John Rhys Davies Shares Sliders Regrets & Reboot Hopes
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- John Rhys Davies Shares Sliders Regrets & Reboot Hopes
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This man is a treasure. He really understood the potential of Sliders. As it stands, it’s the most underrated, and under-utilised, sci-fi
show of all time. And if any show deserves to be brought back, rebooted or continued in some way, it’s Sliders. So glad it’s in the works.
I don't think it's in the works. Where did you hear that?
Earth: Final Conflict is also a good example of a mostly forgotten show today, which had a great premise, strong season 1, and later fell apart due to lack of direction, and bad cast changes.
Sliders is fun up to the point where Arturo leaves. Later on it goes downhill. Sure, there are still decen episodes, but season 5 is a complete trash. After Wade leaves, it is just over, even if Mallory is for a bit more time. Rembrant is OK, but he can not carry the show by himself
I remember flipping through the channels and every time I saw sliders I was just like "YES" lol. There were a few shows that once you saw they were on, ya just had to watch. A lot of shows back then were very mediocre.
He really is The Professor. I used to watch Sliders as a teenager back when it came out. Recently, I watched the first 3 seasons again with my sons. The original 4 characters were great and the original premise and early episodes were fantastic.
I fancied the pants off of wade when I was a teen
I fancied the pants off of wade when I was a teen
Sliders was such an underrated show. It definitely lost its way by the time John Rhys-Davies left the show. John is so correct when he said “they didn’t know what they had.”
I love John Rhys-Davies. Such a good actor and a great human being.
he truly is a true living legend and inspiration.
He really cares for the craft and the intelligence that can and should be the main part of acting. what he said about the neutron star was spot on, basically, the sliders would have arrived to an already torn apart or, totally sanitized radioactive planet and would have died instantly. lol
Wow you can really tell here that he was so passionate about the show. It was honestly my most favourite tv show. Sadly towards the end of season 3, the stories got not so good. The original 4 were the best. And they all just seemed to have such a beautiful bond on screen with each other. I honestly could see myself fitting in to that sliders group and being friends with them.
Agreed. As soon as JRD left the show died as well.
I completely agree. Its still my favorite show....i even watch season 4
@@krimson4980 Oooooo I could handle Season 5 more than Season 4.
It went so badly downhill, they all died, the girl ended up as just a head
@@rorschach9731 Yeah, they sure did Wade dirty.
Me, 47yo, just rewatched the entire show from season 1 to 5 and oh how I love this show still. I would love to see a reboot incl. some, if not all, of the original cast. This show sure has a fond spot in my heart for as long as I live.
While watching those episodes did you think "wow how prophetic some of these episodes were at the time?"
I just watched the entire 5 seasons and that's what I thought with most of them.
I did the same but it definitely started getting weird towards the end
I remember watching the entire run when it aired. Since then I usually tap out after season 3. The SciFi Channel seasons were so weak in my opinion.
46 and watched them all twice over the space of a year binged-watched them...1to4 were fantastic...Really enjoyed some nostalgia from my youth....
34 and have season 1 need to watch the rest one day, holds a spot in my heart
02:25 Professor Arturo moment. Those blistering idiots got the best of him, didn't they? (:
YES LOL. He was having an Arturo moment 🤣. Just as passionate and knowledgeable on something being misunderstood by someone else.
It warms my heart to hear JRD so passionate about the science of the show and with a well thought out reboot plan. I really hope they go ahead and reboot it
This is great! You can tell he truly cared about the show and the characters and realized what every fan watching knew...Silders was an equivalent of of Star Trek. Hollywood clearly had no idea what they had. They still operate this way..all the current new Star Trek shows are proof.
only i believe the ruin the shows on purpose as some way to "dumb down" those engaged.. why else would every super hero movie remake today suck in comparison to their originals? would these original writers let this go on if they had any say so whatsoever? think about it..
@@johnlombardo7816 When Doctor Who was brought back in 2005 RTD had to dumb it down, make it more juvenile to bring in new fans. It worked. The same thing has clearly happened with modern Star Trek but it sucks more.
@@pferreira1983 makes sense. I believe all movies today that are popular. The super hero ones etc they have done this. Most of them are shyte now but people still watch. I stopped watching most of the super hero ones.. I try to find ones I know we're smaller budget because they may not be trying to butcher it
@@johnlombardo7816 It's true. Nowadays superhero movies try to be gritty or more realistic but the people behind those films mistake realism for imagination. They replace cheesy special effects with rubbish editing and CGI. Don't get me started on picture quality as well. 😆😆
#MakeStarTrekBoringAgain
He thinks about it strategically which is amazing. This is totally doable… what can fans do more than petition?
I think it's out of the fans hands right now apart from make sure Sliders is trending every week.
@@pferreira1983 there's very hard with this one,i dm'ed john some time ago but he told me they can't find the license for the show. it seems it got lost :(
@@gabyROTK Nah that was all cleared up. The problem is NBC Universal isn't interested enough.
Basically it was our version of Doctor who the Americanized version and trust me everybody loves Legends of Tomorrow is already a big uproar that it was canceled but check this out sliders was legend of tomorrow before Legends of tomorrow but sliders did it better
The OG cast worked so well together
hes right could have been the next star trek if it was done right
The problem lay with bad writers!
That "IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM!!" at 2:26 really felt like Arturo decided to pay us a visit... felt so good to hear that character break into the conversation for those seconds. :)
What a perfect answer, and what an absolute legend. A more fully formed answer one could not even hope for. Even if the show never gets rebooted, some part of me feels satisfied just from watching this.
I think his biggest regret was being defeated by his evil doppelganger and and then being left behind as his friends all got to move on to explore new worlds together.
Thought it provides a great in-world excuse to have him still be around should a reboot occur.
You can tell here that he's an actual sci-fi fan, which showed in his performance! Love this guy. I sincerely hope that they do a reboot before he's too old to be in it.
I enjoyed the first two seasons and the first half of the third season. Once Arturo left, it got weak, then when Sabrina Lloyd and Jerry O’Connell left, I thought it was unsalvageable
Remy can only do so much lol
@@rafetizer Even he looked worn out by Season 5. A gig is a gig and he didn't want to leave either but you could tell his heart just wasn't in it anymore and he was still there for the paycheck.
@@alucard624 Probably missed the old team. Loved their chemistry!
@@rafetizer Agreed. He had zero chemistry with Floyd and Locke, and frankly Wuhrer is just one of the reasons I hated the later seasons. She's hot but has zero acting ability and is weird to boot. Just watch her infamous Conan interview from years ago.
@@rafetizerPoor Remy, much respect to him for hanging in there. Damn! 😅
Professor Arturo and Rembrandt were my favorite characters
What I find so incredible about this show is how prophetic it was. There are a lot of episodes that have actually taken place now in real life and even soon to come bc of would events happening.
I agree I for example I remember an episode about two teens in love but she seems to have a hard time seeing him offline as they only talked online, You see the same in todays social media. Another is where they find themself in a bus and in a game where all teams kill one another till one team remains. Sound to me like fortnite
I literally just bought this tv show off of Amazon just got the package yesterday and it’s one that I am going to be rewatching soon I loved the original 2-3 seasons of it
I just love Sliders and I wish they would make a reboot just like John Rhys Davis said. It was so good and had so much potential. You could do almost anything with it. It is like a Star Trek or Doctor Who but with parallel worlds. I really do hope they reboot it.
He's definitely passionate about Sliders. I loved the show and it would be a travesty if it's not rebooted.
Arturo started to show with the conversation about the neutron stars.
So good.
I like how he referred to it as the 'writer's trough'
This is a legendary actor, I hope he lives way past 100, I would also watch a sliders with all of them even whilest they are older, I would watch that, and the professor could come back easily because there was an episode where the real professor was left behind and said oh my god, and Wayde can come back because that wasn't her, it was an illusion created by the cromag's see with this show you can bring them all back, even Quinn a world where the tech is so advanced they learned how to split both Quinns back to their original selves.
It really is a limitless show. I was 16 years old when I first saw this show back in 1995 and I remember this then in 1997 Lexx now I'm 44 and I wish both shows would come back to finish it off in a movie or something.
If it were me I'd start the show with the original Arturo having been working for nearly three decades to both replicate the technology and then use it to search for Quinn & co.
Yeah! The right Arturo got left behind!
This is so genuine and so sad but amazing at the same time. His passion showed through in the show. This show could have literally lasted forever as he said.
Where do I sign the petition to bring it back? ;)
Man I only saw it as a kid back then I didnt even comprehend what it was about, but now that Ive grown up and looked up the show the first thing im gonna do is find it online or buy it on eBay or something because it sounds fucking interesting.
Theres another show I watched just recently Totall Recall 2070 only 1 season was made it was almost as good as this had potential at least.
Anyway a reboot of this would be amazing.
@@morswestford Sliders is great until about the beginning of Season 3. It goes downhill from there and never really recovers.
I never even watched this show until recently I gave it a chance, due to reruns of free TV. I find it enjoyable for what it is and definitely think for its time, it was ahead. I appreciate the passion this man obviously has for it.
im watching it now! thank you peacock app! and agree it is an amazing show!
This man is one of my personal heroes. Such a dedicated and brilliant actor.
I want a sliders remake. Loved that show so much.
what a lovely man.
I got tears in my fro!
Damn straight, John. The show was always different after you left. One was quite tearful of your departure.
John Rhys Davies has been a favourite actor of mine since I first saw him playing Baron Fortinbras in Sword of the Valliant way back in 1984.
The potential of this show to explore the moral and ethical implications of alternate realities was huge and deeply interesting. It indeed does feel as though that element was lost along the way. A reboot now could really follow the original remit very well.
I feel a great sense of loss since the show abruptly ended its fantastic series. I watched all of them. And then it went away. Very sad indeed. So much potential. So far ahead of the times. Like Star Trek. Yes. I miss the series very much.
Couldn't agree more with John Rhys Davies! Sliders was ahead of its time, and a reboot would be incredible. The potential for new stories in today's world is limitless. #TheFutureIsSynthetic
I just realized he was that dude in Sliders AND in LOTR.
He nailed it: Sliders is one of those shows that was an amazing concept that ended up getting caught up with network television bs.
What an absolutely brilliant man. I regret not talking to him when I saw him.
He was a great actor
This was a year ago!? Just found out today...wow and i thought this was dead. I will watch it and Godspeed! This was my favorite show back in college!
Sliders was ahead of its time. Rebooted with today's tech and the right team and it could be amazing.
I love Sliders so much
I'm rewatching Sliders at the moment. On Season 2, and I've introduced one of my friends to it. He loves it. It's got, and had such possibility, infinite worlds, infinite possibilities.
I loved him on sliders, he added a lot to the show, I hope if they ever reboot the show he will be on it, ❤
Such a great show, I just recently started rewatching this and talk about nostalgia
John Rhys Davies knows his astro physics! I’m impressed!
Loved you guys so much..2009, just me and your shows with a bottle of wine. Now 41, well....
I would LOVE to see more banter between Quinn Mallory and Professor Arturo!!!
Chupacabra Dark Seas is one of my fav flicks of his.
His frustration is so understandable. I remember him saying that in later days he heard the writers discussing how they could take stories from other TV shows and movies that were popular at the time and tweak them just enough to avoid getting sued for copyright violation. I remember seeing a commercial for that tornado episode just a few months after Twister was released in theaters and thinking there was no way that was a coincidence.
I am total in. I loved the show... till end of seasson 3.
Loved that show as a kid.
God, I hope they're going to do another season. This is 2023... Anything is possible, fingers crossed 🤞🏻
When was the last time you saw a remake that wasn't a shadow of its former self? That era of television is irreproducible. Even with an optimal team of writers, producers and directors trying to be faithful to the original production values, it would just seem out of place in 2023. It would be obvious that they are doing a "throwback" or "retro" cliche. Sliders was a TV show that existed in the 1990's. It's permanently bound to that era. It's not some thing that you can resurrect and bring back to life and "make better". It's finished, it's over. That style of television is never coming back. What you're doing is like trying to bring back a dead son from the grave or something. Even if you could, it wouldn't be the same. It would be weird.
@@Animal_lives_matter Again, anything's possible! I do understand what you're saying but I sure hope they'll do one more season because nobody came home and that was unfortunate.
@@emily-clark
I hope so . I would like to see a remake that is faithful to the original recipe. I would watch it, but I don't think society would.
This man is absolutely right. Also, peacock, universal's streaming service, would be a great place for this to live.
Sliders was one of my favorite sci fi shows as a kid.
*DEFINITELY!!*
I LOVED Sliders and I Love this man.
Just downloaded all seasons of sliders brings back good memories
This show had so many potential legs...there are millions of dimensions
I completely agree with his criticisms of Sliders. A great premise, so many possibilities, almost completely wasted opportunity.
Legend. ❤
Love to see this show come back
I thought the the first season show was absolutely great as a nerdy teenager, especially when it appears they pretty much unknowingly had slid back to their own dimension before sliding out again in one of those episodes. There was hope that the writers had a plan for them to get back (this was before I found out that writers actually write the TV show while the season is still airing). As an engineer today that actually budgets my personal time, I don't think I could rewatch the show. I'd have to fast forward to all the key plot scenes...and knowing it was all for nothing with no real ending- I can't rewatch it.
Well Rick and Morty picked up the ball where Sliders dropped it. At least we have that.
I really hope they bring it back one of my fav shows and i hope the professor returns
And another thing: What on Earth are we doing rebooting Quantum Leap instead of Sliders?!
My brother and I wrote the synopsis for a sixth season of it after we saw season 5. We were so disappointed with how it ended. It could have been so much better. I agree we should get a reboot! I just bought the complete series and the only thing I'm sad about is that I know I will not be satisfied at the end, but the ride is a great one!
Been on a John Rhys kick recently after hearing him on the "Inside of You" podcast and listening to how energetic he can still get about past projects. I was bummed they didn't go more into "Sliders" and hope a reboot is still possible down the road.
I completely agree that they should bring back the original 4 if possible, but I would prefer a more "GB: Afterlife" approach where Quinn's tech is stumbled upon by new characters and he shows up to talk about how they were lost but then eventually got back and maybe split up. That way they don't need to bother any actors that don't want to come back and can leave their characters with the satisfying story-ending that at least they got back to their Earth eventually.
This was a beautiful show
PLEASE!!!! This needs to happen!!!
One of the objections to "Death Ray" Pulsar articles in magazines is they forget the inverse square law. By the time any rays from the nearest pulsar reach Earth, they will be very weak. The Sliders story admittedly had the pulsars close to Earth, but as JRD said, the gravitational effects would make the radiation bursts less relevant
HOPE THEY REBOOT THIS
SHOW 😄♥️
Great show!
Well said professor Arturo!
It certainly would be interesting to see them fix the problems they made, my theory the seer saw that the next world they would reunite with the correct arturo not the fake one that replaced him and died and they would go and rescue wade finally because rembrant was more interested in saving her than the new cast. Arturo would come up with some brilliant scientific way to restore the lost version of quinn that got collided and merged with the new guy (somehow) but doing that leaves the other new ones on the seer world and probably the new quinn there too and probably draws the original quin through a vortex seperating him? I don't know how they would just get quinn and leave the other new ones to reuinite the original 4 otherwise, but the original 4 were best 4.
"Bad dates!"
"Are you kidding? This equipment's way too expensive to test!"
I want a reboot!
John Rhys Davies was the favorite character on the show, and it was such a shock, when he was killed off. Sabrina Lloyd's departure was over a known feud with Kari Wuhrer, so when in the plot they dangled the possibility of Wade's rescue, it all felt cheap. Everyone knew that people who left, weren't coming back. If the show got rebooted, I'd still be re-watching the original. First 3 seasons were good, but it's best to pretend, that the last 2 didn't exist. Like Professor says - they had something there. A potential to have a new Star Trek, and they blew it.
Yeah, if it were me rebooting the show I'd just completely ignore the last two seasons(sorry Charflie O'Connel), reveal that the Professor who was killed was, in fact, the double who tried to steal the credit for inventing sliding, and maybe Quinn and Wade have a kid who comes sliding with them(that relationship felt like a dangling carrot). I would also revisit the character of Logan St Cloud, and the fact that the government of their world was trying to figure out what happened to them, and how sliding works.
Sabrina leaving also had something to do with David Peckinpah. He's the reason Wade was written off as being sent to a Kromagg breeder camp. Guy was a complete douche.
Totally agree...
Yes , the general audience has a better understanding of a multiverse concept so rebooting it following the original 4 and ignoring everything after season 2 would be perfect. It worked for Halloween so it could work for Sliders for sure.
He seems like a great guy. Plus he is the first celebrity to call Startrek, Star-TREK and not Starttact. So he is well spoken as well!
He is so right
I’m really torn on this one because IF JRD didn’t leave Sliders, we would t have our perfect Gimli in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings.
It's weird that we have so many time travel shows but so few parallel universe ones. You'd think studios would jump at the chance of being able to reuse the same actors and locations.
Sliders not only pioneered how it should be done but hit it out of the park on first try, like Back to the Future did. And the word "slider" has since been used as a term for dimension-hopping traveler in other sci-fi.
Honestly he was giving them solid ideas and the writers were just 90's tv basic writers. Sliders if done right in this time would be great.
The professor was my favorite character from the whole series. My friend and I just re-watched the whole series up until the last season. She never actually saw the final season and when we got to the reveal of what happens to Quinn she rage quit the episode and refused to keep going
I love the original 4. Reboot done the right way would be awesome. I bought the bluray of Sliders.
He is so right. Man the show it could be like cobra kai
I love sliders, i rewatch it every couple of years, it went a bit down hill toward the end bit still great
I wish they’d take him serious! He’s knows what he’s talk about!
Surprised to see how engaged he was with this, I'd assumed it was "just a job" for him.
Early on it was such a good show with incredible potential. He was right to leave when he did and it was never really good after he left.
Its one of my annoyance aswell... such a great potential....
I loved Sliders
They better hurry up and get this rolling...I dont wanna see another Quantum Leap fiasco.
Props to John for keeping the Slide alive.
If they give Sliders the "Cobra Kai" treatment, it would be amazing series.
He sounds the same!
I hope one day I get to see the new sliders t v show.
Old, very old. Legend