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https://deadline.com/2024/11/bonnie-ham … 236185748/

she canceled sliders

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MOD EDIT: Broken link fixed, moved to AI thread.

Very interesting with what he said using SUCCESSION as an example

https://x.com/jorilallo/status/1858211286066073922/

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Grizzlor wrote:
RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

Posting for grizzled
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/1 … hollywood/

Ha, yes she's into "psychedelic-assisted therapy" now, and campaigned to legalize psychedelics in some manner in Mass, which did not pass.  Her socials basically came to life after years of inactivity, a month ago.  The career path is not a surprise, as she's wanted to go in that direction for as long as I've known her, which was partly what her mother's group was doing in Africa, minus the mushrooms.  Obviously I'm happy that she's happy and seems to be going strong.

I'm glad she's independently wealthy now and could pursue her interests.  At least she doesn't have the financial pressure to have to act anymore, and can explore stuff like this.  It does seem like she's had quite a life.

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Posting for grizzled
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/1 … hollywood/

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did anyone know about this?

https://uk.strangerthingsonstage.com

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ireactions wrote:

I would appreciate it if you would watch Season 3 and tell me what the hell is going on because I could not understand it.


Ha.  Well you've always been much better on details as me.

I never finished the series when it was streaming on netflix, so I can't recall how far I got.  I just remember feeling like I was watching a believable world, with fully thought out, well-constructed logic that was very much grounded in a speculative sort of reality.   It didn't feel artificial or convenient.  It felt real, despite the drama and the science fiction.

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I'm not sure if the old Continuum thread was lost but I was pleasantly surprised to find it on tubi in the u.s. tonight. All four seasons.  It has been elusive to find since leaving Netflix 6 or 7 years ago.  But it's streaming for free in the u.s. now on tubi.

Grizzlor wrote:
RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

GROWING PAINS is free on Plex.  It looks remarkably good. I did not think these 80s sitcoms could look this good.

Must I?  That's one sitcom we watched every week, that I don't think I could re-attempt now.  LOL

Some may say the same thing about "The Quinn Mallory Chronicles" but we love it anyway

GROWING PAINS is free on Plex.  It looks remarkably good. I did not think these 80s sitcoms could look this good.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie … 235950420/

CONTACT is one of the most import movies to me.  Tracy did some work on it and presumably alongside her.

Her work was always of high, high quality.   It's such a shame she's gone at a rather young age. As is her ability to give us more of her terrific projects.

a lot of good 4k upgrades here
https://www.youtube.com/@ODavies/videos

Excellect points ireactions.  But also doesn't completely explain why jerry has been known to go to these conventions as a 'civilian' while his wife is a vip.

Grizzlor wrote:
RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

based on how JRD is dressed (he normally wears an outfit like that for conventions) and the credential necklace around jerry's neck, i am assuming they were both at the same fan convention.

Yes I think it was Fanboy Expo Orlando, JRD and Rebecca Romijn were booked.  Jerry usually (not always) accompanies his wife, and this was the first time both he and John were at the same one.  I have implored Jerry to take convention bookings, people would line up for him.  Then you could have things like dual photo ops with him and John, probably a Sliders panel, etc.


Yea, that's wonderful you are encouraging that.  My guess is maybe he has some insecurity, but you'd think the conventions would be able to assess demand and offer him enough financial incentive as a result.  Most of these people are paid fee plus travel expenses, plus share of autograph revenue, correct?   I assumed they basically get offers through their agent & manager and if it's the right price, they go.  For the lesser stars, I would assume there's no guarnateed payment beyond travel expenses.

QuinnSlidr wrote:
RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

INCREDIBLE (to see these two guys together again)


It really is INCREDIBLE. And to see the words "Getting the team back together..."

based on how JRD is dressed (he normally wears an outfit like that for conventions) and the credential necklace around jerry's neck, i am assuming they were both at the same fan convention.

Grizzlor wrote:

https://x.com/MrJerryOC/status/18324981 … g&s=19

Getting the team back together...

https://i.postimg.cc/Mvg3rPWc/Screenshot-20240907-154252.png

How cool is that?


INCREDIBLE (to see these two guys together again)

ireactions wrote:

Just my opinion: aside from 102 - 109, all other SLIDERS episodes stretch to a 55 inch LCD just fine.

Yea i wasn't specific but was moreso talking about the early episodes.

the sliders dvds look best 4:3 on a tube tv (at a reasonable viewing distance). Hides the flaws.

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While this probably makes sense legally it's awful news for the sliders pilot novelization available on archive.org

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-ar … se-appeal/

Jim_Hall wrote:
Grizzlor wrote:

Most TV series were shot this way on film (edited in post on tape), except maybe sitcoms which were shot entirely on video.  Unfortunately, the process of obtaining the film, rescanning that, followed by a shot by shot reproduction of what was done in post, is never going to happen for this series.  It's still something that they did it for Star Trek and Next Gen.

I still hold out hope they'll rescan the film. I'm not sure if I would want the special effects redone anyway. They rescanned the film on Lois and Clark and just left the old special effects, which is better than nothing. I don't think Lois and Clark is a huge beloved series, although it is Superman. The amount of work they done for TNG was crazy. Fans were upset that James Cameron used AI for the most recent Aliens 4K transfer: https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2024/08/13/ja … volvement/. I can understand both the fans side and his as well. Long story short, the fans didn't want the AI or grain reduction and he tells his fans to get a life.

i'll never understand directors saying 'get a life' to fans when both the director and fans are being meticulous and anal about the quality of the content.   I suppose since the director thinks it's his, and therefore part of his life, it's different?  But still doesn't make sense to me -- if the director cares that much about the details, aren't these the people who share their point-of-view (rather than the apathetic people with lives).

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ireactions wrote:

My review on the "Perihelion" novel was featured in the X-Cast podcast! In the mailbag section, podcasters AJ Black and Carl Sweeney share various comments from different fans. Then AJ Black says at 1:05:17:

"Ibrahim had a really brilliant review, but it's a really long review, so I am not going to read that out."

Faint praise, but it resounds in my ears.

:-D

That's great. I was meaning to post their podcast episode here (still have yet to listen).

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This is interesting

https://www.hiddendoor.co

I seem to recall Aaron used a different story of storytelling participating site.  This one is different.  I don't think they have many IP brands integrated yet but they have some decent investors that may give them a shot if they get enough traction with their initial product.

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https://situational-awareness.ai

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Seeing paramount's struggles has been ashame because they have some decent IP. But not all studios can.have their own streaming services.  And all the disparate apps makes for a crappy user experience.  A lot of time spent is going to YouTube and tiktok.

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is Star Trek Next Generation: Generations happening?  Matalas' desired follow-up to Picard? I thought I heard something about  that supposedly at ComicCon.  Or maybe I read it wrong.

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this looks good

https://www.amazon.com/eXtra-Files-Humo … 1368084311

reminds me a little bit of Annie Fish's work (anthology book) on that one episode of Sliders

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regarding Prodigy & Netflix:

https://www.cancelledscifi.com/2024/08/ … -and-more/

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Thanks for the review. A very nuanced, multi-dimensional, fair take.  I am glad you were able to appreciate and get enjoyment out of aspects of it.

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Agree @ireactions - he was loyal to the universe he built

@QuinnSlidr that's awesome to hear he inspired you.  And that you got to take in his hospitality.

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I just want to say....  I think it's non-trivial that Sliders has yet again seemingly been renewed for licensing on Peacock after it expired at the end of June. Universal has many titles its studio owns yet Peacock does not license all of them. 

It's 2024.  30 years after SLIDERS debuted.   Yet on a modern, premium streaming platform, it still maintains itself as relevant to today's marketplace.

Yes, Seaquest is available too, but Spielberg & Amblin got that totally remastered and in HD.  It had some help, politically.   Sliders is there truly based on having enough fan interest to be kept on the platform.

It's a privilege as a fan to see it there.

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It took a long time for me to get over this.  I still miss him though.  I hope he and his terrific sense of humor is still taking in our world from above.  I want him to be able to continue to follow the story that he commented on.

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Sliders is officially now listed under "Golden Oldies" on the Xumo app  (where  the streaming quality is  the  best picture of  any platform).  So yea, that feels just great.

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Also, besides David's podcast, he has a new movie out based on the book he wrote. He's earned praise for his performance.

"Reverse the Curse"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/ … 579b80a334

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https://twitter.com/ContextGillian/stat … 2721799510

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Excited for your book Annie!

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ireactions wrote:

Well, you can get the next one.

Also, while looking, I noticed that Sabrina Lloyd's "The Girl With Something Extra" interview ( https://earthprime.com/articles/the-gir … ing-extra/ ) describes her pre-SLIDERS career where she starred in an movie on HBO where she plays a teenaged lesbian who wants to go with her girlfriend to prom. That was actually an episode of an anthology TV show, not a film, and you can see the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjPG0QVsFdI&t

Great find

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ireactions wrote:

I've always found every MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, even the ones I didn't like, were very stagey and writerly. Which is fine for me because MISSION IMPOSSIBLE is about confidence tricks and deceit and staged scenarios to manipulate marks. I'm not sure what you're referring to by fourth wall breaking.

I guess there was always such depth of logic in the writing that even if we are suspending disbelief, it felt like the scenarios could be real in that imagined world.  With this film, it felt a bit more contrived and just a bit artificial and a little hallow.  I don't know -- something clearly didn't work the same I think beyond the competition from two other films.

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ireactions wrote:
RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

The writing was just not as good on that film than some of the recent in the series.

What was wrong about the writing for you? I thought it was as strong as it had ever been, and had the same weaknesses and inconsistencies the series has always had.

I'm a bit surprised you say that.  It felt a bit cliche to me.  I thought it could have been an interesting concept but at the end of the day, they didnt really execute on it in a smart enough way.  It didn't feel like a "real" thing that happened, it felt like a written story.  Once you break that fourth wall, and it's not a truly believable world, you are just playing pretend and it's less impressive..  Either way, the creative team has enough of a history to be worthy of many more attempts and I still enjoyed the theatrical experience.  I can see why the word of mouth wasn't as strong though.  I also felt like, while certainly a death defying stunt, the motorcycle off a cliff just didnt translate as dramatically as they had hoped.

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@ireactions

I don't think it was just one factor with Dead Reckoning Part I.   If there wasn't two other big movies playing, I think it would have been profitable....  if it had two other big movies playing, but had better word of mouth, I think it would have been profitable.

The writing was just not as good on that film than some of the recent in the series.  The train stuff was peak suspense for the franchise but the rest of the film just didn't quite meet the high bar of the others.  I think that in combination of having other things to go see in theaters reduced audience motivations.  Still surprising given all the goodwill Tom Cruise had established with it.  MI films felt like american events the last couple of releases prior.

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … fy1RIVm5__

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https://twitter.com/daisytorme/status/1 … 6313866292

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Either these things have  limitations and growth will slow or flatline in their quality or it will have steady growth in quality or exponential.   I think it's reasonable to assume the latter because that's how technology normally goes but I would also not be extremely shocked if the former plays out too.

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

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Apparently x files had no series bible

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fantastic interview

From a business perspective, in hindsight I wonder if having Scott Bakula and leaning more into the old series would have better served the number of episodes that got green lit.  I have no idea though.

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ireactions wrote:

The first two seasons of SLIDERS and the first five seasons of THE X-FILES were basically neighbours filming in Vancouver. And I certainly think of SLIDERS and THE X-FILES as existing on the same multidimensional axis.

**

What are you enjoying about the books you've been listening to?

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Every couple years, I like to re-read the SEASON 10 and SEASON 11 comic books. They had a slightly more muted, low-key (and rushed) finale than I would have liked, but they mostly resolved their stories except for two loose ends.

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I still have the two IDW X-FILES prose anthologies from the SEASON 10/SEASON 11 era of 2013 - 2015 to read.


I like Monsters of the Week better of the two (although happy both are available -- Hoopla is completely free in markets where your library participates with them -- not sure if it's U.S. only).


The Monsters of the Week one just helped me understand subtext better, some behind the scenes stuff and also has good criticism -- it's not just fan boy stuff.  All of it's criticism (and opinions overall) are rooted in reasoning and well-articulated.

It helps me understand and appreciate the show at a deeper level.

Personally, I enjoyed some of the comics by Joe Harris etc.  I'm a casual fan.  I like Mulder and Scully -- particularly the dynamic between the two.  The same way that I got drawn to the relationship between Quinn and Arturo, even if the dynamics are quite different.

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One interesting thing about the X Files and Sliders, that makes me think they are at least in the same "cinematic universe" is that a number of key actors appeared on both shows.  They feel spiritually connected.   I guess by virtue of the fact that these actors played different roles, one would have to conclude that they were not on Earth Prime.

I still wonder though.   It's almost like they are on the same Earth Prime compared to the universes of all other tv properties, in some way.

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If you guys had to guess... is Earth Prime the same for our Quinn Mallory and the Mulder and Scully we saw in the X Files documentary series?

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RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

I just discovered Hoopla has some x-files audiobooks I hadn't see before:

https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook … n/12244243

This book is excellent so far.

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ireactions wrote:

It's really tough. Fan gatherings are a leisure activity. And it's hard to spend on hotels, meals, travel and such for leisure.

I think the last movie I saw in a movie theatre was MADAME WEB and only because my job gave me a gift card. The last movie I saw in theatres on my own dime was MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING. It just does not make sense to go to a movie theatre and pay for a $15 ticket, parking, concessions, gas and such when I have an adequate TV at home with an okay speaker system.

It may not make financial sense for a lot of people to travel to a fan convention when they could use message boards, Facebook, Reddit, podcasts and ebooks for a facsimile of meeting cast and crew and attending discussion panels.

On another note: Claudia Gray's upcoming X-FILES novel, "Perihelion", costs $28 USD. https://a.co/d/4C4yXFc

Twenty. Eight. American. Dollars. Look, Claudia Gray may be a splendid author and "Perihelion" may be the greatest literary achievement since HUCKLEBERRY FINN. But even then, it would not be worth $28 American dollars in the year of our Lord 2024. It cost less to watch MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING in a movie theatre than it does to buy "Perihelion".

(I actually preordered the ebook from a Canadian bookseller for $12 USD awhile ago.)

Yes, I think what they found was after doing the event each year over the last two years and things getting expensive, they were not getting enough repeat customers (or new ones to make up that lost).  Event though an annual convention sounds wonderful, it was hard to pull it off.  The convention still managed to be a big success with their ability to pull it off over the last two years.

That book is quite pricey but maybe it's priced higher for first buyers and they know over time it will come down inevitably?   Or maybe they are just pricing it too high smile   It's really nice to see more stories with the original characters.  Something sliders never got.

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This is sad and reflective of how hard it is to put together these events

https://xfilespreservationcollection.co … -fest-2024

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I just discovered Hoopla has some x-files audiobooks I hadn't see before:

https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook … n/12244243

https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook … s/15992453

And a philosophy ebook
https://www.hoopladigital.com/ebook/the … s/11883924

Unfortunate.

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Grizzlor wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY

Absolutely brilliant take down of those who are pushing for increased AI, by the maestro Jon Stewart.  These IT billionaires will destroy us all, and no, I'm not kidding.

Incredible -- especially on the prompt engineer stuff.

Unfortunately, even with the warnings, we'll still head in the same (inevitable) directions.

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Grizzlor wrote:

hmm, didn't realize Coogler was pitching a reboot.  I think the obvious focus has to be on AI, which is IMO the gravest threat to humanity ever created.  Aliens and other such traditional conspiracies are no longer believable.

Apparently, that might be the case.  As apparently Dean Haglund may have mentioned it 15 minutes into this interview:

https://rumble.com/v4ly10b-xfiles-lone- … llian.html

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https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/c … -interview

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ireactions wrote:

Yeah, when typing up Wade's, I looked up the LinkedIn page for Robin Torme and I was astonished and impressed by the many, many things she's been in her life: an animal welfare activist and rescuer, anti-human trafficking advocate, a journalist, a private detective, a championship surfer, a swimsuit model, an undercover investigator. I have this suspicion that Robin is a former espionage agent who retired from active duty to focus on animal rescue.

That is incredible. I knew only a couple of those things.   

Even though Tracy and Robin didn't have kids, they had their animals, and I'd like to think without completely knowing it, he had all of us, too.  We certainly had him.

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I apologize for not reading/commenting on this.  For whatever reason, someone outside of Quinn delivering a eulogy just hits harder with regard to breaking the fourth wall and the finality of Tracy's death.  I guess that's because i associate Quinn as a bit of a representation of Tracy himself.  Even if that was not his intention.

well this is not the type of stories I want to see:

https://tvgrimreaper.substack.com/p/wee … -likely-to

Maybe  the next generation of algorithms will handle poorer source content better.  Then again maybe not.  We can only hope.