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I have little doubt that something happened between Reade and Biden.  My guess is that it was something less lurid than Republicans would like but also more problematic than Democrats would be comfortable with.

I'm not sure "take out the trash day" applies anymore in the current media landscape, but points for trying

The genius of Sliders is that everything is potentially part of their multi-verse.  So, yeah, a reboot could run across any or all of the old Sliders either together or separately.  They could revisit the world with living flames or Caffeine World or Einstein World or whatever.

Network execs are still dumb, and the best science fiction is still elsewhere

Unlike all previous presidents, Trump has no history of service.  No public service or national service or anything where he's had to do things to benefit others.  He's never needed to care about anyone but himself, so he doesn't.  He has no earthly idea how to not be self-serving.

Don't blame Bill for Hillary's failure.  She wouldn't listen to him.  Plus, the Access Hollywood tape limited his campaigning value.  Can't claim the moral high ground with him as a prominent surrogate.

If today's date was October 13, Trump would "postpone" the election.  He may yet attempt to do that anyway.

I think letting Banks write the script was a mistake.  She's never written a produced screenplay before.  Better to get some experienced writers and let her build up her writing skills on lower profile projects.

Just spotted Jerry O'Connell in a Bob Evans sausage commercial

The biggest problem with getting the original cast back to do a series is age.  John Rhys-Davies is 75 years old.  Will he be willing or able to fall out of the wormhole every week?  If they use a body double, would it be believable?  Cleavant Derricks is 66.  He's a little more likely to be able, but for how long?

I think a reboot is best.  All new characters, or younger doubles of the originals (The Guardian establishes this possibility), or some of both.  If they really want to throw a bone to viewers of the original show, have the New!Sliders encounter one or more of the originals during a slide.  Ireactions liked this idea when I first proposed it, and he doesn't like many of other people's ideas.

Check out https://earthprime.com/  Their episode guide is excellent and they have a ton of other Sliders info.  The archive of the sadly departed Dimension of Continuity https://web.archive.org/web/20160809215 … nuity.com/ is also worth your time.

I'd watch 'em all if I were you.  Even the worst ones have some interesting bits.  The last three seasons are a big step down from the first two.  I'm not as down on them as ireactions, but I also can't really argue with any of his points.

The most common race swapping seems like Asian to white, with Latino to white and black to white close behind

You could make that partly intentional.  Quinn isn't interested in going to worlds that can't support life, so he programmed his timer to only open wormholes to places within a certain range of temperature, radiation, atmosphere, etc.

Given the glaring weaknesses of the case they brought (no murder weapon, no witnesses to the crime, no witnesses that can place the defendant at the scene, no fingerprints, a very narrow time window, a defendant with no criminal record, police and crime labs that can't follow the most basic standards of evidence handling, trying to convince a jury that 50 year old man who's had 16 knee surgeries knifed to death two fit 30-ish people without either of calling for help or running away or fighting back enough to put a single scratch on him) it would have been much better if they had not brought it.  More people believed he was guilty before the trial than after.

Bringing in new characters to Sliders is tough on several levels.  There's the stuff talked about above with the new characters being aliens from a different world vs the Sliders getting home only to slide out again for some reason.  There's the question of motivation for a new character to slide, presumably knowing they can't go home again, or to keep sliding if they were escaping a doomed or dystopian world like Maggie.  I don't know the answer to that.

Writing characters out is easier.  Maybe they slide into a world just like Earth Prime.  Some of the characters think they're home and stay, some don't believe it and leave.  Maybe a character is sick of sliding and loses hope of getting home and decides to stay on a paradise world.  Maybe a character falls in love and decides to stay with their new partner instead of sliding with the others.  Maybe a character catches a fatal disease and several slides later finds a world with a treatment that can make the condition chronic, but only if they stay and receive the medication regularly.  There are quite a few options that don't end in fatality.

It doesn't change their perspective in the way you described it.  We still share their frame of reference because the world they lived in was functionally identical to ours.  They remain familiar.

The Sliders aren't refugees of the invasion.  They didn't see families and friends enslaved.  They heard about it from unreliable sources.  You could say they should still be affected, but they're not.  Two episodes later, in "Common Ground", Quinn and Rembrandt are laughing and happy as they leave Tropics World.

I don't think that perspective is unique to Americans.  People living comfortable lives always see their world as the best of all possible worlds.

It could make an interesting point of conflict for a reboot.  Have one slider advocating something like the Star Trek prime directive, that they shouldn't interfere with the natural development of other Earths, while another is dead set on making every Earth more like ours.

Sliders doesn't lend itself to serialization very well.  The entire setting changes every time they slide.  That renders almost all long term storylines moot.

I'd guess Sabrina and JRD were humoring him

NBC/Universal also owns SyFy...

Earth Prime has it as 27 September 1994

So your supposition is that adults can be programmed by the media, but kids can't be programmed by their schools?

Season one of Discovery was underwhelming, to be sure.  OTOH, it was miles better than season one of TNG or Enterprise.  I think it compares favorably season one of DS9.  At the very least there's nothing as cringe worthy as "Move Along Home" or "If Wishes Were Horses".  I stuck with all of those, so I'll stick with this as well.

Also, the president called them "bombs" on Twitter

An arrest has been made

https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/26/suspecte … c-8079040/

Jerry O'Connell Says Backlash for Show Title Real Men Watch Bravo Was 'Justified'

https://people.com/tv/jerry-oconnell-ad … -backlash/

"American Citizens! We appeal to you in all calmness. Is it not time to pause? Already the enemies of our dearest institutions, like foreign spies in the Trojan Horse of old, are within our gates. They are disgorging themselves upon us, at the rate of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS EVERY YEAR! They aim at nothing short of conquest and supremacy over us."

"We are burdened with enormous taxes by foreigners. We are corrupted in the morals of youth. We are interfered with in our government. We are forced into collisions with other nations. We are tampered with in our religion. We are injured in our labor. We are assailed in our freedom of speech."

So said the Know Nothing Party in the 1850's.  It's funny how little the rhetoric has changed.

We've had it for most of our history.  There were no restrictions at all until the 1920's, none on Latin American immigration until the 1960's, and none that really meant anything until the 1980's.  Visa-less borders are the norm for nations that are allies, such as the US and Mexico, everywhere else in the world.  The Canadian border is visa-less.

Population numbers don't explain why it's patrolled differently.  We don't detain people coming from Canada.  We could and have catch & release on the Mexican border.  Crime doesn't explain why it's patrolled differently, as I pointed out above.  The culture's they're trying to get away from?  Why would that make a difference?  If they're trying to get away from the MS-13s of the world, we should be encouraging that kind of behavior not locking people up for it.

I'm just saying that the reasons we've been given for policing the southern border differently from the northern one don't hold water.

The illegal immigrants are criminals for crossing the border?  Fine, write them a ticket.  A fine of at least $50 and not more than $250 for each such entry is the penalty under section 8 of the US code.  Detaining people for non-violent misdemeanors is excessive.