Practical problems with Sliders.
Jan. 2nd, 2005 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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1. Why did all the words they slid into speak English? Even the one where the not-so-ancient Egyptians
ruled... they speak English? And dress in suits? I don't see many business suits on sarcophagi.
2. Why did all the worlds vary so much? I know the theory behind parallel universes. So, if two universes happen when a choice has to be made, why didn't they ever go to "the world where I was born in the morning instead of in the evening" or "the world where that sun a trillion lightyears away went supernova"?
3. Why did the Cro-Mags impregnate human females? Why not just find a world where there were more Cro-Mags without that disease? Wouldn't that be better for their racist ideology?
4. Why did all the sliding devices look exactly the same?
5. Why aren't there more sentient species wandering about the planet?
6. Okay, so originally they were just trying to get home. But which home? In the time since they left, more historical events have happened. Instead of one original planet, they've got billions. How do they decide between them?
7. Aren't there billions of Sliders by now as well? No, no, listen. You've got four Earths, let's call them A, B, C, and D. You are on A. You can go to B, C, or D. When you slide, doesn't that make three different sets of sliders? The set that went to B, the set that went to C, the set that went to D? And couldn't that also multiply the number of As you have? The A where you went to B, the A where you went to C, the A that you went to D. I'm dizzy now.
ruled... they speak English? And dress in suits? I don't see many business suits on sarcophagi.
2. Why did all the worlds vary so much? I know the theory behind parallel universes. So, if two universes happen when a choice has to be made, why didn't they ever go to "the world where I was born in the morning instead of in the evening" or "the world where that sun a trillion lightyears away went supernova"?
3. Why did the Cro-Mags impregnate human females? Why not just find a world where there were more Cro-Mags without that disease? Wouldn't that be better for their racist ideology?
4. Why did all the sliding devices look exactly the same?
5. Why aren't there more sentient species wandering about the planet?
6. Okay, so originally they were just trying to get home. But which home? In the time since they left, more historical events have happened. Instead of one original planet, they've got billions. How do they decide between them?
7. Aren't there billions of Sliders by now as well? No, no, listen. You've got four Earths, let's call them A, B, C, and D. You are on A. You can go to B, C, or D. When you slide, doesn't that make three different sets of sliders? The set that went to B, the set that went to C, the set that went to D? And couldn't that also multiply the number of As you have? The A where you went to B, the A where you went to C, the A that you went to D. I'm dizzy now.
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Date: 2005-01-02 03:15 pm (UTC)It's just one of those things that they ignore because it'd be too inconvenient to deal with it all of the time.
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Date: 2005-01-02 03:37 pm (UTC)2. Definitely, but I wish they'd given some explanation for it on the show!
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Date: 2005-01-02 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-02 04:46 pm (UTC)