Shark Bytes

The show started out great as a fascinating look at alternate history. A show about all the "What if..." questions you always thought about in history.

Unfortunately, this interesting premise was lost in favor of the monster-of-the-week concept. Those monsters usually included lost of cheesy CGI what looked bad even for that time.

I stopped regularly following it around the start of the third season and gave up when the Kromaggs got to be regular fixtures.

I guess they lost the original creative writers. A sad loss.

Loved this show when it premiered. The very first episode looked very promising and intriguing. By the start of 3rd season and introduction of Kromaggs it all went donwhill. It was no longer fun, each episode became very predictable and was all about escaping Kromaggs. I stopped watching it during a 3rd season and never came back to it.

This show jumped so many sharks, you'd think they are in the middle of the ocean. first, the beginning of season 2, the entire feel of the show changed. the was no longer any humor in the show, everybody was acting all serious for no apparent reason (especially Remmy, that turned from a great character in season 1, to some sort of emo bitch after that). Then, it jumped again with the introduction of the cromaggs, something that they managed to ignore for the entire 3rd season, which actually looked promising (a lot of great episodes), until the killed of the professor, and replaced him with a stupid bad acting bimbo. Then, it managed to jump it once more at the beginning of season 4, when they got rid of Wade, and made up some ridicules story about Quinn and his brother, a story that didn't make any sense, no matter how you look at it (for example, Quinn's mother said that he was brought from another world by her and his father's doubles, after which we see them, and they look nothing like his parents. COME ON!). By that time, the entire point of the show was changed from finding the home world, to defeating the cromags. If you think that's the end of the jts's, guess again. Another season gone by, and they got rid of Quinn and his brother, and "merged", that's right, MERGED them into one character, in one of the must ridiculous stories I've ever heard. Added another stupid character in the mix, and by that time, i couldn't even figured out what the hell the point of the story is. Add the ending episode as a final jump, since we don't actually get a conclusion to anything.
So there you have it, 6 jumps in 5 season.

Definitely jumped the shark with the first Kro-Magg episode, and it was all downhill from there. I didn't even bother to watch the last season, it got so bad. Replacing all the good characters with bad ones was a major cause of the show's decline, but the Kro-Maggs were the most blatant symptom.

That whole Kromag alien thing made the show really lame. And of course, main characters kept leaving one by one. A shame really.

Sliders started off with tremendous promise. However, after the first season, several shark jumping moments came about. In fact, for this show, I sometimes felt that every episode they were "Sliding" over yet another shark! That being said, my biggest complant is that this show had more cast changes than any other show I can ever remember. It was not even minor character cast changes but major character cast changes! The original four that started the series, Quinn, Wade, Remmy, and the Professor, were cast perfectly. Then it seemed that every season, after the first, one by one they would leave and be replaced with very sup par replacement actors. By the time the show ended you were down to, I Think, Remmy and a bunch of lame replacement characters that did very little to nothing to hold my interest. Heres a note for any Tv producer, When you loose more than half of your starting castmembers by a series third season. Do not, Repeat do not, try and save the show. Just bail out as quickly as possible!

Sandra, Stop yelling will ya? Look to the left side of your keyboard. There you will find a button that is marked Caps LockPlease press it!This button will save us all from having to read your yelling.

Oh, and sliders was great until they killed The professor in that horrible and, I think, undignified manner.

I LOVED THE FIRST TWO SEASONS BUT I JUST HAVE ONE PROBLEM WITH THE SHOW. ON ALMOST EVERY EARTH THEY VISITED THEY FOUND THEIR DOUBLES. IF EACH EARTH WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THEN WOULD THEIR DOUBLES BE LIVING IN THE SAME CITY OR EVER BE A LIVE FOR THAT MATTER? FOR EXAMPLE QUINN WAS ALSO SOME FAMOUIS SOMEBODY ON MANY OF HE EARTHS THEY VISITED

Arturo's death is where it jumped the shark. He was absolutely my favorite character.

I kept watching until Quinn left... but definitely was not the same.
It got much worse after the Kromaggs started showing up everywhere. That is NOT what the show was originally about.

I spent the first two seasons hoping that they'd lose Wade along the way and was quite disappointed when they got rid of the best character instead. At that point, it was being held almost entirely by Jerry O'Connel and one actor does not a show make.

DAMN YOU PECKINPAHHH!!!!!!!

I loved this show when it originally aired. Yet for some reason I completely forgot about it until I saw the recent ads for the Jumper movie and it made me think of this show. When did this show air? I must have been a teen or in college...

quote..from a viewer

Seasons 1 & 2 were great, but then Fox Network ruined the show. First, they moved it from Vancouver to Los Angeles (Hollywood) in order to exercise more control, (moving an existing, on-going show to LA-Hollywood is ALWAYS a bad sign,) then they killed the Professor, then they drove the original girl (the nice one) from the show, &, along the way, they discarded the original alternative-universe emphasis in favour of monsters. Having ruined the show, Fox then cancelled it. I can't watch any of it beyond series 3.
Nov 14, 2007 4:27 PM.....END QUOTE

Agreed along with the aforementioned, killing off Sabrina Lloyd eliminating the other original cast members, except Clevant (Crying Man)Derricks ruined the show. Being that the Crying Man was the last man standing, gave me a sliver of hope and was the only reason I continued to hold hope that the show would revive itself. But with the chemistry totally ruined, with the killing of Arturo, there was no hope. And the introduction of the Kromaggs and monsters, heck, the whole change of the shows original foundation......I could go on.

Being that the show is based on alternative worlds, one would hope that someone with the creative wherewithal and integrity, will revert back to the original premise, and produce a mini-series that would bring back the original cast members and bring them all back home and bring a non-Quantum Leap ending to a great show

I recently started watching the SLIDERS FIRST AND SECOND SEASON DVD and I've made the mistake of liking this show only to realize it jumped the shark in subsequent seasons (Season 5 apparently is so bad they won't even release it on DVD). It jumped when they introduced the Kromaggs and changed the entire premise of the show. And then they went home and found out Quinn's mother knew about the Kromaggs and Quinn and his brother (nepotism!) were seperated to save them from the aliens. And then they dumped the entire cast: First Arturo, then Wade, then eventually Quinn and his brother too. Too bad Sliders ended so badly when it had just a great start.

Jumped when they ended one episode by landing on a "nudist" Earth, but then never followed up with an all-nude episode. (Maybe a war between nudists and non-nudist "textiles"??)

It jumped back when JRD did his "Rush Limbaugh" impression in the "America Lost The Revolution" episode. (Rush had his TV show at the time).

Then it jumped forever when I got tired after the first or second season and stopped watching it. Sounds to me like they tried to rip off Doctor Who with the monster-of-the-week bit. ("Inferno" was the Doctor's original trip to an alternate universe, which in turn had been inspired by Star Trek's "Mirror, Mirror".)

When I say in my comment (which is next) that I agree with the comments above, I should have said "with the comments below." Sorry.

Also, by "dense" I meant that Wade was sometimes annoyingly stupid. She would occasionally get in the way and endanger the others just because of that. Also, I found her a bore.