Another unproduced Tracy Torme story ?

Date: 06/04/2000
From: Stax_

I could remember reading this at www.sliders.net a while ago , before I found this place anyway . In the articles section there is an interview with Tracy Torme' where he mentions an idea he had regarding the Kromaggs in season three . Here it is :

That said, Tormé already has a follow-up in mind, which he hopes to do some time this season. "I have a very trippy, surrealistic show in mind involving the Cromags. It wouldn't be us landing in the middle of another invasion; it would start in a way that you wouldn't know it was a Cromag show ".

You can find it :

http://www.sliders.net/articles/starlog233.html

It might be an idea for someone to ask him about it ( he says lazily ).

Also this sounds like the type of episode Sliders should have been producing during season four . We had far too many Genisis-Common Ground-The Dying Fields episodes where the sliders get caught , try to escape , get captured and slide out . Instead of taking a good plot and transplanting the Kromaggs as villians they took the Kromaggs and built unimaginative stories around them .

I know this information has been " out there " for a while but I haven't seen it discussed here or on any other website . The interview is from pre-season 3 and there is hardly anyone left who was around since then so it's probably news to most of us .

On another note Torme' also said this :

[ Other shows he is working on ] include a series for HBO called Dark City that Tormé likens to "film noir meets The Prisoner" (it's no relation to the Alex Proyas movie, Dark City, now in production) and The Others, which he simply describes as "out there."

The Others ? Though it never made it to this side of the Atlantic wasn't that about ghosts or something . He must have dropped it for Doomsday .stax

Wasn't The Others..

Date: 06/05/2000
From: PHOENIXZERO

That show that has already been canceled by NBC? I thought it was kinda corney.

Kromaggs weren't intended to dominate

Date: 06/05/2000
From: houseguest

Torme has also said that he never intended for the Kromaggs to take center stage of the show. He felt that they should remain an obstacle, but never to become the focus of the show. He said that he didn't want the show to degenerate into basically what they degenerated it into. Kinda makes you wish that he never came up with the concept of a sliding villain, and never produced Invasion, seeing the way they trampled all over his ideas.

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