The Seer
And so Sliders ends with a whimper, a medium shot of three people on a nondescript, poorly-lit sound stage. But is the final hour of that journey just another tremendous misfire or something more?
Season Five
Eye of the Storm
Why did the Sliders writers wait until the penultimate episode to close the loop on Oberon Geiger? Were they just as scared to write this episode as the premiere?
Dust
For a science fiction show, the production team seems very hostile to science. Bigelow is treated like a villain for doing his job. He’s attempting to find out what happened to the world and he’s being thwarted by the superstitious and the incurious.
To Catch a Slider
The producers have decided they’re not going to play by Tracy Tormé and Robert Weiss’s arcane rules anymore. From now on, any crazy idea they have is in play. Freedom!
Heavy Metal
Not a stellar outing from Black, though in his defense, I’d wager most of the ridiculous fighting sequences can be pinned on director Guy Magar. After getting saddled with the static “The Unstuck Man,” he may have let things get a tad bit out of hand.
A Thousand Deaths
Okay, so we’ve got another stupid one on our hands. The main gist of it appears to be “playing video games might be bad for you,” but the approach makes no sense.
Map of the Mind
This episode once again demonstrates the production team’s almost perverse insistence on taking compelling ideas and executing them in the most half-assed way possible.
Requiem
“Requiem” is a failure. It is embarrassing and unwatchable, and, most important, it is where I can definitively state I have lost faith in Sliders.”
Easy Slider
Yes, there is a ton of forced plotting to make this story work. Yes, there are gaps in logic. But so help me, there’s an aloofness at play here that I can’t dismiss.
The Return of Maggie Beckett
A terrific parallel Earth, strong chemistry, great character moments all add up to a fun episode — with one appalling flaw.
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The Java Jive
“The Java Jive” has strong fundamentals. It has style. It has one of the best musical numbers of the series. And yet… something isn’t working.
A Current Affair
No satire, no extremes. Just the hard reality of an America with a corrupt government and a useless press. You know, home.
Please Press One
“Please Press One” is the cheapest episode we’ve yet seen. Wait; that’s unfair. It’s simply the cheapest looking episode of Sliders we’ve yet seen.
New Gods for Old
Watching this brings back memories of the second season. Perhaps it was the intertwined trio of worlds that hinged on one series of events, but more than anything else this episode asked me to think about what I was watching, a phenomenon that’s been all too absent in much of the last two seasons.
The Great Work
This is a filler episode in a filler season. We’re just killing time until the theoretical syndication money rolls in.