What Would You Change? • Dream Masters

Date: 02/12/2004
From: SynthIA

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What happens when Wade resists the affections of (I can't believe I'm writing this) a sadistic cabal of all-powerful nerds? All hell breaks loose... for the viewers. The characters, meanwhile, endure such nerd-devised tortures as foot-deep pools of quicksand, offscreen firing squads, and a room full of eerie CGI *triangles*.

BLINKER: I know I've harped on this a million times already, but it bears rebitching about. The carefully plausible explanation of how the Dream Masters simulate dream invasions through drugs, hypnotism and word of mouth is *completely* undercut by the sequence in which they, and the Sliders, AND all their previous victims, somehow share a romp through the Dimension of the Subconscious! KEEP TO THE DAMN PREMISE!

SYNTHIA: I'm going to lower my expectations, and just ask that they come up with scarier "nightmare" effects than a bluescreen backdrop tinted different colours.

http://slidersweb.net/blinker/capped/62dream/84.jpg
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SYNTHIA: I mean, for cryin' out loud.

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Where to start?

Date: 02/12/2004
From: The_Seer

BT needs to be changed.

Okay, I was going to propose about 1,000 changes but instead I'll stick to the rules and just propose one change. If you're gonna rip off "Nightmare on Elm Street" and you're gonna have Robert Englund appear in an episode then you just might as well combine the two and have Mr. Freddie Krueger himself play Vincent Cardoza in this episode and have Michael Des Barres or someone else play Aldohn in "State of the A.R.T."

Lucid Dreaming - change your nightmares

Date: 02/12/2004
From: JTHeyman

'Lo. .

I *could* make a suggestion about the placement of Wade's towel, with appropriate (or inappropriate) "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" subreferences, but I have to choose this:

Michael Des Barres is a good singer and an excellent crazy-evil villain (both demonstrated on "MacGyver"), so *WHY* in the zillion dimensions is he playing "King of the Sleepy Nerds"? If you're gonna have sleepy nerds, their ruler should be the most nerdy, UN-threatening guy you could find ... Willie Garson, maybe ... or maybe an evil queen of the nerds ... not a guy who is actually cool and fun to watch.

YMMV

~ JTHeyman
"Wade Wells Lives!"

ehhhhh

Date: 02/12/2004
From: Grizzlor

If I could go back, erase this entire episode, and have the four sliders sit at a table having dinner for one hour and chit-chatting, I would GLADLY do it!

How's that?

Where to Start

Date: 02/13/2004
From: PhantomDennis

I wound up practically rewriting the whole thing. However my revised treatment won't be ready to post by Tomorrow morning. So Here Are few Changes that I came up.

*It's ridiculous to bring someone as talented as Michael DesBarres in, than have him play second fiddle to the Gerald character. Have Cordoza provide the Major Menace. I mean if he died, everyone waking up would make more sense since he's the source of everyone's power. (Although, I think everyone wakes up not because a Dream Master has been killed. Because the Sliders figured out it was a dream and broke the illusion. Although, why this obvious fact would only occur to an outsider is beyond me.

I'd also make him a Rock Star. And have him and Remmy fight a musical duel.

* Bring Robert Englund Aboard but make him a good a guy. (I thought his vulnerable heroes like Willie from V, were better than the roles he's most famous for. Besides, it would add a nice Ironic touch.

* I also considered Casting Katherine Heigel as a young woman with psychic powers battling the Dream Masters. But that would be a retro-reference. Since ROSWELL wouldn't be on for year or so yet.

Still it would have to fun for Quinn to try and romance her and then discover she's a female alternate of OBSESSION'S. Derek Bond.

I came up with a few more ideas for my treatment of the show that have to be seen to be believed. Let's just say I have really screwy alt-history for the world.

I hope to have it posted in a day or two. It will be in the form of an episode summary.

Where to end?

Date: 02/13/2004
From: Recall317

We can't stop, it's already begun.

Sabrina Lloyd: Oh boy, Wade has helpless victim again. I thought we had come to an agreement where this stuff was going to stop! Why can't Quinn be the guy having nightmares and Wade has to save him? Would that have killed anyone?

FOX Network Exec: Just the male demographics, age 14-22. They clearly want Wade in distress more. And women dancing in cages.

R317

It's pretty much fine as is...

Date: 02/13/2004
From: ThomasMalthus

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I would just make a minor change by taking the emphasis away from the "Dream" aspect of the title and putting it on the "Masters". Quinn steps into the shoes of his pro-golfer double, only on this world professional golf is played with dragon eggs instead of golf balls (remember, this *is* the Third Season). Can Professor Arturo discover the secret of clubbing the eggs without hatching the dragon before Quinn gets really teed off? How much will Rembrandt complain about being Quinn's caddy? Will Wade help a plucky young New York Times reporter expose the inherent injustice of no women golfers at Augusta?

Eh, probably not. This *is* the Third Season after all. Expect Quinn to make out with a blonde who he knows nothing about and the other three characters to be more or less irrelevant.

ThomasMalthus

My change

Date: 02/14/2004
From: Slidemania

I would have replaced the dream masters with Logan St. Clair as the prime villain of the episode.

What I would have liked to see...

Date: 02/16/2004
From: MissingSliderRyan

BT being thrown into the Crispy Vortex

Peck: We needed to follow "Nightmare on Elm Street" more carefully. CHICKS! We need more chicks! More death! More death! Got to get rid of Wade and the Professor! They're bringing this entire episode down. Give me the claws of Freddy!




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