Date: 01/22/2000
From: JorgeCis

Dear Mr. Damron,

Somehow I get the feeling that your in logic in the last journal entry is a bit...off. Let me show you:

"I was starting to pound out ideas for what would be my final Sliders script and very likely our season finale."

Weren't you doing that the week before, like when TO CATCH A SLIDER was being done, like when you said, "I went off to begin work on 'The Seer' while Chris and Bill continued to hammer out the story, which Bill would eventually script"? Gosh, how long does it take for you to at least START? A whole week? Maybe it's all those lunches.

"I had forwarded a pitch on how we might consider ending the show. It was to be a spectacular coda that, with the assistance of our arch nemesis Doctor Geiger, would resolved the Kromagg's on Earth Prime problem, (by using his patented recombinant science)."

Dr. Geiger? Um, hello? The good doc DIES the episode before! Wouldn't that leave quite a huge continuity hole?

I suppose you figured that the world in GENESIS is really EP. Okay, fine. But how can Geiger use his recombinant science? It doesn't work in the macro level, as we learn in the key episode BEFORE the last one. And besides, HE'S DEAD by then!!!

"We would address the issue of re-splitting Quinn once and for all (hinging on the availability of a certain actor and TPTB to okay it) and then we'd send Mallory and Diana home."

Didn't you say in THE UNSTUCK MAN that JOC was NOT available for all of season 5? Remember this, sir? "Neither Jerry nor Charlie O'Connell would be involved in the fifth season of the show." Hmm...I guess your memory has a few continuity holes, as well.

"I hadn't forgotten about Mrs. Mallory, Quinn's adoptive mother either. Somehow I managed to slip her and Colin in there."

I'm glad you remembered SOMETHING! And wouldn't you need ANOTHER certain actor for this one?

"But the clock was ticking and still no word..."

And since time was running out, you still managed to only START the idea. Good job, sir!

Well, Mr. Damron, what can I say? I'm utterly appalled at the journal entry you have submitted. I can't believe you would give us a last paragraph like that. Can you blame any Sliders fan for being annoyed at it?

And as for why I would be writing a letter like this? To toss it right back at you, "Stuff happens."

Love,
Jorge Cisneros

Tsk, tsk
Date: 01/22/2000
From: theunbeliever

Now, was that nice?

I can't wait to see how Damron

Date: 01/22/2000
From: Stax_

attempts to justify the path taken in The Seer resulting in THAT ending.He has dug himself into a mighty big hole with all the "We knew this would be our last season" talk.stax

Dear Mr Damron
Date: 01/23/2000
From: SciFiParagon60

Where did you get all your information? I'm glad to read it because I've felt so in the dark in regard to what's going to happen with this show! I've wondered what happened to the O'Connells and whether they would ever return. I've wondered about Wade, too, until I read the article about Sabrina Lloyd in last Sunday's Parade Magazine in the Akron Beacon Journal. And, of course, I knew that John Rhys-Davies (the Professor) actually had been killed in a tragic dune buggy accident summer before last (I think) in Santa Monica, California. So there's no getting HIM back. I'd like to see the old cast members rejoin the cast for the season finale, and if it's to be the last one for this show, I wish they'd tie up all the loose ends! Anyway, thanks for all the good information. Do you have anymore you'd like to share? And do you know how we can protest the killing off of this show?

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