Set off a Chain Reaction

Date: 04/18/2001
From: Recall317

CoolSlider's MythArc post got me thinking that Sci-Fi should really do a Chain Reaction day featuring those episodes. I know that's a lot to ask considering we're currently lucky just to get a marathon once a month, but I think it would be a great idea for them if they're planning on returning the show to its regular rotation at some point.

While the MythArc is one great potential chain reaction, there are plenty of other themed topics that would be a lot of fun. Let's say Sci-Fi gave us the opportunity to pick 12 episodes for a Chain Reaction. Which would you choose? Try to avoid giving a list of just your favorite episodes and come up with a unifying link to all twelve. Here's one example; I call it the "Sounds of Sliders" as all feature a musical number:

The Pilot ("Cry Like a Man") Pt. 1
The Pilot (Comrade Rap) Pt. 2
Eggheads ("The Library Rap")
The King is Back ("Whip It", "Tears in my Fro", etc.)
Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome ("Cry Like a Man" again, + Topps!)
Greatfellas ("Praying to Jesus")
State of the ART (Quinn attempts "Tears in My Fro")
Stoker (Multiple)
Asylum ("Angel")
Data World ("Purple Hawaii")
Way Out West ("Tight Pants")
A Thousand Deaths ("Downtown Brown")

Other cool chain reactions could focus on a single character such as "Quinn's Transformation", or "The Many Faces of Maggie Beckett"." Or, how about the 12 episodes that impact fanfic the most! I dunno, what do you think, sirs?

R317

Nice!

Date: 04/18/2001
From: MissingSliderMichele

The first thing that came to mind was -- needless to say -- the Fifth Slider Collection. All the episodes where non-regulars make it through the vortex... and invariably vanish within five minutes. >:-D

Summer of Love (Spiderwasps)
Luck of the Draw (Ryan, Henry)
Love Gods (David, Diana)
El Sid (Sid, Michele)
The Fire Within (Flame-thing)
The Breeder (Guess who?)
Prophets and Loss (Samson)
California Reich (Kirk, Vanessa)
Mother and Child (Christina, baby)
Revelations (Isaac, Catherine)
Into the Mystic (Ryan followup... but only because I'm stretching)
World Killer (Alt-Quinn... stretching as he didn't use their regular timer... but I'm REALLY hard up for a twelfth entry :-P)

If we cut this in half and leave six, I'd peck -- er, pick, the eps where the Fifth Sliders have the most impact on the next world. ('World Killer' is omitted here for the reason outlined above... while Ryan stays because he's THE Fifth Slider.)

Luck of the Draw
El Sid
The Fire Within
The Breeder
Mother and Child
Revelations

Ew. Did I just choose 'The Breeder' and 'Mother and Child' over 'Summer of Love' and 'Into the Mystic'? Oh well.

Interesting that NO-ONE else slides in the fifth season... despite many rumoured episodes (such as 'Sliding With The Enemy,' 'Sci-Fi Slide,' Gwam's 'The Seer,' and presumably 'Fates Beckoning') that would have remedied this.

Anyway, cool poll. Can't wait to see what other threads people come up with!

=MSM=

Kromagg Chain Reation

Date: 04/18/2001
From: The_Seer

May not be a popular one but I did come up with a 12 episode Kromagg-themed Chain Reaction:

Invasion
The Other Slide Of Darkness
Genesis
Common Ground
Slidecage
Asylum
The Dying Fields
Mother And Child
Way Out West
Revelations
Strangers And Comrades
Requiem

I could have also added "Applied Physics" because of Mallory's "Quinn" memory of the Kromagg and "The Seer" because, like "Asylum", they don't physically appear in the episode but are kind of important to the plot.

I honestly didn't think I was going to make it to 12 but I guess that shows you how overused they were in the 4th season.

And we have a winner!

Date: 04/18/2001
From: SL4ever

The answer was "4" and you are the 4th post down. :-D If you want to play along, send your favorite and/or most hated posts from 4-17 through 4-19 and any additional comments to me at zippyman@att.net If you don't want to play along, never fear, I will fill your mouth with all kinds of my words. :-P

As far as this post goes, how about a "Wade is the goddess o' hotness" chain reaction? I would have to go watch them all again to figure out which ones she was hottest in, but almost anything from the first two seasons would suffice.
:-P~!~!~!~!

About the rap songs....

Date: 04/19/2001
From: SlidersRocks

I allways loved watching those songs over and over again. Every episode with music is allways good....well except for DataWorld. My fav would have to be MC Pondexter and the library crew. Every time I watch the episode I allways seem to rewind over the rap song a couple of times. I think songs make the show and give the audience the impression of the world there on and also makes the show more real. And also Jerrys acting really changed from season to season. Probably the most is when he used to say a line in sliders he never used to smile right after saying it. Year 4 would have to be his worst year. But anyway enough with his acting....scifi does need to show more marathons and not just once a month.

Dean

The COWs come home

Date: 04/19/2001
From: Recall317

I think it's high time a Chain Reaction is dedicated to the unsung heroines of "Sliders", those ladies known as the Chicks of the Week!

Much like the Bond Girl, the Sliders Chick of the Week is what every aspiring TV actress hopes to become. And we have had some semi-recognizable names play the hallowed role. But only that "It" girl can be a COW. Not only do you have to be pretty, but you also have to act as dumb as a post regardless of the role your given. (AKA the Denise Richards Syndrome)

Here are the chosen 12. Granted there were many to choose from, but it turns out I had too much respect for the actresses who played Logan, Gillian and Daelin to include them. The rest? Eh...

"Time Again and World" (Rebecca Gayheart aka Noxema Girl)
"El Sid" (Rebecca Chambers)
"Greatfellas" (Venus Terzo)
"Rules of the Game" (Laurie Fortier)
"The Guardian" (Leslie Horan)
"Dragonslide" (Michelle Rene Thomas)
"State of the ART" (Kathleen McClellan)
"Season's Greedings" (Chase Masterson)
"Murder Most Foul" (Brigid Brannagh)
"Slide Like an Egyptian" (Apollonia)
"Paradise Lost" (Lara Steinick)
"Slither" (Julie St. Claire)

And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the only COW who was so good at her job, they promoted her to full time status- Kari Wuhrer!

Hmm...lot of Season Three here...can't imagine why...

R317

PS. Great lists so far, guys!

The Comedies of Sliders

Date: 04/20/2001
From: Blinker

• Eggheads
• The Weaker Sex
• The King is Back
• Love Gods
• Dead Man Sliding
• Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Just Say Yes
• The Alternateville Horror
• Lipschitz Live
• Please Press One
• A Current Affair
• A Thousand Deaths

Runner-up: "Into the Mystic" with its offbeat humour and jarring "Wizard of Oz" motif.

"Dead Man Sliding" is a pretty black comedy, but I need *something* from S3, right?

Oh, and the strange thing is that S4 featured three consecutive comedic episodes -- "Oh Brother," "Just Say Yes," and "Alternateville" -- directly followed by four very darkly themed episodes: "Slidecage," "Asylum," "California Reich," and "The Dying Fields." Way to provide some variety, guys.

- Blinker 7:-P
http://slidersweb.net/blinker

Because I'm in a gruesome mood... >:-D

Date: 04/20/2001
From: Callie21V

I give you: The Greatest Capital Punishments of Sliders!

• Prince of Wails (electrocution)
• The King Is Back (lethal injection)
• Luck of the Draw (lethal injection; The Process™)
• El Sid ("...we're gonna start executing you one by one.")
• Dead Man Sliding (beheading)
• Electric Twister Acid Test (drowning while strapped into a chair)
• Slide Like An Egyptian (ritual sacrifice to giant scarab)
• Sole Survivors (crucufixion)
• Prophets and Loss (death oven disguised as vortex)
• Common Ground (disintegration by firing squad)
• Way Out West (hanging)
• Heavy Metal (walking the plank)

'Luck of the Draw' and 'Dead Man Sliding' tie as the ULTIMATE Sliders Capital Punishment Episode.

The telepathic rape of 'The Dream Masters' is debatably a form of execution. If you like, substitute it for 'El Sid,' where the mode of death was never specified (but was probably to be a simple gunshot.)

In all, though, I think my list was pretty well-executed. [ducks]

>>> C/21

PS - As for The Sounds of Sliders, I'd just HAVE to take out PTSS (which merely recycles the 'Cry Like A Man' tape from the Pilot) and throw in 'Java Jive' (a really subpar episode, but it DID bring us five solid minutes of musical goodness!)

Correction...

Date: 04/20/2001
From: Callie21V

I listed 'lethal injection' twice in a row. The second should read:

• Luck of the Draw (poison; The Process™)

>>> C/21

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