop it in the Nick of time. The Sliders are back together and they slide out of that world.

The next world they come into they only have about seven hours on and Quinn is feeling pretty down. Rembrandt suggests that he contact this girl to see what she’s up to. In this world Quinn was the one who moved away in 10th grade and she was the one whose heart was broken.

They have a moment together but then her husband comes in and the little girl baby starts to cry.

Quinn realizes he cannot take her on the sliding journey with him. But what he does do is call Seattle because in this world Quinn was the one who moved away. He talks to this Quinn and gets the address so that he can put the two of them together.

Then they slide off onto the next world and find themselves in jail. They have no idea how they got there nor what they are charged with.

Come to find out they have been somewhat displaced. For them time is moving forward but for the rest of the people in this world time is moving backwards. Or vice versa.

From the perspective of the people in this world time is moving normally. For the Sliders it is on the completely opposite track. They think the timer has gone haywire but once they figure it out they realize that when it’s time for the slide the vortex will open.

They were on trial for the murder of Quinn’s girl who is a cop on this world. But since for them time is moving back Quinn is able to stop the murder from happening. This rips a hole in the fabric of time and the professor says, “You changed time and we don’t know what will happen”.

The sky seems to rip open right as the vortex opens for them. We don’t know what happens to this world as our Sliders are sucked in and off onto their next adventure.

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Sliders “Seer” – Season 5 Episode 18 Series Finale

movie guy — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:07:13 +0000

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This episode of Sliders starts out with them sitting outdoors in the front of this little café. Maggie is drinking a pork soda and eating a giraffe burger. That’s right as crazy as those things sound this is somewhat of “exotic world”.

Diana and Mallory make a nasty face at what Maggie is eating. They ask her why she’s eating these seemingly horrible things and she says “Soon all you’ll have is the expected. I wanted to take one more chance to have the unexpected.”

At the end of the last episode before they left Dr. Geiger handed Diana a disc. They have the coordinates to their home worlds now.

So even though the good doctor was evil and really cared only about himself at the end of his days he decided to do something selfless to help. We don’t know if it was an atonement hoping he would get better treatment when he faces judgment day or if he just wanted to make up for the things he did in his life.

The Sliders get together and make what they believe will be the final slide back to Rembrandt’s home world.

He’s a little bit shaken up because he thought he would have some sort of idea or weapon to defeat the Kromaggs. He tells them his world is going to be no picnic because of the Kromagg occupation but they all agree to go with him anyway.

They end up sliding into this church type building.

There’s a massive throng of fans waiting outside for them welcoming the Sliders. This is quite odd because this world seems to know exactly who they are.

They soon discover on this world there is this old man that people call “the Seer”. He had congestive heart failure and during one of his heart attacks had somehow become connected with the multi-verse. He could see lots of things in other dimensions as if they were real. They were the most vivid visions he’d ever experienced.

At a certain point he realized that they were real. Not so much real on his earth but they were actually occurring in other dimensions.

So he started writing about and creating paintings of them. He knew all about them as well as the Prof. and Wade.

He knew Quinn and Colin and seemed to know them going back to the first time they started the sliding.

The Sliders were quite surprised and couldn’t really believe this at first glance. But all the paintings of worlds they had been to and his writings convinced them so they had no choice but to see the truth. He then gives them sobering news that unless they stay on this world the next slide they do will kill them.

So they have one final problem and decision to make.

They end up meeting Quinn’s mom. This is his real mom from Quinn and Rembrandt’s home world. At least Quinn’s home world that he grew up on when his parents dropped him off there with the Mrs. Mallory double. Mallory doesn’t take to her at first but then has a moment alone with her where he admits that her Quinn is still inside him. He feels connected to her though this other Quinn.

The Sliders make the decision that they are going to move on to Rembrandt’s home world anyway and take the chance. They discover this world developed a virus that attacks the Kromaggs and it lives in the blood of all humans on this world. They get a vial of the blood to take back.

The one warning the guy gives Rembrandt is that the virus has to be synthesized within two days.

They find there’s this secret cache of Kromagg technology that the seer’s daughter Claire has kept. There’s a vortex blocker which they turn off. There’s also a sliding device that they can use.

Claire and her goons come into stop the Sliders because she wants to capitalize and profit off of their presence there. But the seer comes in and they end up overpowering begins. She already had her goons bust the Sliders timer and this was the last straw.

They put Claire and her goons in a holding cell. The seer is having a heart attack.

Diana opens the vortex with a warning. The power is so low she believes that it’s going to collapse. She says that there’s maybe only enough power for 1 of them to go through.

As the three of them are arguing Mallory says it should be him. But then they look back and see that Rembrandt has already injected himself with the vial of the blood.

“Here comes typhoid Remy” Rembrandt says. He jumps through the vortex right before it collapses.

It’s a fitting end to the show but there is some mystery left over. This seer has succumbed to his heart attack. Despite Diana’s pleading he doesn’t respond. So they don’t know what has become of Rembrandt.

As the camera pans out Mallory asks the question, “So what do we do now”.

It’s a very appropriate question that fans who watched the show live 11 years ago had to be asking themselves. And now I’ve gone through the full series here over the last few weeks and it’s a question I’m also asking myself.

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Sliders “Eye of the Storm” – Season 5 Episode 17

movie guy — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:05:10 +0000

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There is a very humorous beginning to this episode of Sliders called “Eye of the Storm”. The camera pans into this Spanish pueblo style of house and then we see the Sliders walking the walk but there is something different. Mallory has this crazy looking native straw hat on and is carrying a staff.

He’s chanting some ridiculous nonsense.

Diana tells him he can’t affect the weather by doing these pagan rituals.

The rest of the Sliders are making fun of it as well but he continues. All of a sudden this massive wall of water comes to be and this garners some disbelieving looks on their faces. But it turns out not to be what they thought it was.

Mallory gives up on affecting the weather by performing pagan rituals. The Sliders window opens.

They come into this world where the return of Oberon Geiger has happened. He has created another bubble type universe on this world where he can be a somewhat fixed corporeal state. He is still in stock and hasn’t figured out how to solve his unstuck problem.

The Sliders come into this new world and don’t know what is going on.

They don’t see any people around but they do see a storm and lightning crackling close by. Then they see someone running. The guy goes right up to the red energy barrier and the sliders know something is wrong. He looks like Oberon Geiger but is spouting some crazy things about being a sinner.

He looks at them and doesn’t know them. Then he walks into the energy barrier and is killed.

The Sliders obviously wonder what is going on in this place so they go to their familiar Chandler Hotel. They’re hoping to find some food and supplies so they can lay low until the next slide. But as we know from watching the show that’s never going to happen.

Maggie and Rembrandt go out to do recon.

Diana and Mallory go up to see the big man upstairs. Oberon Geiger turns out to be this guy.

He confesses to Diana that none of his solutions or theories are panning out. He has given up on working to get himself unstuck. The energy field he has created is collapsing and when this happens he will be dead.

He says he can get Mallory separated from Quinn and so they believe him.

But what he’s been attempting to do is merge himself with the people on this world. The results have been disastrous to say the least. It’s like something out of a Frankenstein horror movie. These people come back disfigured or worse.

So the merging process has failed but he attempts it one last time on Mallory. They discover what he is doing and stop him just in the nick of time.

There’s only about 10 minutes left on this energy bubble before it completely collapses and kills Oberon. He says he can get the 2 Quinns separated once again so they give him one last try. But they have been merged too long and are now like conjoined twins. So if they are separated the other one will die.

They decide to keep Mallory because Quinn wouldn’t want to be responsible for someone’s death.

The doctor agrees to get everyone else home. He informs them that he brought them there basically as lab rats and so can send them back to their own worlds whenever he chooses.

So the Sliders get out of there relatively unscathed and the rest of the innocent bystanders return to their own worlds.

Almost immediately after the Sliders leave the energy bubble collapses and Geiger is no more.