Good
Thing & Bad ---> Rules of the Game!
Date: 10/02/2000
From: Blinker
I scream, you scream, we all scream for "Obsession" prizes! Step right up, gang!• sliderules wins a laserdisc Director's Cut copy of "Follow That Bird," with extra commentary tracks, restored footage, and an exclusive interview with Snuffleupagus!
• ThomasMalthus wins a subpoena from Syrup!
• FogBoy wins a bust of Q!
• HurriKain wins a box of Cheerios with some X's mixed in!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a free reading by John Edward!
• Vigeant wins a big heaping bowl of crab apples!
• DoctorWhy wins a blazing saddle!
• EustiSlider wins a hammer!GOLD STAR recipient: EustiSlider! Woo Hoo!
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Today, we take a look at "Rules of the Game." To play, just name a good thing about the ep, and a bad thing. We'll take it from there. 7:-P
-- "RULES OF THE GAME" --
SYNTHIA: No, we just explained those.
-- >:-# --
BLINKER: It's funny, you know. When I first saw this ep, I walked away feeling cheated and disappointed. I mean, I was really expecting them to deal with the PTSS Arturo thing for a stunner of a kick-off. Instead we get a bunch of badass robots and the first in a long, long series of dead blondes. What the hell was that?
SYNTHIA: You were actually expecting a resolution to the evil professor plotline???? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
BLINKER [miffed]: Well hey, why ELSE would they rerun PTSS the week before??? Hmph.
SYNTHIA: Uh-huh. What's your good thing?
BLINKER: JRD's performance. As usual, he brings an incredible amount of dignity to what's basically an excuse to blast ray guns and blow up jeeps. As I was planning to say, the whole blindness arc is one of the reasons this ep has since become one of my favourites, at least for Season Three.
SYNTHIA: Even though JRD was equally awesome in most of the others.
BLINKER: Hey, don't underestimate those splodin' Jeeps!
SYNTHIA: Fair enough. My good thing is the scene with the robot spiders. It was nicely paced and acted and ended up being a high point. My bad thing is the LOGIC, or rather lack thereof. I mean, they land RIGHT at the starting line, RIGHT as the game is starting?? They manage to overcome EVERYthing, even as the professional players get picked off starting on the first level???? The alternate history about civil war being staved off by the banning of sports or whatever the >:-# that was was PATHETIC. And how come Irritating Sports Night Boy never finds it odd that there are non-players wandering around in the arena????? AND HOW, ON GOD'S GREEN PARALLEL EARTH, DID THEY MANAGE TO FIT THAT F-ING ***WAREHOUSE*** INSIDE A **HOUSE**?????????
BLINKER: Hee hee. It would've been funnier if they were robot spider MONKEYS.
SYNTHIA: Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhh.
- Blinker 7:-P
http://welcome.to/gate_haven"Shawn Connery began to die from an attack of deer, as the whirlwind opened." -- An immortal passage from Dorky, after mangling by an online translator.
I'm
first, I'M FIRST!!!
Date: 10/02/2000
From: KllyWlls
OK here goes nothing:
Good thing: Ummmmmmmm....very hard to find...I guess it would have to be the new hairdoo's for the gang. Yes, I hate nothing more than unkempt hair and they did well by giving them new looks for the new season. Well.. er.. uh.. not the professor though.. his hair, if it had been given the chance to continue on it's course, would have slowly but surely eaten his head.
Bad thing: WELL, this is really the worst thing in a long list of bad
things: The professor, blind and peeing, just one word to describe that:
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
-Klly
"This is MY tagline, my mighty, mighty tagline!"
ROTG:
Good Thing, Bad Thing
Date: 10/02/2000
From: ThomasMalthus
Good Thing: We find out that Wade is afraid of flying. This was one of the two things we learn about Wade this season, if you don't count that she's easily duped by a band of rock'n'roll vampires, that is.Bad Thing: Quinn knows how to shoot now and feels no remorse about doing so! Wade's hair is red! Remmy has now served in the navy! How to explain all these changes? My theory is that Igloo World was undergoing a major civil war in which Wade had to disguise herself as Nikki Cox to distract the enemy, Rembrandt leads the Kayak Fleet to face the Salmon Armada and Quinn must learn to shoot to be able to train some Navy Seals (no, not the acronymed SEALS, real seals). Any references to Arturo and whale blubber would just be unkind, so I'll avoid them.
ThomasMalthus
Good
thing bad thing..
Date: 10/02/2000
From: Vigeant
The good thing about this episode was that it had several referances to fried shrimp. If you play all of Wade's lines backwards in maximum speed but divide the intergers you hear: "KROMAGGS ARE OUR LEADERS!"The bad thing about this episode was that it wasn't long enough. Since the advent of fried shrimp no one has been getting any work done around here, let alone me. So the bad thing is that Scifi is bad and nobody is stupid if you look at it at that angle..
Vigeant
Http://insane.50megs.com"Here it is.. the infamous SKULL ISLAND!"
"That's not a skull, it's a duck!"
"No, if you squint and turn your head a little you can see it."
"No, if you look at it that way it looks like a duck!!"
"Can't you see it... I see it.. oooh it gives me shivers.."
Daaaamn.
Date: 10/02/2000
From: FogBoy
Season 3 good thing/bad thing entries? It's gonna be nearly impossible to find the good!The good: Um, well, the blonde was cute.
The bad: Everything else. For now though, let me stick with this... ROBO-LASER SPRINKLERS!
Me......
Date: 10/02/2000
From: Slider_Quinn21
Good thing-Its a GOOD day to die!!!!Bad thing-What's up with the hair????
RUN,
IT'S SEASON THREE!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!
Date: 10/02/2000
From: sliderules
Hi, hello, howdy, wassup, ¿que pasa?, Aloha, how ya doin???? Okay, now that the greetings are out of the way, time for my response.Good Thing: One of the few episodes in the season where conflict between sliders was at its minimum and the acting wasn't completely half-ass.
Bad Thing: Two words: David Peckinpah Need I say more? I think not. Ciao!
sliderules
"Peckinpah: Let's kill the Professor, make movie ripoffs, add a female lead who likes to feel me up, use as many dumb as a doornail co-stars on the show as possible, AND change timers!Staff: I dunno about that Mr, Peckinpah sir......
Peckinpah: I'll give you a raise, and I'll fire Tormé if you let me. Pleeeeeease?
Tormé: Why me?
Peckinpah: Simple my friend. You mispronounced my name. it's Peck-in-pah, not Peck-at-poop!"
Uggg....
Date: 10/02/2000
From: Silly_Sillerson
Here goes nothing.Good thing: None.
Bad thing: Everything.
'Nuff said.
Silly
Two,
two, two entries in one!
Date: 10/02/2000
From: EustiSlider
Good things: (And you thought there weren't any) #1 The simple fact that this episode ever aired meant that Sliders was saved from cancellation.
#2 The cool new 'inside the wormhole' fx. And they did it without needing to change the timer in any way, shape or form.Bad things: (where to begin?) #1 Watch, as before your very eyes, the characters lose all depth and become completely two dimensional!
#2 Hopscotch booby traps!VIGEANT: <snicker>hee hee, Eusti said 'booby!'
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