4 more Sliders thoughts

[meganbmoore]

 1.  They actually had an episode devoted to "if women ruled the world, the world would suck."

2.  Neither Tall, Cynical Boy nor I are any good with science.  We both spent the "Quinn is stuck in the astral plane" episode laughing non-stop at the epic fail of the science.  Also, the girl who saw ghosts sure was eager to announce it every 5 seconds.

3.  What's-his-face that plays Quinn  is so good at the dumb and clueless look that we forget he's supposed to be a genius.

4.  Why are  all alter!Arturos evil, and all alter!Quinns saintly?  Do they not realize Arturos are superior to Quinns?  And most other things...

Comments

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched that show since . . . last century, IIRC. I felt it jumped the shark after Arturo left the show, and vaguely recall something about nearly every character being replaced with an alternate universe double or something.

But I liked it when it was on. And it inspired me to name my cat Schroedinger. I think it was a show for geeklings -- ones who think it's awesome when they vaguely recognize quantum physics jokes, but who are still young enough that they don't get into the heavy analysis. Like Lois And Clark -- my favourite in fourth grade.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I remember the episode where we didn't know if we had real!Arturo or evil!Arturo, and we never found out.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, when Remy went to see a shrink to talk out his problem, and the shrink got carried away in a straitjacket while babbling about the beautiful blue glow . . .

I don't think it means to demean Arturo. Just that evil is cool; real geniuses end up getting into mad science at some point (or at least the kind of science that gets results without really paying attention to who gets hurt or where they get funding).

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty much the moment when things went downhill irrevoccably. "Let's replace the awesomely smart cool guy mentor with a set of boobs!" Sigh.

And the only character who didn't get replaced was Rembrandt, of all people. The one who just literally fell into the life.

I still want the DVDs...

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

And boob girl couldn't survive on the earth they came from, so one way or another, they were screwed without a chance of getting home with everyone safe.

Yes. The DVDs of the first two and a half seasons only, though. *sigh* I don't think I could stand to pay money for the rest.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

"1. They actually had an episode devoted to "if women ruled the world, the world would suck.""

Well, in fairness, EVERY world sucked, so they're at least an equal opportunity offender. =)

Jerry O'Connell does give good clueless face.

I boggle every day when I remember he's married to Rebecca Romijn.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It had a concerning "Women without men are bad" feel to it. Like Y: The Last Man if there weren't any good characters around and only the rabid women were left...

O'Connell is TOO good at clueless. I mean, at least with Tom Welling, Clark isn't meant to be a super genius...

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I think 3 and 4 are related. Quinn was too frequently hapless/clueless to be plausibly threatening....