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It's produce-able now in terms of budget and technology.  However, I think John's point was that the writing was short on imagination.  Beyond Tracy's scripts, hard not to agree.  Many of the S2 episodes were guest star driven, with very little science fiction.  I agree completely with Info, a multi-episode arc would make the most sense.  Wouldn't be rushed, you could really develop the story in terms of how different this Earth is. 

SyFy has upped the bar on the production quality IMO of their science fiction shows, especially since NBC took over.  That would be the logical home.  Plus all their stuff is like 13 episode orders, so you would have an easier time getting the actors, wouldn't cost as much, and no need for filler scripts that don't cut the mustard.

UGHHHHHHH.  That's what I get for not checking the forum in months.  Damn, missed it.  I definitely would have made a trip.

I really have not and will not read much into the story and such.  I just don't care.  I found the film wildly entertaining, suspenseful, and with good humor and character.  Those expecting an epic were foolish, the story's already been told.  But for someone who liked but didn't love Super 8, and hated his Trek movies, I though JJ did a tremendous job on the film. 

Han being killed I could see coming from 30 miles away.  Somebody had to be killed to further the badness of Kylo Ren.  I don't think ANY of the new characters are particularly deep, but who cares?  Is StarLord a deep character in GOTG?  Not really, but Pratt played it well, and so did these actors.  Tough to lose Han, because Harrison was terrific, but there was no way he was doing film after film of this.

Now you'll think this is hilarious, but it's true.  So I'll admit to watching 90210 from time to time back then, not much though.  Beginning in 94-95 they replaced Shannen Doherty with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, who I was greatly infatuated with!  So I would watch every week just about.  Well that year FOX produced the Spelling-spinoff Models, Inc., which had started in summer '94 and continued through March '95.  The chicks on that show were all pretty hot, so I tuned in from time to time at 9PM following Beverly. 

Anyway, we started getting promos for this new show which was set to debut following 90210.  I knew Jerry and Cleavant from past work, but the big draw for me was John Rhys-Davies of Indiana Jones fame.  So following an hour of staring at Tiffani, I kept it on FOX for "Sliders."  I thought it was cool and funny, and enjoyed it.  I missed a few of the episodes though, and spent some of the others doing homework or showering, so I didn't consider myself more than a "casual" viewer.  I don't recall them rerunning the show that summer either. 

I pretty much forgot about it the next season, as I was watching Star Trek, Space Above and Beyond, Seaquest, and of course The X-Files.  I did watch the lead-in to X-Files quite a bit, Strange Luck.  I thought it was a quirky but cool show.  Eventually that show ran its course, and the following spring Sliders was back, this time on Friday nights before The X-Files.  Again I watched when I could, Friday's as a high school senior I was rarely home, and setting the VCR was a pain in the neck.  If you asked me to recite a plot point I'd be hardpressed, again I was a casual viewer.

By fall '96 I was a college freshman, and Friday nights were a bit busier than ever!  I always tried to catch Sliders and Millennium on Fox.  Sort of like before, Sliders often was sacrificed so I had time to watch the lead-in or out show (Beverly, X-Files, Millennium).  I've said this before, but the killing of Prof. Arturo really angered me, to the point that when I learned the show as cancelled from FOX, I was happy.  One of my friends at school was bummed out, but I was like, this show stinks without him.  Fox replaced it in fall '97 with The Visitor, which was absolutely terrible.

Whenever it was over winter '97, the Sci-Fi channel got the rights to the FOX episodes, and began airing them in repeated marathons.  For whatever the reason, frankly I don't know why, but I started watching them.  I was so enthralled with the early FOX stuff, that I started recorded all the episodes and watching them again on my own.  Eventually when Season 4 premiered I was really psyched.  Re-run hell certainly tempered by enthusiasm, to the point where I started poking around the old Dominion bboard to find out when the hell the season was going to be aired to completion? 

Sadly I found out the show was again, kind of cancelled, then saved, but the O'Connell's were gone.  The show had so many great off the wall stories, characters, guest actors, that's what made it so cool.

The footage I'm dying to see is Cleavant doing the national anthem at Candlestick Park before a Giants game!  Tracy I think said even he hasn't been able to find it.

Definitely like to use Google Street and find Quinn's house!

I don't think I'm going to mention The Seer.

Josh Trank is an awful director.

I use Photobucket, it's free.

Jess, I miss folks like MissingSliderRyan, Vortex62, QBall79, many others.  There are a few I don't miss, that's for sure.  One had something to do with a sock...

TF, were these episodes you found after re-run hell?  Hence lower numbers than say Alternateville Horror?

Ha ha, very clever!  Great satire.

SOB!  I don't think I downloaded these, mine are probably old versions of lousy quality.

X-Files was immensely more popular, and continues to be.  It ran twice as long, all on network TV, and spawned two movies.

Yes the boardwalks are rebuilt, although only a few were actually damaged.  Many homes are not, as the homeowners fight with insurance companies.

probably rarely looks at it.

Act, write and direct an action movie?  Can you say Expendables?  Never works.

Great interview, as Tracy always is.  Great Nimoy story, wasn't familiar with the story about his TNG "sequel to City on the Edge of Forever" script.  Also reminds me to check out "Chaos on the Bridge" about the TNG, given that Tracy is in it. 

Apparently Tracy convinced Chris Carter not to quit The X-Files early on.  As for Sliders, he basically said I'd love to do it, but the industry isn't interested.

There was some bad timing.  Even though the O'Connell's had left, the season was shot, and in the can months earlier, SciFi took forever to air the thing.  The web was loosey goosey back then.  I remember a lot of fans having no clue about Jerry until Unstuck Man aired, logging onto the Dominion board to complain.  It wasn't much longer that Floyd announced the show was cancelled, with a ton of S5 yet to air.  There was just a lot of pissed off fans, me included.  S5 didn't get a fair shake, plus it went into rerun hell TWICE.

I think it was a misconception.  I always felt that whether he did or not, it was probably unavoidable.  To force him to impersonate Jerry was kind of ridiculous, and he deserved his own character.  I also thought the rumor was that Floyd asked for changes very early on, which again I found hard to believe.  That was a very difficult season for writers and directors and actors.  The budget was so low, and they were forced to essentially do a stage play rather than a TV show.

The last time he was on Broadway, during the last decade, a friend of mine tried to meet him but he kind of blew him off!

That's understandable.  I wouldn't mind listening even if it's cruddy.

Sorry about your dog Info, been there.

Man, another interview I have missed.  Really good work on getting that Surf Dance Chris, with JOC.