DVD. sliders

the wife and i had a bunch of time recently to hang out at the house and watch a bunch of tv.  three weeks off for the birth of my son will do that...  well, there wasnt much good stuff actually on tv, so instead i dug deep into my dvd collection.  on a whim i asked diana if she would be willing to watch an episode or two of sliders.  its a sci fi tv show from the 90's that i remember loving when it was on.  she remembered it too, her mom used to watch it (her mom really loves sci fi. cool, huh?).  well, we started right from the beginning: season 1.  the story is set up as our main character, mallory quinn (played by jerry o'connell) who is a boy genius and has built a device that can open up gateways to alternate dimensions.  he, a girl that he works with, his professor, and a random guy driving by at the time of the accident, are all swept away through the gateway.  from there they visit many different dimensions, all the time trying to get back to their own.  the fun thing is that each dimension is different than ours in some way.  sometimes its something simple like red streetlights mean go while green lights mean stop, but other times its much more interesting like one dimension where the patriots never defeated the english and america is still ruled by the queen.  the different dimensions in each episode can be hit or miss, but for the most part they are a ton of fun!  the show itself actually holds up pretty well, and diana and i found ourselves watching a ton of episodes.  we quickly finished seasons 1, 2, and 3.  by the time we got around to season four it was time for me to go back to work, so we will certainly have to come back and finish them up one of these days!  over all, season one and two were by far the best, season three started to introduce another dimension sliding race of alien bad guys, which was pretty lame, but thankfully they didnt show up too often to ruin the fun.