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How great would that be if sliders returned?

Last aired 2003 to 2005 I believe.

These are all great points and frankly I would add that the amount of shows in a season back then got writers to the point of caring less because they had to crank out so much product.  As you pointed out the business model was more so ad supported back then.

I personally am not a fan of a fair amount of reboots that don't continue with or honor the original characters.  I feel like the original actors and characters literally get dumped.  It seems though hard to get revivals green light vs. reboots.  Old shows have baggage and tend to be dated because it happened 20 or 30 yrs ago.  It is less "cool" for a programming exec to green light them.

hahaha... that's awesome

WOW, I absolutely love these!!

https://xfilespreservationcollection.com/

love this...

Carter watched the pilot with fans..

ha, that's awesome!

If you have someone democrats love than republicans will hate them and half the country is pissed anyway.

Maybe the answer is someone neither side hates nor loves.

That's in part how I am looking at the current situation.

The bees are a smart delivery mechanism.

There's aspects of the mythology that I love.

As you mentioned there are casual fans and there are hardcore fans.  It's probably a lot harder for a hardcore fans to tolerate with very real issues with continuity and mythology.  Casuals fans can look the other way, simply in part because they don't always see the problems.

I think I heard something like when S10&11 returned, the very broad casual audience didn't like the humor stuff -- they wanted the monster of the week.  And of course hardcore fans liked quirky stuff.

I hope the new series in development, The X-Files: Albuquerque, actually happens.

Definitely Wade!

and Derek in Obsession.

And this psychic in Into the Mystic:
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and Gillian in Gillian of Spirits.

and Mel Torme in Greatfellas.

 
An interesting take.   Maybe an accurate assessment... or at the very least a fair way of looking at it.

That said, I feel there's some pulpiness to the show and I'm OK with the approach to the monster of the week and not having to tie up loose ends on those.  Part of the point of it is just that electro guy exists.  And Mulder's own curiosity to explore the unexplained, or the stuff nobody would belief.  Not necessarily for us, but for him.  And Scully's desire to keep investigations based on finding facts in front of acting on faith.  And the conflict with that against the faith she lives by.

For me, I love Mulder's dry humor, his obsessions, his weirdness.  Hey, isn't it great that not every character on tv is like Matthew Perry or something?  In some ways... mulder made it OK to be weird.  And we all know about the scully effect.

I don't pretend to be able to wrap my head around the mythology, nor do I get overly concerned about it.   I think it's fair for viewers to want everything to make perfect sense and break down how it holds up to reality.  It's just not how I personally process these things.  I'm willing to look the other way, and think life doesn't always seem to make perfect sense anyway even though there's underlying reasons for everything that we don't always have access to.

I love the partnership between the pair.  They have different dynamics that make for an interesting pairing. I just love what the show gives me and really don't worry about where it falls short.  I feel like there's always good stories to be told with both and would love to see more in the future.  If I'm not crazy about half of it or even two thirds, I still get the episodes that really fall into the X-Files classic material.  I suppose it may also be because I don't go in with huge expectations and don't know the mythology back and forth that I'm less bothered.

With a franchise like Blade Runner, I'm a bit more critical. So I guess I can understand frustration with approach and writing at times.

Morgan certainly would be great to take over it the show was ever handed over.

I think generally X-Files really works for me because of the Mully Sculder relationship and characters.  I just want to watch them, and them in situations... particuarly the dramatic ones X-Files allows.

I can live with other issues because at the end of the day, I am interested in following them along.

I never was into X-Files to the same degree as Sliders, and I def. think you are a bigger fan othan me of the X-Files (and have much greater knowledge), but as far as shows go... well, other than Sliders, I can't think of a show that I like more.  OK, maybe Breaking Bad?

I'm quite picky with shows. And at this point, it's hard to invest in 5-10 hours or more in new ones.  Maybe I'll completely watch all the season of like 3-4 new series a year.

Other than our classic foursome from SLIDERS, I just can't think of other characters I want to spend time with more than Scully and Mulder.  I think for both shows, the characters work because of the relationship between them.  There is a bond between the characters.  And each come at life from a different angle.  And they go about their journey together, with a underlying respect for one another.

I can tolerate problems with any of the series if those characters are there. As you've said so often, you know these characters are like good friends.

They certainly earned the nine seasons they got with very good ratings.  I agree it is shocking for a sci-fi show on fox but they really had a strong vision from the beginning and there was not much for FOX to muck with. Though maybe fox is the reason Gillian was told to walk behind David.

The movies obviously duchovny was unhappy with, especially on the budget, which he thought treated it like an indy film (not that I agree).  But the backstory on the second film failing was the studio pushing for that creative direction.

Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster and The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat were classics.

There actually is a new x files series in development but it doesn't involved Mulder and Scilly.

The X files should never be more relevant though.  Our government has a new publicly acknowledged UFO office and there are rumors we may get public hearings on the matter.

Not surprising but a bit depressing

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gil … 23367.html

Rob sure is an artist

Love this blog post from sabrina

https://www.sabrinalloyd.com/post/sprin … aa877c4df6

That's a great point about Hurley too.

Or who tracy' s Stephanie was. 

So now we know cleavant singing at candlestick park and Stephanie are two musts for a collector's edition.

I think endemic is considered when there is no spike over the normal.  Unfortunately, we are setting a new baseline for what's normal but that maybe we haven't established the new baseline just yet. 

With omicron, at least in the U.S. the IFR (death rate) was fairly low and comparable to the flu but spread so much more abudundantly.  Really unprecedented.  Probably 2m cases a day at times (even if only 1m were captured). 

Public health officials should IMO stressing ventilation (HEPA filteration systems, you can build yourself for 50 bucks with a box fan, ductate and filters) or even purchase floor units of varying sizes.   They should actually do a good job of explaining what masks work, and of the ones that do, how well.  We have a video of biden and cdc officials promoting masking with surgical masks (and doctors and medical staff wearing them quite a bit).  No wonder people are confused.

We should be educating the public on antivirals, monoclonals, early invention/treatement and rapid tests.  I bet at least half of the people who died from covid/complications would have lived with these early interventions.  Maybe as much as 75 percent.  The Biden White House treated the vaccine as a magic bullet, that could stop transmission and eliminate severe cases.  It didn't stop tranmission.  It greatly reduced severe cases.

The problem is we have so much institutional mistrust, we have people who think the vaccine side effects are horrible but covid is nothing, and at the end of the day this is an experimental vaccine with a lack of transparency (won't get into that), and so there was always gonna be some hestitancy.  And there was way more than they expected because to some degree, their world is their own bubble, and they don't always understand some of america outside of it.  The america that doesn't trust institutions or trusts putting it all in god's hands, even though I am pretty sure god didn't want any of the 1m americans to die (and potentially 18m across the world in some estimates).

The new normal has to be educating the public on the virus, on long covid, on the tools we have in our arsnel (it's not just vaccines!) and empowering people to make individual choices while also implementing measures when necessary to assist the most vunerable populations.   Institutions and leaders need to not bend the truth (avoid the noble lie or telling part of the truth) because there's been too much of that from the get go and it has created even more distrust as the public has latched onto these things.

As of now heart disease and cancer combined kill about 2-3x more americans than covid per year.  Not sure numbers in canada.  We now have another major cause of death to contend with.  So it sucks because the older everyone grows, the less the immune system is in shape, it becomes more of a threat.  Just a bout with it can age the immune system.  People need to do what they can to avoid obesity, diabetes, etc and the governments should be supporting that and including that in the messaging.  Hopefully more money goes into medical funding and hopefully there are more breakthroughs in medical technology because of this.

We need to try to come back better out of this but in the short term we have to manage this as best we can, understandingly some people are more risk averse folks, some people just want to live their life and not be fearful about it, we have put our hospital workers through a god awful time and we have various ways of trying to let people live their life while reducing death and severe cases if we don't become political or irresponsible about it.

The argument I would make for crossovers is that generally the network or studio might care about the franchise more because it is a way to create a shared cinematic or televised universe.   Universal hasn't really given a crap about Sliders.  That may have been different had they done crossovers.

disagreement is a healthy thing.... an interesting perspective.

Wouldn't it be cool if Quinn Mallory and Marty McFly interacted?  Would love to see those two universes collide.  Them working together would be awesome..

could be a diffferent caitlin basset?

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Good addition to the conversation, ireactions.  I love the sliders discourse when its like this.  It's also why i loved the podcast -- because it made me look at things different and I know with annie, it's not always gonna be perspective without interesting criticism.

regarding sliding tech, i myself have never cared about the details. I think writers only feel they have to construct a nuts and bolds realism around that stuff because there's  a segment of the audience, more of the engineer or science or braniac mind who thinks through that portion of the world, and if they feel that it isn't always truthful, or contradicts itself, it undermines the entire world and not real.

Sliders audience to me seems less TNG and more quirky people interested in differences, interested in alternatives, and people who like the team / working-together themes of the show.

looks like the sliders pilot got an AI remaster on a popular reddit remastering forum

https://www.reddit.com/r/AIRemastered/c … _1995_dvd/

My strong belief is universal gave mill creek the digital files in the largest size they had them and mill creek made the decision to compress to get them to fit on a certain number of discs.

Mill Creek was dealing with the non high end, much more causal fan (this was the third release of the dvds) and at a lower price point, saving 25 cents, 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar on discs helps preserve their limited profit margin ( which may have been something like 4/5 bucks per unit).

It's incredible you haven't seen Dream Masters but I'm guessing it's premise is particularly creepy to you and it's best not watched.

In terms of what files they used, do you really think they used the "Mill Creek" files.  My guess had been they had one set of digital files that they send to all partners (though I suppose there actually may be a few, which can happen over 20 years).  I always assumed though there was one files and then the partners either heavily compressed it or did not.  The per-purchase vod files on amazon, verizon cable is awful for instance.  But I just assumed that was how the partner who received the files handled things, not because they got a crappy version of the file from universal.

If universal does have different types of files and they gave Peacock crap ones that's not excusable.  Unless Peacock wanted small size files to save on bandwidth costs but I doubt they would have made that request. 

It's possible that universal just has different versions of the files and the people who work there have no clue that they have different files with better or lower qualty and they just  send off the ones that are most convenient.

El Cid

Here's some pilot images to start:

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It will definitely happen   Tuesday at worst, tomorrow night at best.

It's terrible peacock isn't available in Canada!

Honestly, even season 5 on Peacock is nowhere near close to HD.  It's very watchable though quality wise.

It is comparitively better I think probably than the the stream that used to be on Netflix (and Hulu although hulu didn't have seasons 4-5).  It is probably better than the vod purchases you'd get from the cable operator if  you bought the episodes through that platform.  Or through like Amazon (or maybe itunes).

I haven't paid that close attention to season 5's look across all platforms.  I do know that netflix was always worse than what peacock gave for the rest of the content, the cable operator was even worse than netflix, amazon was also pretty bad.  I mostly looked at S1&S2.   Comet at times haven't been awful for the later episodes I think.

Looking at what's on Peacock, they could easily up-res S5 with Topaz and come up with a pretty respectable image that wouldn't match HD but maybe get closer.  I think what  they have on now for S5 is respectable enough as SD content, compartively better looking than earlier seasons and probably better than we've seen it on other streaming / vod platforms in the 2007-2018 era.