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Had an idea for continuing the sliders franchise on a lower production cost angle.   "The Dominion Hotel Chronicles".    It would basically have episodes (audio, book or tv) in which the gang of four are sitting around at the Dominion Hotel bar, discussing their adventure, predictament, etc on that earth.  The type of thing that would really happen on that world but never made it into the actual series.   Essentially, they are all bottle episodes. 

yea, seems like it was just a mistake.

I continue to be blown away by the quality of these samples.

anyone see the latest episode?

So quantum leap has done meh in the live ratings and well in streaming (on-demand).

i know they ordered six more episodes (prior to the slip in live ratings this past week), but i still am not sure whether this show is gonna be considered viable or not for their needs?   it will probably get a renewal, but as we all know, getting to a third season is very hard.

This is very good news for it and for sliders

I have been meaning to get back into this

Thank you for the offer on the KF94s.  I have quite a bunch of 3M 95s.  Your posting on here about Mask Nerd helped.   Heck, you're Sliders upscaling experiments helped quite a bit during rough patches over the last couple of years. 

I have considered getting an FFP3 for medical settings or high risk settings. I should probably do so.  I have not gotten around to it but should.   

With regard to the topic of vaccines, it's too emotionally charged of an issue for me to say all that much, in a way that will be 100 percent productive.

Pandemic hasn't ended for me either.  Horrible reaction to vax. Couldn't complete vaccination (obviously) and ongoing impairing medical condition since my reaction (which I suspect a covid infection would worsen).  I kinda have no good options but hey that's life.   I do find the stupidity on managing covid maddening.  I don't think people shouldn't move on at this point if they like but we can have non invasive mitigation measures and we can have a time and place for masking.  Especially in medical facilities.  Which in the U.S. is going by  the wayside.   Biden has a lot of nerve on his words before the election vs. some of his words now.

So my understanding was Quantum Leaps premiere live ratings were decent to so-so.   If it doesn't do well than I think you can stick s fork in any near term Sliders reemergence.

I want our sliders back.  Bad.

I do recall him taking a pilot.. which didn't get picked up.

Agree on both points..

So very interesting the showrunners were replaced.  Martin Gero is one of the top network tv showrunners and so I think the show will be at least a solid effort

Interesting responses and thoughts.

Btw,
I should have phrased this better.  This was meant to ask favorite when you literally want to relax and unwind.

For ex. my favorite overall episode of the show would be Luck of the Draw.  But it is too cerebral for me to watch in a moment I don't want to *think*.

Something really interesting I consumed today was a short story called "Pilot" that was part of The Truth Is out There: The X-Files Series, Book 2, edited by Jonathon Mayberry.

Apparently a SLIDERS and X-Files crossover are entirely plausible as doubles and the multiverse are part of the X-Files mythology.

I definitely agree Maggie Beckett is Related to Sam.

There's also the Sabrina the Teenage Witch connection (I think from Into the Mystic). 

Without a doubt these worlds are connected. 

Unfortunately, I feel like those who fancy quantum leap in some ways can turn up their nose at SLIDERS, looking at it as a B version.  Even though we know, while spiritually connected, it is its own thing and not to be confused.

My guess is the showrunners on this new Quantum Leap (revivial) will want nothing to do with SLIDERS even though Universal would be smart to think about an integration.

I do think X-Files/Sliders is probably the most fitting crossover (even though rights holders are different).  I mean, Jerry was playing basketball with Gillian and David.   Tracy gave advice to Chris.

thank you again for the correction!

didn't realize it was a revival (although obviously who knows if we will even see sam becket.  good they didnt destroy cannon though and kept his character in the mythology).

what i was reacting to when i said reboot and being upset was mostly in reaction to it seems like the original actors were not engaged in the talks/planning and the original writer isn't  leading the new show. 

i really don't love that approach for a classic series.   i do admire though this information you've given me that sam becket is not being written out of the mythology.

Thank you for the corrections.  My details were fuzzy as I had just heard the news.  Exciting nonetheless.  I think it represents a model that could be applied to SLIDERS.  More importantly, I like that MacFarlane has thought outside the box to get the franchise out there in various ways.

Free streaming service Tubi has both the miniseries done for Childhood's End  and Andromeda Strain.

SyFy did childhoods end not sure who did the other but both look solid.

the latter.  doesn't really capture the spirit.

I haven't finished the Pilot novel but I will say I found it superior to the Back to the Future novelization (which I did like but didn't find it came close to the movie).

I love this show. 

I love its characters.

If Peacock were aggressive, they would do a one off 90 minute movie to wrap up the series and do an upres on the library.  But that would likely cost $3m or so. 

I wish we could crowd fund that similar to how Mystery Science Theater did a few years ago..

Totally agree.

In fact, Picard could have just been Strange New Worlds with some of the opening, "back out of retirement" stuff from Picard.

It probably should have been but there is an obsession with serialized storytelling vs. procedural now.

Was gonna post about this

So great it's back.

Here's the locations page

https://slidecage.com/show/film-locations/

Interesting.  Even for non S1&2 episodes you are considering this?

I've really enjoyed the SLIDERS modernization project you've embarked on.  It will be very interesting to see how the technologies evolve in the future to see just how much further things can be pushed.   I think technically it should be possible to fill in the blanks for all of this stuff in terms of upscaling -- the question will be if someone sees enough of a commercial opportunity to drive these algorithms further, or if there is some open source effort, developed over time, because the technology has become common enough, it's freely available to develop for this use case.

Personally, I have some questions in my mind about the existing Gaia algorithm in topaz labs and if there is any benefit for certain content with that. 

I also have found PC mode on my tv for whatever reason converts the samples to the best looking version for s1.  One of the interesting things is Back to the Future released a new blu ray last year with the best ever 4k version of the film.  However, Back to the Future (Part I) imo actually became worse looking because the poppy coloring that the old blurays had got lost.  The newer resotration may have been more reflective of how BTTF I looked in theaters.  But I personally much preffered the  coloring in the old blu ray releases because it reflected the comic book like quality of the material.  I think it illustrates to me how much coloriing, contrast, and all those little changes can make a big difference in the feel of content as wel..

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