Corrected entry: Upon entering this world, Quinn is still handcuffed behind his back from the previous world. When people are laughing at them and the Professor says "Gentlemen, check your flies," his hands are free. Quinn keeps his hands behind his back after that throughout the scene and the next time we see him from the side, he's still in cuffs. (00:05:20 - 00:06:25)
Corrected entry: If time is, in fact, going backward, then people would be walking backward, all sound would be backward, etc.
Correction: When the Sliders discover they are moving 'backwards' and Arturo says so; it is further discussed & determined that they are 'jumping' or 'skipping' - so while each hour or so is 'forward' for all, the 'next' hour or so is a jump several hours backwards. Hence, the overall story is 'backwards', but all are 'moving forwards', just in different ways.
Corrected entry: After Arturo's campaign video, there's "Paid for by the committee to elect Maximillian Arturo for Mayor", but the narrator says something like "Paid for by the Arturo committee". (00:27:10)
Correction: You get the same message, it's not necessary to have all of the exact same words. This happens plenty of times in real life, as well.
Corrected entry: Professor Arturo is recruited to be the Mayor of San Francisco. When you see the dinner scene, they are drinking beer and munching on chicken wings. He comes back to his compatriots and states he had a dinner with champagne, caviar, veal cordon bleu, and crepe suzettes. What? It does nothing to contribute to the plot. (00:11:35 - 00:13:10)
Correction: It has to do with bolstering his own ego (usually overblown). So, Arturo fibbed and he played it up by describing his own idea of an expensive dinner (imo, pitchers of beer and hot wings sound better), which he was treated to by the other men, in order to woo him into the running.
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Corrected entry: In just about every episode, someone complains about landing harshly or bumping into someone during the slide. You'd think that after enough slides, these dummies would at least consider the use of helmets or something (not always possible with their predicaments, of course).
Correction: Rembrandt does try using pads to slide in an second season episode, but the other sliders jut make fun of him, plus it's a lot more stuff to carry.
Corrected entry: As there are ten seconds left until the slide, the timer starts beeping. The beeping gets faster as the time counts down but it's one of the only times the timer beeps to signify that the Sliders' time is up.
Correction: Quinn says a few times throughout the show that he's always making adjustments to the timer. Obviously, that was one of them. Just because we don't see him fiddling with it doesn't mean that he doesn't, especially after what he said.
Corrected entry: In the episode where the Sliders go to the world where Quinn sees himself as a child attending his father's funeral, Quinn helps his young self deal with bullies. Quinn repeatedly mentions it was all happening exactly the way it did on Earth Prime. The flaw here is that in the series premiere episode, they showed a picture of Quinn, his mom and dad. Quinn was a teenager in that picture, not a kid. Therefore the events in the alternate world could not be happening the exact same way. And we know his mother never remarried and the man in the picture could not have been a stepfather because throughout the whole series they repeatedly show Quinn's father and he is the very same person in the picture.
Correction: The odds of everything happening the EXACT same way is too thin for it to actually happen. Just like the first world that he Slid into, it was just a VERY similar world, although not exactly the same. It's the same case here, Quinn was just wrong in his assumption.
You're missing the major point. The picture with Quinn and his parents in the pilot shows he was older than 11 at the time. But in "The Guardian" we learn Quinn's father died when he was 11, which he remembers, that's not Quinn being wrong in his assumption. The days of the bullying occurred on the exact days he remembered because the events were the same, which is why he was able to be there at the right time. Even his dog running away was the same.
Corrected entry: When Rembrandt and Pavel the Taxi Driver first talk, Pavel's mumbling is anything _but_ Russian (I'm bound to know, since I'm Russian), yet captions say that he speaks in Russian. (00:47:25)
Correction: Remember this is a parallel world. Obviously he's speaking the Russian of that world.
Corrected entry: At the end of this episode, Quinn finds Earth Prime. He knows this is the right place because of the necklace his mother is wearing that he left for her before he began sliding. When he 1st approaches the house, he opens the gate and it squeaks which is his 1st clue that he was home. However at the end of the episode titled Into The Mystic, they thought they went home only to find the gate not squeaking. After they left it was revealed that the gardener had oiled the gate. If in this episode they are back home, then the gate should no longer squeak.
Corrected entry: When Professor Arturo first sees the statue of Lenin, he says "Nikolai Lenin". It's a shame for a professor to make such a rude mistake - Lenin's first name was "Vladimir". (00:45:55)
Correction: It has nothing to do with alternative timelines. Nikolai Lenin was his nom de guerre, which he adopted after changing his name. That's how he was referred to, especially in the West. To say Lenin's first name was Vladimir would be wrong since Lenin isn't even his last name. Nikolai Lenin was born Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov. It would be akin to saying Vin Diesel real name is Mark Diesel.
Correction: It's an alternate universe, the name doesn't need to be the same as it is in their universe.
Correction: I watched this carefully and Jerry O'Connell does not actually have his hands free. While leaving the courtroom he actually brings his hands around his side to emphasize the cuffs. It looks like that's what he did this time. Watch his left shoulder. It goes down as his right hand comes around to the side of his hip, implying that he is torquing his back to accommodate the cuffs. Also, his hand only comes around as far as his hip. If his hands were free, he would have brought both forward or the one hand farther in.
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