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To start, I do not take seriously anything I’m about to say; that’s why I’m posting it in a thread about fictional stories.  However, history does have pivot points where crazy, unexpected things happen that change life as we know it.  As Monty Python warned us - no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I still use Twitter; and since Elon Musk “unlocked it”, I have seen much of this long lived Qanon-sense showing up in my feed.   There’s been an uptick lately as the long awaited big event is expected to be imminent.  “Buckle up”.

The idea here is that there has been a clandestine military operation in effect for years gathering evidence and holding secret tribunals amassing sealed indictments to release all at once.  At last tally, these sealed indictments are over 700,000. Everyone from politicians to celebrities to royalty are included.

The date of note has now leaked.  On Saturday, the emergency broadcast system will be activated telling everyone to stay in their homes as martial law is declared and mass arrests across the world begin.  The EBS will take over all television and phones and broadcast the evidence along with live executions 24/7 until all corruption is eliminated.  As part of this, the US Dollar and financial systems will change as well; and that’s supposed to begin tomorrow with an announcement from the BRICS summit in Russia.

What if this actually did happen?  What if the Sliders land on a world as this begins?  What if the EBS on the store window tv shows one of our Sliders being arrested as part of the 700,000 indictments?  How do they explain they are a different person who did none of those things?  How do the Sliders themselves reconcile that there is some part of their friend that would do these crimes if history gave them the opportunity?

This is what Sliders is made for.  Exploring the unlikely things that can ever so briefly be seen as plausible because unlikely things do happen.  No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I think at this point I wouldn’t believe anything CNN says.  They seem to just be making it up day to day.

Looks like we could see a return to slightly askew projects that play off nostalgia.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/a … uture.html

As mentioned in the article, J J Abram’s homage to Spielberg’s E.T. with his film Super 8 could be an example.  Looks like Abrams may be attempting the same thing with Back to the Future.

Had forgotten until Jim tweeted the pilot episode commentary from Tracy Torme.  The Spinning Topps was inspired by two groups - The Spinners and The Four Tops

https://youtu.be/ojCikI9npJQ?si=eTtoK6Cgqoa79ZXd

What really gets you is when you see the signature performance style of the Four Tops on tv:

https://youtu.be/P0B0Kv7hiNo?si=GiEudjO40689pUqf

https://youtu.be/BRfpdSkDZ7E?si=FsP8bwc074YI3hfs

It’s also worth noting that this comparison may even expose another difference between Earth Prime and our own reality:

https://hof.slidersweb.net/temporalflux/25766.html

An interesting look at one of those mundane things in life that Sliders can play with - the UPC barcode:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo … r-AA1ncg0Q

And starting in 2027, it will be a thing of the past.  Products will all sport a QR code instead

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Marvels wasn’t bad.  The first few minutes made me wince, but stick with it.  What impressed me was how much comic lore they stuffed in.

The body swapping Nega Bands idea of the Rick Jones era.  The adaptation of the comics crossover Operation: Galactic Storm.  The revelation of the Quantum Bands (which was handled in the surprising way the infinity stones were).  I was impressed too that the bands’ “curse” of consuming everyone who wears them was there.  The only people who survive are those who accept them instead of trying to harness them.

Even the quantum bands’ power of creating jump points is straight from the comics.  Quasar would use them to jump to different points in space by entering and exiting the quantum zone; and during one of those “quantum jumps”, a massive surge of power sent him instead to a parallel reality (Quasar#30).

https://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronoc … 0-31.shtml

The Marvels wasn’t perfect, but this was the most MCU flavor movie I’ve seen since Endgame.  No Way Home was great,  but it was really just a nostalgia gimmick and not a deep dive into comics lore.  The Marvels is worth the watch - just suffer through those first few minutes

The only thing that really bothered me about The Marvels was that we may not get Quasar now (one of my favorite characters); but even in the comics, there were two pair of quantum bands in the universe

So this little demonic s.o.b. won, and I’m surely about to lose my job because of it

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2023-e … or-results

I’m talking post-strike, though.  There’s an ever widening time gap forming between what they have in the can and what they’ll need to make after.

It takes time to start from scratch and make something; and even if finished content is held back, rationed and release dates stretched, there are going to be gaps with no content while new content is being made.  The longer this goes, the longer that gap is.

CBS Overnight news had a piece on Henrietta Lacks:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

Her “HeLa cells” have had a profound impact on medical advancement; and an interesting alternate history could be formed when thinking of a world where Henrietta ignored her symptoms and didn’t seek treatment before she died.  But in the context of the current Hollywood strike, it illuminates what writers and actors are fighting against with A.I.

Henrietta died in 1951; but her, in effect, living body has been used for over 70 years to advance medicine.  Her family didn’t even know for much of that time.  Currently, there are more living cells from Henrietta’s culture than the cells that made up her body.  Henrietta is still here. She is for all intents now immortal, but most people don’t know.  The recognition isn’t given. No one is compensated for it until recently.

The shuffling, silent extra characters in the background of movies and tv?  They stand to be the next immortal human commodity through A.I.; and no viewer would think twice about it just as they don’t think twice about who really made their vaccine possible.

Here’s something you would expect to see in a Sliders episode:

https://www.globalconstructionreview.co … an-living/

Coming soon to a reality near you

The truly despicable thing is that studios were already scanning actors and not telling them why:

https://movieweb.com/snowpiercer-star-b … -season-4/

I expect it to land on Netflix.  Hard to explain, but it just has their flavor.  It’s similar to how I could always tell if something was from NBC, ABC or CBS because something about the film stock looked different between the three.

One thing I didn’t realize, Allegra was created by Eric Wallace in Titans vol 2 #28:

So that would explain why she was given a regular part.  Creators naturally have favor for characters they made, but it didn’t hurt that Wallace was likely getting an extra fee every time he used the character in Flash.

DC Warner has been good about paying those creator fees.  Jim Starlin even noted that his fee for the appearance of KGBeast in Batman v Superman was more than he got for Thanos.  What makes that even more amusing is that you couldn’t even recognize the KGBeast in that appearance; you had to know his civilian name and put two and two together.

I can say from experience that state wide law enforcement agencies will do this for a meeting.  It’s left up to Sheriffs and Police departments to handle things until they get back.

I would imagine that’s what this was.  Starfleet is the statewide / federal agency, so it was left to the local agencies to handle things

This reminds me of a double-take I did at Universal Hollywood in 2014.  As part of the VIP pass, we had reserved seating at the live Waterworld show, so we took it in.

At the end, they introduced the cast, and the star of the show was noted to be Little Hercules.  I thought it was the original actor for Young Hercules that you mentioned, but it was actually this guy:

https://www.sportbible.com/athletics/wo … 2.amp.html

A couple of random articles lately that just seem like a Sliders reality:

Rotary cell phones:

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/02/ … cellphone/

Ugly sweater camouflage:

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/7720902/ca … nition-ai/

In story, we only heard Ziggy’s actual voice a few times during the original series; but that was Pratt / Ziggy that gave the opening narration to every episode.

Even before last week’s episode, I’ve believed Ziggy’s silence is going to be a plot point.  Something’s wrong with Ziggy. From the original series, an unintended part of Ziggy’s design is that it has an attitude problem (which is why Al was always arguing with its beeps and whines while slamming his hand on the handlink).  To have Ziggy now turn into just a computer with no personality - very odd.

Got to thinking about something regarding Gunn and the new cinematic DCU.

So Gunn has said that the movies take place across different time periods.  One movie may be early in a hero’s career (Superman) while another may be later (Batman / Damien).  We’re also getting a Booster Gold streaming series based on the Johns / Jurgens series.

What if Rip Hunter is going to be the Nick Fury of the DCU?  Recruiting heroes from certain points in their lives to construct the team he needs to fight a coming threat?  The Booster series would then be the connective tissue that holds the narrative together

In fact, I think for the Superman: Legacy movie, it would be fun to adapt the 90’s story “Time and Time Again”

While fighting one of Hunter’s Linear Men, an accident sends Superman bouncing around through time.  He gets a turn in the strong man roots of the character; he gets a turn in the WWII era of the character; and he gets two bites at the future Legion era (the last one ending in Superman’s failure to prevent the moon from exploding 1000 years from now).

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/arrowverse- … n-meeting/

So Berlanti got all the benefit, apparently

But he’s MacGyver!  He can stop a nuclear meltdown with a chocolate bar! 

If I remember correctly, that’s the same original Universal release.  The difference is that the season three set is single sided (unlike the original double sided release).

With today’s nominations, we now we have a Sliders type movie that stands to sweep the Oscars.  How much longer can Universal ignore what they’re sitting on?

I don’t know why it occurred to me today, but I was thinking back to something Torme said.  Why did we keep watching and fighting for more Sliders after it became bad television?

The explanation is that we as an audience were almost role playing as Sliders.  No matter how strange or awful the slide was, we kept jumping into the vortex each week hoping that the next slide would bring us back home to the show we used to love.

We sometimes ask why the Sliders kept sliding and didn’t just choose a world to settle down on.  We should know.  We kept sliding ourselves.

This stuff just pops up in my Google feed; I don’t seek it out. 

We’ll see if it pans out.  There’s a long history of creators refuting a leak for it to only turn out true.

And in an attempt to be spoiler free, I’m a fan of legacy; I always believed that was the greatest strength of DC Comics in the late 80’s, 90’s and 00’s.  But this alleged Indy idea ain’t that.

If these spoilers are true, well…

https://cosmicbook.news/indiana-jones-5 … screenings

I think it was some kind of assistant, but it’s been a long time since I thought about it.  I’m not sure, but I think this may be the guy:

https://www.scriptsandscribes.com/jerem … -venables/

https://mobile.twitter.com/captainpunch