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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Show, Poor DVD Release, 4 May 2005
By A Customer
Sliders was a great sci-fi show, with a group of four people becoming lost in parallel worlds, where certain things may be different, whether it is culturally, technologically or just plain science fictional, Sliders had it all, and it was great in it's early seasons.
Here we have seasons 1 and 2. The first season contains the feature lengthed Pilot, plus 8 more episodes, and the second seasons contains 13 episodes.
First things first, the episode order is wrong. The Fox Network, in all their wisdom, decided to air the episodes in the USA beginning with those that they liked and leaving the supposidly "bad" episodes until last. This episode order unfortunately remained with the two seasons as it was aired in other countries. Surely the DVD release could have corrected this error?
Example: 'The Prince of Wails' and 'Summer of Love' should have been placed the other way round, since SOL ends with the sliders about be engulfed in a tidal wave, and TPOW begins with the gang wearing the same clothes as in SOL and in a tight spot above a submerged San Francisco.
Another issue is that the episodes remain cut. Every episode has at least one deleted scene, but have they been re-inserted here.....? No.
Extras are a bit thin on the ground too, with only a commentary for the Pilot and a 14 minute 'Making of' featurette with interviews with Jerry O'Connel, Cleavant Derricks, Tracy Torme and Robert K. Weisse.
Overall, I would recommend buying this set, since Sliders hasn't been released in any other format.
Here's hoping that the Season 3 set will be more worthwhile.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
At Last..., 12 Nov 2004
By A Customer
Recently released in the USA, I was hoping that this box set of Sliders first and second seasons would finally reach our shores. Having not even been released on video, any kind of a release looked uncertain, since the final two seasons, four and five, kind of lost the plot a bit, leaving the show cancelled and subsequently unfinished as opposed to most other tv series. This set contains season one, which includes the feature lengthed pilot plus 8 more episodes, and season two, which contains a total of 13 episodes. Personal favorites include the opening movie, in which college student Quinn Mallory and his friends, Wade Welles, Professor Arturo and Rembrandt (Remmy) Brown, first become lost in alternate dimensions trying to find their way back home. Also, there is Last Days, in which an asteroid threatens to destroy a world, Luck of the Draw, in which Wade takes place in a less than conventional lottery, Gillian of the Spirits, in which a bizarre accident leaves Quinn on another plain of existence, Time and Again World, in which Wade unfolds a government conspiracy on a world without rights, Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome, in which Remmy recalls a slide where they thought they had made it home, and As Time Goes By, in which Quinn finds an old girlfriend in three different worlds. Even the weaker episodes are worth watching, just to see how things have been concieved, plus the theme tune to season two is quite cool. I can only hope that a decision is made to release season three aswell, as that is the last of the good sliders, which also has the best version of the opening theme tune. Seasons four and five have some good episodes, however a large turnover in the cast and an overcomplicated plot ruin the simplicity of the first three seasons, where the only goal is to get home. Still, I'm very happy that these two seasons have been released. A recommended classic sci-fi!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved the show on TV, love it on DVD!, 6 Jan 2006
This is an excellent and very watchable show, Sci-fi at its best. The other reviewers make good points about the order of the episodes and special features, but this is far outweighed by the quality of the shows and likeability of the characters. I would recommend this set to anyone.
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