Heated Sliders Debate!

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Brand_S

Yeah, this is in response to Mychand's post above. I figured, how can I refuse a nice young lady like her in her request? After all, she was actually brave enough to contribute to the Gallery!
I myself am just waiting until my hair grows out more; I'm in a "transitional period" right now! I'd have a good goatee and much longer hair goin', but I swear, whenever I WANT it to do something, my hair always comes to a complete stop! It's no fair!

Anyhow, here's the heated debate!

Which of these two would you rather have had:

1) All five seasons of Sliders as we know it.
2) Tracy Tormé having complete control for all three seasons, the original cast staying put, and Tormé intentionally ending the show's run at the end of the third season. The final episode: Heat of the Moment.

So, what'll it be? Five seasons or three EXCEPTIONAL seasons?

Aw'right, so it's not that heated. I'm just trying to do something nice here! Think of me as a good samaritan!

S

PS: QBall79, you need to tell Tormé just how sorry we all are that his creation got Pecked. Should we do something to show him, like a mass e-mail or something? By the way, you're still here, right?

PPS: This somehow reminds me of those SNL skits where Chris Farley, George Wendt, Mike Myers, John Goodman, and that other guy were fat mustachioed Polish-sausage-eating fans of Chicago's sports teams. You know, "da Bearss" and "da Bullss." What would be more of an even match? Coach Ditka vs Godzilla or Michael Jordan vs King Kong?
This one's going over everyone's head, isn't it?

Thats a hard one...

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Fish_Bone

1) Would be bad, but we would have more seasons.

2) Good but we would be stuck with 3 seasons, and no movie.

Short and Simple answer.

Fish Bone
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hmmm

Date: 05/29/2000
From: humaggs

I don't know

1) We have more seasons.

2) We have three Tormé seasons. We wouldn't of had to see Peck mess with it. The Professor would have stayed for the rest of the season. We still wouldn't of had a series finale that finishes every thing off, but it would have been better than The Seer.

I the think number 2 would have been better.

Humaggs

I'm sure

Date: 05/29/2000
From: jerry_o_who

I'm sure there would've have been numerous uncountable merits if we had Torme in control for 3 seasons but hvaing these uneven 5 seasons ranging from greatness to mediocrity to even below sometimes has given us alot to talk about. Theres been debates on which season was better, which cast is better and i think stuff like that is what the bboard is intended to be used for. It keeps it going. Even though the show is over with all these different casts we can always find something to critique and debate.
I'm going with the show the way it is. The firings,quitings, and all the behind scenes controversies that ocurred pretty soon after Torme's power was lessened, resulted in a very interesting television history. For better or for worse somwhere our show will have it's claim to fame as having the most cast changes in a science fiction T.V. Series(perhaps even beating Dr. Who-but, I doubt it)

Ah, but what you fail to consider is...

Date: 05/29/2000
From: EustiSlider

If Torme and Weiss had been in control for the entire run with little intervention from FOX. This would have had some interesting results. 1) Production would have remained in Vancouver - much better for the 'look and feel' of the show. 2) JRD would have stayed & no Kari - much better for the acting. 3) None of the 3rd season sh!t with the movie ripoffs and other crap - can you imagine an S3 without Electric Twister Acid Test? 4) Shows shown in order.

What's left out of your poll is the very real possibility that the resulting show would have had sufficient ratings to still be on today! FOX's Friday night lineup hasn't exactly been tearin' up the ratings since the jump to SCI FI.

So while its tempting to go for the five seasons we had and the possibility of a movie, I'll go with option #1. I honestly think there wouldn't have been a need for Torme to end the show after 3 seasons if he had been in control instead of FOX.

-- Eusti

7:-I

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Blinker

"Better to burn out, then to fade away"?

But then, the movie and its possible sequels might make all this suffering worthwhile...

Hey S, you get my e-mail?

- Blinker 7:-/
http://welcome.to/gate_haven

East choice...

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Informant

3 good seasons are better than 2 good seasons, 2 horrible seasons that I can't bring myself to watch and one pretty good season.

So, for me, I only have 2 and a half good seasons that I can watch. So 3 really good seasons would be way better.

okay

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Mychand

Thanks Brand S! :o)

Okay, my choice. I think I would rather have three good seasons with the original cast. I think mostly because of what happened to the main characters. Maybe if that part of it had been handled differently, my opinion would be different. What happened to Wade and the Professor ruined it for me.

My

Easy as pie...

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Slider_Quinn21

Torme at the helm for 3. HOTM is worth it!

As for the Ditka thing....

Ditka 124 Godzilla 3(Because Ditka had to do an advertisement for part of the 3rd)

Jordan 345 King Kong 6

Da Bearsss
Da Bullsss

Now who would win in a fight between Ditka and a hurricane?

DITKA

What if the hurricane was named hurricane Ditka?

Ditka 17
Hurricane Ditka 14

What would happen if Da Bearsss entered the Indy 500? Da Bearsss are driving a yellow bus... Who's driving? Ditka!

DA BEARSSS!

I love that sketch!

Quinn

And Blink...did you get my e-mail?

Why isn't anyone answering the Ditka ?

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Slider_Quinn21

why?

PS-I'm not from Chi-cag-o.

:-)
Quinn

Groovycool in the extreme, but...

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Tigs

Would three Torme seasons include a full run? If they did then I'm totally for it. However, I didn't get online until Feb of 99 and I think that rerun hell was fired up, so I would never have found my way here. Not that it would matter to most. In the end, three full seasons of Torme.

I remember da Bears--hmmm. Does that make me old? ;-D

ktf
Tigs

Three Great Seasns

Date: 05/29/2000
From: SingularVisions

At least then we would still have hope for a movie.

 

- SingularVisions

More seasons equals more episodes

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Yankeeblue

This is a good topic to talk about. I would have loved to have 3 great seasons is Tracy Torme were still calling the shots. But let's not forget that the first 2 seasons were each only half a season of 9 and 13 episodes respectively. Season 3 was Fox's only full season which would have totaled an overall 44 episodes. Reruning these eps on the Sci-Fi Channel on a Monday to Friday schedule would take a mere 9 weeks and eventually force the network to move it on its schedule in favor of newer or more recent shows they would eventually add to the schedule after Sliders having been in a certain time slot so often. So I would prefer if there were more seasons since very few shows in the Sci-Fi genre can last for 5 seasons these days.

As for the man vs. monster competition, anybody remember the giant Charles Barkley/Godzilla basketball game in that sneaker commercial. Definitely wouldn't want to be there to be crushed by all the rubble they spilled all over that city (if it still exists)!

Quinn, check your inbox...

Date: 05/29/2000
From: Blinker

...unless Hotmail has stopped functioning here, which I am beginning to suspect.

- Blinker 7:-I
http://welcome.to/gate_haven

I thought about this for a few seconds.

Date: 05/29/2000
From: FogBoy

And the answer is... the five seasons that we got.

There's really no contest. For the characters we got to know outside of the originals (the good ones, anyway), the twists that came with time, and the good episodes that we had that had nothing to do with the first three seasons or Torme... it's a choice between having that or ending it on another cliffhanger two years earlier?

I'll take what we got.

The more the merrier

Date: 05/30/2000
From: Grizzlor

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