Year
Five info - get it while it's HOT!!
Date: 3/22/99
From: Blinker
<Blinker drools in anticipation at the thought of actually being the first to post exclusive Season Five infor->
Other board members: GET ON WITH IT!!!
<Suitably chastened...>Apologies if this was reported during my absence last week, but I haven't seen any sign that it was... it's from Sci-Fi Entertainment Magazine (the official mag of the Sci-Fi Channel.)
1. Mallory will not, as widely assumed, be an amalgam of Quinn and Colin, but of Quinn with his double on Diana's homeworld. This Quinn is the 'lab rat' for Dr. Geiger (Peter Jurasik), the new recurring villain, who is conducting experiments involving both sliding vortexes and gene replication (?!). Diana (Geiger's assistant) joins the Sliders with the goal of separating them.
Robert Floyd comments that the two Quinns battle for control of their single body, and "fortunately or unfortunately, I win." He seems to share some character elements with the 'street-smart kid' proposed earlier - he's the one "always trying to earn a buck or two."
If you're wondering where Colin is in all this, the Sliders apparently 'lose' him before landing on Diana's world.
2. Tembi Locke describes Diana as finding science "sexy - she really gets off on it", but having trouble getting dates. She thus looks up to Maggie as 'someone in touch with what it means to be a woman in the sexual sense' (which is about as far as you can politely go without calling her a slut).
3. Floyd says one episode features a "Roaring Twenties-type world with lots of singing and goofing off." The one after that is about a world of motorcycles. (!) Another finds Mallory head-over-heels in love ("He'll do anything to hold on to that love.")
4. The look of the vortex (and of Maggie's hair 7;-)) stays the same as in Season Four. At least one ep will actually show the Sliders inside the wormhole (something not depicted since Season One.)
Blinker 7:-)
"Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts."P.S. Today is the fourth anniversary of Sliders' premiere ... as well as William Shatner's birthday.
P.P.S. Last week's Lexx was a rip-off of "The Dream Masters", depicting a world able to enter and control dreams. Soon the main character finds himself attacked by a villain hurling fireballs (though unlike Quinn, he just cowardly runs away.)
P.P.P.S. No - must resist ... more ... postscripts!! <face contorts in Kirkian grimace>
maggie's
hair
Date: 3/22/99
From: trapperben
hey,
in the U.S., they showed maggie's hair and it was brown.
How
stupid can you get????
Date: 3/22/99
From: ThomasMalthus
IF this information is true, and I'm assuming it is, that is the most moronic way I've EVER heard for the creation of Mallory. What's the point of an amalgamation if it's two people who look exactly alike being amalgamated?? And why would they do that and just assign Colin some cruel fate when they could have just combined Quinn and Colin and been better off?! This is the stupidest plot idea since Arturo's death, IMHO!!!
Motorcycle world? 1920s world? Reverse "Wag the Dog" world? These are the episode ideas for the great new season?!? Somehow I have a feeling the "Phantom Menace", David Peckinpah, is still hovering about! Let's hope that their words have been butchered and/or that the actors didn't use the right words to describe what was going on, because otherwise Season Five is going to be on par with Season Three.
ThomasMalthus
Thanx
for the info, Blinker! (More...)
Date: 3/22/99
From: ThomasMalthus
I'm sorry if I sounded harsh, it wasn't directed at you. I appreciate that you brought the info here for our inquiring minds! I know I would like to be the first to extend thanks for this latest info. Keep up the good work!
ThomasMalthus
S4
shows them in the wormhole too!
Date: 3/22/99
From: SliderNum5
In the episode, "the Chasm", the show Maggie, Colin and Quinn Sliding the wormhole, or at least thats the looks of it in the promos they show
~SliderNum5
?!?
Date: 3/22/99
From: TemporalFlux
Well, far be it from me to place common sense upon the producers...it was always an assumption that Colin was the other meldee because it was the only thing that really made sense. But I forgot something important...the writers don't have much sense.
So now we see what they came up with...Colin doesn't blow up, they just misplace him?!? I guess missing siblings are like the timer...they just leave them laying around. And then we get into the amalgamation of Quinn and Quinn...wouldn't that make Quinn (JOC)? I mean, when you mix flour with flour...you don't get corn meal. Sigh. The only possible explanation is that the Quinn double is from a slightly different lineage (i.e. the same father, but different mother on that world). That could explain why the Quinn double (before the meld) looks different and has a slightly different personality...but still has the name Quinn (if the father named him...then it would fit). Of course, since we now see the totality of the plan (i.e. Uuuuuhhhh, we just lost Colin. Yeah...that's it), I seriously doubt the writers put that much thought into it (especially since they had a golden opportunity to meld Colin and Quinn and were apparently too stupid to see it).
As for the episode ideas...some of them look good. First of all, a roaring 20's world is overdue on Sliders in my opinion and it would be a perfect showcase for Remmy and his singing...as for motorcycle world, well...I'll need to have a bit more info on that before I can say (please don't tell me it's a "Renegade" crossover...sigh). And the love story could be good if done correctly...
As for Maggie's hair...are you sure those were pics from season five? If they were, then she must be changing to the longer red/brown in mid season (since the promo Friday night on Sci-Fi clearly showed her with the different hair...and as of Friday night they were still filming season five - so, her hair has to look like that sometime in the new season).
Anyway, thanks for the info...I know it's true, but I still find it hard to believe the writers could be that damn dumb on the Mallory thing. Guess I was giving them too much credit in thinking like normal people.
Tf
temporalflux@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/8120
Almost
forgot SliderNum5...
Date: 3/22/99
From: TemporalFlux
I know the scene you're talking about and they're not in the vortex...they are actually in "The Chasm" (which is where the ep gets its name).
Tf
temporalflux@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/8120
Another
view of the Sliding Vortex
Date: 3/23/99
From: MarkTwo
Warning Spoilers ahead for Roads Taken
It's been a while since I saw Roads Taken, but I'm sure that you see the inside of the Sliding Vortex at the beginning of this episode.
Have Fun
MarkTwo
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