30 Days of TV - Day 28

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Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite miniseries
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode

Day 28 - First TV show obsession

I guess that depends what you mean by "obsession." I mean, I've always had a tendency to get a little obsessive about my favorite shows. You know that creepy encyclopedic knowledge of canon thing that I do? Well, it applied to shows I liked when I was younger, too, most notably Saved By the Bell and seaQuest DSV. I could recite all sorts of random, useless trivia about the characters, episodes, you name it.

But Sliders was the first TV show that sent me scurrying to the internet to talk about it - possibly because it's the first TV obsession that coincided with me actually having the internet. Who knows, maybe if my parents had gotten AOL when I was in middle school like I asked them to, I'd have been on Saved By the Bell forums talking about how bizarre it was that Zack Morris moved from Indiana to California with his two friends and his high school principal. :) But, as it happens, it was Sliders that was my introduction to fandom, and the first show I ever wrote fanfic for.

Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about Sliders. Is it worth checking out?

Also, I'm beginning to see why you hate this Amy woman so much. She's annoying. Josh should have asked Joey Lucas out.

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Is it worth it? Oh, boy. I'm not sure how to answer that, lol.

It's kind of cheesy sci-fi, about a group of people who travel to parallel universes through a portal, called "sliding." They have a timer that gives them a fixed amount of time in each dimension before the next portal opens up, and they're sliding randomly because they don't know how to get back to Earth Prime, their home dimension. They often run into their doubles in the various dimensions, and they're everything from royalty to revolutionary leaders to wizards to swapped genders.

The first two seasons were pretty cool, and examined interesting "what if" scenarios - What if the Americans lost the Revolutionary War? What if gender roles were switched and women had the power in society? What if prohibition was never repealed? It's kind of everything I love about fanfic, exploring how different actions have different consequences and putting our beloved characters in new and crazy situations each week.

Then, in season 3, they brought in a new executive producer who made the show suck. They killed off two of the original characters in really unnecessarily cruel ways (one of them was given a brain tumor, and then shot and then left on a planet that was about to be destroyed, and the other was kidnapped, enslaved, repeatedly raped, and finally reappeared as a disembodied head in a tank), and the parallel dimensions became the "movie rip-off of the week." Gone were the thought-provoking what ifs, and instead we got zombie world, vampire world, "Anaconda" world, and "Island of Dr. Moreau" world.

So yeah, I kind of loved it like candy in the beginning, but it becomes S8-level rage-inducing.

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Oh I remember Sliders! Jerry O'Connell right?

It was on TV in France way back when but I was heavily into X-Files at the time... ^_^

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Yep, Jerry O'Connell was in it (for the first four seasons, anyway).