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Highlighted "post" because that usually includes ADR and potentially reshoots, and such, which they cannot do with the actors.

To quote Bill Shatner, Get a Life, it's....it's just a TV show!"

I've been battling with people on the trekbbs boards on this, you cannot really expect this writing staff to be connecting everything they do with the minutia of TOS canon.

I guess for a musical episode, it was fine, but just not necessary.

I have no idea if he'll actually watch these videos.  I'm kind of hesitant to send him the Cardinal Sin stuff, mainly because Gil is pompous, and Tracy has nothing but technical gremlins.

Jerry is fairly honest, and I also think very busy, like many dads, he probably hasn't put a lot of effort into finding Torme.  It took him quite some time to reconnect with Cleavant.

Ran into Jerry once again today, he was at the Terrificon show in Connecticut with his wife, Rebecca who was a guest there.  He was just greeting people in line all day, ha ha.  Talked to him awhile, I mentioned the zoom stuff that Tracy has been doing with Cleavant and Bob Weiss and he had me DM him those videos.  He seemed excited to have reconnected with Cleavant, but can't get ahold of Tracy, lol.

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One cannot be surprised to hear about how the former President got his dimwitted valet and the POOL GUY to try to get security to erase video of the boxes being moved.  Followed by the pool guy, who has been indicted now, draining the pool in an attempt to flood the security server room!!!  You cannot make this two bit crap up.  And it's just so very Trump, a cheapskate and fraud, to try something so hacky.

WOW, have not hear from him in eons!  Those two hosts are brutal.  I never knew the story of the first call Tracy had with Bob, very funny.  His dumb agent told him it was director Robert Wise, ha ha.  Bob is hilarious.

1. AI is a problem, but it's not a problem NOW.  There's anecdotal stuff about scanning actors and potentially using that and sneaky contracts to generate background actors with AI/CGI.  I truly doubt that technology even makes sense anytime within the next 10 years.   

2. These strikes are entirely about residuals and pay scales, both of which are comically bad on streaming.  Heck they aren't even that good on cable.  Studios go to ridiculous lengths to get around SAG pay rules, like many companies in other industries.  They only let you work just enough, so you don't have to get paid in full.  What they do to writers is even worse.  They have schemes to prevent writers from being on staff.  It's all totally putrid, while these companies make BILLIONS.

Hollywood is now owned and controlled by tech bros, who have little to know history in the arts.  They are slimy frauds not all that unlike pukes like Zuckerberg or Musk.  They're a step below the robber barons.  The goal is indeed to freeze out writers and if need be, the actors too, so that they are totally broke and desperate, and have to grovel for a deal.  It's shameful.

Yeah it's okay now.

The movie isn't perfect, but I saw it twice, and was completely ecstatic throughout and so pleased to have seen it.  The de-aging is not that bad, and mostly works fine.  The film is covered in callbacks to the old movies, not to mention little hints everywhere.  There is zero evidence that they intended to have 2/3 of the movie be a de-aged Ford.  Namely, Ford himself would never have agreed to something that ridiculous.  Harrison wanted to make the age of the character and the actor a central point of the story.  The stunts were great, yes yes Ford couldn't do a lot of them, but rarely did I think, oh wait that's not him.  On the horse in Manhattan a few times, but the fights were fine, and the tut-tut chase looked very real.  Anyway, the pace of the movie was good, and it was all fully believable and looked really crisp.  KOTCS looked like a cheap, drab, boring, imitation.  This was a good one, as a die hard I'm happy it got released.  Don't care about the box office or the whiny Cannes reviewers.  Every person I know myself who went to see it, loved it. 

Sliders I think its likely dead regardless, but it's not too late.  We continue to get badly done multiverse shows/movies every year.  My only fear is whether the production can go forward on a modest budget, or do they go nuts?

He appears on some other show called Dark Matters, but again, mostly UFO related.

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Warner Bros is an utter mess.  Just a mess.  Another new Superman and Lois.  Good God I could care less.  Gunn succeeds when he does strange, fringe stuff.

Torme heard the word "woke" mentioned by Cardinal Sin when complaining about Picard, and said Sliders wouldn't be woke.  Which by the way, is EXACTLY the right response.  Sorry, you cannot do a "woke" Sliders.  May well leave it dead.  Sliders is precisely the style of show where you get to have characters/worlds that are frightening politically incorrect, because you can show why they are wrong for being so ignorant. 

They're both too old.  Bellisario and Pratt consult?  LOL, more like they take a paycheck, and pat themselves on the back.  I do not recall Torme whining about Peacock execs and their sensitivities.  He seemed to feel like they were interested, but there wasn't likely a financial opening to do the show.  Now with Peacock itself stalling out, and NBCU's old cable infrastructure ground up, where would a Sliders even go?  In any event, I doubt Tracy and co. got into details with regard to their Sliders pitch.  He felt it went well, and began to lament about Peacock, because I got the sense that again, there's not a large budget they have available to them.  Hence the "why is this the right time?" is a classic, we like it, but there's no money right now.  Or whoever is in control has his or her portfolio and Sliders isn't on it.  Which again, has been my gripe for years, the execs cannot see the possibilities.

LOL!  Well, I think you had two thinks at work there.  First, you're an NBC exec, and in comes a group of basically, old geezers, pitching a TV show they did, on other network, 2 and 1/2 decades ago.  None of them really command that kind of confidence.  I don't think an network would ever, sadly, sign off on them.  They'd need to have an Alex Kurtzman type, younger, successful with today's landscape, as the QB.

The other part is, and I reference Tracy being asked, "but why Sliders NOW?"  Indeed why now?  It's because Hollywood still cannot grasp Sliders.  They don't get it.  That plus similar parallel universe shows never do particularly well.  Sliders at it's heart is very cerebral as Tracy used to joke, it's never going to be an easy pitch.

Well a couple things. 

a. Tracy is anything but traditional.  He's wasted most of his life with this UFO nonsense, and honestly, it's probably doomed his career.  He's also a dinosaur.  He barely has internet where he lives.  In many, many ways he's off the grid.  He rescues doggies and Thank God for he and his wife on that.  I highly doubt he'd ever listened to Cardinal Sin before going on there, and likely the same for many of his appearances.  Recall he used to do several UFO-heavy radio shows which were hosted and frequented by many outright lunatics.

b. Tracy is also a very kind man, but he's also fiercely libertarian and if you were to tell him NOT to talk on a person's show, he would do it for sure.  It's not like Gil is a criminal, he's also a nice man (from my interactions) just a tad too backwards.  And guess what?  They're all entitled to be.  This attitude that anyone who doesn't fall in line with the newest cultural "norms" or whatever should get out of the way and walk the plank is so blatantly un-American and anti-Democratic.  We must educate, not eradicate. 

c. Tracy has ZERO I mean ZERO technological capabilities.  It was often a miracle he joined the youtube channel at all, and frankly I think he finally gave up on it altogether.

d. Tracy is a devotee of The Prisoner and Patrick McGoohan, and it has always showed.  That was why he agreed to join that channel, and again, the other folks who were in the chat or on the line like that British guy, were all really well read and very good at banter. 

Now as for this "woke" thing, well again you said it, what does woke actually mean??  That's the problem.  The original intent of wokeness I can guarantee you Tracy is 1000% behind.  That's back when it was focused on inequalities.  However, that movement has been co-opted and basically overtaken by those demanding not even asking, commanding equity. 

Equity is not the same as Equality, not in the least.  Equity is something that is completely at odds with human nature.  It's what Gene Roddenberry foolishly believed humanity could achieve.  Not happening, can't happen, it's simply not in our DNA, our biology.  There must be winners and losers, that is the circle of life.  That is evolution, that is biology.  If you go back to Tracy's days as Sliders EP, you'll see this plain as day.  In fact, there is a big demarcation between Tracy's time and that of Black or Dial or Damron when the show went to Sci-Fi. 

When Tracy ran things, the Sliders often landed in a world that was mostly like our own.  What was different?  Usually each world was on the surface BETTER than ours, but when you looked deeper, you went, wait a minute, in order to achieve this utopia, they gave something up.  They gave up their freedom, individualism, their soul.  Sometimes the Sliders supplied a pep talk or tried to gum up the works.  Usually they ran for their lives!  If you skip the S3 movie of the week garbage, when the show landed on Sci-Fi those EP's reverted to run of the mill science fiction.  The worlds were usually over the top characterizations.  The Sliders were immediately in deep doo-doo, or the world was so screwed up they had little to do.  Again, Torme's thinking was deep, it was "cerebral" as FOX put it, it was like McGoohan's in The Prisoner. 

What am I getting at?  This is why Sliders was so brilliant, because Tracy on the surface had you see one thing, but deep down there was really something off there, something sinister perhaps.  For him, Sliding was as much of a mind fuck as anything.  That's again what made Rembrandt going to a shrink and calling the episode Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome absolutely brilliant.  Remmy's mind was shot, he lost semblance of reality.  The Prisoner strikes again.  Again, that's why Tracy went on that YouTube channel.  Yes I would have loved to hear him with Rewatch, but he's forgotten so much of the details it would have been painful.  Instead, to hear how his ideas were morphed by what he saw on The Prisoner was really something, I'm so glad to have been a part of that.  When Tracy means it won't be "woke" I still believe he means you a) would never shut off a potential story in order to be unnecessarily PC, and b) he's not hiring people simply to fill quotas and have equity.

Mandalorian has become a total trainwreck.  Hope the pay off is a good one, because between that show and Boba-Fett, it's just a mess.  Obi-Wan was awful.

Andor was magnificent, one of the best series I've ever witnessed.  The other stuff is boring beyond belief and I am not one of these loons who fantasizes over light saber battles. 

The Ahsoka series has my attention because I was a HUGE Rebels fan and will get to see more of that story in live action now.

The movies are mehhh, will they even get made?  I like Daisy Ridley and Rey is easily the ONLY sequel introduced character worthy of continuance.

I found out about this from a Batman TAS fan, and truly saddened.  Reaves wrote for practically every animated series I cared about in the 80s and early 90s.  He wasn't too fond of how his Sliders script came to be of course, and let us know about it.  FWIW he suffered Parkinson's for quite a long time, although he still was able to write books.

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I truly don't remember exactly.  I knew Rhys-Davies of course from Indiana Jones movies, Jerry from Stand By Me.  Sliders was a tough show for me to watch because I usually wasn't home on Friday nights, or I'd get home when X-Files was on.  I think I saw S1 in Sunday/Summer reruns in '95, and missed a lot of S2 and S3, or I'd catch reruns.  I recall when they killed off Arturo, I was furious, and when Fox canceled the show I actually was happy, because I felt it deserved it as a result.  I really became a diehard fan when Sci-Fi Channel got the show and re-ran all the episodes over and over during spring '98 in the lead up to the fourth season.  I really enjoyed the old MCA and Sci-Fi Dominion boards, or watching clips on the PC's in my computer lab because my home dialup was hideous.

I'll give QL a shot, loved the original, and it's really what led me into Sliders.

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You know who doing his best to recreate the "California Reich"

Mehhh, I mean, Sliders has been rerun on Comet and it's probably been seen on Peacock more than anywhere else in the last 10 years.

How does changing one's first name seemingly fool the galaxy?  Ben Kenobi.  KENOBI!!!!  A famous Jedi, the idiot never thought to change his last name?  LOL

I find this Vader to be quite lacking.  He's full of little more than rage, like the boss of a 1990's beat em up game.  The Vader of the OT is cunning, calculating, and rarely repeat RARELY has to use the Dark Side of the Force.  You mean to tell me 7 years and one spanking from Palpatine suddenly calms him down?  Come on.  The David Prowse Vader is in full command of his emotions.  Now I suppose one would argue that the mere mention of Obi-Wan turns him into Yosemite Sam, which is ridiculous.  The inquisitors in Rebels were far more cunning as well.  It's like everyone on these Disney+ Star Wars shows are total buffoons.  Granted there aren't many universities in this universe, but seriously?  Han Solo is practically Einstein compared to all of them.

I saw that Hamill was there in costume, so strange.

Obi-Wan is a huge disappointment.  I've seen fan films written better, with better production design.

I wear a mask on the bus/train in and out of Manhattan for work.  That's about it.

Tracy's ire with Maurice Hurley is quite humorous. I doubt you'll find those scenes, not after all this time.

The show is boring, with various interludes of fan service are nice and all, but overall it's boring.  This past episode was beyond strange, featuring more CGI deep faking, and turning the Mando character into a total weirdo.

Pulled that passage from the Deadline article, and frankly you could easily swap Bakula/Quantum Leap for O'Connell or Torme/Sliders.  The rights have been a mess, for sure, with Bellisario I'm sure feeling entitled to the property as Tracy has, and Universal TV being a disaster.  For the execs who asked him, "why Sliders now?," well here you go.  IF QL can prove to be a success, one would think Sliders HAS to be next on the board.  While Tracy is not quite a "picture of health," he's at least willing to be involved whereas Mr. Bellisario is 86 and I highly doubt he will have a contribution.  Heck even Bakula has no idea if he's being written in.  I will say NOT including Scott as Sam, or recasting Sam Beckett a la MacGuyver, will be a huge disservice to the fan base.

Not a comics guy, but I read most of the Zahn novels as well as the super old 1980's expanded universe stuff, enjoying all of them.  It's been over TWO DECADES since I've read most of them so they are but a fleeting memory and back then I mainly just wanted content since Lucas himself had ditched the OT time period when he started the prequels.

However, never really cared beyond that.  Yes I loved seeing Thrawn in the video games, and then on Rebels.  Would like to see him in live action.  Then again, I would have preferred Luke's romance with Mara Jade to have been developed on screen, too.