I'd give S4 amoebic dysentery if I knew

Date: 10/4/99
From: Brand_S

how.

Actually, I can't really stand Season 4. Don't get me wrong. I'd never walk out on a Sliders episode (I did a few times with Voyager.), but I just can't get into Season4 episodes. I mean, they're worse than Season 3 in my opinion.

I consider this season to be Peckinpah manifest. Without Torme, and with him at the lead, the man could get whatever he wanted, and no one could stop the outpouring of his bad ideas. I could just see him pissing on Tracy Torme's ideas. All four main characters are action-hero-friendly. Genesis just took Torme's idea, shat on it, then buried the mess in the yard. The Kromaggs were above and beyond overdone. They probably would've been livable if they weren't so jacked around by Peckinpah into Nazi posers. Maggie was at her least-good-looking with that black haircut. (I still have yet to see the show explain changes of haircuts/hair color with the Sliders. ;-) ) None of the regulars did a good acting job except Cleavant, and he was limited by what he was given. The way Wade was written off was just plain sick. There was very little to connect the show to previous seasons, especially with no mention of previous seasons. Professor? Who's the Professor? Quinn not being from Earth Prime is probably what pisses me off the most. The only reason I could see for that plot pseudo-twist is to write in Colin. Colin might as well have not been on the show. I didn't see one occasion in which he did anything to help the group. The icing on the cake has to be Revelations. That episode would have been awesome, if it wasn't made extraordinarily stupid by being butchered and reduced to poorly-acted flaming-bag-filling. I would have forgiven the entire season if it was revealed that Colin was a Kromagg spy and Quinn really was from Earth Prime. Everything was unrealistic. For a guy who just left an Amish-ish life, Colin wasn't surprised by anything, and he was quite the fighter for a guy who'd never fought before. Did I mention the acting? Quinn didn't care. He was a condescending, inconsistent, sex-drive-reliant, no-talent ass-clown, especially in comparison to his earlier acting. Colin left before his acting could improve. Maggie was a dits; thank God she got better. Rembrandt could only act as good as the writing was. And the writing sucked. I mean, the writing tossed Newt Gingrich's salad. The awesome idea of Colin being a spy was shot down, as was the debunkment of the events in Genesis, despite the fact that both brothers were probably planning to quit at the time. And did somebody say "loose ends?"

But you know what? For all the reasons I hate this season, I'll forgive it based on one thing. As a TV show, it ain't half bad. But my standards go up drastically when it's Sliders we're talking about. I'll be damned if I allow the same show that gave me Eggheads to give me a poorly-acted mess like Revelations without speaking up.

S

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