**Spoilers**
While the first two seasons are the most popular among fans, the last two seasons have their own vital significance to the series as well. I find many who are quite repulsive of the seasons and there are others who even doubt whether or not to watch them.
Let’s consider the season four premiere of “Genesis”, where it’s revealed that Quinn is from another world. Sure it takes time to get used to that fact, and yes it’s quite shocking, plus debatable if it was just a Kromagg game. But the fact remains that this plot opened up debate and imagination, more so than we were given from the third season. The Kromaggs and Quinn’s new world become a plot for enjoyable continuity throughout the entire season.
We also discover Rembrandt’s despair of leaving Wade behind among the Kromaggs; considering he could have done something. We find Maggie tamed among the other Sliders this season and friendly, calling their world her home since her own was destroyed. We find Quinn even more determined to get home and thrilled that he has a brother. There aren’t that many times when we see him as happy. Then we have Quinn’s lighthearted brother, Colin. He doesn’t fail to create interest by being naïve and yet he creates the comic side of the season. The fourth season certainly lacks no interest in character development, continuity or humor. Even though the Professor and Wade are gone, a team must go forward whenever they lose someone and that’s what we find the Sliders doing.
You’re probably thinking season five is the least enjoyable and yes, I will agree. The departure of Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) and Colin (Charlie O’Connell), was one of the biggest factors if not the biggest that led to that. Nevertheless, a real treat from season five is Rembrandt. At times we see him disconnected with the new Sliders, longing for his old friends. He’s still determined to get home with all that has happened; and yet he’s still the interesting guy he is. We’ve rode along with Rembrandt from the beginning and we see from his eyes all that has happened to him. In a way, the fifth season should be viewed as Rembrandt’s story, as he reflects upon his lost pals.
Now I don’t know about anyone else, but I just hate it when we see a favorite character played by another actor. Instead of replacing the characters Quinn and Colin Mallory with different actors, we’re given another plot. It’s smearing Quinn into another guy and calling him “Mallory”. It probably wasn’t the greatest idea but at least there wasn’t another actor actually trying to portray our beloved Q-Ball.
The complete series as a whole is quite unique because there were no major fairy tale endings. If the theory of sliding could be discovered in our own time it would probably end up like our favorite TV series, Sliders. No happy endings, depressing and disastrous, with a few annoying Sliders with us along for the ride.