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Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows
pbaumgar writes "Boston.com is running an article discussing their top 50 Sci-Fi TV shows of all-time. What are some of your favorites?" From the article: "Number 10 -'Sliders. 'Sliders' should have been a widespread hit, but it was ahead of its time. The show was about a wiz-kid genius Quinn Mallory, played by Jerry O'Connell, and his band of three companions who slide among Earth's alternate realities. Toward the end of the series, the show quickly slid in quality as three of its stars - O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and John Rhys-Davies - departed and were replaced by others. A tragic demise to a fine show." They don't even give a nod to greatest-trek-of-all-time DS9, so I don't know about this list.
I never saw the allure of sliders. Sure, it had a good premise but the execution was terrible. It was, lets face it, poorly acted, poorly shot, and consisted of cheap sets. Either the characters weren't fleshed out or the actors couldnt pull it off. I remember thinking this show could breakthrough to the mainstream if it had more drama and was simply better made. Instead of improving on the first two seasons Fox and Scifi pretty much gave it a slow and ugly death.
I wouldnt mind seeing a better production team try the "elseworld" game. Perhaps with more allegory.
Haha! So it is. Thanks for that.