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TF, I've probably gone to the Boston Globe too many times, so it stopped me from reading.  Anyway, wow, that's an amazing designated survivor scenario no doubt!  Idk if anybody saw an old TV (HBO) movie called, By Dawn's Early Light?  Starred James Earl Jones, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Landau, and Darren McGavin, was really good.

As for Biden and his "stamina," he might not need any.  The Democratic Convention is now in August, if that happens.  He might be stuck in his house either way all summer.  I certainly haven't claimed Trump won't win, quite the opposite.  They could bring back Obama (if possible), and there's a multitude of factors in favor of Trump.  Voter suppression, Russian interference, and a massive fundraising war chest his campaign is sitting on. 

While I think Biden will be fine in debates against a guy who does nothing but lie, I would agree that he's in trouble on social media and whatnot.  But then again, any Democrat was going to be.  Trump's campaign and the Russian intelligence hackers are well prepped for this election.  Trump's handling of the crisis has not been polling very well.  Messaging from the White House is schizophrenic at best, with constant in fighting.  He's offered zero empathy for the victims, nurses, doctors, and unemployed.  A bunch of checks and business loans (if you can figure out how to get them) won't counter the disgust or trepidation people feel for his capacity to lead in a crisis.

PS: Here's the reality, Trump campaign does not want you to vote.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/0 … rus-162152

Well boys, my concern is do we HAVE a full election in November?  Dems are screaming for the government to start doing something about mail in voting nationwide.  If states have huge shortages in polling places, workers, etc., you depress the vote and Trump wins.

You shouldn't need inspiration.  Confidence the candidate can perform the duties of the office.  Trust the candidate will actually do what he or she says.  People got spoiled with Obama's hope and change.  I have to be honest, I was leery of him early on.  He won me over not when he espoused liberal edicts or propaganda, but when he promoted his sensibility and pragmatism.  His one out was that he didn't support the Iraq War, that gained a lot of support, but for me he kept on hitting the point that he was here to govern, to get things done.  If need be, he would compromise.  He won over a lot of people that way, and once the stock market fell apart, he won over the rest of the doubters because he was seen as someone with the capacity to lead.  Hillary tried the inspiration route twice, and failed, twice. 

This time around, when the incumbent is a daily nuclear explosion of stupidity, ego, deceit, and cowardice, sorry but ANYBODY with a pulse is an improvement on day one.  Again, I've always like Joe Biden.  Is he the best for the job out there compared to other Dem candidates?  Maybe not, but he'll be the nominee.  Whatever faults he's got, the alternative is a childish loon who refused to head warnings of a pandemic, because they didn't agree with his bloated "gut."  There comes a time when civic responsibility to the Constitution first, and the protection of the nation second, are at grave risk.  Trump has taken a crap over the former, and these days, the latter is in serious jeopardy on his watch as well.  That should be enough inspiration alone for an exit plan in November.

Look I got into it on another forum on this accusation with Biden.  The left screwed this up badly with Dr. Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.  Ford was credible, but she had zero corroboration, in fact her potential witnesses went the other way.  They kept pushing and pushing and pushing this.  Did young drunk Brett do it?  Yeah probably, but that was 35 years ago or whatever, and the backlash cost Democrats the Senate in 2018.  In other words, going down that rabbit hole bit them badly. 

It was 1993, and she supposedly told her immediate family.  I think the brother backs her story, but unless someone from the campaign does, where is this going?  Biden denied it.  Do I think Biden did this?  Ehhh, I'd say 50/50 but beyond that, unless you're going to file charges on him, which after this many years I don't think you can, again, what is the point? 

The Russia stuff I think was overblown and irrelevant.  Ms. Reade explained that she's basically socialist and commended Putin, but then quickly realized he was no socialist just a thug so she denounced him, unlike our President.  There was so a pro-Biden twitter account trying to say Ms. Reade was some nutcase on an old Dr. Phil episode but that was debunked. 

The Bernie-sphere, who as we know, claim everything from Mother Nature to Klingons to God Himself (despite their mass atheism) are conspiring at all times to prevent Sen. Sanders from being President.  This Biden accusation is going viral in that sphere, where they have accused Times Up of hiding this.  Well, what they told Ms. Reade was that this involved a candidate, and since this was not apparently a criminal matter, their involvement would be perceived as electioneering.  So they declined to help her.  That was a year ago.  Well she gave up when it seemed Biden wasn't going to win, but then was right back on it when he was resurrected. 

I am left again with a question of not so much Ms. Reade's motive, but her end game?  What does she want?  Biden to admit it?  Not happening.  She can get on 10 news programs tomorrow, he's not admitting it.  There is only one end game, she wishes to derail his candidacy.  Look that's her choice, it's a free country, but is handing the election to Trump worth some personal vindication?

PS: To answer you directly outside my rant there.... It's pointless to even compare accusations with Trump's because the American voter has already clearly decided they do not care about these accusations.  Shameful as that is.  When you're trying to unseat a walking, talking King of immorality, I guess you can't be picky can you?  Biden as I said, will never agree to an investigation, nor can there be.  He's not a sworn elected official now.  There's no government review that can happen.  1993 was outside any statue of limitations.

I doubt a live action movie is what Don Bluth had in mind.

Bill's sidebar with the Attorney General in the plane was incredibly damaging, made Hillary look very crooked.

As for 2020, honestly the Dems best candidate was Elizabeth Warren.  Her take down of Michael Bloomberg was the proof right there.  She's a debate assassin.

As for the virus, while everyone is hunkering down for some time in isolation, Trump is now dismissing medical experts because, shocking shocking, his hotels are all shut down!  Gotta go back to work!

So Jerry ended the Rewatch saying....

Is there no way to get a hold of this guy?

His novel was fine, the Episode guide is another story.  Apparently Brad died last year from cancer.

There was plenty of introspective.  Why do you think there's a collective gasp, grown, sigh for 2+ years every time the media suggested Hillary would run again?  She was an awful candidate.  The Benghazi hoopla was absurd, same as the emails, same as Comey, Russia, etc.  Like Gore in Florida in 2000, I believe he got robbed, but the failure was being in that position to begin with.  Could have had 6,000 other Dems run vs. Trump and beat him handily.  Clinton and her husband blew it. 

That being said, the unbelievable psychotic vitriol coming from the Bernie Bros is just unbelievable.  They have done nothing but attack Joe Biden for weeks, little to nothing on Trump.  They're putrid.

Wow, there's a Sliders Facebook group? 

There's a pilot rewatch tonight, I think Jerry probably live tweets it.

https://twitter.com/slidersfanblog/stat … 9442130945

New Biden ad hitting Trump on virus response.

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1241471645233053699

So I did meet up with Jerry last week, and gave him a card that I printed out "from the forum."  I got him to do a quick video for the anniversary, which I've sent over to actual Sliders fan accounts Jim from Slidecage (https://www.instagram.com/slidersfanblog/) and Alex from Slider Dimension (https://www.instagram.com/slidersdimension/) with instructions to post that on the 22nd for the anniversary.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zsC1eHNMa … _copy_link

First of all, if the virus isn't gone by effing November, we have bigger problems than an election.  There would have been anarchy and violence in the streets, a total breakdown of society.

So this sounds pretty bad, in that even our cancellation of large events may not make a difference. Are they exaggerating? Nobody knows. I will report that some larger cities in the NY area have begun curfews and closing bars early.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … lized.html

It seems that fresher research is beginning to find more evidence that the virus spreads quite well from asymptomatic people (not sick), perhaps most widely of all. This is likely why countries like France, Spain, and Israel have basically quarantined everyone like Italy.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/c … index.html

I cannot see the economy or stock market having enough of a turn around over the summer.  Historically, when Presidents commit big scandals, it often harms his successive candidate from that party.  When the President directly or indirectly presides over nationwide disruptions or loss in people's livelihoods, that's the end of the line.  Hoover, Truman with Eisenhower, Carter, Bush Sr., even Bush Jr. with McCain all doomed.  They'll try to paint Biden as senile but their own guy has now been carved into granite as incompetent. 

Just think, had the Republicans in the Senate done what was right, and kicked Trump out back in January, Mike Pence would have taken over.  It's quite likely he would have been about 20,000x more receptive to his staff's seriousness of this pandemic, and acted quickly.

So I have an interesting request.  Before his play ends (about a week before the 25th anniversary), I was gonna visit Jerry O'Connell at the stage door.  Maybe get him to say a few things on video for the 25th.  I was thinking of printing him a card or something as a "thank you."  Anybody got any ideas?

No, it's not really my cup of tea.

The goofball did post a video meeting a Sliders fan who seemed to be French maybe?

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7H84j4pIsi/

I had a great time watching the film in the theater yesterday, so there's not much I can really say to bash or praise it.  LucasFilm made it quite clear this one was wrapping up the Skywalker story, and it did that for sure.  I felt the story itself, was very strong, overflowing with Star Wars mythos and the action was nonstop.  The major issue I had was the editing.  Way too often, it was abundantly clear that they were chopping massive swaths of story out of the film, leaving the viewer with head-scratching confusion.  The Lorii/Poe interaction, big time.  Poe and Finn sadly remained complete corn-balls right to the end, a drastically lame choice for a series that gave us Solo and Lando.  Rey was amazing, Daisy was amazing, well done.  Driver, ehhhh, just can't get used to him.  The cameos were terrific.  Again, had this been a mini-series or TWO movies rather than one, the story would really have come to life.  As a result, it was just rushed way too much.  I have to think an extended cut could be in the cards that might return the pace to normal.

Few more I haven't mentioned....

Tembi Locke which I posted about (August 2019 in New York) aka Diana Davis.

Phil Fondacaro (March 2019 in Cherry Hill, NJ) who played Bounty Hunter in Into the Mystic and Mac in Data World.

Forgot about Sherman Howard (October 2016 in Parsippany, NJ) who was Hendrick in Prince of Wails.

Julie Benz (June 2018 in Connecticut) who played Jenny Michener in Electric Twister Acide Test.

Garry Chalk (October 2018 in Oaks, PA) aka Lt. Graves in Time Again and World.

Max Grodénchik (October 2018 in Albany, NY) aka Skuldar in Dragonslide.

Mark Sheppard (September 2015 in Secaucus, NJ) who played Jack in Net Worth.

Marty York (October 2018 in Langhorne, PA) known for The Sandlot, but played Brady Oak in The Guardian.

Neil Flynn (May 2018 in NYC) known for The Middle but Officer Phil in Easy Slider

Lochlyn Munro (October 2019 in Parsippany, NJ) who was briefly Billy The Kid in The Good, The Bad, and the Wealthy.

Only HALF obsessed???  Welcome!  Would you like an Ice Hat?

About the only way I'd pay for this....IS a Sliders return.

If you have the time, I'd say watch them all!  Season 4-5 featured dire budgets and questionable acting, but for the most part they had strong scripts.

Enterprise was never very good.  I always felt like they made serious mistakes with it, particularly in casting.  TNG and DS9 was led by amazingly strong, polished, and versatile actors.  VOY had some who were terrific, but some who were simply not good enough.  ENT had basically nobody.  The guy who played Phlox was solid, but the rest were basically terrible.  Bakula of course I am a huge fan of, but he wasn't right for the part.  They had the typical Trek series directors and decent writers including Chris Black and Mike Sussman, but the story direction came from Braga, Berman, and worst of all, the buffoons at UPN.

The series quickly became awful, but during season 3 (which stunk too) I began to read these reports on the web about this guy Manny Coto.  He was a Trek diehard who they hired, and I began to check out season 3 a bit more.  I was hopeful, especially when reading interviews with Manny for Season 4.  He pledged to change things up, to go with smaller arcs, many of which would revisit unanswered TOS Trekkie questions.  He also hired Trek novelists Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who I was big fan of.  The result I thought, was fabulous.  The show came to life, and though not nearly as dark, hit a lot of the angles we eventually saw in Discovery.  Some people hated this approach, calling it lazy and recycling, but for me it worked.

Sadly, they moved it to Friday nights, and the ratings didn't drop that much, but damn UPN canceled the show.  A huge fan movement resulted, with millions in donations to save the show.  Didn't happen.  Manny gave up the ideas he had for the fifth season, and it would really have been cool.  He was going to hit on more TOS episode back stories, even the Kzinti from The Animated Series.  To me it was a great loss for Trek fans.

SyFy canceled Krypton after 2 seasons, and axed the spinoff Lobo.  I actually liked the show, but this is typical nowadays.

Glad I wasn't the only one.

I welcome them!  Wow!  When I spoke to him last year, he really had a wealth of great stories and ideas and really a great listen.

Titans is awesome.

Well basically after this next season of Legion, they'll be down to Deadpool only.  My favorite comic continuum was always X-Men, and I'm not sure where Disney will take it.  I've enjoyed Legion and The Gifted, but they're on the way out or gone already.  There's also New Mutants coming but I doubt Disney promotes it any.