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2023-04-03 04:14:28

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

@quinnslider it seems like artemis, artemis dehalo (is that the same thing?) and gaia may be the top algorithms.... ib used a lot of artemsis bouncing between different quality settings depending on the season, i believe. his process is written up on page 1 of this thread....
(also gaia is slower but you may have enough processing power to use it -- it may be more ideal for later seasons).

On a general note, picking up on some of what ib was saying on limitations with topaz, I was thinking the next great future technology might not focus on existing film grain, but rather re-build the image altogether. taking the input of what you have given it, comparing to what a house in HD should look like, or a grey coat, or a piece of furnature, and rebuilding each element in the frame, trying to closely match its form and lighting but also recognizing what in HD it should look like. as ib has explained, currently a solution like topaz is grabbing on the grain in the image to understand it better and building out from there, but when you have sources that lack grain (which Sliders s1 is limited on outside of the pilot) it's hard for topaz to get much more out of the image in terms of filling in missing lines of resolution. i will say it was much surprior to what an avisynth script was able to do with my brother's old documentary footage, so I think it is indeed quite an accomplishment. but in the future of any of the technology for this use case may be more similar to the AI image generators we have now, only 1000x better and better able to accurately reconstruct what a 4k scene should reasonably look like based on a low quality source.

Thank you RCLF, pneumatic, and ireactions.

I've been experimenting with the Artemis filter over the weekend along with the above settings for upconverting to 4K and the results are fantastic on the Pilot.

However, I have not been able to find the 6 hours required to stick with my computer to process this, so I will probably be doing a full process this upcoming weekend.

Thank you all for your feedback!!

2023-04-01 07:14:29

Question for Ireactions and pneumatic: What are your favorite settings on Topaz? I'm planning on getting into the Sliders episode 4K conversion game this weekend. Using my Mac Studio M1 as the video conversion machine, along with Topaz AI to work on converting seasons 1-4.

2023-03-29 07:19:29

ireactions wrote:

I really liked this movie. Thank you to QuinnSlidr for recommending it. I really enjoyed a female Asian senior citizen citizen as the lead character of a fantasy epic with dialogue alternating between English, Mandarin and Cantonese. The movie is clearly on a low budget and staged across two main indoor locations (the laundromat and the IRS office), but it uses those two spaces for a wide range of psychological states for Evelyn's character.
Michelle Yeoh's Evelyn is highly compelling. The wonky, silly, goofy, threatening, dangerous tone of the film as Evelyn learns about her situation is hypnotic. Ke Huy Quan is incredible in shifting between different versions of the Waymond character.
As a multiverse story, this film doesn't have too much bearing on SLIDERS. It's not about alternate histories leading to a bizarre inversion of the present day like "The Weaker Sex" or "Eggheads". The alternate realities are defined in how they have different circumstances for Evelyn: she's a ninja, an actress, a businesswoman, a doctor, a janitor and Waymond has a beautiful line about how Evelyn's failed at so many things that she has created tremendous potential across all her realities for anything.
Evelyn has a hilariously petty moment where, when she first learns about the multiverse, her immediate desire is to tell her husband how in every parallel world, she's better off without him.
That said, two hours is a bit much to spend in the laundromat and the IRS office. This would probably have benefitted from being episodes in their separate parts watched on successive nights.

Anytime, ireactions. Anytime.

2023-03-23 02:38:41

Yes. I thought so as well. It truly is a fun piece of cinema.

2023-03-22 23:54:57

I just found out about this. This is fantastic news that the new Quantum Leap has been renewed for season 2!!

https://deadline.com/2022/12/quantum-le … 235197219/

I love Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Song. The entire cast is just fantastic.

Now if we can just get Ziggy speaking again...

2023-03-15 19:42:57

pilight wrote:

Ke Huy Quan wasn't in Raiders, he was in Temple of Doom as Indy's sidekick

Thank you for the correction, pilight. I couldn't remember exactly which one.

2023-03-15 18:24:36

Excited? Because of how it, a parallel universe movie, won the Oscars. Plus, a fantastic cast. Also, it should be giving Universal an indication just how popular multiverse stuff is right now. I was so excited when I saw it the other day that I just had to share.

This movie centers on a middle age Chinese immigrant woman who is facing a multitude of challenges: business, family, and at home. Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) must balance a relationship with her increasingly difficult daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) with the demands of every day life as a laundry shop owner. Her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) is contemplating divorce but she doesn't know it yet.

Out of the blue, her alpha universe husband Waymond shows up within her current-universe Waymond's body to tell her an astonishing revelation: she is the only variation of Evelyns throughout the entire multiverse who can save the multiverse-world from the dreaded big bad multiverse villain: Jobu Tupaki. Who just so happens to be an alternate version of Evelyn's daughter, Joy. The only way that Evelyn can bring balance to the universe is because of herself: her good-natured, never-able-to-finish-anything self to go up against the alternate universe version of her daughter: Jobu Tupaki.

It is revealed that Evelyn in alpha universe is the one who came up with the technology that helps humans access other universes in the multiverse by way of a Matrix-like downloadable device worn on the ear that helps them do things, such as learn skills downloaded from other minds - themselves - throughout the multiverse. This is how they download skills like fighting, intelligence, and other bits and pieces of information that can help them against the big-bad villain they are facing at that moment.

There is one catch: in order to navigate these universes, they have to use something their ear piece calculates called "jump points". Statistically improbable actions within each universe that helps them make the jump from one self to another. But, jump points cannot be used more than once per person, so everyone needing to jump from a universe to another can only use that jump point once, leading to insane actions and events that have to happen for them to jump to another universe.

Through an insane journey through many different universes (and escalating weirdness), Evelyn must counter and fight Jobu Tupaki (Joy) as Jobu also jumps through a variety of different villains (including Evelyn's tax preparer - Deirdre Beaubeirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis) to prevent her bagel (a black hole she engineered) from sucking the life and everything out of existence throughout the known multiverse.

I found this movie a lot of fun, because I am a sucker for multiverse movies. The cast is also amazing. For those who don't know, who didn't see the Oscars on Sunday, cast member Ke Huy Quan was in the original Indiana Jones, the boy who hugs Indy. Ke and Harrison Ford hugged on Sunday after he won the Oscar for an emotional and amazing reunion by both actors. If you haven't seen Ke Huy Quan's acceptance speech, I highly recommend watching it on YouTube. It was an amazing Oscar moment.

I'm hoping this gives Universal at least some pause to REALLY consider rebooting Sliders, because of how popular it is to have won the Oscars that it did. From a multiverse movie, no less!

2023-03-15 08:51:22

Lego_Sliders wrote:

Such hate and vitriol. Never would have expected ireactions to call for forced education. That is a a tactic out of Stalin's playbook. Ask yourself why you always hear the name 'Hitler' and never hear the names of Stalin (13 million dead), and Mao Zedong(11 million dead).

The words of a Trumper: always calling the other side "hatred" for not tolerating their own transphobic, racist, and anti-semitic views. What about your intolerance of other groups of people based on their sexual orientation? Explain to us why that's not hatred. We'll wait.

You'll excuse me for hating Trumpism (aka Naziism). It's a cancer of society and should be hated and eliminated. Nazi ideals should never be given the chance to rise again.

It SHOULD NEVER be tolerated. That's why we had World War II.

2023-03-15 05:06:38

ireactions wrote:

I really enjoyed the nuclear explosion + timeloop episode of QUANTUM LEAP 2.0 (1.11). "Leap. Die. Repeat" was a fun puzzle and it kept me guessing as to what set off the disaster. And I was just thrilled to see Robert Picardo. QUANTUM LEAP 2.0 has such great guest stars: the soulfully earnest Justin Hartley, the wonderfully strong Carly Pope, the joyfully charismatic Deborah Ann Woll.
Then we come to 1.12, "Let Them Play", the transphobia episode and... I liked it and hated it in so many ways. The 1.12 script is possibly the most 90s style of QL2.0 made to date. It is written in a densely didactic manner with nearly every line of dialogue being a transgender community talking point about transgender inclusivity and alienation and statistics and transphobia. It is a lecturing episode of television.
Let's be blunt: this world is in dire need of lectures. This world is shockingly transphobic whether it's JK Rowling or that alt-right Nazi who used to post here. This world is shockingly hostile towards any identity that isn't straight, white and male: there were some weird bursts of outrage when QL2.0's star was a South Korean actor playing a South Korean character with a South Korean name (that got altered from Seong to Song). If didactism is the brick needed to hammer some respect for people's identities into a few brains, so be it.
That said, the resulting episode has the writing style of a 90s episode of television: everything is severely overstated with every point of argument or information laid out slowly and piece by piece with the (lack of) speed and (slow) pacing of the SLIDERS pilot episode.
In the 90s, character and sociological information came slowly because television was a small, blurry, fuzzy image and interrupted by commercials and the viewer was expected to be distracted real life without any simple way to pause. 90s viewers needed their hands held. In 2023, this style implies the creators don't trust the audience to follow the emotional arc and statistics and details to convey that transphobia is bad.
I'm not sure that the didactism is unneeded; people don't seem to be widely aware that transphobia is bad.
And yet, there is a certain craft to screenwriting to at least disguise the lectures into something resembling human conversation. TV conversations are in not realistic, of course; no one in real life talks like the characters on COMMUNITY. However, TV can create the illusion of naturalism by tricking the viewer's brain into accepting that what's being said out loud is being spontaneously voiced and conceived on the spot by the characters (if not the actors and writers).
QL2.0 has generally been able to maintain some illusion of spontaneity, but for "Let Them Play", it doesn't, not because it can't, but because it chooses not to. "Let Them Play" overstates nearly every point it has to make because it doesn't trust its audience to reject cruelty, hatred, bigotry and harassment.
I am not sure if that mistrust is unwarranted.

Yes, I agree. This world needs to stop the rallying cry of the white male base to attack something that doesn't need to be attacked. Everyone's identity should be respected without fear of reprisal or anything else that goes along with that. Sadly, the Rupert Murdoch media empire thrives on the hatred of white males, and uses it as a galvanizing tactic to further its agenda. And sadly, republicans have made white supremacists their base, for better or worse in this country. Sadly, it's worse.

And sadly, the election of the worst President in U.S. History, Donald J. Trump (Hitler), reinforced to these Nazis that it is okay for them to be bigots, a**holes, and terrible people. Where would we be if Hillary Clinton had been elected like we deserved instead of the electoral college cheating us out of her? She won the popular vote. Sigh.

One can only hope that his re-election does not happen in a similar vein to when Hitler was re-elected. Hopefully, his 20-30 years in prison for masterminding a violent insurrection will come sooner rather than later. Sometimes I wish I was in Hillary Clinton universe. Perhaps that universe never got covid and never had to experience falling victim to Q-Anon and the right wing extremists. Perhaps that universe never heard of Donald Trump (Hitler). Perhaps that universe is thriving and far more progressive. Sigh.

But, back to the Quantum Leap discussion:

Episode 1.11 was fantastic. And introduced a new type of time loop that we haven't seen before in Quantum Leap. It's nice to see the show take a "leap" into the unknown with a new thing and execute it beautifully. I also truly enjoyed this episode.

I enjoyed and hated episode 1.12 for many of the same reasons you talk about. And yes, I'm left wondering if that mistrust is unwarranted as well. On the one hand, I love that there's an inclusive episode of Quantum Leap talking about modern problems that people should never have to face. But, hated it with the style being overly-90s and overstated arguments. Everyone who cares is already going to know about these arguments. And, I suspect those who are not open to anything in this regard are still going to remain their close-minded bigoted selves and skip the episode once they find out what it's all about.

2023-03-04 22:52:51

Great analysis, ireactions and spot-on. The latest episode of Quantum Leap is always a highlight of my week.

I wish Deborah Pratt would reprise the voice of Ziggy. That would totally complete the experience for me. I hope she will at least consider doing so for one episode. And maybe a glitch occurs in the project that takes away Ziggy's voice again.

One can dream...

2023-02-22 20:33:42

You know what the absolute best purchase of all throughout the entire pandemic for me was? In terms of pandemic-related items?

These: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093S1H68B?re … =mask+tape

They are a godsend for those (like me) who wear glasses. Absolutely no fog when applied correctly while wearing your mask, and very little fogging up if you get it slightly off. No fuss, no muss!

2023-02-22 03:45:24

ireactions - Yeah, it can be hit or miss regarding masks. But, we settled on these from Costco for the past 3 years. They fit both of us well, and have gotten us through the pandemic with no covid.

https://www.costco.com/flex-fold-kn95-r … 07177.html

2023-02-21 04:33:43

I won't be taking off my mask (or gloves) anytime soon until at least 6 months after covid cases hit much closer to zero. Even then, I prefer not getting sick with either the cold or the flu as well. So wearing KN95 masks and gloves while going out may continue to be my standard.

There are still around 475 new cases per day where I live in the O.C. While extraordinarily low in a 3.1 million-populated city, the threat of sudden surges is still there. Maybe after the end of March after Covid cases continue in the downward trend I will be more comfortable about where things are going.

Either way, I'll still be getting the latest booster once it's out of the trial phase and ready for production. I'm 5 times vaccinated and we have never had covid, and I prefer to keep it that way until the pandemic is really over.

2023-01-31 01:15:47

Quantum Leap has been back for two weeks and nobody told me! Come on now. TemporalFlux, where are your Quantum Leap reviews???

2022-11-05 03:41:59

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

Quantum Leap is doing well in +7 ratings
https://tvline.com/lists/new-tv-show-ra … y-percent/

That is great news!! Could bode well for a new Sliders reboot too.

2022-11-03 01:30:50

Quantum Leap episode 7 was really good. Again. This series really is hitting its stride with its new showrunner. I don't think I've ever been disappointed with a Quantum Leap Halloween episode.

It certainly does appear that Martin Gero is really doing a tremendous job.

The twist with Janice was interesting, and it was very nice seeing the old hand link back in action. Now I don't think that Janice is an evil leaper at all, as foreshadowed in the first few episodes.

Does she know what's going on with that other leaper who warned Ben to stop following them? It sounds like it.

2022-10-29 02:06:14

ireactions wrote:

It's possible that TF's theory is correct, but NBC didn't just have the episode reshot and moved back; they proceeded to fire the original showrunners and had Martin Gero take over and rework the original series premiere, so it's very possible that any stylistic flourishes you've enjoyed in later episodes and in this reworked version come from the new showrunner and not his predecessors. Note that you haven't enjoyed the earliest episodes that he had little influence over but your enjoyment has risen with newer episodes and with Gero taking charge.

Some very astute observations, ireactions. I've enjoyed these later episodes very very much.

2022-10-28 20:35:43

TemporalFlux wrote:

After watching episode six (the re-worked original pilot), I am really wondering what was so bad about it. I would wager that most of the Ben scenes were from the original, and most of the present scenes were reshot; but the Ben portion was strong stuff. That was what I expected from a Quantum Leap series; and if it had aired first, I think viewers would have stayed around.
I am now extremely curious what it was like in its original state.
And as for the present day team, they’ve continued their development of personality, and it’s getting better. With each new episode, the production is showing how this can really work. But why did they go with that new, weaker pilot? Looking at the episode structure (and how the timing could have been set), did they feel maybe that the original pilot didn’t explain the premise well enough? Is this another example of a network thinking their audience is too stupid to follow along? This is very curious.

After watching episode 6 myself, I am wondering the same thing. What was so terrible about it that it had to be re-worked? It looks to me like it would have been an excellent intro to the series and a good episode for both fans and non-fans alike.

2022-10-28 20:01:28

TemporalFlux wrote:

pilight wrote:
I don't think it's Sam. Why would he be telling them not to chase him? Plus Sam is still limited to his own lifetime. He couldn't be in the 1870's. So are the Evil Leapers, IIRC. It has to be Janis.
Sam did leap into the 1860’s in the original series, but the explanation given was that a “glitch” sent Sam into someone along his genetic line of ancestors. Also, the rules seemed to no longer be relevant for Sam in the original series finale. Sam was even choosing where he wanted to go at the end.
If it’s not Sam, another explanation could be a kind of pre-destination. QL never really dealt with this before, but what if the mystery person is someone who Ben hasn’t met yet but will meet? Ben may be chasing this person somewhere in Ben’s future. Kind of like how River Song and The Doctor were almost never in sync.

Yeah it's not Sam. It's not in Sam's character to threaten someone else's life. And I highly doubt he would threaten Dr. Song. He would probably be surprised/scared/or delighted that someone from home is finally catching up to him.

Anyway I am finally catching up on everything after having a couple busy weeks. Quantum Leap really is getting much better.

The major clue that is still hanging is the time pre-destination calculator hologram that was revealed earlier in the season. Why is Ben going after this leaper? Could it be one of the evil leapers from the Lothos project?

I loved the exchange:

Ian: "We are calling them Leaper X."
Magic: "No, we are not."
Ian: "It was worth a try."

Anyone know if they are going to restore Deborah Pratt's voice as Ziggy this time around yet?

2022-10-23 12:27:37

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

has anyone seen this box set PAL dvd release before?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/154689324351?h … Sw6dlhiBTH
From "Collection Vintage" -- a french release it seems.

Why does it say seasons 1-6?????

2022-10-16 11:21:41

pilight wrote:

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:
So quantum leap has done meh in the live ratings and well in streaming (on-demand)
That seems to be a pattern for 10:00 shows. Big Sky on ABC isn't doing great live but when +3 streaming is added it's doing very well.

Well yeah. Most people I know are in bed at 10:00 p.m. for work the next day. Unless they're partiers. Then they're out partying. And outliers who have strange hours for some reason or another.

It's not going to do as well unless it's done earlier, but they're not going to preempt Monday night football for Quantum Leap.

2022-10-11 05:06:09

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

NBC ordered six more episodes of its “Quantum Leap” reboot, for a season total of 18. In addition to being the season’s number one new show in the A18-49 demo, “Quantum Leap” is the top current NBC series on Peacock
This is very good news for it and for sliders

Very much so!!

2022-10-08 17:40:38

TemporalFlux wrote:

This has been simmering for awhile:
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/arti … -p-m-news/
Quantum Leap’s time slot will be eliminated. They could, of course, just put it in another slot; but this move by the network will be eliminating 7 hours of programming each week. There’s a significant cut coming. Will only the Dick Wolf umbrella survive on the scripted side?

Ugh.

2022-10-08 04:03:33

Maybe. I'm a sucker for time travel movies and TV shows. But I am thoroughly enjoying every episode of La Brea.

Spoilers for La Brea - if you haven't seen this week's episode. While some things aren't making sense now...eventually they become clear in the timeline journey.

===================================

Rebecca might be Gavin's mother. Why re: Rebecca? She knows a lot...like the "beginning" without ever having supposedly met Gavin.

My prediction: Silas could be old Gavin. He keeps his right hand suspiciously covered up (exactly the same hand that Gavin has a cut on).

And there seems to be familiar ties with the cave leader. I'm thinking perhaps they are brothers?

Another prediction: The tower in 10,000 BC could be a sink hole machine. And the ore they are mining is somehow related to powering up the sink hole machine. Or, it could be some sort of time travel device that creates sink holes as a side effect.

All we know is: Scott came back bewildered. But Rebecca did not. At least not yet.

Other clues: we also know that Gavin's parents are actually alive, a fact that Silas knows and is only telling Gavin as he wants more of the truth.

2022-10-06 20:34:12

TemporalFlux wrote:

QuinnSlidr wrote:
Episode 3 of the new Quantum Leap was good.
I agree, and it goes along with my comments on Amazing Stories. Episode 3 of the new Quantum Leap had heart. Vast improvement over the first two episodes

Totally. Definitely looking forward to the next few episodes over here.

Is your old Sliders website still out there somewhere, TF? That really was the go-to back in the day...

2022-10-05 06:24:51

Episode 3 of the new Quantum Leap was good. It raises a few questions:

What is Janice Calavicci's goal here? Is she re-building her own version of the hologram chamber to go after Ben? Or Sam?

She is very different now compared to the supposed Janice that she was originally described as by her mom Beth: super smart, super talented, able to re-build the entire project seemingly on her own, and able to interface the original handlink with the new project, almost seamlessly combining old data with new data. I highly doubt Janice Calavicci could have done to her mom what she just did unless she was an evil leaper.

Is she really Janice Calavicci? Could she be the evil leaper Alia (or Alia's hologram Zoe) in league with Lothos? For those who didn't see the original series Lothos is the evil supercomputer opposite Ziggy who was working with the evil leaper Alia.

It could explain how Janice could jerry-rig her own version of the project and the complex code that appeared seemingly out of nowhere providing a time map nobody had ever heard of.

Very interesting developments that I can't wait to see play out throughout the rest of this season.

2022-10-05 05:34:15

ireactions wrote:

New Omicron subvariants are coming. They may be immune to antiviral drugs. Immunity from previous infections may offer no aid at all.
It looks like the bivalent booster will likely prevent hospitalization and death, but not infection, as was the case when the Delta and initial Omicron variants hit just as the original vaccines were rolling out. However, for optimal protection, we may need a second dose of the bivalent booster within a few months of the first bivalent dose.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03157-x
There is a very simple countermeasure against Omicron, against any subvariant, against any future variant. It's cheap. It's effective against all viruses and bacteria. It's an electrostatic mask with a good seal. N95, KF94, ASTM or something comparable. Boat shaped or bifold. Or 2D surgicals with cordlocks.
If mask mandates were reinstated and enforced on public transit, in offices, in shopping centres, in grocery stores, in movie theatres, in performance venues, we wouldn't be seeing all these mutations and variants; the virus would have far fewer roads on which to spread.
It really is that simple.

Sadly, it appears as if our CDC has given up. They are proceeding with further loosening of guidelines against the direction of expert epidemiologists who are speaking out on Twitter.

This is not going to be over with for a while.

Because of this, I am still wearing my mask and getting my boosters. I've been through this entire pandemic without catching covid-19 and I plan on staying that way.

2022-10-05 05:07:14

ireactions wrote:

As you "didn't mind" "The Breeder," I have no choice: you are hereby banned from the SLIDERS community; you, your children and your children's children. For three minutes.
I would say that the most scathing indictment of "The Breeder": the Season 3 showrunners wanted to make a softcore porn movie and yet, even by those standards, they completely failed; "The Breeder" is not sexy.
It is nobody's sexual fantasy to have their neck snapped by a parasite.

I couldn't help but chuckle at your Simpsons reference there in the first line.

I tried watching it. Once. It was God-awful. And all it did was reinforce why I hated Peckinpah's takeover of Sliders and everything that happened thereafter.

2022-10-02 16:52:17

I was a fan of the show since the beginning and was part of the original message boards. I watched the pilot and every episode their first time around on FOX. Since VHS was the medium at the time, I had all episodes up to the end of season 3 stored in pristine condition on VHS tape. Every single decision Torme` made for Sliders was just gold.

Then the changes to the show happened in season 3. Torme` was gone. Then JRD. You couldn't force me to watch Kari Wuhrst even if you tried. To me, JRD carried the show and was one of my favorite characters and his character's death just sucked. Once he was gone, it was no longer Sliders. Although I tolerated it, it just wasn't the same. I hated the network for their decisions and bastardizing the show for the 18-45 hyper-sexualized market, but, there we were. I stuck around for Jerry and Cleavant, though, so long as they remained part of the show.

Sliders (and JRD) did not deserve that. Sliders deserved the full treatment that Stargate SG-1 got. I always wonder and wish what would have happened had Sliders and Tracy Torme` been given the full budget and awesomeness that Stargate SG-1 got from the beginning?

If I ever had my way, Kari and any mention of Kari would be wiped from Sliders existence permanently and JRD restored. She would be a tiny little blip in one episode mentioning her character's untimely death a few episodes back, or an occurrence in a nightmare or something.

2022-10-02 03:34:03

pilight wrote:

Watched the second episode, and it continues the tone of the first episode. No real mystery - just problem solving.
My recollection of the beginning of the original QL was that it was much the same. The X-2 flight and the baseball thing were the first two leaps.

Really? You weren't blown away by the time map in the second episode? I was.

And who or what is the dot, and who might that be? And that's not mysterious or a real mystery?

This sets up an entire mysterious story arc for the show, in my opinion. The immediate questions are: who created this time map? Why does Janis Calavicci have it?

My immediate thought was: Somehow, somewhere, somebody devised a way to track people through time. But who is the dot? Could that be Sam Beckett? Or Ben himself?

I may be in the minority here, but I'm loving the new Quantum Leap thus far.

And: the same actress replaying Beth Calavicci, Al's funeral being mentioned...sigh!! The heart strings...

I think it's a big programming mistake to have the new Quantum Leap happening on Monday night football, though. This should be changed to a non-football night. Perhaps it would get more ratings!

2022-09-25 13:19:58

ireactions wrote:

I'm sorry to hear this. I haven't gotten to QUANTUM LEAP just yet. Currently catching up on SUPERMAN & LOIS and then, hopefully, STAR TREK DISCOVERY. Is it possible the sportsball game threw off the ratings?

There were other things including the Queen's funeral that could have impacted ratings in this fashion.

I remember thinking at the time that I wish they didn't choose today of all days to launch Quantum Leap because of everything else going on.

2022-09-20 14:46:42

ireactions wrote:

I'd like to change the title of this thread to "Reboots: The Return of Sliders and Other Properties" if that's alright. That way, we can talk about any and all reboots even when there isn't any SLIDERS news.
Alternatively, I can shift all the QUANTUM LEAP posts to a new thread. What would we prefer? A new thread containing all the previous QL posts? Or keeping them all here with a thread title change?

Sure!!! The title change is just fine with me.

I don't think there will be any Sliders reboot news for some time...

2022-09-20 03:01:08

The new Quantum Leap is so good. Raymond Lee is exceptional and I can't wait to watch him more in new episodes. And both Sam and Al "make an appearance." But not in the traditional sense. Think Will Smith in ID4: Resurgence.

Quite a few other things are also linked to the old Quantum Leap.

I won't spoil anything else.

It's truly a continuation and could be considered a season 6. Not a reboot.

I sure hope if Tracy Torme` ever succeeds in rebooting Sliders that it is even better.

2022-09-18 12:03:56

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

I want our sliders back. Bad.

You and me both, RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan. You and me both.

2022-09-15 21:19:18

ireactions wrote:

Scott Bakula says that he has no connection with the QUANTUM LEAP revival, that the original script for the revival had a role for the character of Sam Beckett, but that he declined to be involved for reasons unstated.
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/scott-bakul … hatsoever/
If you believe any of this, I have a bridge to sell you. :-)
Keep the faith, friends.
(I cannot stress enough in the name of Quinn's glasses, Wade's teddy bear, Rembrandt's cab fare and Arturo's chalkboard that the opinions of ireactions do not represent the opinions or any consensus of Sliders.TV as a whole.)

I really think there may be a reveal a la the Spider Man No Way Home Reveal. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield were dead silent and said the same things until the final night that the movie was shown in theaters and everyone cheered at that scene.

It's very likely something similar will happen with Quantum Leap. There's no way they made it this far without Scott Bakula, IMO.

Maybe he will appear in the season 1 finale?

2022-09-11 09:11:20

Word on the street is that Tracy Torme` is Sliders' own Russell T. Davies, working to resurrect the show. And has spoken to the fact that a Sliders reboot is not a rumor and is in the process of actually happening.

What this actually means and where it is now is anyone's guess, however...

2022-09-09 13:25:11

TemporalFlux wrote:

Now this is interesting:
https://quantumleap.fandom.com/wiki/Her … 2_Williams
In the new series, Ernie Hudson is playing a character that Sam leapt into during season three of the original series. His character is likely where he is because Sam changed his life

Very, very interesting indeed...

This is beginning to look better than originally anticipated.

2022-09-08 13:06:26

The Official Full Trailer for the new Quantum Leap is now out.

Man I cannot wait.

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

2022-09-05 08:50:05

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

if the new quantum leap is a hit, the way MacGyver kinda was, universal will look at their ip and strongly think, "what next?"

One can only hope that their next thought would be Sliders, because of how often it was compared to Quantum Leap in TV Guide reviews. TV Guide reviews (and online reviews of episodes back then) always irked me a little because they would compare Sliders to Quantum Leap, even though they were entirely different shows with an entirely different premise.

2022-09-05 08:47:54

TemporalFlux wrote:

From the Sliders perspective, Quantum Leap is interesting because Al was essentially a Slider.
Because of his link with Sam, Al was the only person in the future who remembered the original timeline. Al witnessed the results of every change Sam made as reality shifted around him.
In one example, a Congressional committee was in the process of killing the Quantum Leap project when Al sees the committee chair suddenly change into another person. Sam’s current leap had led him to change history where someone else was elected to Congress in the future, and that committee chair voted to save the Quantum Leap project.
This is the basic idea I would have pitched for a Sliders / Quantum Leap crossover. A Slider misses the vortex and is left behind, but Sam’s changes in history causes one reality to shift into another thus reuniting the Sliders.

You are right, TemporalFlux. Al is essentially a Slider, although his mechanism was the door to the hologram chamber in his own time, rather than a real wormhole.

I love your idea of a premise for a Sliders/Quantum Leap crossover!! Wouldn't that be something?

2022-09-04 19:43:57

ireactions wrote:

QUANTUM LEAP is... not really my thing. The pilot didn't interest me and the lack of ongoing continuity (understandable for a late 80s show) didn't and doesn't appeal to me.
However, as a SLIDERS fan, I feel I have a duty to be happy for QUANTUM LEAP fans where a show that had its height in the 90s is getting a well-deserved revival that follows the continuity of the original and includes the original creators (and probably the original star), to cheer it on and to wish it well. And, of course, to hope that maybe one of those QL revival episodes will feature a graduate student in physics named Quinn Mallory and serve as a backdoor pilot to a series about parallel universes.
As an Asian man, I also feel I should watch anything Raymond Lee does so long as Lee never does anything bigoted or indefensibly violent.

I wasn't all that much interested in the pilot myself, but there is the historical significance of Sam's leap during the pilot taking place during the technological achievement of airplanes hitting the speed of Mach 3 (which was a very very very major technological achievement at the time). I stuck with it and I am glad I did. Because there are interesting historical significance leaps as well.

There is still some ongoing continuity, however, this doesn't really hit its stride until season 3. Examples:

Bits and pieces of Sam's brain and memory/identity continue to come back from being swiss cheesed during the leaps with almost each episode, although admittedly this does fade as Sam becomes more of who he is with every leap.
He remembers his dad from his real life and gives him a call while he was still alive in the past (thanks to Al's prompting).
Season 5 finally has some major continuing story arcs featuring the evil leaper, Alia.
Sam revisits at least one prior leap during the evil leaper story arc who is following Sam around and working to destroy what he had done.
Most of the major story arc continuity though happens on the bookends to the seasons, in the season openers and season finale, mostly between seasons 3, season 4, and season 5.

I can understand why that may not be your thing, however. Quantum Leap is really the only show I enjoy (besides Sliders) that doesn't have at least some major story arc throughout the seasons.

In the end, we all enjoy what we enjoy...

Interesting factoid: I was able to attend LeapCon '96 and met some actors from the show in person. I got to meet Richard Herd (Moe Stein from the episode "Future Boy") and John D'Aquino (Frank, Jimmy's brother from the episode "Jimmy"), and Scott Bakula answered a question I asked during his Q&A session from the stage. Although for the life of me I can't seem to remember exactly what that was...

I only wish they had similar Sliders conventions back then...

Every time I watch the trailer I love Raymond Lee in Quantum Leap more and more. I can see him becoming a fan favorite in the latest iteration.

2022-09-03 15:47:56

ireactions wrote:

I never watched the original QUANTUM LEAP aside from the Pilot, but I listened to all of REWATCH PODCAST with Tom and Cory covering QL, so I feel well-equipped to watch the new show and I'll follow Martin Gero anywhere. A great showrunner.

Cool! I've seen every episode of the original Quantum Leap.

I would highly recommend committing to a weekend binge of the original show at some point. There are many great moments and stories from the original that are so well done that a podcast can't replace.

I am currently working my way through a full binge of this great series myself before September 19th.

2022-09-01 14:20:08

Looks like the mirror effects are really well done (as usual). But these look like they are on another level.

I am thoroughly enjoying what Raymond Lee brings to the role. Looks like he is really making it his own.

Can't wait to see much more on September 19th.

2022-08-22 17:10:30

ireactions wrote:

I haven't watched as much STARGATE as I'd like to, but Martin Gero created and ran BLINDSPOT for five seasons and I was really impressed by his ability to create and manage a formula, maintain running arcs, create variations with each season to prevent story elements from becoming tiresome, manage an ongoing mythology with climaxes and resolutions and stories after arcs were concluded, and handling budget cuts while ensuring that the series finale was still an event-sized story.
BLINDSPOT is about a woman (Jaime Alexander, Sif from the THOR movies) who wakes up naked in Times Square. She has amnesia, she is covered in tattoos, she is taken into protective custody by an FBI team. They discover: each tattoo on her body leads to information about a crime committed by a corrupt government official and indicates a larger conspiracy to an unknown and cataclysmic endgame. Furthermore, the woman, dubbed Jane Doe, realizes she has advanced fighting skills and weapons training that would outclass the most seasoned soldiers. Each episode of BLINDSPOT investigates a tattoo and a crime while trying to get to the bottom of who Jane Doe is and where she came from.
BLINDSPOT did a great job in its first two seasons of creating a myth-arc and then revealing it wholly by the Season 2 finale. Season 3 then created a new mythology from the remnants of the old one. Season 4 explored Jane's original identity being at odds with who she is now. BLINDSPOT boasted astonishing fight scenes, enticing puzzles a dark sense of humour, excellent use of procedural tropes, and Jaime Alexander was grippingly compelling as the lead. Martin Gero completely understood the appeal of his show and when his dark stories found lighter moments in guest-stars and unexpected onscreen chemistry, Gero capitalized on it, bringing a comic relief guest-star in as a regular and deepening some of the unplanned partnerships.
BLINDSPOT was hit with a serious budget cut for its final season. While the location filming and fight scenes fell away, Gero did a good job of having such intense character-oriented storytelling that the show remained strong even if the budget was clearly low. Gero was unfortunately forced to kill off a character to cut actor costs, but Gero made sure to bring that actor back for some special guest appearances to pay tribute to the performer. Gero did numerous bottle episodes to save money which allowed the BLINDSPOT series finale to have a big budget production with lavish location filming in New York City with guest-stars from every previous season and an elaborate and extensive final fight scene for Jane Doe.
Gero was strategic and smart with his writing and his money even when that money was running low. Gero never allowed his disappointment with the lack of network support or studio funding stop him from giving his show his full effort. Gero ensured that Jaime Alexander was always filmed as an athlete and a warrior rather than as a pinup girl or a BAYWATCH lifeguard. Gero wrote detective stories with wit, humour and a genuine love for each character on the show. Basically, Gero was the exact opposite of David Peckinpah and Bill Dial and he would be an excellent choice to run any TV show.
QUANTUM LEAP fans have a lot to look forward to with Martin Gero as their showrunner.

This is all really fantastic news, ireactions. I can't wait to watch the new Quantum Leap!!!

2022-08-20 16:23:40

JWSlider3 wrote:

Writer
Stargate SG-1
SG-1 Season 9
"The Powers That Be"
SG-1 Season 10
"Bad Guys" (story) (teleplay) (co-wrote with Ben Browder)
Stargate: Atlantis
Atlantis Season 1
"Childhood's End"
"The Storm" (teleplay) (co-wrote with Jill Blotelvogel)
"The Eye"
"Hot Zone"
"The Brotherhood"
"Letters from Pegasus" (excerpts)
"The Gift" (story) (co-wrote with Robert C. Cooper)
"The Siege, Part 1"
Atlantis Season 2
"The Siege, Part 3"
"Duet"
"Conversion" (story) (teleplay) (co-wrote with Robert C. Cooper)
"The Lost Boys"
"Grace Under Pressure"
"Coup D'etat"
"Allies"
Atlantis Season 3
"No Man's Land"
"McKay and Mrs. Miller"
"The Return, Part 1"
"The Return, Part 2"
"Sunday"
"First Strike"
Atlantis Season 4
"Adrift"
"Miller's Crossing"
"Be All My Sins Remember'd"
"Spoils of War" (excerpts)
"Harmony"
"Trio"
Atlantis Season 5
"Search and Rescue"
"Ghost in the Machine" (excerpts)
"First Contact"
"The Lost Tribe"
"Inquisition" (excerpts)
"Brain Storm"
Stargate Universe
Universe Season 1
"Earth" (story) (teleplay) (co-wrote with Robert C. Cooper & Brad Wright)
"Lost"
Director
Stargate: Atlantis
Atlantis Season 5
"Brain Storm"

Thank you!! Never did get into Atlantis. But I was a heavy watcher of Stargate SG-1, and those two were good episodes. I really wish Sliders would have become just as popular. Maybe we would have had the treatment of the show that it deserved and there would have been no departure of the original cast.

One can dream...

2022-08-16 20:53:52

JWSlider3 wrote:

Martin Gero's work on the Stargate franchise alone makes me hopeful for Quantum Leap!
JWSlider3

Which episodes did he write? This I must see!

2022-08-12 01:29:28

Slider_Quinn21 wrote:

ireactions wrote:
The FBI would not raid the home of a previous president unless they had probable cause, a boatload of probable cause.
It's possible Trump was warned, but given his lack of poker face and visible agitation, he seems scared of what the FBI found. The reason Merrick Garland has been criticized in the press and online: the Department of Justice has taken almost no publicly visible action against Trump. This is standard practice to avoid giving the targets of their investigations any warning before they secure warrants and crack open safes.
Yeah, I get it. I just don't have faith that any of this will go against Trump. From what I've read (and I'm as far from an expert as possible), the punishment for breaking this law is "up to 3 years in prison" or a fine. I think the Clinton guy who broke this law most recently got a fine.
If this is all to fine Trump, I'm not sure it's worth it.
Now, all that being said, my limited understanding of this says that if they found something in open sight, even if it was unrelated to the warrant, it can be taken and used against Trump. I wonder if they could find whatever Trump is using to blackmail certain members of Congress. Could that be what gets him?
Or if they actually have proof that Trump wasn't just hoarding classified documents but also selling them. That's the other thing that takes this from "maybe a fine" to jail time.

It's not just 2 or 3 years, but could extend well beyond 2024 and Trump could see the darkest depths of the U.S. federal prison system for years.

Oh, this is all leading up to the charge that Merrick Garland has for all January 6th participants:

Seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government by force.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384

This crime, which violates 18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy, carries a penalty of up to at least 20 years in federal prison.

"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."

Trump "possessing any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof," where nuclear weapons documents are concerned, is in very deep doo-doo.

The golf tournament backed by the Saudis at Trump golf courses...the $2 billion given to Eric Trump by the Saudis...not looking good for Trump.

2022-08-04 05:26:37

Anything written by Tracy Torme` and with the original cast (no Kari).

2022-08-02 23:14:50

Tension is rising as Mexico City locals have noticed the growing trend of American remote workers flocking to take advantage of the “cheap amenities."

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/st … to-go-home

2022-07-31 15:17:34

Michelle Nichols, most known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura on Star Trek, has passed away at 89.

Nooooooooooooooo!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/entertai … index.html

2022-07-12 17:46:17

Personally, I'd rather Maggie Beckett die a gruesome death before the first episode of season 6 to start, never to be seen again.

I'd much rather Sam Beckett find a way to get Colin unstuck and bring him back.

Maggie always rubbed me the wrong way and I hated the character.

Obviously, since Sabrina isn't acting anymore, that leaves us with having to find a new lead woman actress. I'd rather she be at least somewhat tolerable moreso than Kari.

I think Xochitl Gomez would make an excellent alternative (America Chavez in Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness). Picture this: She accidentally gets stuck between universes, in a slide, and joins the Sliders. Something prevents her from using her powers (perhaps her and the timer are on the same frequency, so she can't use her powers while in the same universe as the timer, so she can't user her powers and must join the sliders until they return her home).

2022-07-11 23:34:54

ireactions wrote:

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:
That would be great. The Hollywood Reporter article did say "original star Bakula, who was previously expected to be involved in some capacity, is not currently attached to the update" and also mentioned he was working on another pilot for that season.
It is very common for actors to deny that contractual agreements are in place until disclosure conditions have been met. Andrew Garfield denied that he would appear in SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. James Marsden denied that he would appear in X-MEN: DAYS OF THE FUTURE PAST. And so on.
Bakula's lack of announcement strikes me as (anti-)publicity. You don't center a series around searching for Sam Beckett if Bakula isn't ready to reprise his role; QL seems inclined to withhold Sam so that his appearance will be surprising. In addition, Bakula is never going to be too busy to do guest appearances on QUANTUM LEAP because he will never allow himself to be too busy to be out the studio door and headed home by 6 PM.

I love your insight. Oh, this is gonna be good.

2022-07-05 20:48:02

Aahhh yes. RIP Dean Stockwell.

But with A.I., couldn't they replace Dean Stockwell's face on another actor and re-create his voice to be almost identical? We have the technology. One particular freelance Elvis impersonator on YouTube (look up Luigi Leppo) is already doing that with Elvis by creating brand-new songs that Elvis was never recorded on video performing. Done with his exact face, and his exact voice. As I said, we have the tech. We just need a TV show to implement it successfully.

There is also a mobile app that does this (the consumer-grade non-professional version) called Re-face.

2022-07-03 23:06:25

ireactions wrote:

Caution: this post suggests a Crossover for a SLIDERS revival series premiere (dun dun dunhhhhh!).
What if... the QUANTUM LEAP revival had an episode that served as a backdoor pilot for SLIDERS? What would it be like?
What if... Dr. Ben Seong needs an outside perspective on Project Quantum Leap? What if he decides to go to his local Doppler Computer Chain and talk to the Repair Squad clerk behind the counter, an awkward grad school dropout named Quinn Mallory (played either by Jerry O'Connell or... I dunno, Corey Fogelmanis (genius eccentric on GIRL MEETS WORLD) if it's a young version).
What if Dr. Seong think fondly of his old classmate Quinn as a brilliant, clever scientist who was more interested in practical engineering than quantum mechanics?
What if we learn that Quinn was a well-regarded grad student until his foolhardy effort to build a quantization field generator in the faculty basement accidentally burned the building down, but Dr. Seong still likes to meet up with Quinn now and then and bounce ideas off him and offer him freelance work (as Quinn's lack of credentials has reduced him to fixing computers at the Doppler Electronics chain for minimum wage).
Perhaps Quinn alludes to his own projects that he's been working on.
Perhaps Quinn brings Dr. Seong back home to The Basement show him his attempts at anti-gravity to solve an immediate problem Seong is having in trying to retrieve the long-missing Sam Beckett.
Perhaps Quinn's demonstration knocks out the power to half of the Western coastal area of America.
Perhaps the last we see of Quinn on the QUANTUM LEAP revival, Dr. Seong is grimly waving goodbye to Quinn as the police march Quinn out of The Basement.
Perhaps later, Dr. Seong realizes Quinn's idea sparked something in him that lets him resolve the issue of the week, and in gratitude, Seong has Project Quantum Leap pay off Quinn's legal bills and get him out of jail.
Perhaps Project Quantum Leap Administration declares that Seong is to never involve Quinn in Project Quantum Leap again and pre-emptively declares that Quinn will be shot on sight should he ever be within half a city block of the building. (Shot with paint, but still.)
Perhaps this leads into a SLIDERS pilot where Quinn is further disgraced in the scientific community and now hated by his neighbours (he knocked out the power during an important game of sportsball, I'm sorry, I don't know sports, but people seem to care about them). Quinn helps his neighbour, Stephanie, retrieve her runaway dog. Stephanie proceeds to set her dog on Quinn because Quinn made her miss the super... plate... something. (I am sorry. I don't know sports, but people really care about them.)
Perhaps after a mild mauling, Quinn is now ready to give up on science, take everything in the basement to a landfill and call it a day on Science.
Perhaps, as Quinn is packing up, he accidentally reboots his hardware and then something appears in Quinn's basement. A burst of light. A light that does not fade but remains suspended in the air. The light begins to widen. What could it be?
Perhaps it is split in the very skin of reality itself. A split that becomes a gateway.
And perhaps the adventure begins again...

That is quite the creative multiversal branch there. I can dig it. Dr. Seong and Quinn Mallory being acquaintances in that universe...

This fall TV season cannot come soon enough for this Quantum Leap fan.

2022-06-27 19:13:38

ireactions wrote:

I was just making a joke saying Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru "probably" can't die. (Unless Obi-Wan were to replace them with clones while Luke sleeps. Or maybe Luke knows they are clones and that's why he wasn't that upset in STAR WARS when he returned to his family farm to find the estate burned to the ground and two charred skeletons that used to be his aunt and uncle.

LOL.

2022-06-27 04:41:54

ireactions wrote:

I really liked Moses Ingram's performance as Reva. Disturbing and terrifying only for Vader to turn the tables on her. I also liked how OBI-WAN KENOBI emphasizes how Reva is the one character whose fate is actually open. Ben of Tatooine can't actually die in a prequel to the 1977 movie. Leia can't die. Luke can't die. Darth Vader can be maimed and mauled and marred and mutilated, but not in any way that prevents him from appearing in A NEW HOPE. Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru will probably survive this story to die in a future story. Reva is the only one with an open future.

Indeed. Don't Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru die in the 1977 movie when storm troopers raid the farm looking for the droids? They can't die in the prequels either.

Very very interesting how they wrote that scene overall with Obi-Wan saying that. And Reva's back story just grew more and more interesting as the story evolved.

Obi-Wan still cares deeply about Anakin, even though they are enemies now. The other interesting part of the story overall was watching Obi-Wan come to terms with it. I don't think he ever really does, to be honest. We don't actually see Obi-Wan come to terms with that until the 1977 movie...unless he does this earlier in canon material that I'm not aware of.

2022-06-25 18:51:08

Anyone else think Moses Ingram was perfectly cast as Reva in Obi Wan?

Outstandingly well done. And I love hearing James Earl Jones as Darth Vader again.

Just catching up on the last couple of episodes and episode 5 was excellent. Can't wait to watch the finale later tonight.

2022-05-21 16:45:27

Quite honestly, compared to the next covid wave, Monkeypox may be the least of our worries...

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1 … sBJx_ILL5A

2022-05-17 19:35:13

ireactions wrote:

Why is the title of your story Sliders Reborn?
**
"The Seer" provides a very simple explanation for the Seer's vision: the Seer's premonition of death immediately after the sliders stepped through the vortex was not their deaths, but the Seer's own demise. This has always been, at least to me, a very obvious back door to avoid really killing Rembrandt off.
And because "The Seer" does not specify what world Rembrandt will slide to, does not have the Season 5 sliders join Rembrandt, does not show what's on the other side of Rembrandt's gateway, and also has Rembrandt take the broken Egyptian timer with him, there is absolutely no limit to what could be waiting for Rembrandt when he emerges after the end of "The Seer." Perhaps he makes it home; that's Temporal Flux's view as established in his SLIDERS DECLASSIFIED series. Perhaps the gateway is actually the end of a timeloop that rolls back in terms of plotting if not in-universe to Season 2 as suggested by "Slide Effects." Perhaps Rembrandt encounters the Quinn Mallory of the Azure Gate Bridge world as proposed by Slider_Quinn21.
Or perhaps Rembrandt came out of the other side of the vortex to find Quinn, Wade and Arturo waiting for him, miraculously and impossibly alive, somehow restored through the infinite possibilities of sliding, somehow able to locate their friend, somehow ready to lay Seasons 3 - 5 to rest and restore the status quo and sorry, why is your story called Sliders Reborn?

Like I said. Been out of the fan fic game for awhile. Even my title writing skills are rusty.

Indeed. There is truly a multiverse of possibilities here.

2022-05-17 18:23:22

I'm just thinking out loud here, but that's because I've been out of the fanfic game for awhile. Perhaps The Seer could end on this note, because I am pretty sure in The Seer there was at least one or two instances where he admitted he could not see everything:

Working Title: Sliders Reborn

As Rembrandt is sliding in the vortex, the timer malfunctions. Rembrandt is somehow pulled back into the same universe but in a different location (somewhere around 5 miles away). Turns out he ends up landing in the home of someone who has already solved everything - the Kromagg virus issue, all that. Rembrandt is cured. The scientist responsible for solving all of it? Professor Maximillian P. Arturo.

Shortly thereafter, they find the home of a rather technically advanced whiz kid who is...Quinn Mallory as always. He is an advanced physics student and electronics engineer, and kept hiding on this world after the Sliders adventures were discovered. So he has kept to himself, and him and Arturo have kept a very low profile. Such a low profile, in fact, that he developed a very large living enclosure bunker that would hide them from The Seer, for however long it took.

Throughout sliding, the new Quinn somehow ran into Dr. Geiger. They became friends, until Quinn figured out what his real intentions was. He figured out a way to hide from Dr. Geiger, and ended up making a home on Seer world.

Spending time with Dr. Geiger, Quinn figured out Dr. Geiger's machinery. It turns out that Quinn has solved all of the issues with Dr. Geiger's "recombinator." He is able to reconstitute Quinn Prime, and separate both Mallory and Quinn back to their usual selves. He is also able to unstuck Colin. Colin magically slides back as himself.

The next scientist on our list: one Wade Welles. She has become a biologist and very experienced one at that. She is able to make sure that Rembrandt has no trace of the virus, and make it so that Rembrandt is cured, unable to take the virus to the next world. This is the second step in Rembrandt's being cured that needs to happen. Turns out that all 3 Sliders were able to come up with a viable solution to their problems together.

With that, with a brief cameo of around 1 minute, Mallory, Diana, and Maggie all decide to stay on Seer world, letting the original Sliders depart and leave that world, continuing their quest to find home. Colin joins the original Sliders on their quest for home for a couple of episodes.

It's goodbye to not only Seer world, but the old Sliders as well. Now to say hello to the latest, brand-new Sliders who are all in Torme's universe now, and the original cast.

Haha. I had to...

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