This was, at one point, the most exciting thing on television. I do not recall ever looking forward to a new episode of anything as much as I did Sliders in the late 90's. From the pilot episode, I was absolutely hooked. The initial characters are a perfect team, the story-line intriguing and the writing well done.
Sadly, this all nose dives part way through the second season when the chemistry is thrown off with poor replacement actors (apparently the show needed sex appeal) and an endlessly grating quest against the "Kromaggs", a race of inter-dimensional Nazi's from an alternate Earth. In the first one or two seasons you never knew what you'd get, or what kind of world the adventurers would slide to. By season three, things become very predictable. Yet another boring Kromagg episode featuring a woman running around with a big gun. I never made it to season five, but for the first season and a half this show still deserves a solid 9/10.
Sadly, this all nose dives part way through the second season when the chemistry is thrown off with poor replacement actors (apparently the show needed sex appeal) and an endlessly grating quest against the "Kromaggs", a race of inter-dimensional Nazi's from an alternate Earth. In the first one or two seasons you never knew what you'd get, or what kind of world the adventurers would slide to. By season three, things become very predictable. Yet another boring Kromagg episode featuring a woman running around with a big gun. I never made it to season five, but for the first season and a half this show still deserves a solid 9/10.