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2021-03-30 09:12:55

ireactions wrote:

wow. i've had packages with stuff stolen.... i am not sure if it was USPS but it used to happen a lot with video games.

2021-03-29 11:32:25

ireactions wrote:

TOM: "Hey, I got some bad news -- I got your package, but the envelope was ripped open and it was empty!"

wow did this really happen?

2021-03-24 22:19:56

ireactions wrote:

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Cyberlink PowerDVD has a neat Smart Stretch function. It zooms in slightly on 4:3 video, then stretches the edges of the video, reducing the percentage of the stretch as it gets closer to the center of the frame. This converts 4:3 to 16:9 while only losing at most 5 - 6 per cent of the frame. This appears to be proprietary, however. You yourself attempted a smart stretch on your own software and found that it distorted the frame. This doesn't happen in PowerDVD.
However, I don't use PowerDVD anymore. I used it on a home theatre PC, but I've since then replaced it with an Android TV box in my living room. Alternatively, I watch videos on an Android tablet. Watching anything on a laptop is rather cumbersome now because I have to plug in an external drive. I haven't found any Android TV or mobile apps with smart stretching and I've just accepted that 4:3 video will be pillarboxed. Zach Snyder seems to be into it with his JUSTICE LEAGUE cut.

I think I have PowerDVD so i'll try it if I do.

yes, I did do a smart stretch when I did an upscale and it mostly worked, but ultimately the more the characters moved to the side of the frame, the more they got stretched. Which really started annoying me at times. It looks fine when they are toward the center because no much stretching their

I'll have to see if I can check out power dvd's version to see if it feels better.

2021-03-24 12:04:05

egg heads looks terrible on peacock

2021-03-22 16:55:07

Very cool Cez. And very clever!

2021-03-22 09:19:25

ireactions wrote:

What's odd: it was totally unnecessary to shrink the episodes so much for the 8.5 GB discs on which they released the episodes. It makes me wonder if they originally planned to present SLIDERS on 4.7 GB discs. And if the Pilot was a first effort that they decided to keep at a high bitrate while drastically cutting their time and storage on the rest. The result was a fuzzy, blurry image for the Universal DVD release that Mill Creek made about 1/4 even blurrier in reducing the file sizes by another 50 per cent.

What's most maddening is the SVOD downloads at amazon, itunes, cable providers are all of horrible quality.... and that is without restriction to a disc size.

I think the stuff on Comet looks better though than the svod downloads.

One of the things Freaks & Greeks blu-ray did was rescan film and then use the 16:9 frame, even though it was broadcast orignally in 4:3. I guess no crew were caught in the shots. So the ultimate would not only be a film scan but the full 16:9. But you wonder if there might ever be image recognition technology that could "build out" / imagine the rest of the frame to make it 16:9. This seems quite possible if you apply machine learning from 16:9 frames. I'm not sure there'd be enough commercial application though for someone to develop this.

And yea I'll never stop believing the colors on the pilot were intended to look like that. But I could be wrong.

2021-03-14 09:33:33

What a tremendous job in restoring all this content to the way it more naturally looked when it first broadcast! All born out of the love that the original creative team, who cared about the material -- tracy, john, sabrina, cleavant and even jerry -- helped inspire. Such a gift to fans for us to see this faux-d upconversion. Technology can be a wonderful thing when the studio won't scan the negatives themselves (although I'll never stop hoping technology one day makes that affordable enough for universal to one day do so). Nevertheless this looks pretty much close to what we would otherwise get -- especially the close up shots.

2021-03-13 14:22:54

Grizzlor wrote:

Very cool interview (in total) but I could listen to this man for days. He felt he "mismanaged" the show. Complained at how they would get great scripts from young UCLA/NYU kids, he'd offer them to the producers who refused to "let anyone into the writing process." Said the purpose of TV show crew was to assure you have a job for "the next season."
Gave an anecdote about how Prof Arturo was an important figure on television, in terms of science, and should not have been made into a joke. That was something that often happened to him. Writers had very little experience with science ficiton, didn't even watch any. Also began describing atomic bomb dynamics, followed by joking about how bad the science was in Last Days, "our upside down Twister," and the dual neutron stars from The Exodus.
PS: the other interviews were done by film critics buffoons, no Sliders mentions.

It always impresses me, john's knowlege and very real affinity fpr science. Most actors dont have interets like that.

Thanks for informing us re sliders mentions (or lack thereof) in the other interviews.

2021-03-13 08:14:48

I had heard that interview a bit ago and must have missed some of the portions you mentioned. I'll give it a re-listen. Tracy's documentary has done rather well. He talked about the doc on that podcast in the past during its infancy and development. The name changed and him and his collaborator had creative differences and they ended up moving on without him. But the project has ended up being fairly successful.

2021-03-13 08:10:31

https://thenighttimeshow.com/191-john-r … bad-cupid/

At 50m mark he starts talking Sliders.

If you search his name on youtube and filter to the last month there are several other interviews he has done. He's promoting a new film -- BAD CUPID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JMidKQ3BU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg0rQW6kVyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkQItQ70q4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSbT64ZpVM

(if anyone watches these other interviews and notices he mentions sliders and can note the time code, it'd be appreciated)

2021-03-10 20:00:40

Has anyone caught Resident Alien on SyFy? Finally they have an original show that really works.

2021-03-08 21:05:11

Looks good, especially the on-stage stuff with Quinn.

Usually I find charlie's performances distracting. Yes, Colin has an endearing quality but really it was as if a major league baseball player convinced the team to put his brother on the roster when he had no business being there... and the results weighed down the team.

2021-03-06 16:54:05

Finally had a chance to hook up an old laptop to a tv today with an HDMI cable. I figured a tv would be the true test. The samples looked terrific. Really this is everything I would hope for with a Universal release. What a terrific job by ireactions. I hope that something like this eventually is done officially by universal -- fans deserve this level of quality.

2021-03-05 15:45:07

What's really interesting in people who did not even want to think about sliders for most of the last 20-25 years -- john, tracy and even sabrina -- have been recharged around it or are starting to come around. some of the wounds have healed.

it's obviously a long shot but happy the old gang is engaged. and that they are looking back at their creation and each other with the fondness and respect it deserves. even though getting something done would be a longshot, it would be cool if they collaborated creatively to envision something. i'm sure eventually we'd hear about it.

2021-03-05 15:35:03

Cez wrote:

I present you the alternate, brick ending of the Virtual Season 6! Do you remember that I didn’t explain what happened to alternate four original Sliders? “Oh no…!”
WATCH the new ending >> www.facebook.com/SlidersPL/posts/2556016391367599
Here you can watch the original ending >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI5AVU2Gj-U
and here you can read the original ending >> www.sliders.pl/summary6_13_en.php
Video made by @BrickLadyAgata

how great. looking forward to checking it out.

2021-03-05 15:33:57

Cez wrote:

Sabrina Lloyd has answered my question on her Instastories! <3 She likes Brick Sliders! There were also other questions asked by other Sliders fans
The virtual Season 6 >> >> www.sliders.pl/season6.php

i love it!

2021-03-03 18:49:27

Last of Eden looks great! And Other Slide of Darkness really good too.

2021-03-01 22:04:58

ireactions wrote:

For your viewing, uh, endurance... the cliffhanger ending of "Exodus" (1) and the ending of "Common Ground" in upscaled HD. God help us. I look at what's ahead and feel fear. What horrors.
https://mega.nz/folder/5E1WnZxJ#Zgg_4d2jHZTolIin-iSevw

Exodus was heavy stuff. Looked great.

2021-03-01 09:41:15

ireactions wrote:

I have uploaded the endings for "Genesis" and "Prophets and Loss."
https://mega.nz/folder/5E1WnZxJ#Zgg_4d2jHZTolIin-iSevw
I didn't plan to upscale these, but Transmodiar asked for "Genesis" and "Common Ground" footage in HD for his fan edit and I accidentally ripped "Prophets and Loss" from the DVD and decided to upscale that too.
The results are actually quite nice (in terms of video quality). (I'm guessing that) Seasons 4 - 5 switched from 35mm film to 16mm film that was transferred to video with a high level of grain that was retained in Mill Creek's overcompressed release. It's grain that the AI can latch onto for a good result.
My God, I can only imagine what poor Linda Henning made of her appearances Seasons 4 and 5.

Genesis looks crisp, with some nice natural grain. Prophets and Loss as some of my favorite coloring I've seen (I guess for indoor scenes).

2021-03-01 09:34:54

ireactions wrote:

Sabrina Lloyd in May 2020 gave a blog-tour of her home in Vancouver.
https://designmom.com/living-with-kids-sabrina-lloyd/

I believe she is back in Uganda now. She really has led quite a life. I feel like there was a lot of Wade in her and a like of Arturo in John. And she was in many ways the heart of the show.

2021-02-25 23:05:28

Transmodiar wrote:

Oh, there's no question that the name for people like you is the same for people like me. Hell, if Cez wants it, I can also provide the half-baked S4 credits I started when I was editing a "better" version of "Genesis." It's not finished, but it's his if he wants it!

this reminds me. I have to watch the excised Exodus!
https://vimeo.com/33034252

2021-02-23 20:40:03

ireactions wrote:

Rembrandt's date from "Asylum" and Maggie visits the Maggie museum in "The Return of Maggie Beckett," upscaled to HD: https://mega.nz/folder/5E1WnZxJ#Zgg_4d2jHZTolIin-iSevw

ireactions wrote:

I upscaled some select scenes from "California Reich" and "Slidecage." "Slidecage" stands out to me -- it was the first time Temporal Flux and I really talked about SLIDERS and he told me how Quinn was seriously out of character in this scene due to Jerry O'Connell's poor performance. It was the first time I really thought to question the onscreen product and view it as a constructed product rather than an objective TV reality.
Also, thanks to Cez who has recommended a hosting option.
https://mega.nz/folder/5E1WnZxJ#Zgg_4d2jHZTolIin-iSevw

Everything looks superb.

When the Freaks & Geeks blu-ray was done, they actually went from 4:3 to 16:9 because the stuff in the film scan was good enough to use. Looking at these upscales -- particuarly of the later seasons -- the only thing that's holding them back from looking like something shot in the last 10 years is probably a 16:9 frame.

2021-02-20 16:07:46

ireactions wrote:

HD scenes from "Dead Man Sliding" (Wade, Rembrandt and Arturo corner Quinn-2) and "Prince of Slides" (Rembrandt faces off against Rembrandt & Quinn Mallory apparently knows how to swordfight now -- which could be part of Quinn's sports obsession except there was no fencing gear in his room in the Pilot).
https://gofile.io/d/7MIbW5

once again, all look great!

2021-02-20 16:06:40

ah great to hear!

2021-02-18 12:03:54

JWSlider3 wrote:

On the subject of the upscaling endeavor, is there a way to (in essence) rotoscope the foreground images and upscale them apart from the background? I think that might eliminate the waxyness of the background.
I think one of the Star Wars despecialized blu ray editions do something similar.
JWSlider3

i think ireactions is gonna kill us

2021-02-18 08:44:25

Very cool TF!

2021-02-17 19:18:26

ireactions wrote:

TF posted a screencap of "Prince of Wails" in another thread. Compare it to the upscale and note where the AI struggles: onscreen text that's blurry is unreadable even after upscaling.

There's no rescuing some of that text. Maybe give it the Star Wars CGI / George Lucas treatment.

Nice to see the big difference in quality between the two images though.

2021-02-17 09:42:54

I'd say Virtual Slide looks better than Fever. But that's not a surprise. The season 4 episodes always looked pretty decent to my eye, whether it be universal dvds or mill creek's. The season 1s (and 2s to a degree) are where I have found it most lacking.

2021-02-17 09:38:23

ireactions wrote:

"Fever": The final faceoff and Wade's awakening: https://gofile.io/d/zULVOv
"Virtual Slide": the finale. https://gofile.io/d/lYT0xn
Very interesting comparison between the distinct visual tones of Season 1 and Season 4 where Season 1 seems to be filling in a lot of bare studio space with extras and set dressing whereas Season 4 is either using the same standing set and backlot over and over again or is simply bare.
"Fever" is from the Universal DVD. "Virtual Slide" is from Mill Creek, but the image quality doesn't seem that different to me thanks to the upscaling having more to work on the Mill Creek set once we get to the last two seasons. It looks to me like the new post production company for Seasons 4 - 5 used a different film-to-video process -- or Seasons 4 - 5 used 16mm film that was transferred to tape. Either way, it created a level of graininess that remains even after overcompression, grain that the upscale can treat as texture.

Well I have to say I am very impressed with that mill creek upconvert. You're right, there's something natural about the grain deposited throughout the image. It does look like you're watching film. I think it's a tad noisy for my tastes... maybe 40 percent less would be optimal... but it does give the picture a palpable feel and harkens back to more of a movie image. Overall, really looks great.

edit: oops I realized I was watching with the adjusted windows media player settings I had privately mentioned. I reset them now. Still a big upgrade from Mill Creek!

2021-02-16 15:34:34

Once again everything looks so great. I still remember the first time I saw Blade Runner in 4k. It was like seeing it in a new way. You get used to it after a bit, but the difference is never more clear that first time, when you are comparing to your last recollection of what the content looks like. So seeing these with such clarity, crispness, particuarly with the closer shots, is like seeing it for the first time. It's just "different." There are some of the fuzzy issues you mentioned when the person's face is afar -- I hope eventually the AI works in corrections for that. But these really are great.

And the coloring on the pilot actually didn't bother me as much. Only in the hallway scene when they first come back and Quinn's mom greets them. But it all looks generally great. It's just terrific that fans can take restoration projects into their own hands when studios will stubbornly, even if understandably, not.

2021-02-15 09:27:40

ireactions wrote:

Rembrandt's concert in "The King is Back" in FakeD HD! https://gofile.io/d/PfPmtx

Looks great!

2021-02-14 08:35:32

ireactions wrote:

Still image adjustment is possibly a way to upscale a standard definition video: by upscaling each frame of the video into a high resolution still, then running a mass filter on all the stills to increase pixel contrast and improve colour, brightness and remove distortions, then reassembling the frames back into a video with the original audio. However, that’s a bit too much for me, this project is something I need to have running while I’m doing other things.

Yea. Well on the jpghd it takes 3-5 minutes for just one still, so you can imagine what a nightmare that would be for 20-30 hrs of programming. It is a possible glimpse into the future, though the results are really good.

2021-02-14 08:14:27

ireactions wrote:

I believe he's using the same source material, the Universal DVD set. He said that the Pilot looked great after upscaling but everything else looked bad -- undoubtedly because the Pilot does not have the interlacing errors that mar all the other episodes. I only have Seasons 1 - 3 from Universal, but I can confirm that "The Guardian" had the same interlacing error lines across the image that had to be decombed in Handbrake before the upscale in Topaz.
There is going to be a 20 per cent drop in my upscale quality when I switch to Seasons 4 - 5 because I only have Mill Creek for those. However, it'll also be a bit faster because I don't have to deinterlace the DVD rips from Mill Creek. I could buy Season 4 for $20, but I feel like David Peckinpah and Bill Dial's estates should pay me for procuring it. I could buy Season 5 for apparently $150 on DVD, but I would sooner throw that $150 down a drain.

There's a pretty good site out there that does something similar to topez. But it does just on photos. Since it takes so long on one photo, i'm surer it's doing more intense processing than topez, but it gives you a glimpse into what the future may be like for video too (if they can speed up their algorithms). I did this on a sliders frame (which I've now lost) but the results were really good:

https://jpghd.com/

2021-02-14 08:02:21

ireactions wrote:

I’ve had a few chats with NaterTot, but he seemed to be having trouble with any upscaling beyond the Pilot and I haven’t heard from him for over a week. His project made me decide to aim for 720p and not attempt a 4K conversion or even a 1080p. I set my sights on good DVD quality and I think it’s hitting the somewhat low hanging target. I’m currently converting one episode a day and am hoping to be up to two episodes a day by tomorrow and aim to have the entire first two seasons complete by the end of this. NaterTot, however — it’s entirely possible that he’s a healthy, well adjusted human being who isn’t hopelessly fixated on a show from 1995 that faded out of the world like an Unstuck Man.

It was hard for me to tell looking at his stills vs. your stuff if there was any difference. Plus, the video in his youtube review -- where he used the footage -- was naturally a bit compressed with youtube's processing, I think. But it still looked great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=38& … e=youtu.be

2021-02-13 22:07:17

ireactions wrote:

I upscaled the end of "Time and Again World" to 1080p and downscaled it to 720p and played it side by side with the original 720p ending. There was no difference.
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Don't forget that the GPU is also a factor in AI upscaling. I don't know how essential 32GB of RAM, but without it, I wouldn't be able to do my day job in Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Premiere and Illustrator while Handbrake and/or Topaz run minimized in the background. My PC would become unusable.
Also, each disc takes about 30 minutes to rip and then 10 minutes per episode to deinterlace each file in Handbrake followed by 9 - 10 hours to enhance the video in Topaz. I don't think it's feasible to ask every single SLIDERS fan to do this and I don't believe Universal will do it -- they could have just scanned the master tapes properly the first time and decombed the digital assets.
But I'll be happy to give them the files when I'm done, although -- I'm not doing all 88 episodes of SLIDERS. I'll just do Seasons 1, 2, and a select few from 3 - 5. Anyone who wants to watch "Map of the Mind" in FakeD will have to do it themselves!

Have you checked out the upscale that's someone is doing on reddit? I'm curious how you think it compares to yours. I wasn't sure if you started doing this because you were inspired by what someone is doing over there or if it's just happenstance.

It would be awhile before Universal does this themselves, because of all those resources. But the great thing is any very committed fan doesn't have to wait on Universal (which clearly has bastardized the quality of this show) to take matters into their own hands and get a legitimately great looking finished product.

I've done upscales on the dvd stuff in the past using lesser tech, and then ran it on an xbox that further upscaled it, and then used a tv that processed it and took it even further. It ended up looking really great but it was just like a test of five minutes of footage and I lost the software and the algorithm settings (a lot of time was spent to pick configurations).

I can only imagine with a topaz upscaled source + a blu-ray player that upscales the content + a tv with some processing options how good it could look. It's exciting. Whenever I have watched the dvds or streaming or comet, the quality makes me feel like I'm watching something from the 70s. All because of heavy compression, whatever sort of video archiving they've done, and general lack of caring. This really is a terrific thing for rescuing the footage.

I'd love for them to rescan the film negatives but there's no way that is happening at this point. Which irks me because Seaquest got that treatment. And Babylon 5 just had an upconversion (which looks decent).

2021-02-13 21:11:41

ireactions wrote:

I appreciate that, but I still don't know what this really opens given that these are all files sitting on my hard drive and I only dare upload samples.
Here's the ending of "Gillian of the Spirits" in FakeD.
https://gofile.io/d/6Ftinm

Yes, but anyone can use Topaz Hopefully it doesn't require 32 gigs of rams though.

2021-02-13 19:12:00

ireactions wrote:

Well. Let's not go nuts. The stairs on Quinn's house are clearing giving the AI a lot of trouble in the upscale. The Sorcerer scenes suffer badly when there are high levels of light that blow out the character's faces in the highlights.
It is probably fixable and I know Transmodiar will have thoughts, but I'm going to refer back to what Transmodiar said when I told him how terribly my first draft outline of SLIDERS REBORN had turned out -- let's just aim to get matters from terrible to adequate.

I think it's a big deal. First off, what you've done is a big upgrade. Second of all, topaz, and other algorithms similar are only going to get better. If that is in year, what, 3, imagine in 4-5 years what it will be like. Maybe it won't linearly get better and maybe it's done 80 percent of its gains. But I know it's definitely gonna get even better.

When you add some other playing with the colors, saturation etc etc, to the mix (as we know the pilot and first season is a bit "faded") I think something pretty damn superb is possible.

So yea, I think this opens up the Sliders 2.0 era. The content can become much fresher and modern.

2021-02-13 10:27:43

ireactions wrote:

Here's "Into the Mystic"'s scene of Quinn unmasking the Sorcerer and the sliders' homecoming. I ripped it from the fully upscaled episode using Handbrake, the sample re-encoded in their HQ720 preset. https://gofile.io/d/yuKsqB

beautiful. Sliders 2.0.

2021-02-13 08:51:18

ireactions wrote:

I wish there were some way for me to share the full results with everyone, but my legal department has advised me not to open that door.
Here is the Constitution handoff and slideout from "Time and Again World" in HD. Note the limitations of AI upscaling: wide shots are fuzzy because there isn't detail to enhance, the bridge against the dark sky is crushed into blackness. But medium shots and closeups of actor's faces -- that's where the AI works its magic best.
https://gofile.io/d/uvGMU5

Spectacular. This opens up a lot of possibilities for making this show feel "new" again. Yes, there some fuzzyness on the faces of the wide shots but everything else is a big upgrade. Way better than we've seen it probably since it first aired.

2021-02-12 13:10:55

ireactions wrote:

"The Guardian" looks good with my process: MakeMKV to rip the DVD (as Handbrake can't seem to read the Universal DVD). Then open the file in Handbrake, set the quality output to Production Standard and switch on the video deinterlacing to remove the horizontal lines across the image. Then upscale in Topaz with Artemis-LQ and a custom resolution of 960x720. The resulting file is 2GB. For storage, I'll probably need to shrink the files to 700MB or so (and lose a little video quality)
Here are the boxing scenes:
https://gofile.io/d/uvGMU5
Also, here's the "As Time Goes By" Daelin-2 sequence on GoFile to download the MP4 instead of streaming it off Google Drive:
https://gofile.io/d/EY14mh
Next in the queue: I'll be upscaling "Time and Again World" tonight (because I want to see the bridge scenes in FakeD). Then I'll do "Into the Mystic" (because I want to see all the beautiful shots of the sliders in the Sorcerer's home) and "The King is Back" (because I want to see Rembrandt's concert in FakeD). Then "Gillian of the Spirits" (for Quinn saying good-bye to his friends) and "Prince of Wails" (because I love Robin Hood) and then "Obsession" and the Pilot.
After that, I'll do "Double Cross" and "The Prince of Slides, "Season's Greedings" and "Murder Most Foul."
I'll move to the Mill Creek set for some Season 4 - 5 episodes: "World Killer" and "The Alternateville Horror." Thursday will be "Slide By Wire" and "Virtual Slide," "Applied Physics," "New Gods for Old, "A Current Affair" and "The Return of Maggie Beckett."
I think that covers all the episodes I really want to see again on my HDTV, so I'll fill in the rest of Seasons 1 - 2 that I missed before and then have Seasons 1 - 2 and a few select episodes after that in FakeD.

Jesus christ. These look great. It's not a blu-ray release, but I am not sure we'd get better from Universal. This is fairly pristine.

2021-02-06 17:49:29

The government has been seriously looking at all of this. It's not a joke. Our crazy show may actually be rooted in some reality.

Tracy Torme is a genius.

2021-01-23 21:02:26

can't wait to check this out!

2021-01-11 23:46:24

Congratulations Cez!

2020-12-24 19:03:26

Thank you Cez. Your project is a lot of fun!

2020-12-21 20:10:33

very cool, thanks matt!

2020-12-21 20:05:34

looks cool. on vod. anyone see this yet?

2020-12-04 19:32:52

well done Cez!

2020-11-30 15:24:23

Cez wrote:

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:
I can't keep up I wish you guys shifted to once every couple of weeks
It's week after week because we are simulating the real television season hehe
Look at this funny Lego animation - Sliders jump into the vortex Turn on the sound! >> https://www.facebook.com/SlidersPL/post … 1937694045

brilliant

2020-11-27 21:29:38

I can't keep up I wish you guys shifted to once every couple of weeks

Next episode looks amazing though.

2020-11-16 21:47:50

Ah great to see that Cez. Glad Rob is so enthusiastic.

2020-11-15 21:40:45

Congratulations Cez!

You've taken a very creative approach and it's good to see John and Jerry acknowledge it.

2020-11-14 13:01:02

Fun episode Cez. Would have required a lot of budget and special effects!

2020-11-10 13:42:10

ireactions wrote:

Are Americans... evil?

i've stopped believing on the inherent goodness in people. it's not inevitable. culture is fragile. groups of people can go down bad paths. ultimately, at a certain point, after a certain period of time, everybody is responsible for what they go along with.

we can have stark policy differences but there has to be a baseline set of core values that we adhere to.

it's OK to be disappointed. most of us are.

2020-11-09 20:23:46

Keep up the great work Cez. Thank you for your rollout of Season 6!

2020-11-07 15:11:23

Look, it's terribly embarrassing. It's all terribly embarrassing. And disappointing. Extremely disappointing. And angering.

2020-11-04 18:25:29

Thank.
God.

2020-10-26 16:36:32

Cez wrote:

What if... the 6th season of Sliders was created?
In 2004, when I’ve created Polish fansite www.Sliders.PL I wanted to publish my own vision of “virtual” season 6. I even asked Alexslider from http://www.sliders-dimension.de/ to make an intro for me with all 8 sliders, which he did >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB2m5IePrA.
Years passed and I forgot about my plan. Then in 2011 I’ve read great fan-fic "Slide Effects" by Ibrahim Ng/ireactions, the admin of this forum I loved this story so much, so I decided that if I ever made my season 6, I would use this fan-fic as a pilot. Ibrahim once wrote: «The "Slide Effects" script is yours: feel free to adapt and sequelize it». So I did!
I've made some changes to Ibrahim Ng's idea. I also thought that although the fan-fic “Slide Effects” is an excellent continuation of the series, it is incomplete. I added a few more episodes to it and finally I present the grand finale. It concludes the arcs of not only the original Sliders, but also those alternative Sliders, whose fate ended in a huge cliffhanger in the episode 5x18 “The Seer.” This topic was not taken up by the fan-fic “Slide Effects,” which is why I decided to conceptualize 13 new episodes to build a full sixth season. As a result, Sliders would have a total of 101 episodes, or 100 if we count the two pilot episodes as one.
First episode of virtual 6th season of Sliders will be online on Wednesday 28th October on http://www.sliders.pl/season6.php. It will be promoted by Brick Sliders created by Agata! Ibrahim – you will see some scenes from your “Slide Effects”. Soon I will post more photos of Brick Sliders xD
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Sliders.PL presents a fan-made, direct continuation of Sliders, which ended with a cliffhanger in the final episode 5x18 entitled “The Seer.” On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the series, we present our ideas for 13 episodes of the sixth virtual season, which resets certain themes while others we bring to conclusion. On our website we have published a list of all 13 episodes with summaries, plot descriptions and from where the ideas originated.
Episode 6x01 is based on the great fanfic "Slide Effects," by Ibrahim Ng which reboots the events of the series in order to bring back the original four Sliders: Quinn, Wade, Rembrandt and Professor Arturo. The next 10 episodes are based on the comic books by Acclaim, which were published between 1996-1997. They describe adventures of the original four Sliders, which were supposed to take place parallel with the first televised season. However nothing prevents us from placing these events after the reboot, which happened in episode 6x01 “Slide Effects.” The final two episodes 6x12 and 6x13 are both original ideas of the Sliders.PL website. These stories combine two independent groups of Sliders and end themes that were omitted or unfinished in the television series including Kromaggs and Logan St. Claire.
The explanation of the following infographic will be included in the description of episode 6x01. Big version www.sliders.pl/gfx/odcinki/season6_infographic.jpg
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very exciting! looking forward to it.

2020-10-09 18:13:57

There's a new show on FOX called NEXT. Mini-series I think.

It involves AI gone amuck. First episode came out Oct 3. Speculative sci-fi. From Manny Coto. It's worth checking out if the concept appeals to you.

Nothing ground-breaking but i enjoyed it.

2020-09-17 20:28:26

much respect to jerry for still trying.

2020-09-08 19:55:18

There was definitely a weird period for Jerry about two years ago, maybe a little more. He admitted as much in several podcast interviews during the period. I think he was trying to diversify and get into hosting, being a personality, and even did some directing (on a kids show for disney) because it wasn't clear what was gonna happen for him as an actor. This is when Sliders got particularly more interesting to him. Especially with his wife on The Librarians, a mid-budget cable sci-fi show not entirely different from Sliders. Not that the period was where his reboot interest started; I think that was after this Funny Or Die "search for arturo" drummed up unexpected interest.

I do think he always loved the show, Tracy's vision for it, and totally got what it was (whereas john perhaps didn't despite his great performance). It's a shame he had to ask for Charlie to be on the show, it certainly didn't help. But regardless, as an actor, artist, he was really perfect for Sliders. I think we can all agree part of it's magic was how well cast it was, and of course the chemistry and family atmosphere they had. They were a team and a lot of people (viewers) were attracted to that element of it.

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