Learned about it not too long ago and apparently the made for tv movie from early 90s is on YouTube so I’ll watch it tonight or tomorrow. It’s about a woman from a parallel earth and apparently Sliders was accused of ripping off the story. I loved Sliders by the way except for the ridiculous idea to make it the Cro-Mag show in later seasons. One of my favorite science fiction subgenres are multiverse/alternate history stories. It’s what got me to read up on quantum physics and multiverse theories.
But anyway I’m gonna check out Doorways as well as Space Above and Beyond (been on this kick of watching short lived shows lately).
Smith, your posts and comments are always the absolute sweetest. They always come across as friendly and sincere and interested, which is a nice departure from the rest of us filth.
Thanks. I figured with so much serious discussion it’s nice to have some nerdy breaks
They never discuss it in the show, but the fighters have auto cannons that fired whenever someone was on their tail.
There's probably no value in that sort of thing when air combat is with missiles beyond visual range, but it was still cool, and they always do old school dogfighting in those space shows because it's a hell of a lot more fun to watch.
Watching this show I’m surprised it was cancelled. I remember it being on but I was in boot camp and tech school so didn’t have the time.
Fox canceled everything they could. Actually they would first move a show randomly around the schedule so nobody could find it, then they'd cancel it. I was lucky to see Space Above And Beyond in the first run and I still remember the commercials with R Lee Ermey yelling "YOUR DEAD. THE ENTIRE SQUAD IS DEAD. AND IT'S YOUR FAULT!"
This one.
Great commercial. Forgot that was in 95. Thought it was 99. I’m enjoying it so far. You are right about FOX canceling shows. They had some good ones
The thing is real space combat would be so boring that anything on the screen would be absolutely unbearable. It is why that space combat in movies/films is either the age of dreadnoughts or something similar to WW2.
I'm reminded of the greatest space battle in "Irresponsible Captain Tylor". The entire thing was positioning of ships and objectives, on both sides, for most of it. The series had fun dogfights on occasion, but for the true space naval combat, it was all posturing and positioning, you don't actually fire many weapons in a real space battle (after all, they'd keep going and eventually hit SOMETHING if they missed the target, and that's bad).
Just make sure to position yourself so that the enemy is between you and a xenos world.
Win/win, problem solved.
Boring to most but goddammit if i can't get enough of it. I need a game that does it properly too.
'Space Above and Beyond' had some good elements to it but the entire 'girl marine leads the show' spiel was obnoxious even then. It had a lot of progressive elements, which is probably why it never really took off at the time.
There were in vitro-soldiers, homicidal AI androids and aliens. Also, a zero-grav 'recreational' room, which was amusing. Battle Star Galactica borrowed from the show as well, with regards to the bio-tech fighters. All-in-all it deserved a second season.
That show was really cool, and could have been something worthwhile. I remember it was around the same time as Starship Troopers but was short lived. I watched a retrospective about that show and it was impressive for what it was, but yeah the diversity back then was still annoying.
I need to find old episodes of Lightning Force to see if it's still as good as I used to think it was or if it aged horribly like some other shows.
>One of my favorite science fiction subgenres are multiverse/alternate history stories.
>been on this kick of watching short lived shows
Maybe check out Seven Days (1998-2001). It's pretty much exactly what the opening says it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jtmglD1iGg
Looks cool! Will have to check it out
Sliders was dope
Yes it was. Sucked that the original cast but Remy left and Cro-Mags were so prevalent
Pretty sure I watched this one a while back.
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was bad, low-budget sci fi. I enjoyed it.
Had something to do with a parallel universe where crude oil no longer existed (eaten by a mutated bacteria or something), and all of the ramifications that come with that.
Yes! So it was kinda like old west but sleigh some modern stuff and using horses to pull gas less cars. Also at the end they escaped through a doorway and were standing on top of a Mt Rushmore with Ben Franklin, Davy Crockett, a Native American, and Susan B Anthony I think. So clearly setting up a show but network wasn’t interested. I can see why they say Sliders is a rip off since it is a very similar premise
Multiverse or Hallways through reality?
I thought Doorways, which was also a comic, was more the hallways style. Heck, Deadpool vs Wolverine was more hallways. The style is walking through a door or gateway and seeing a different reality, but the point is to just pass through it. The book Skin Suit, Lord Haupfenn, or House of Many Ways is like that.
Sliders is a multiverse. Star Trek has had a few episodes like that. The entire point is exploring a new reality and what it means.
It was honestly more like Sliders. The doorway to a parallel reality. I think they made a comic adaptation of Martin’s rough draft in 2010. Loved Sliders along with those Star Trek stories.
I actually have the comic, but haven't read it yet. I've seen the beginning of the show.
Thanks for the info.
I wanna get the comic now. I wish they had done some Sliders novels as well
That would be cool. It never really ended, so more adventures would be interesting
Does the comic go further? Or is it an adaptation of the movie/script?
I think it goes a little further.