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Review of the hated “everyone” fifth season!
Fans are convinced that the 5th season is a complete slag. I confess that I thought so too.
Until 2023!
But, recently, I revised (and at the same time watched to the end) the 5th season of sliding and... overrated it by 180 degrees!
The rather clumsy replacement of the VERY major actors in the first episode of Season 5 left a bitter sense of disappointment in my childhood.
So bitter that I didn’t watch my favorite series and threw it around the 4th episode of the final season.
I didn't want to see it! As it became clear now, from the height of the years lived and accumulated gray hair, the main characters of the series all the way were ... not people!
And the worlds!
It is the ideas of incredible worlds that have been the core and foundation of the series all this time! (How do we like smart games like 'What?) Where? "When?", "My Game," etc., regardless of the players. So sliding should be loved for phantasmagorical parallel realities, invented by screenwriters!
As Brian Cranston once said, ‘If it’s good written.’ ? The most important thing in cinema is the script! If it is good and well written, the rest is secondary. And, of course, the script of the series “Sliding” remains high-quality all 5 seasons!
After all, in the final season there are absolutely beautiful series: about a mental hospital, about the world of the tabloids - a world where the US attacked Switzerland, and the whole country lives in illusions - allegedly nothing serious is happening, the US army loses (!) and is preparing to use banned weapons! And the president uses jaundiced news to distract the people from the horrors of war (reminds me of nothing in 2023?!); about a world where people have turned into rooms, and technical support into computer assistants, about a world-amusement park with historical simulations (almost the series “Westworld”!).
Well, the world about the archaeology of our civilization ... it's just a delight!
Yes, Quinn fell in love as a family member... his departure from the series was a tragedy and caused indignation, anger, devastation!
But in the end, what is the fault of the writers and author of the series Tracy Torm? They had to deal with the circumstances they had. .
And they did the best they could.
Quinn's "substitute" (Floyd) turned out to be a funny and pleasant guy. Screenwriters "took off" on it completely! They made him a loser, a beta male who always got into funny and humiliating situations with the opposite sex (which would not be possible with Jerry O’Connell or his brother).
And the O'Connell brothers, I'm sure, still bite their elbows because they decided to slam the door! After all, for the past 25 years, nothing more significant has happened in their film career! If they stayed in the series, it would be possible to avoid the fan hat (due to the change of actors) and a sharp drop in ratings, and therefore the closure of the project! So we could have enjoyed the 6th and 7th (and maybe the 10th) season.
Wade's fate was finally revealed in the final season. And very unconventional and sci-fi! Fans of the genre will definitely appreciate.
The final series, in my opinion, is also extremely interesting for fans of the sci-fi genre. As I wrote earlier, any movie is 10 times better if the happy ending is replaced by tragedy.
As a result, in 2023, I change my mind about this season!
Season 5 is not a slag at all, but an organic continuation of the history of fantastic amazing worlds! Plus, wonderful humor writers (which is best perceived in the original language).
8 out of 10
I don’t remember exactly in which year I made the first desperate “journey” to parallel worlds with sliding ones. It was either 1996 or 1997. I couldn’t finish the show, and my journey suddenly stopped at the last episode of Season 1. And so, fifteen years later, being already at a rather uninfantile age, I suddenly remembered the movie heroes of adolescence and decided to see what would happen next with the sliding ones. And since the details and characters of the first season almost completely erased from my memory, except for the colorful bearded professor, I started all over again.
So, first seasons. Carefully watching the strange life vicissitudes of the main characters, I was amazed to find that I watch this multi-part adventure-fiction melodrama with the same interest as in childhood. The scenario plays out almost all possible political and economic mistakes of parallel realities. These fatal flaws lead to nonsense of various levels - from the monuments to Lenin in America to the monarchy in the same country, etc. Sometimes theoretically tested various universal and local catastrophes that threaten to destroy all life on Earth - the fall of celestial bodies, the rise of the level of the Ocean to deadly values, nasty epidemics, the invasion of unfriendly insects and other unpleasant moments. In this intellectual canvas organically fits comprehensively developed Professor Arturo, and the young — so to speak. It's all about age. In subsequent seasons, their role will increase, as the series will move along somewhat different thematic lines.
They are constantly moving into all the affairs of the worlds in which they find themselves. They try to maneuver all situations, change the course of events in order to save some loser from imminent death or simply improve or radically reform the situation in the United States on one or another front in one series. Because of this, they experience absurd and, at first glance, completely unnecessary troubles on their skins, wipe their pants in prisons and so on. It's a little discouraging. And for a while forgetting that this is a movie, I want to ask them: why? We'd stay in a hotel or in a basement, and we'd go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. And then you realize that it is not so simple, because without it there would be no TV series. In some cases, changes, of course, do not happen through their fault. You are really worried about these poor people.
Initially, only the city of San Francisco appears in travel. In subsequent seasons, he is replaced by Los Angeles, which from series to series begins to appear more and more often. In the film, it is not very clearly identified, and, most likely, it is a mixture of scenery with real alleys. It would be possible to show Europe, Africa, and maybe even Russia for a change. . .
In the first season, sliding still not so recklessly lose the timer, but in subsequent parts - at every step. It will fall out of your pocket, someone will take it away. That's a little annoying, too. Well, before you slip, hide this timer somewhere, make an inner pocket in your jacket or in your pants; or fasten the timer, at least with tape to your belly. How much can you lose, because that’s the most important thing.
Now a little about the psychological portraits of heroes. The inventor of the magic timer is very clever, and his erudition has no limit. Sometimes he is even smarter than his clumsy, science-damaged but courageous teacher. Queen is quite ironic and narcissistic. What can not be said about the heroine, which he is either a friend or a lover. In the beginning, they had something, some kind of romantic relationship, and then they became friends. A really kind and simple girl, selflessly loving Melory, in the following seasons was brazenly replaced by a sexier, but more flat and materialistic girl, whose name I no longer remember. As far as the African-American is concerned, everything is rosy. It’s a good joke, especially in very dangerous situations, and especially when he’s hanging out in other worlds’ prisons. He is also very good-natured, able to sacrifice himself for his new friends. Together they are a monolithic team, tightly knit. The whole. Together, these guys are able to get almost dry from any water.
Once upon a time during his countless visits to other worlds, the tunnel threw them home, but they had no time to think, they had to decide whether to slide or stay for 29 years in this world. And the damn wicket is to blame for everything, which, according to the law of meanness, stopped creaking exactly when they finally got hooked. By the way, some of them will go home again, but, of course, unsuccessfully.
I will not describe the rest of the seasons, I will only say that the first three are not masterpieces, but somewhere nearby ... although not very artistically shot. And sometimes it's really dim. But this does not spoil the atmosphere of the series and the viewing experience. The last two parts are plot concocted no worse than the first three, but the absence of beloved actors reduces everything to some incomprehensible fuss, and is no longer interesting. Attracting some cromags or whatever they are, who find themselves here and there and constantly interfere with adequate travel – well, this is no longer to the village or to the city. Just ruined the show. The thread of the narrative and therefore the meaning is lost irretrievably. It was all so good. It is a pity that the original charm was not preserved.
Logically, the series is unconditionally over, although they do not reach the full story conclusion. Is it necessary? The last series, of course, leaves many questions, but the fate of the first four sliding is decided in a highly transparent manner. Except for the black hero. But if you think about it, the end of a crying person is also not entirely cloudless. The former have the same fate, and that ends everything. Everything fell into place. And the last ones. That's another story. It's not sliding anymore.
The series is actually very sad. Endless separations, homesickness, unfulfilled hopes. Only once they get used to the new situation, and then the hated timer counts the last seconds. It's a long way from home to the moon. The meaning of the first parts, if it was laid at all by the creators, seems to be that many people often do not appreciate what they have. And the realization that life was not so bad comes when it is too late. And this is very clearly shown in the example of the unfortunate Queen Melory, Maximiliano Arturo, Wade Wells and the cheerful Rembrandt Brown.
10 out of 10
Back in the 90s, when the trees were taller, the Internet was not yet available, and the scope for fantasy was huge, being very young, I accidentally stumbled upon a series called “Journeys to Parallel Worlds”. I came across and went headlong into this series, so much so that after many years I was not lazy to find the series and revise it.
The main character, a physics student Quinn Melory creates a machine that can move a person to another dimension, time will be the same, the place will be the same, and the world will be different, sometimes radically different, and sometimes in small things. And so, taking with him a friend, professor and past the passing / passing singer, our student goes to explore other worlds (slip), but the settings of the machine are lost and return to your world becomes a lottery.
The idea of the series even now, with all the abundance of films and TV series, is very cool. Just think, right now, in another world, your doppelganger is living a life parallel to you, and these doppelgangers are thousands, millions, and each time the story unfolds according to its own unique scenario. Who wouldn’t want to see that?
The characters are a separate conversation, the characters are spelled out perfectly. Most of all, I personally liked Professor Arturo, especially the series about the mayoral election in the first season, just a chic character!
Yes, let the series after the 3rd season and slipped into the incomprehensible that, even though the story of travelers remained unfinished, but the very idea of the existence of somewhere hundreds, thousands of other worlds that exist with you at the same time is breathtaking. It’s a pity that in so many years no one has ever tried anything like this.
For the idea, for the spirit of adventure, for original characters, for humor and for an interesting childhood.
8 out of 10
I am so sorry that the series was not closed in time. This is the case when it is better to shoot short and beautifully than to stretch longer, but with a loss of quality. I'm the kind of viewer who's going to watch my favorite show, even if it gets really bad, but not this time. It's a shame to miss it.
The idea of the series, the first season is amazing. Despite the fact that it resembles a strange hybrid of “Doctor Who”, “Quantum Leap” and somehow suddenly “Herakles” or “Zena”, the idea is still independent, and you can draw incredibly much out of it, which would be impossible in those worlds. At first, the idea was to explore what would happen to our world if we changed one important detail. Just one, but the world is different. For philosophical, comedic and dramatic angles, this is just a treasure trove. And although there were few really original ideas, it was interesting to look at the imagination of the creators of the series.
If a separate plot was not very interesting for me, it did not spoil the viewing, because there was always a fantastically selected cast of characters and actors. In such projects, there are rarely at the same time a professor of physics, his student, who at first was more a botanist than a handsome hero, and Crying Man, whose role is quite wide. In fact, that’s the thing, all four characters were very versatile and alive, and it always attracts.
And then something went wrong. I’ve read a few reviews and I realized that those who are unhappy with the regression of the series consider the end of season 3 to the beginning of season 4 to be a turning point. It seemed to me that the negative changes began earlier, even in the middle of season 2. I understand that the idea of removing the permanent setting of San Francisco was intended to diversify the series. However, it seems to me that they postponed the idea that more juice could be squeezed out of the idea of a small dissynchron in the same place and time. Moreover, some events in these "parallel worlds" could occur calmly in ours, because of which all the salt is lost. And yet we had our heroes with us, and it was still cool and great.
And then there was some thrash. Why, why do they need aliens, zombies, Earth Trembling worms, vampires, Aliens and a bunch of junk? I’ve already seen these movies, thank you, it was more colorful. And even though I did not want to say goodbye to the characters, but somewhere from the end of season 2, I already began to engage in my own affairs under the hype, because I did not want to fully delve into the plots. The only thing that was really cool in this phase of the series was the episode with the snowwalkers.
But then things got really bad. The death of Professor Arturo was the death of the show’s beauty. Three-quarters of the show's charisma was lost with it. In addition, for some reason, Rembrandt was no longer the Weeping Man (i.e., he was, but everyone forgot about it at the beginning of season 3). Quinn became a Ku-ball (why?), and the relationship between the team members changed. Lightness disappeared, humor and the spirit of exciting adventures disappeared. It was as if the actors were forbidden to do what they had done before. The characters have become paler.
And then... I saw in the first episode of the fourth season this doll, who began to play one of the main girls, and I realized that I can no longer. The point is gone. Normal human worlds have almost ceased to appear, where you do not immediately understand what is wrong, and you need to get involved in a full place on an even place for heroes to get acquainted with the customs of the locals. No, now you just see a dinosaur or an Aboriginal or a zombie or something. No, thank you, get rid of that.
I couldn’t put 10 on the whole series as I would have liked in Season 1. But I can’t lower my grade because of recent seasons either. It turned out to be ...
Nostalgia for the old series. 2nd series. Parallel worlds or sliding worlds
My childhood and adolescence were in the 90s and early zeros. I didn’t have the internet at the time, and one of the main entertainments was television. At this time, the air grid of many channels was filled with foreign TV series. Well, soap operas like Santa Barbara or Just Maria didn't interest me. I preferred American TV series. Detective, fantastic, adventure, comedy. This is a series of nostalgic reviews.
Brilliant teenager Queen Mallory creates a device that allows you to navigate parallel worlds. Together with his professor Maximilian Arturo and girlfriend Wade Wells, they go on a trip. Accidentally, the funnel drags and passing musician Rembrandt Brown. But in the process of traveling, the timer settings are confused and now they are forced to travel from world to world, trying to find their native.
One of the best fantasy series of the 90s. The first three seasons are great. The plot of the series allows authors to create series in various genres. There's science fiction and fantasy and melodrama and thriller. Personally, I like the series where Quinn meets herself as a child after her father's death and tries to help herself not to repeat her mistakes. And in general, there are almost no weak series. Well, the four main characters become relatives.
Queen Mallory is played by actor Jerry O'Connell. His hero combines intelligence and good physical training. There is also a romantic line of the hero with his girlfriend Wade Wells performed by Sabrina Lloyd. However, their relationship remained platonic. Professor Arturo was played by the most famous caste actor John Rhys Davis. He is the oldest and wisest member of the group, and also very self-ironic. Professor and musician Rembrandt Brown, nicknamed "The Crying Man," are the sources of humor in the series. The latter is played by the famous American actor and songwriter Clivant Darix, who became the only actor from the original cast, who played in all series.
Unfortunately, the fourth season is far from so successful. The series moved from Fox to Sci Fi Channel. The departure of John Rhys-Davis and Sabrina Lloyd did not benefit the series. The new heroes were not so successful. And the series itself made a roll towards a fantastic action movie. The fifth season was a complete failure. After the departure of Jerry O’Connell, who plays Queen Melory, the central character, the series lost its meaning. And ended up with nothing. So I recommend the first three seasons, the fourth at will, and the fifth is better not to watch at all, so as not to spoil the overall impression.
7.5 out of 10
One can only be amazed and endlessly admired at the skill with which the television managers of one of the main entertainment channels of Russia built in the late nineties thematic content of their evening broadcast. Looking back, it is impossible not to note the radical diversity and bottomless semantic depth of the series, which, according to their plan, went literally one after another. So, if I remember correctly, one day, coming after work or school, the viewer, tired of the burden of everyday life, consistently observed such masterpieces as “Quantum Leap” (18.00) – “The Amazing Journeys of Hercules” (20.00) and, finally, “Journey to Parallel Worlds” (22.00). Each of these television products was an organic component of a whole that could be called “teleculture”, now completely lost and, apparently, more irretrievable. So, the historical-fairy-tale mythology of “Herakles” seemed to shade the other two series, sustained in the genre of science fiction. However, simply to classify them as its typical representatives would be a cruel injustice. Each was a dialectical opposite to the other. “Quantum Leap” can be designated as a dramatic series with an existential focus, its center of mass lurked somewhere in the depths and interweavings of spiritual contradictions, which the protagonist had to unravel from series to series, exploring the hidden corners of the microcosm of the human soul along the way and, thus, cognizing both himself and his neighbor. “Slippery”, on the contrary, is maintained in a completely different way. They are focused on the outside world, the macrocosm, so the series is full of all sorts of socio-utopian interpretations, pop-cultural allusions, subtle political sarcasm and various topical issues circulating in the consciousness of the social organism.
Naturally, the orientation of the series on external relations left its imprint on its compositional structure and hidden ideology, which set the authors of this TV product serious tasks that they brilliantly solved during the first three seasons. Each new series was a completely new, original and unique world with an autonomous system of values and life priorities. The authors ruthlessly exploited the general theme of space-time displacements, with unprecedented professionalism for television, writing out more and more new images of the most dissimilar universal bodies. Of course, it should be noted that they had to act according to a peculiar pattern, applying the same scheme of development of action for each series: first the characters fall into a new world, immediately follows a certain paradoxical and alarming situation (pterodactyl, flashed in the background, people walking down the street with yellow faces, etc.), the viewer is not only fully correlated with the characters, because he is in the same position of ignorance, but also becomes infected with curiosity, feverishly estimating what the creators invented this time. Then there is the exposition, with the head dragging the audience into its plot twists and turns, which were worked out so qualitatively and thoughtfully that they could not cause the public a surge of enthusiasm. Finally, the main characters face a fatal problem that they need to solve as soon as possible before the next move. According to the logic of television, they are obliged to do this, but there was never any certainty about it. And indeed, the creators sometimes deceived the expectations of especially arrogant viewers and left the characters in separate worlds for another episode.
As you can see, the scheme is, in fact, elementary, but saturating it with a competent narrative was not easy. The authors used all the tools of classical (Huxley, Orwell) and modern (Herbert, Bradbury, Heinlein) literature, turned to the oldest (dinosaurs), new (the development of the wild West) and newest (the war of the Chicago mafia against the government) history, looked into the future and revised the past. And during the first three seasons, they really managed to inflate their imagination so as not to burn everything to the ground, she guided the roaring stream of her ideas along a constructive path, which made the series literally burst with frenzied energy and hurricane enthusiasm. But soon everything changed.
Fans hardly recognized the object of their cult. At first, the vector of genre orientation began to be lost, then something fatal happened at all - the project was left by two main actors John Rees-Davis and Jerry O'Connell. By the end of season four, the series began to slid into substandard self-parody. As far as I know, many people never watched The Sliding Ones, preferring to believe that the heroes of the family were written to wander forever from world to world. How such a rapid regression could occur with such a high-quality TV product no one understood. Today, thanks to Wikipedia, the mystery has finally been revealed. It turns out that the development was taken up by a third-party studio SciFi, which bought the rights from Fox, and the author of the project defiantly refused to cooperate, thus expressing a protest against the bastard exploitation of his ideas. The new screenwriters, of course, did not have the proper restraint and with a dashing prowess embarked on “everything serious”, apparently believing that the limitless space for fantasy gives boundless irresponsibility. So the SciFi channel network almost completely cleared its product from SciFi, replacing the latter with mysticism and frank thrash. But this is another story that has little in common with the authentic “sliding”.
Without a doubt, this series is one of the flagships of television production of the nineties with all the ensuing. Such large projects as “Hercules” or “Sliding” pushed the development of serial production, proving that the TV series can painlessly contain a wide range of cultural, religious, mythological allusions or sci-fi theories and not be divorced from modernity, that it is capable of eternal fluidity, incessant thematic reincarnation, change of locations and the participation of a whole range of characters without losing the high quality of technical performance. Undoubtedly, the arch-complex task of implementing the monumental idea of “Sliding” into life was solved only by titanic efforts and truly divine inspiration of the creators. But for the producers, the allocation of significant funds for each series of this kind of opus was a serious step, because it was much easier in the old-fashioned way to drive a dozen actors into three sets and cut cabbage on grinding the same mundane plots. As we can see today, the “thirst for risk” in the major studios has almost disappeared, so projects like Lost or Game of Thrones come out once a decade and are perceived as a revelation. But all these are the children of such series of the nineties as “Sliding”, which tested the strength of the limit of fantasy and by trial and error set the boundaries of fiction for future directors.
The last thing I would like to do is to express the unconditional confidence that any spectator who once watched the adventures of the “slippers” under no circumstances will be able to forget them. The powerful hand of time can erase the names of schoolmates and even entire periods from childhood, but the brilliantly designed types, as well as the brilliantly implemented idea of the series, left too deep a mark in the minds of the public. “Sliding” for many became an exemplary sci-fi series, to compare with which no one will ever be able to. It just doesn't get filmed anymore.
An old series with old special effects, which, in fact, easy to put on, so they are insignificant and insignificant for this series. It captures, intrigues, makes you worry and leaves its imprint on your mind. In fact, a unique series that makes you look at the world from the position ' And what if events began to unfold like this, and not like this' Each series is a separate world, which is well worked out and is almost a separate springboard for a bunch of other plots and films. *In this place, a bunch of examples of global changes in the real world, which are parallel universes, which are not given just because they are not spoilers and did not spoil the true impression of the series'
But consider it! Everything above applies exclusively to the first two seasons. After some overtubing, the series began to be drained into the toilet by replacing the characters (although the first two characters were not bad and in general it would be nice to leave them along with the others) and stupid or thumb-sucking plots. The peak of idiocy was the fifth season, in which only one of the initial set of actors remained, and the last replacements were completely idiotic. In other words, for the sake of interest, you can watch season 3, and even in extreme cases (although undesirable) - the fourth. And the fifth - that's honest, I tried, but did not master, so bad he was.
9 out of 10
It’s an award that the first two seasons deserve. Watching, especially fans of the genre, is simply necessary. Agony, comrades, agony!
A good fantastic series with quite well-chosen actors and an interesting plot. However, there is a caveat in this assessment - this applies to the first two of the 5 seasons released. The regression began with season 2, but became noticeable not immediately, in 3 he gained momentum, and season 4 finally buried all the good that was laid in the beginning. And it started to fall with big ideas. This becomes clear when you understand that none (except the world of cromages and that...) of those who got in the way of the heroes has no backstory. Moreover, the problem is aggravated by the fact that they too resemble artificial scenery, not in quality, but in spelling (that is, once something went wrong and it resulted in the current picture of the world). Screenwriters & #39; scored & #39; on this, the world did not develop or regress after some other historical elections (forks), but appeared so at the behest of the screenwriters (forgot that there are objective laws of development, degradation and simply the existence of the world). You understand this when you think about how the next world came into being and how it even exists. And then you realize that the writers were lazy to prescribe, at least, the skeleton of the next world, limited to one or two common strokes. Just as with the language problem (everyone and in all worlds speak English, even Cromagas, which is another evolutionary branch of development - I understand English not only appeared in all worlds, but also became the only language capable invariably of alternative history becoming the main one in all worlds: ) - well, this is a problem of 9 out of 10 even among good TV shows and all bad ones.
The situation was aggravated by abrupt and simply clumsy parting with the actors and replacing them with others from the category ' B' - this led to the fact that in the 5th, the last season, there was only one original actor out of four, the least important and, apparently, if the 6th season would not have been his. And the last nail in the coffin of a well-started (for health), but rolled (for rest) series was hammered into season 5 and, especially, ' ending'.
For 1 and a little less than 2 seasons - 8 points out of 10.
Season 3 - 7 points.
For 4-6 points.
The fifth season is 5 points and it is quite generous.
If the creators completed this epic, somehow sane, or if they managed to maintain a single (integral) line of storytelling, and not tear it into poorly connected pieces leading to nowhere (although the writers tried and something they succeeded) - the series could be put an overall score of 7 points, and so it is 6 and no more.
6 out of 10
p.s. On a similar (relative) theme there is another fantastic series 'Quantum leap'. I advise you to watch it better - sound, interesting, the bar of quality does not fall until the end of the series. And even if you compare with the first (best season) 'Parallel worlds' (Sliding) all 'Quantum leap' head (or two) stronger.
There are television projects that, years later, can not only cause nostalgia, but also attract new viewers with their world and heroes.
Young student Queen Melory devotes few people to his true passion - science. In the basement of his home, he creates a unique device that can open the way to other worlds. Surprisingly, this series now evokes a feeling of pleasant nostalgia for the era of the 90s. Not having an enviable budget, millions of royalties to actors, all these stories deservedly took their place in the hearts of fans. Each series is a whole new world. Yes, events always take place in the American city of San Francisco, but this is one of the main highlights. It is fascinating to see the differences that the heroes find after each trip. Now, it would seem, they have returned home, but new discoveries shake them. They often have to fight for their freedom and their lives. And that feeling persists throughout the seasons, at least the first three, where all the title characters are featured. Interestingly, in many worlds, the doubles of heroes play an important role in society - it seems naive, but not annoying, even the opposite. Special effects are not uncommon here, and you can see their real variety - from giant killer bees to scenes of natural disaster. These scenes may not be on a par with the impressive effects of blockbusters, but this is not the essence of the series. It draws to the screen like one big interesting story, divided for your convenience into parts. There is humor here, and in enviable quantity. By the way, the scientific component of the story provides food for the mind in almost every episode - interesting scientific facts, plus the very idea of the existence of parallel worlds is exciting. But before you dream of being in the place of the main characters, you need to overcome difficulties and dangers with them, only on opposite sides of the screen.
Thank you to this series for that rare feeling when, just after finishing watching the next episode, I want to immediately move on to the next one. Thanks for an interesting childhood.
Amazing! Seventeen years have passed, and still there are reviews for this series!
Not exactly surprising, though. I tend to think of this show as a classic of adventure TV fiction, just as on the big screen - Back to the Future.
I remember a long time ago, in 1996, when you could only dream about the Internet and MKV, we all made trips to benches with videotapes for “something new”. On one of these trips, I noticed a cassette with the inscription: “Sliding 1-2”. Adventure, fantastic. Okay, I think I will. And I didn’t regret it, despite the fact that it was not a movie, but a series.
In fact, I only watched the first season, but it hooked me so much that I tried to find a sequel for another seven years. And how glad I was that the channel STS decided to show it, however, my joy was overshadowed by watching the first series: the dubbing was so low quality that the voices and intonations did not cause anything but a gag reflex, and even did not allow to focus on the plot. Fortunately, a little later, it began to show in Russian SciFi, and, although the translation was not very good, but even he has a better head than STS. But until now, the “native” translation for this series for me remains the translation of Sergei Vizgunov. Despite his some “slowness”, the voice did not irritate, humor was conveyed well., And everything was in order with the sense.
I got distracted... What do I mean? Oh, yeah! Sliding! Great! A young genius, but not at all a “nerd”, Queen Melori, his friend Wade Wells, not a beauty, just an ordinary girl, a professor of physics, Maximilian Arturo (ah, this funny old man John-Rice Davis!!!), and quite by chance, stumbled into this story soul singer Rembrandt Brown travel through endless parallel worlds, showing the viewer of fantasy on the topic “what would happen if ...”
The atomic bomb was never invented.
The Communists would have reached America.
There would be gangsters in power.
Better yet, America would become a British colony.
- would not have discovered the healing properties of penicillin,
Intelligence would be fashionable and even a sport.
The matriarchy would be revived;
- would save the economy through birth control;
- blah blah blah blah ...
And even though many plots are naive, even if the writers do not know the name of Lenin’s grandfather, even if special effects by today’s standards are generally no, but they were played and presented sincerely, cheerfully, exciting and there was some zest in this series, thanks to which I wanted to watch and revise it.
All four characters are really interesting.
Queen Melory (Jerry O'Connell): God gave the young man a bright mind, thanks to which he was able to invent a device for moving to other dimensions. Charming, optimistic, but some sloppiness sometimes leads to unexpected turns in his life. In fact, even this device came out completely by accident.
Wade Wells (Sabrina Lloyd): Queen's old friend, worked together in a computer store. Outwardly, a completely ordinary girl, a smart, loyal friend, and in some episodes her sensual side is well shown.
Professor Max Arturo (John Rhys Davis): Well, that's the type. Ambitious, imperious, but at the same time kind and absolutely naive. Sometimes very irritable. He has some resemblance to Luciano Pavarotti, for whom he was taken in one of the series:
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Hotel administrator: "Mr. Pavarotti..."
Prof. Arturo: I'm not a Pavarotti. Pavarotti is Italian, he is govoritto vot tacco. Am I saying that?! Nope! Because I'm English, damn it!!
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Well, the last one on the list, but not in importance: -) - Rembrandt Brown nicknamed "The Crying Man" (Clivant Derrix): a former member of the legendary (according to the script, of course) group "Spinning Tops" - drove himself in his convertible to the stadium (he had the honor of singing the anthem before the match), hoping for a career revival, and drove into a funnel leading to another dimension.
I also really liked a secondary character called Benes, a hippine student. It is a pity that he appeared in only a few episodes and did not have time to open completely.
If I do not take away the keyboard, I can still write about this series for a long time.
Very pleased with the lack of any vulgarity in this series (at least in the first three seasons), sincere relationships between the characters, which in many modern TV series oh, how lacking.
It was very disappointing that after the third season, the series lost its original charm and turned from fantastic adventures into an action movie, and even the actors changed, and the fact that the series ended in nothing.
For the first three seasons, it is clear.
10 out of 10
Well, it’s time to write about the movie I’ve been watching for the last 2 weeks. A multi-part film. “Sliding” or, as offered by Russian distributors “Parallel worlds”.
The science fiction series there, they had, came out in 1995. When I first saw him, I don't remember. But I was clearly a teenager, which this series literally sucked into itself, as a funnel-portal in parallel worlds dragged its heroes.
The idea of the series is simple: a certain physicist student Quinn Malory, certainly brilliant, but not a nerd, but very sporty, cute and developed in other fields, except physics, on the basis of lectures by Professor Maximilan Arturo creates a machine that opens a portal to parallel worlds. As the teaser says, “Same planet, same time, and you’re the same person, but everything else is different.” Well, because the car was young and hot, not grown-up and wise, before sliding into the open funnel, Queen did not foresee any risks. As a result, the funnel sucked him, a professor, a friend of Quinn and a passing singer. No one knows how to get home. Well, that is, they jump, jump, jump... and even fall into worlds in which almost everything is the same as it was in their real life, and still not the same.
Well, then it all depends on the imagination of the writers: each series is a separate world with its own laws and its own history. Can you guess what the first parallel world was like? Well, of course, the one where the Russians took over America. And they live there according to the rules of the 30s, and underground partisans are fighting the Soviet invaders.
There were worlds where Elvis was alive. Where women run everything. Where America is a monarchical state (and more than once). In general, the first two seasons look with a saggy jaw and in one breath. Well, of course, given that you love fiction. Because even the world in which the wizards supposedly rule turns out to be nothing more than a world in which the triumph of the mind of the same physicists is presented as magic.
And if you look like this, then for 40 minutes of each series, the writers work out all sorts of scenarios for full-length films. A world where everyone is playing a survival game. A world that lives by the laws of the Wild West. About a world where a mad meteorite rushes to the earth.
Thank you, not all travel ends well. Well, that is, the heroes are all alive, but not everywhere they manage to make a revolution.
The names of the actors who play the main characters, I won’t tell you much. Well, not exactly. Jerry O'Connell is certainly known in the circles of connoisseurs of American serials, and in the big movie, too, is removed. But not in the main roles (" March cats are not counted).
Englishman John Reese-Davies, frankly, in this series came already famous. Not a star, but a famous one. Although the name of this actor, of course, most of the world’s population remembered after “Lord of the Rings”. Well, there in general, the film was rich in bringing the actors to the zenith of fame.
But Sabrina Lloyd and Clivan Derricks remained hostages, if not one image, then the serial life for sure. Although, knowing how the heroes of TV shows and TV shows are honored in the United States (otherwise, how Kim Kardashian would become a “star”), I think their life is quite full.
So, as I said, the first 2 seasons fly at cosmic speed. They are interesting, they are thought out, they capture attention. They have a place for dramatic experiences, and for easy flirting. But somewhere out there, FOX Network executives decide that the series is bad, and add a mystical element to it. There are all sorts of telepaths, masters of dreams and already real wizards. Even Professor Maximilian Arturo cannot explain these phenomena. He puts forward all sorts of theories, but they no longer sound as convincing as they did a dozen worlds ago. At the same time, the geography of travel is expanding. After all, all this time sliding only within the framework of his native San Francisco. And then they fly into the world, where the sliding mechanism is also created, but they want to use it for evil, the foursome intervenes and as a result, the timer with which they moved expands the range of its action by about 800 km. Well, I mean, they're being thrown all over America. It is strange that it does not enter Canada.
But the final point for me personally in this series was the replacement of one of the main actors. After such a bizarre twist of the script toward paranormality and mysticism, the departure of some self-respecting actor seemed obvious. But the obvious failure for me is who the hero was replaced with. The writers thought that the fans lacked sex in the film and introduced an aggressively sexy woman with silicone tits, who, of course, runs in T-shirts and trousers tight. Well, in order not to cause any doubt about why Carey Wurer appeared on the screen, they came up with a series, most of which she walks in combination and is looking for a man.
After this series, I gave up. I mean, I decided to write a kind of review to capture the best thing I liked about this show at a tender age. It seemed like a breakthrough in television fiction. Because he wasn't overloaded with philosophies and bullet lasers. It was completely open to all segments of the population. And young Jerry O'Connell's character settled into my girlish fantasies. And surprisingly, the memories of some series, about the idea embedded in them, I carried well, 10 years later in my memory.
And, of course, now the series seems ... well, in some ways, naive, chaste and not in all straight so thoughtful. But I checked, he's still catching. I think that's a good indicator.
Original Worlds in the Travels of the Earth Parallel
The series, which I watched in the 90s, remains in my collection in the list of the best series. It is so imbued with good intentions that it motivates the viewer and charges him with hope, which makes him disconnect from the daily hustle and bustle and just enjoy the content parallel to our world.
The main character of Queen Melory, who created an unplanned machine that moves the company consisting of his girlfriend, professor and casual musician to worlds parallel to theirs. But after a technical accident that reprogrammed the timer settings, the next world becomes unknown to them, and you can only find out what it is by slipping, leaving the previous world forever.
In each new world, they try to survive and hold out until the next window that might take them home. There are many obstacles on their way, which they solve with their unsurpassed friendly team.
Looking at the long list of people who worked on the series, it can be noted that as a result, each of its episodes became different from the previous one until the third season inclusive. After him, the series acquired the character of a fantastic action movie, which undermined the ratings of the series. Subsequently, there is a frequent replacement of the main composition, which is a huge disadvantage of the series, driving everyone’s favorite masterpiece into a black hole, from which there is no way out and the ragged ending to this judgment becomes a logical conclusion.
The cast is chosen perfectly, constantly forcing to observe their relationship to each other. Jerry O'Connell with his friend Sabrina Lloyd make this show not only fantastic, but also romantic, as their constant rapprochement, then distance from each other, make you experience a kind of inconspicuous love line. And the regular dialogues of the two informal leaders Clivant Derricks and John Rees-Davis add laughter and smiles, through their rivalry in wisdom on important issues. The rest of the new actors who replaced the outgoing composition continue the movement of the ship, gradually gaining water in the lower compartments.
Based on the above, we can conclude that this series is mandatory for viewing fans of fiction, but you should not wait for the denouement and answers to the questions posed by the series, since disappointment can be replaced by hope and faith in the future implementation of the continuation for it.
P.S. "I believe..."