Good Thing, Bad Thing -------> Invasion!

Date: 08/06/2001
From: Blinker

THOMASMALTHUS: Twenty bucks says next Thursday.

EUSTISLIDER: Pfffft. Fifty on tomorrow!

SYNTHIA: Uh, what's going on?

SLIDERULES: We're holding a pool on when Blinker's going to run out of steam and let this post series slide for another half-year again. :-P

VIGEANT: I've got two grand on Friday the 17th!

SLIDER_QUINN21: Hey, that reminds me. How come back in the early days of Voyager, it was a huge deal when Tom Paris started a radiogenic-particle-count betting pool in defiance of regulations... but in the finale, Harry starts up a baby pool on B'Elanna's delivery date and the senior officers all chucklingly pitch in?

BRANNON PECKINBRAGA: Who cares; it's a parallel world!

SLIDER_QUINN21: Gimme a >:-#ing break! The first time, Chakotay was ready to give Paris' ARM a >:-#ing break!

BLINKER: Um... are we GOING to have a show tonight?

SYNTHIA: Good point! Ten grand says *yesterday*'ll be our last one for a year. :-D

• Recall317 wins a mechanized Tracy Tormé FOX Gripe Generator, and a GOLD STAR!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a 64:1 scale typewriter ink cartridge!
• ThomasMalthus wins no less than 69 edible chocolate roaches handed out to promote Howard Stern's "The Cockroach King"! Wait a minute... edible roaches don't crawl...... EDIBLE ROACHES DON'T CRAWWWWL!!!!!!
• FogBoy wins a front row seat at the premiere of "Duck Hour II: Peeking Duck"!
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins a Season Three Arturo hair extension kit. His choice of "scraggly," "locust-eating desert wild man," or "extra scraggly"!
• SL4ever wins a stuffed tiger named "Boethius"! Be sure to feed him, now!
• TemporalFlux wins the real Almanac that the Sliders one was based on! Well... *most* of it's real!
• Callie21V wins a six-pack of Impact Cola. For Great EduLearn!®

=== GOOD THING, BAD THING: INVASION ===

BLINKER: Okay, this one's obvious. Good thing: the episode itself. Bad thing: all the episodes it made *possible.* 7>:-#

SYNTHIA: Don't remind me. >:-#~~~ Umm... good thing? All the subtleties of Kromagg civilization... from fluid, organic aircraft, to forcefields that gradually grow more intense rather than sparking you like the clichéd Star Trek models, to the official collective noun of the Kromagg Dynasty being "the Kromagg" rather than "the KroMAGGS." Bad thing? Peck tossed all this work out the window, so what's the point?

GUEST RIFFER QUINN MALLORY: Bad thing: we suffered unimaginable tortures, saw a terrifying pall cast on the remainder of our days together, and generally opened the door to the decimation and enslavement of six billion people on our homeworld. Good thing: we crossed a few Kromagg wires.

KROMAGG KOMMANDER KRODIFEROUS: Yeah, you blew up our >:-#ing fridge. Bastard. >:-I

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

"Hey baby, show me your thorax!"

Love the stuffed kitties! :-D

Date: 08/07/2001
From: SL4Beaver

Good thing: The entire eerie, Outer Limits feel of the ep. Last appearance of Bennish was chilling, especially his last line. The difference between this and the joke that followed in seasons four and five illustrate more keenly than anything else that Peckinballs wouldn't make a pimple on Tracy Torme's ASS.

Bad thing: A serious beaver deficiency. >:-# Also, slave girl's duplicity was a little predictable. Even Roadie, my personal Wonder Dog, knew that she couldn't be trusted. Not even Torme could adequately explain how one world's population of Kromaggs could hope to take over more than 2 or 3 worlds. Conquering ONE world of 6 billion people would be a massive undertaking, even with superior technology. To say nothing of occupying multiple worlds.

Too easy

Date: 08/07/2001
From: Slider_Quinn21

Good Thing-Sliders fans were intrigued by this episode, hoping for a Season 3 plot line including the Kromaggs.

Bad Thing-David Peckinpah saw this episode, and in my opinion overdid it JUST A TAD!

Ben Stiller

Pretty much the same.

Date: 08/07/2001
From: FogBoy

Good thing: It was the first through-and-through hard sci-fi story in the series, opening the door for new, more wildly varied forms of parallel worlds. (See: 'Slidecage', 'Strangers and Comrades')

Bad thing: It was the first through-and-through hard sci-fi story in the series, opening the door for new, more wildly varied forms of parallel worlds. (See: 'Dragonslide', 'The Fire Within')

The Good, The Bad, and The Wealthy

Date: 08/07/2001
From: Recall317

No wait, that's an earlier ep from this season (and not a particularly good one at that.) Lessee...Invasion...Invasion.....

Bien: Finalement, une monde ou la régle francais! Vive Versailles Nouveau!

Mal: Trop d'heure perdue sur des singes de tueur qu'explorant la gloire qui est culture française.

For you stupid Americans, that means the French are good, monkeys are bad. So stuff that in your croissant and smoke it!

R317

"That frog-eating mendicant?! I wouldn't waste good material on him!"- Arturo

Damn dirty apes!

Date: 08/07/2001
From: DieselMickeyDolenz

Good thing: The Sliders finally come across people from an earth where evolution took a different course.

Bad thing: It set a precedent for EFX intensive story lines. Prior to that, the best episodes had little need for flashy EFX to carry the story forward. The vortex and an occasional double was it.

DMD

Mmmmm... gloire...

Date: 08/08/2001
From: Callie21V

Chose bien: Les visages des Kromagg sont des masques incroyables.

[Good thing: The Kromaggs' faces are incredible... as masks.]

Chose mauvais: Ils sont donc absolument incapable de demontrer les changes d'expression.

[Bad thing: They are therefore utterly incapable of displaying facial expressions.]

Notre lecon d'aujourd'hui:

[Today's lesson:]

L'equipage des <<X-Files>> agreent avec nous que TemporalFlux est un postant magnifique.

[The X-Files makeup people have been working on David Duchovny for WAY too long.]

>>> la C/21

Ah, pour an ordinateur capable de rendre les accents...

Since we're all speaking French...

Date: 08/11/2001
From: ThomasMalthus

I decided to do mine in French as well. Since I'm so original.

Bien: J'ai perdu ma vie manger la poule a la piscine.

Translation: The final recognition by the show that there might be a world where humans never developed was well worth the wait.

Mal: Tu chante en francais comme une mal vache espanol.

Translation: Too many of the French people in Versailles West (Ouest for you Frenchies) spoke English. It's a nitpick, but what do you expect from a Season Two ep?

ThomasMalthus

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