Date: 1/15/2000
From: Executive

One of the better episodes from this mostly troubled final season was "To Catch a Slider", but it did have a few problems along the way. First of all Diana mentions that they are closer to finding Remmy's homeworld. Hello?! Do they really want to go back there, knowing that they will be vastly outnumbered by Kromagg troops that have taken over several countries on Remmy's Earth? By the time that story was written, I suppose Bill Dial and Chris Black probably didn't care about all of the details.

At least the scarab spider was referenceed by Remmy from the 3rd season episode "Slide Like an Egyptian", and Diana pointed out that a scarab is also a diamond. The title "To Catch a Slider" is the last time the series parodied a movie concept, in this case Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "To Catch a Thief" in which Cary Grant played a jewel thief in Europe and Grace Kelley was his romantic interest. In this SLIDERS, all four of our heroes plot to steal a gem to replace the old one in their damaged timer. Diana tries to outsmart a cop who is dating her, but at least in the end she comes clean, so he agrees to give them the gem as a reward for capturing the real thief - a crossdressing adult film star named Monique Mansfield.

At one point Mallory almost had sex with Monique. Another plot hole is that she was definately played by a woman, and not a transvestite as the writers want us to believe...poor Mallory!

What made this episode different was that this was one of those rare occasions in which the sliders are the "hunters" instead of the "hunted". By planning and executing the heist, and improvising along the way when things didn't quite work out as planned, they were selfishly working in their own interest -- just so Diana could fix the timer so they could continue sliding. At least Rembrandt was the voice of reason, reminding them that this isn't like them to stoop to that level. But then Maggie countered with Remmy having often used some of his double's ATM cards on certain worlds, and with that bit of dishonesty he reluctantly agreed to help the others pull it off.

This wasn't SLIDERS at its best, and not in the league with a TV classic like Robert Wagner's "It Takes a Thief" (now being rerun on TV LAND again), but it was fun to watch. And we never saw them get stuck inside a wormhole before!

 

THE EXECUTIVE

Scarab *spider*?!?

Date: 1/15/2000
From: TemporalFlux

So...John, Paul, George and Ringo were part of the "Arachnids" then? LOL!!!

Tf
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Spider, beetle, take your pick. END

Date: 1/15/2000
From: Executive

;-)

Well...

Date: 1/15/2000
From: HunterD_Raven

I'll be nice and keep it short.
1-Let's face it Exec, if we weren't TOLD Rupaul was a man, most people wouldnt know till they saw how tall he was so that explains that.
2- Look at it this way TF, atleast he didm't say "those magic gems that power the timer"
3-Since when are our Sliders paragons of virtue? They've done wrong things before(Breeder,several times they started small wars, and Quinn probably killed a dimension or 2 when he saved Daelin), and i wouldv'e done the same thing in that(TCAS) situation.

Hunter, you idiot!

Date: 1/16/2000
From: Executive

Unlike you I can tell the difference between a man and a woman, and the actress playing Monique was a woman. I was hoping my review would result in an intelligent discussion of the episode, but obviously you and TF weren't up for it.
So what else is new?

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