Yes, it was quite a while ago that Sci-Fi Channel announced that Sliders would not be renewed for another season. I finally got to see quite a few episodes from Season 5 last night, and it got me to thinking... Sliders episodes tend to get made all at once, and then they slowly get aired over the course of the season. That means the season, and thus series, finale would most probably not tie up any loose ends.
Wade: Got captured by the Kro-Maggs between Seasons 3 and 4. Numerous allusions were made to her during Season 4, and they were actually quite close to finding her a few times.
Quinn: Got merged with his duplicate in the Season 5 premiere. Appearantly, they're trying to find a way to get our Quinn out of "Mallory."
Collin: Also written out in the Season 5 premiere. He's stuck between dimensions. They're trying to figure out how to get him back.
Earth Prime: Originally our Earth, it deviated majorly from the world we know when it was invaded by the Kro-Maggs before the Season 4 premiere. Rembrandt still needs to find a way to save his world, and Season 4 was spent trying to find a weapon capable of doing such a thing. However, a Season 5 episode revealed that the weapon has such devestating side-effects that it is virtually useless.
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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Hmm... Serves me right for not looking at the Sci-Fi Channel's website lately. Wade will be in the next episode, actually. It doesn't say if Sabrina Lloyd will be playing her or not, though.
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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :
*is very bitter on the subject*
Sliders ended back when Professor Arturo was bumped off...
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Posted by jh on :
To be blunt: I don't think there was ever another show with as much potential that sucked as much as Sliders. So many cool things could have been done...
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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
I loved Sliders back when it was on Fox. Then Sci-Fi Channel took it, which I was actually happy about cause it meant that it was coming back. Maggie for the Professor, not a bad trade-off; although I always did like his character. I think the worst thing Sci-Fi did though was kill Quinn off by merging him with a double that doesn't even look like Quinn Mallory. That, and most of it's first season on SF dealing with the Kromaggs. They run into them once, never see them again for a long time and all the sudden every other world is overrun by the Kromaggs? At least they might tie-up the loose end with Wade...
"Requiem" Rembrandt finally locates their long-lost Slider, Wade, who is being used by the Kromaggs to launch a deadly assault on Kromagg Prime to eliminate all humans.
I look forward to that, I just hope it has the original actress Sabrina Lloyd as Wade.
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
It all went wrong sometime in the second season. . .
I can live with one Slider missing, but I don't like the way they changed it when the professor went. Now only one original Slider remains, and that is also the one who was accidently caught into the vortex....
Well, for those of you who are interested, the episode with Wade is going to be on in 15 minutes. Sorry that doesn't give much warning, but I just found out myself.
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