The Virtual Season 6 by Sliders.PL and the Brick Sliders by Brick Lady (Page 1 of 2)

Dear Lord - you're feeding the beast. And he is RAVENOUS.

I know about this! It will be noted in the description of the episode. Btw, I haven't written scripts, but only summaries - a form of stories. It's much shorter form but I hope it will be OK for people

My vision of season 6 in 90% focus on original four Sliders, but I will include satisfying (I hope so ) ending for additional Sliders.

Hahaha! Those pictures are great. I know ireactions will likely get the first one tattooed across his back.

Thank you for your review!

I know about these problems and my vision of season 6th will conclude it

Brick Lady has told me that it was Pirates of the Caribbean

I'm happy that you like it and I hope you will read next episodes too I'm curious what will you think about season/show finale

Wow! This is really haunting and eerie and really captures the psychically aggressive tone of the original "Slide Effects" script. The Kromaggs were severely demystified in Season 4. I personally don't have a great take on the Kromaggs, but I decided that in my "Slide Effects" script, the Kromagg would never speak on its own and only deliver dialogue in the guise of the additional Season 3 - 5 sliders of Maggie, Colin, Diana and Mallory. On some level, this was, I confess, a gesture of disdain towards them. Those character were unwanted intruders, uninvited guests into my living room. In addition, the Kromagg was a representation of David Peckinpah, someone given an assignment he didn't care about and who resented the people who came with that assignment.

And yet, it didn't come off that way to most readers. All the feedback I got expressed appreciation that the faces of Maggie, Colin, Diana and Mallory were present in a story about going back to basics with Quinn, Wade, Rembrandt and Arturo. One piece of fan mail that I got remarked that they preferred my take to any hypothetical "Slide Effects" fully scripted by Torme because Torme would most definitely not have included Maggie, Colin, Diana and Mallory (or even been familiar with those characters). And this is something I tried to get into with SLIDERS REBORN where I accepted Maggie, Colin, Diana and Mallory as important and wrote them as beloved characters that everyone would be happy to see even if Colin is an artificial intelligence with Charlie O'Connell's voice and Mallory is only in a lengthy dream sequence.

Back to "Slide Effects" -- the script is effectively declaring that he is haunted trauma and that the most traumatic events in his life were the death of Professor Arturo, the rape and mutilation of Wade Welles and that horrific Scene from "Mother and Child" and the scene of the Kromagg morphing into different personas has the Kromagg sadistically inflicting all of that on the original sliders. And I find this Lego construct really captures that cruelty that the sliders ultimately overcome.

Hmmm. I like the Lego illustrations which are vastly superior to the comic book.

ARMADA is an odd choice to position after "Slide Effects." I think that after "Slide Effects," the best follow-up would be something that declares the series is back to basics. Something more traditional, something closer to a Season 1 story. A parallel world with an alternate history. The sliders stumbling into danger and misunderstanding. A story without the overt science fiction technology and fantasy horror elements of Seasons 3 - 5. If you were to use the comics, I would have advised NARCOTICA.

ARMADA is just too... I don't agree with the idea that any story is out of bounds for SLIDERS. But I'm not sure that after dispensing with the Kromaggs in "Slide Effects," it's anything but repetitive to bring in the Zercurvians. And in the original comic version of ARMADA was sadly produced by a superhero writer and a superhero artist who stuck to their superhero style for SLIDERS. Neither them were overly familiar with the show, neither of them grasped the grounded indie-movie look of the series, and the results are bizarre. DG Chichester and Dick Giordano are great creators, but it's pretty obvious that they didn't have any time to properly review the show before they started scripting and drawing pages.

I think that if you want to apply superhero storytelling to the SLIDERS (and I do), the sliders themselves need to be recognizably the actors in scripting and nuance and their surroundings need to be less heightened and more atmospheric. And the humour needs to have a certain knowing self-awareness which ARMADA doesn't have. ARMADA doesn't grasp how insane it is.

I have always wanted to see the Professor zipline from one building to the next using his suit jacket, but I would want to see it with something of the terror John Rhys-Davies presented when bungee jumping in "The Guardian." A SLIDERS comic book in the 90s would have been better off looking less like an issue of AVENGERS and more like an issue of SANDMAN with eerie art from Chris Bachalo and pensive writing from the likes of Neil Gaiman.

The Lego representation captures the lunacy I'd be hoping for, a cheerful absurdity that seems absent in the largely unaware comic book.

That's pretty great! Maybe Lady Brick would make him a set. It's amazing when actors get involved and interested in fan fiction and media tie-in material. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson did some promotion for the now non-canon X-FILES comics and Mark Hamill recorded a commercial for the STAR WARS novel VECTOR PRIME and William Shatner wrote 10 STAR TREK novels, but this is a special moment for the virtual Season 6.

I once wrote a SLIDERS script for an actor. I'd been writing SLIDERS REBORN focused mostly on the original quartet. But as Maggie and Diana entered the story, I felt bad about omitting Mallory, especially after doing an EarthPrime.com interview with the actor, Robert Floyd. Finally, I forced myself to write Part 5 of REBORN, "Revolution," in which Quinn hallucinates Mallory. I sent it to Floyd and he thanked me and said he'd let me know what he thought. He didn't -- probably because he hasn't seen that much SLIDERS and didn't really understand it. Cory of the REWATCH PODCAST when reviewing SLIDERS REBORN in a podcast remarked that Cory himself had watched every episode of SLIDERS and Cory could barely understand what was going on.

I think it's just splendid that John likes the Lego.

Sliders.PL presents 6x03 „Harvest Time” - the THIRD EPISODE of the virtual Season 6.

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As always, I really like the Lego which is incredibly charming, idiosyncratic and appealing. The sliders on the the staircases is a gorgeously eerie visual. The sliders standing in the temple is a beautifully alien environment rendered perfectly in this medium. The Reticulans are alarming and frightening. And the feast at the end is very cute with all the sliders enjoying their lavish sweets.

But the story. Oh, the story. This has nothing to do with Cez's work at all, but ARMADA just does not work for me and does not capture the appeal of the series which was not about these bizarre sci-fi aliens -- but about the sliders exploring the social and cultural differences of a history not their own. ARMADA doesn't attempt to do that at all. Now, to be fair, social commentary and grounded environments have not been at the core of some of the best SLIDERS stories. "Double Cross" had plenty of sci-fi setpieces and car chases with only the barest of references to environmental crisis. "Murder Most Foul" was a Victorian crime drama that didn't comment much on the genre or a world so devoted to entertainment. "World Killer" was about the sliding technology, not the social commentary.

But "Invasion," a story that emphasized the sci-fi aliens, deliberately kept the Kromaggs at a distance, largely only perceived from the sliders' limited, human perspective. ARMADA doesn't do that; the sliders regard inhuman, otherworldly threats with confidence and aplomb and are never truly challenged or outmatched. This is again representative of how Acclaim rushed the SLIDERS comics into production, didn't give their creators time to engage with the series to appreciate its visual tone or performances or writing style -- and the result is a superhero comic book and an odd fit for the SLIDERS.

I suppose I am as guilty of this as anybody, but I would argue that for all the sci-fi excesses, SLIDERS REBORN is fundamentally about Quinn, Wade, Rembrandt and Arturo, asking who they became after they got home, what they did between 2000 and 2015, and what sliding would be like for them if it were their profession and career. I feel I earned the superhero craziness that ends REBORN and built to it gradually whereas ARMADA starts with the superhero style and it is jarring and rings false to me. We all have very different perceptions of SLIDERS; I think that SLIDERS is about the sliders. Temporal Flux would argue, quite correctly, that SLIDERS is about a gently satirical tone that predicts the future and depicts it in an alternate present and justifies it with an alternate past and makes amusing comments about our society and culture but through inversion rather than forceful judgement. Other fans would argue that SLIDERS is about strong world building and asking what might have been if history had gone a different path; some fans declare that it is futile to define a SLIDERS story because you can go anywhere in imagination.

But ARMADA does not feel like SLIDERS to me; it doesn't have a strong depiction of the sliders, it doesn't have a believably human perspective on the sci-fi lunacy, it doesn't even have anything important to say. It's a superhero comic book writer and artist handed the SLIDERS license, a few VHS cassettes of the episodes, some headshots of the actors, and a tight deadline by which they must hack out some scripts and pages.

None of which has anything to do with the Lego which is lovely. :-)

WOW! John Rhys-Davies wants a set of the Lego figurines. Jerry O'Connell thinks it's cool! Congratulations!

I once sent Jerry a message asking him if he wanted to rewrite any of Quinn's dialogue in SLIDERS REBORN and asked if he'd be willing to do it sober and engaged and if he could keep his brother out of it. Never heard back. Can't imagine why.

Thank you Robert Floyd also likes it

I think that the success of the Lego really speaks to how social media functions. As much as I love novellas like Nigel Mitchell's X-FILES crossover with SLIDERS and scripts like SLIDERS DECLASSIFIED, the internet operates best in a visual medium and Lego is so immediate, versatile and instantly appreciable. The graphics are so memorable and charming, the intricate and painstaking effort is clear and it has clearly struck a note with the actors as well as the fans. Congratulations!

Sliders.PL presents 6x04 „Rapture” - the FOURTH EPISODE of the virtual Season 6

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Sliders.PL presents 6x05 „Damnation” - the FIFTH EPISODE of the virtual Season 6.

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It's week after week because we are simulating the real television season hehe

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Sliders.PL presents 6x06 „Fissions of the Soul” - the SIXTH EPISODE of the virtual Season 6.

There is Vern from "Stand by Me" in this episode xD

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I'm happy that you like it

So here we go again

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Sliders.PL presents 6x07 „Dimensional Shadows” - the SEVENTH EPISODE of the virtual Season 6.

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Sliders.PL presents 6x09 „Narcotica” - the NINTH EPISODE of the virtual Season 6. It is based on the comic written by Jerry O’Connell!

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I think it's important to highlight what a massive endeavour any virtual season of fanfic is for everyone involved. There's a lot of time, talent and work put into these passion projects and nobody gets paid. You do it at a loss. And there is a lot of love and fondness and obsession with the series and its characters to make this happen. My therapist referred to SLIDERS fan fiction on this level as the equivalent of a master's thesis.

Out of appreciation and respect for your work, I’d like to raise the prize for you. I’d like to offer the winner of your contest the Sliders: The Complete Series DVD Mill Creek box set. I’ll have my copy sent to the winner. My email address is at the top of this message forum.

The Mill Creek release is Region 1.

What's the video quality like on that blu-ray set? The DVD video quality is ghastly on all releases due to overcompression to fit more episodes onto fewer discs.

I'm happy to contribute. A lot of people helped me with my SLIDERS magnum opus.

It's a shame. I've read on Amazon that the blu-ray set has the same DVD quality as one of the previous releases, I'm not sure which, but they were all pretty awful.

I actually have a Universal set of Season 3 (Region 1). I wanted to show my niece "The Guardian" and my Mill Creek set wasn't playing that disc correctly although after I received the Universal set, I realized my Mill Creek disc just needed a good wipe. Season 3 is the season of grief and I would actually pay someone to take the Season 3 DVD set away from me, but no one has ever wanted to go within five feet of it.

I used to wander through Best Buys back when Best Buys sold DVDs and I would always take all the SLIDERS Season 3 DVD sets off the racks and put them in microwaves or fridges to stop anyone from buying them. Maybe some day, there will be an animated LEGO DVD set of SLIDERS sold in stores if DVDs are still sold by then.

My kid has the Saturn V - it's enormous. Kudos for keeping this going!

YES! Kari Wuhrer has written to us on Instagram, that she misses the show and that she would like to do another season of Sliders! We’re honoured that the actors like our virtual Season 6 and Brick Sliders! Kari is the 4th member of the cast who has written few words to us

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Sliders.PL presents 6x12 „Convergence, Part I” - the first part of the virtual Season 6 finale and 100th episode of the show!

I promised I would answer many unanswered questions - so here they are! Please let me know what do you think about my story!

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ireactions >> now you can understand why I wanted to introduce the Zercurvians so early in this season, right after the pilot "Slide Effects"

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan >> thank you!

Thank you for your review I'm happy that you like it! I know that I've made things very fast in this episode, probably in real show there should be 2 or even 3 episodes about this story, but I wanted to get all missing Sliders as fast as possible.

In the past I wanted Season 6 to be concentrated on resurrecting the old cast, for example in one episode Arturo would be back, in the next one Quinn, in next Wade... But I've decided that the core of Season 6 should be the rule "every episode = new world, new adventure". That's why I've included explanations of "The Seer" clifhanger at the very end, so it won't take too much time. I wanted to focus on original 4 Sliders but in the same time I wanted to make a closure for the rest. But as you noticed our original 4 Sliders have met only Maggie, Colin, Mallory and Diana (and some other guest stars ). The alternative Sliders are searching home, they are somewhere. I think that if in this episode not 8 but 12 Sliders met, it would be probably too much xD

So... wait for the next, the final episode!

Interesting theory! I've never heard about this.

Why do you think this Wade was a clone? First in "Convergence" I wanted to explain it this way - this Cyberiad-Wade was only a clone and the rest of the Sliders would meet real-alternate Wade some other way, but then I decided that I prefere thinking that Season 5 cast really met Wade. Yes, she was badly wounded, she almost died, but she survived, probably with a lot of scars... The Year Five Journal convinced me that it was real Wade and she didn't die at the end of "Requiem".

https://earthprime.com/year-5-journal/requiem-journal

"The most important provision was that, in the end, somehow the audience must know that Wade is somehow alive and well, perhaps in some kind of altered state."

There was a point when Recall and I were hammering out the beats of an alternate season 4, where "Mother and Child" actually resulted in the rescue of Wade. Our version was "Mother and Child" in name only (if that; I can't remember), and the nature of the breeding camps was changed dramatically as well.

The idea was that, instead of it being a place where Kromaggs can get their rocks off, it was a highly technological and sterile facility  where the human subjects were not raped, but were "incubators" of Kromagg children. The women are barely even aware it's happening, since they're in suspended animation/stasis throughout the ordeal. The Sliders stage a daring infiltration of the facility and rescue Wade - but the cliffhanger reveal is that Wade has been successfully implanted.

Successive episodes dealt with Wade struggling to get an abortion on another world while trying to acclimate herself to sliding again. She would have paired off in an unlikely friendship with Colin, who could lend a sympathetic ear to her plight since he was a stranger. Quinn would have to slowly earn her trust again, since she blamed him, in part, for her predicament.

In any case, there would have been no rape. It was clinical, surgical, and showed how little regard the Kromaggs held for humanity. That's the way it could have been on the series as well, but, well... David Peckinpah is a perv!

Eeeeeek, Quinn restored!!!

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I have to say, I am deeply disappointed in Transmodiar. I was hoping he would chastise me for saying Wade Welles could not be held captive, saying I have a ridiculously overinflated view of the sliders' abilities.

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I always liked Recall and Transmodiar's idea that the commandant in "Genesis" telling Quinn that "once a woman's had a Magg, she can never go back" was just a jibe to upset Quinn and that the real rape camps were sterile, sexless labs (much like my personality at times).

I have always been deeply, deeply uncomfortable with Wade being in a rape camp. The term "breeder camp" is, to me, an unacceptable euphemism because Peckinpah (apparently) couldn't get away with saying "rape" on television at the time. Peckinpah wanted to hurt Sabrina Lloyd by raping her character. When a fan in pre-Season 4 online chat asked Kari Wuhrer how Sabrina would be written out, Kari Wuhrer said, "With some fun and humor: you see, she's good breeding stock."

There is a special place in hell for men who abuse women with rape jokes -- but given that Peckinpah was reeling from the grief of his teenaged son's death and in the throes of a serious drug addiction at the time that would ultimately kill him, I no longer hope that he's in hell. I hope he found peace and found his way back home.

There is a special place in hell for women who abuse other women with rape jokes -- but Kari Wuhrer apologized to Sabrina Lloyd and Lloyd accepted it. Also, Wuhrer found her career take a serious hit when her breast implants malfunctioned and she had them removed, and her career took another hit when she got fired off a soap opera for being pregnant and not being conventionally attractive to the male gaze. Maybe that was her hell and she's served her sentence and been released.

Wade Welles should not have been put in this position, should not have been used this way.

But paradoxically, I also find it incredibly offensive and upsetting to retcon Wade's rape out of the story. I think it is outrageous to say that women need to forget having been raped. And yet, I have done it twice in my own SLIDERS stories: "Slide Effects" declares that the Wade we saw from Season 3 onward was a double -- an amalgamation of 37 doubles -- which indicates one of the 37 Wades was raped, just not the Wade we met in the Pilot and whose adventures we followed for the Tracy Torme years.

Most women aren't going to discover that their trauma and assaults were actually a hallucinatory telepathic prison and also experienced by a double from a parallel universe.

SLIDERS REBORN declares that there were two timelines: one where the original sliders experienced four years of wonderful adventures together, but then Dr. Oberon Geiger's Combine experiment ripped Quinn and all his doubles out of existence and corrupted reality, retroactively altering the past into the version of SLIDERS that we saw on TV with monsters, magic, the invasion of Earth, Wade's capture, etc. -- and then the disembodied post-"Requiem" Wade is reset and restored to her original timeline self, a version who has no memory of the corrupted timeline.

Most women probably aren't going to have reality rewritten around them to excise having been attacked.

I can't defend my writing (and Transmodiar might say I shouldn't, haha). At least "Convergence" indicates that the Kromaggs were just trying to upset Quinn and of course they wouldn't have done anything to damage a valuable intelligence asset like Wade Welles. They would have had far more important uses for her.

In my stories -- I simply did not feel that Wade or the readers would be well-served by giving David Peckinpah's violent fantasies about Sabrina Lloyd any more oxygen. But I do not defend the offensive implications of that decision.

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A final word: one of the characters in SLIDERS REBORN is Laurel, Quinn Mallory's teenaged daughter. She's based on my niece and when I was writing SLIDERS REBORN, she assumed veto power over anything and everything involving her character. There was a scene where some men corner Laurel and try to rape her and Laurel discovers she has fighting skills she didn't realize she had.

My niece told me that she'd appreciate not being put in such a scene because the threat of rape had a weight and horror that was well beyond what my lightweight sci-fi sitcom adventure could portray appropriately. I rewrote the scene so that Laurel would be cornered by men seeking to harvest her organs which turned out to be far more disturbing and suited to the story.