So why would Fox push the second episode of season 2 to episode 6? Who knows! Anyways the episode that is supposed to be episode 2 is Time again and world written by Jacob Epstein.
The episode starts off with Arturo and Remy drinking in a bar about to miss the slide. They head outside to find a private place to slide. On the way they see a car crash, followed by a shoot out. Now on this world all the women have mustaches. Very weird, anyways Wade runs up to the man who falls out of the car and is dying. He gives Wade a code word and a chip to hold on to. Quinn pulls her up and they rush to catch up to Remy and Arturo who opens the vortex. Wade makes it in just in time. Arturo tells Wade not to become emotionally invested in the world's they land on. Now what I don't get, why would he even bring that up? We know that this world is basically the same just a few hours behind but they don't know that yet. They have 36 hours on this world that is all but the same as the last except that the women look more like we know them to. Hairless faces. The same car crash and shoot out as before, only this time the person who was killed on the last world does the killing. Once more Wade runs up to the man who is shot just like before. This man happens to be a cop. The sliders once more go to their normal hotel run by the same guy on every world. The hotel makes them give finger prints before checking in. I don't know if I'd be ok with that. The hotel operator immediately calls someone to report the sliders. Wade keeps beating herself up over what happened when two people with guns burst in and tells them that they all need to forget everything that happened earlier. No matter what the police asks they have to pretend nothing happened. They will be watching them. Remy and Arturo want to run out to the country but Wade wants to stay. After all both men who died on both worlds told her the same name. Quinn ends up going with Arturo and Remy leaving Wade alone. But only for a few seconds before coming back to help her. After all they can't leave one of their own behind. Wade tells the cop, who all wear skirts because why not. I guess they are Scottish on this world. The police take down everything she tells them and get ready to go arrest the person she told them about. The two people who broke into their hotel room are cops, Quinn and Wade spot them in the police station but it doesn't look like they saw our heroes. The hotel manager gets arrested, things aren't looking good for the sliders. Once more Remy wants to run. Wade wants to try and figure out what is on the chip but Quinn points out that it is from another world. It turns out that the man they turned into the police is one of the last people who wants the Constitution to be the law of the land. On this world and most likely the last, J. Edgar Hoover became President and declared Martial Law. It also turns out that this world has the same CD formats as the last world. Wade and Quinn manage to open the file and find a digital copy of the US Constitution. Remy references his group and it tips off the store manager that they are not supposed to be there. He takes off like a bat out of hell. Now the sliders are looking for the supreme court judge that they sold out to the police to try and set things right. I hate to say it but if Wade just listened to Arturo they wouldn't have to be going through all of this. The sliders are having no luck finding him. They find out about a pirate radio and a woman named Natalie. Quinn tells her about the police and knowing about the judge and shows her the chip he has. She tells him to put it away and to follow her. It turns out that the Judge is about to surrender and read the constitution on the air. Before that happens the police storm the club. Everything starts to fall apart. The sliders and Natalie escape out the back and take off. The judge is arrested. The hope for democracy in America is dead. The sliders have 8 hours left. Remy and Arturo have no idea where Quinn or Wade are and they are getting worried. Quinn and wade show up and feel the two of them in on what happened. They come up with a plan, Remy shows up at the police station and tells the cops he wants the Judge to be set free with a pardon or they will go live with the constitution. They try to keep Remy in jail but he tells them that if his friends don't hear from it they will leak it on the internet. Later that night they show up ready to exchange the only copy of the constitution for the judge's freedom. Arturo is against it but Quinn points out that good ideas are useless with out good men to fight for them. Arturo counters by telling him that the idea of freedom is repeated every generation but only one ever came up with the constitution and had the impact on the world that the US did. The cops show up with the judge. Now my question is, once they have the disk what is to stop them from killing them all. Quinn solves this by saying they won't give them the disk till he is away. The judge gets in the car and Wade gives them the disk. Letting America's true values be lost to time. It is a sad sad day. The sliders say goodbye to the judge and Wade tells him things are as hopeless as they look. with that the sliders jump into the vortex, leaving this world behind. The next day, on that world in the computer store a few people find a file Wade left on the computer. It is the constitution and it quickly spread around the world. Wade saved the day!
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Buffy is back at the tail end of her summer after spending some father daughter time out in LA. The exciting season 2 starts off in this story written by Joss Whedon himself.
The episode starts off with Willow and Xander throwing movie quotes at each other until they start to get bored. Xander misses the excitement of fighting the undead as well as seeing Buffy who neither one of them have really seen or heard from since she left to LA to stay with her father. Xander starts to flirt with Willow and she is loving it. Setting the first tease of attraction that will ruin them both next season. Their almost kiss is interrupted by a vampire, who in turn has his dinner interrupted by Buffy herself. Seems the slayer has returned to Sunnydale at long last. The trio or Scoobies are glad to be reunited. Seems that LA was good to Buffy. No undead or anything while she was gone. Since Buffy came back he forgot all about Willow. They tell the slayer about where they buried the Master's body. Hank and Joyce talk about Buffy and how she was in LA. It seems she was acting weird over. Distant, almost as if something was on her mind, like the fact that she died maybe? Cordy is back in Sunnydale after a vacation as well and is already holding court with her lackeys. Snyder tells Giles that teenagers are useless, the second a pretty girl walks by they lose the ability to concentrate or even talk. Just then Jenny walks up and Giles proves it isn't just teenage boys but rather adults as well. The Scoobies all meet up in the hallway, Jenny now part of the group, and we learn that just because the hellmouth is closed doesn't mean the energy isn't still calling demons to Sunnydale. Giles starts Buffy's training back up, she isn't right. There is an anger in her that is worrisome to Giles. The Anointed one is still in town. A preacher vampire is now running things in his name. These damn religious vampires and all their vampire bible talk. Willow and Xander go and find Buffy sitting alone, they join her and try to cheer her up when Giles shows up and starts kicking her ass, choking the life out of her while Willow and Xander watch on. She pulls of Giles face and shows him to be the Master. It's all a dream, one that she is glad to wake up from. Sitting in her room is Angel. Seems he has heard that she is back in town. The two of them get into a fight quickly once he starts talking about work and she attacks him. Verbally not with the real fighting but still. He takes off but not before telling her that he missed her. She tries to say it back but he is already gone. Joyce tries to connect with Buffy but she will have none of it. Willow and Xander can't really get through to Buffy either but they don't seem to understand that she is going through a hard time. Cordy is being all nice to them. Seems that fighting the forces of evil has had an effect on her. They make sure that she hasn't been telling people about what happened. She tells them that her secret is safe and Buffy throws out a pretty good insult. It's the first time Willow and Xander see that something is wrong with her. Xander doesn't want to hear it when Willow tries to point out how messed up Buffy is acting. She puts cream on her nose, the same way Xander did when he almost kissed her but this time he doesn't try, he just tells her to clean herself off. Poor Willow. The preacher vampire orders his lackeys to dig up the Master. Meanwhile back at the Bronze Buffy shows up and tells Angel that she has moved on before asking Xander to dance and goes all seductive mode on him. She asks him if she has thanked him for saving her and if he wises she would before taking off. You want to feel bad for Xander because it was brutal but at the same time he was just a jerk to Willow so I guess it's karma right? Cordy catches up with Buffy outside and tries to talk her into stop being such a bitch but Buffy doesn't want to listen. She is could care less what Cordy has to say. Even less so when Cordy starts to speak the truth to her. Buffy storms off just as Cordy is kidnapped by the preacher's vampires. Buffy finds out that the Master's bones were stolen. Willow and Xander think that Buffy is possessed but Giles isn't sure. He starts to tell them what he thinks is wrong with Buffy when she shows up and Xander warns him off. Buffy confronts them about the Master's bones being stolen to bring him back to life. She blames Giles for all of this. She then tells Willow to shut up but Xander jumps to her aid. Only before Buffy could say anything Snyder shows up and sends the trio running off. Snyder says that he just knows Buffy will be expelled before the year is out. And you know what? He is right!!!! The Scoobies gather and Giles tells them that they need the person closes to the Master to bring him back. Buffy thinks that they mean her. The vampires throw in a note that shows them that they have Cordy. Buffy fires the other Scoobies and goes it alone. Telling them that she doesn't need them. Willow is pissed that Buffy is acting like this but there is nothing she can do. Angel follows Buffy and she makes it clear she doesn't want him around either. She even tries to fight him. Buffy, alone, enters the Bronze to look for the vampires who have Cordy and instead finds just one vamp pretending to be Cordy. Angel shows up anyways. He tells Buffy something isn't right, this is the bait but not the hook. Buffy still doesn't get it. Back at the library, Giles figures out that the vampires need the people who were in the room with the Master when he died, that would be Jenny, Willow, Cordy and Giles. Buffy rushes back to the library to find Xander beat up. He tells Buffy that all of this is her fault and if anything happened to Willow he will kill her. She asks why he was left behind when the others weren't. She takes Xander with her back to the Bronze where they torture the vampire pretending to be Cordy till she tells her everything she wants to know. The vampires are getting ready to do the spell when Buffy, Angel and Xander show up. She tells the guys to save their friends while she goes to fight the vampires. The fight starts and Buffy is taking all her problems out on these blood suckers. Angel joins the fight as Xander gets the others down. Giles and Jenny wake up in time to see Buffy going crazy. It comes down to Buffy and the preacher, well the preacher and his hammer. She burns him to death without even trying. It was too easy but his death seemed to snap something in her. She picks up the hammer and smashes up the Master's bones. Angel holds her once she is done. He knows what she is going through and wants to help her. Giles looks up, feeling helpless as any father would when seeing their daughter hurt. Giles tells Buffy that she needs to patch things up with her friends. That they will understand and accept her. She doesn't see how that will happen. She was horrible to them but they prove Giles right. They take her back with open arms. The Scoobies are back!!! The Anointed one survived the attack. Season 2 of the greatest sci-fi shoots back with a bang in this episode written by Tracy Torme. Now the last season ended with Quinn getting shot just before they jumped through the vortex, with an added member no less. This episode starts with everyone standing around Quinn's tombstone, Wade kissing the man she saved.
Lucky it is all a dream. It seems that Quinn is fine. He was out more or less for 3 days. They got the bullet out of him. The man who slide with them is the one who saved Quinn's life and asked Wade to stay. She said no and he took off. The vortex opens and they slide. A weird hick laughs at them. He was in Quinn's dream. Could this mean something? Quinn may be doing better but he is still in pain. Remy looks for a hospital but all he can seem to find are sorcerers. A weird turn for Sliders, taking a mystic turn and leaving the sci-fi behind. It was a risky move but one that I think was smart. It shows the audience that this show can go almost anywhere and still make sense following their own rules. Torme proves himself to be a great writer once again. A sorcerer attempts to do a spell on Quinn to help him and Arturo is not happy. He tries to storm in to help Quinn but the deed is done. The sorcerer tells them he can't do anything about the bullet but he only could get rid of the headache. The bill is way to high for any of them to pay. The sliders run out on the bill. He swears to put a curse on them. The sliders are relaxing in the hotel room when Remy let's out a scream. There is a honest to god skeleton taking up shelter in there. I mean it isn't a life or anything but it is still weird. Some one sneaks up towards the room. Arturo opens the door allowing what looks like a grim reaper to enter the room. He points towards Quinn and gives him a summons. He is being sued. The sorcerer doesn't want to be paid anymore, he now wants Quinn's brain to pay the bill. The lawyer they got isn't giving them much hope. It seems that demon bounty hunters are on the hunt for him now. The sliders are in deep trouble. They need to find The Sorcerer! OK so to differentiate between the two we will call the man who is after Quinn the wizard now on. The sliders go to meet a card reader and she tells them that they need the sorcerer because he has the power to slide between worlds and can send them home. Could this be what they have been looking for? Could their journey be coming to an end? Our favorite cab driver from all the different dimensions drive the sliders to the sorcerer's house. They have to cross over a tiny bridge, it is the only way to the house. Remy is scared out of his mind where as Quinn seems to have more energy than he has had in a while. At least until he almost falls, that changes everything. It turns out that the missing part of the bridge is just a trick to make people think that there is nothing there but it really is. They make it across just fine. They make it inside the house and it is huge. Beyond big. The gang is left waiting to meet the sorcerer. Arturo can't stand this world or the views of its people. The hick's double tells them that they have to leave. The sorcerer has no time for them. He orders them to removed from the house but Quinn yells out that they are sliders and a voice demands to see them. The slider's are lead to the sorcerer himself. The sorcerer shows up as a giant hologram talking to the Sliders. It is all right out of Oz. He tells them that he is the master of the vortexs and can send them home if they prove to be friends. In exchange for helping them he demands they steal from the wizard for him. Arturo wants no part of it, he wants no part of any of this. He wants to spend the next 11 hours till the slide to hide. A bounty hunter captures them, not just any bounty hunter but one played by the great actor Phil Fondacaro in his first role on the show. He takes them back to the wizard. They manage to escape and find plans for a sliding machine. This is what the sorcerer wanted them to steal. Remy knocks out the wizard as they escape once again. They take the plans back to the sorcerer. The sorcerer sends them away after taking the plans but Quinn takes them back and goes running to the office while the others stop the aid. The guards storm into the room with Quinn and the hologram. Quinn runs and finds a room with one of his doubles running the machine. This episode is very much wizard of oz. The first of many episodes that parodies movies. Some are better than others. This one is very good. The sorcerer finds out that his aid sold his plans and has double crossed him. He has him sent out. The sliders meet with the sorcerer as he works on the timer. The sorcerer is in fact a slider, he slides to other worlds and buys goods to bring back to this world. It seems that the wizard wants the tech so that he can steal the market share. This Quinn wants to live his life for himself now just like our Quinn. The last act he wants to do for others is helping them home. This Quinn finishes his work on the timer and gives it back to the sliders. They open the vortex and jump through saying goodbye to the sorcerer. The sliders end up outside Quinn's house. Are they home? To the fence to decide! They only have 53 seconds to decide. All the stuff that has happened in the last few months and the fact that the fence doesn't make a sound convinces them that it is the wrong world. They open the vortex and slide off world. No sooner does the vortex close when Quinn's mom walks out with the gardener who tells her that he fixed the gate so that it won't make a sound anymore. It turns out that our heroes were home and slide away all because the damn gardener had to go and fix the gate. Now that is great story telling. Letting your heroes get so close to the finish line and pulling out the rug from them. It let's you think that an ending is possible. They can make it home. They just need to do it one more time Just one more reason I love this show so much!!!! Welcome to the episode written by the co-host of Children of Tendu, http://childrenoftendu.libsyn.com/ , Jose Molina. If you want to work in TV you should check that podcast out. It is really good and they give you tons of information about the art of written for the small screen.
The start of the episode kicks off in Russia where we learn the origins of the Black Widow program. Dottie Underwood is one of these girls. Jarvis tries to talk Carter into going back to help Howard who she wants no part of. He points out how none of her co-workers like her or respect her. She says she will make them. She gets back to the office and everyone is trying to figure out how to decode a message written in code. The professional decoder couldn't figure it out and Carter walks in and does it in no time flat. Proving her worth, but Thompson doesn't want to give her any props. She puts herself on the mission. Thompson tries to get Carter kicked off the team but she proves that she knows more about war than he does. She has been through world war 2, none of them have. She tells them she can 107th Regiment to lead the team. Now the 107th for those of you at home is what the MCU calls Howling Commandos. She gets them to agree to let her on the time. Thompson sends Sousa to get something out of his locker, in a mean trick to get him to see Carter undressed. It works but has an added side-effect. He sees a mark on her back, the same one that the blonde has in the picture. He now suspects her. On the plane before the jump Carter tries to clam Thompson down but he doesn't want to take her help. She is a lot cooler under pressure than he is. They run into Dum Dum and the rest of the Howling Commandos who right away they put Thompson in his place and elevate Carter above the rest of them. The team that Thompson and co respect above all others respect Carter above all others. That doesn't sit well with them, as well it shouldn't. It should show them her worth. While everyone is chilling around the fire they ask Thompson about the Navy cross. He tells them he fell asleep on duty and wakes up to the Japanese sneaked into camp and he woke up just in time to kill them all before they could kill his CO. Back in the States, Sousa looks into Carter and the blonde lady while the chief is looking into more information on the battle and Stark. The reporter he talks to tells him that it is a railroad against Stark but the chief doesn't want to believe it. Thompson gives orders but the Howling Commandos ask Carter what she wants to do and she changes the orders. Thompson agrees but you can tell he isn't happy about it. Carter and her team get in and we see that they are in the school from the beginning. The one that trains Black Widows. A little girl crying draws them into another room where a lone girl sits crying. She stabs Dum Dum before taking off and hiding in a hole in the wall. He is fine, lucky his vest saved him. One of the team did die in her escape. Sad day for the Howling Commandos. Carter takes charge. The chief comes to talk to Jarvis. The chief tells him that Howard has a lot of people after him, including an Army General. The chief says that he doesn't want to be part of a witch hunt. He wants to hear the truth and he gives Jarvis a phone number to call to get a hold of him. Carter and co find people in a cell and free them. Meanwhile back in the states, this eras Black widow breaks into Carter's room and starts going through her stuff. She finds some pictures of Stark's weapons, one of which she takes. The team start asking questions of the men in the cells, turns out one of them is an engineer. They are trying to make the man build Stark's weapon. It turns out that Howard is not here, just plans for his weapons. They misunderstood. They get the prisoners out of the cage and run as the Russians move in on them. The engineer tries to sell out the Americans and his co-prisoner tries to talk him out of it before Carter just shoots him. Thompson freezes up and Carter has to keep them all alive while they wait for Dum Dum to show up and give them an exit. Carter has to all but drag Thompson out who had a breakdown on the battlefield. The man who told Carter she couldn't handle war proved he was the one who couldn't handle it. The team escapes, Carter is the last one on board because she wanted to make sure everyone else made it safe. She is a hero. The Howling Commandos invite Carter to join them, they would call her Lady Union Jack. Now Union Jack is a Marvel hero named Joseph Chapman. She tells them that she has to go back home and prove to everyone that Stark is innocent. It seems she is back on the case. Thompson tells Carter the truth, the Japanese didn't try to kill his CO, they came to surrender but he didn't listen and buried the white flag to hide the truth. Carter comforts him. Dottie still sleeps handcuffed to a bed. Showing us that she is one of the little girls from the start of the episode. Thompson gives Carter her props and she gives Thompson some props that he didn't deserve. The man they brought back to the states has agreed to help them with whatever they need. For the first time ever Carter is invited out with the guys. Sousa stays behind, he has too much on his mind. He doesn't want to believe Carter is the blonde. Such a great show!!!! I've had the most crazy of weekends and got next to no work done. The entertainment news and reviews went down for a while. I'm really hoping tonight I'll have some time to get back to work and get everything on track the way it is supposed to work.
This weekend was a blast. Sometimes it is fun to blow off work and enjoy yourself. Its something I don't do nearly enough, something that I wish I could do more often. I spend so much of my life going after what I want in life and sometimes I forget to enjoy the little moments. This weekend was all about the little moments and I'm glad I had them. So like with Firefly and Sliders Fox aired some of this show out of order as well. Episode 5 has to go before episode 4 because in episode 4 we know who Lilith is and we meet her for the first time in episode 5. This episode was written by Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster.
We start on a ship full of guys who throw another person down into the lower decks to be eaten by something that is not human. Herc, Iolaus and Jason are enjoying their lunch when they see a girl enter the academy. Jason and Iolaus start to fight over her, it is almost as if a girl has never been in the academy before but in the movie that started this series they had a girl join, Yvenna. Iolaus knocks out the man who was supposed to find a new cook and so Cheiron sends the 3 friends to Athens to go find them one. Iolaus talks the guys into hiring a boat because it will get them there and back faster. Iolaus gets them jobs working the deck of a boat where they are ordered to avoid the cargo hold. Something dangerous is in there and Iolaus wants to find out what. He always gets the others into trouble, it is almost his duty. While everyone else is sleeping he steals the keys to the cargo hold and opens it. Herc wakes up just in time and wakes Jason up as well so they can stop him. Too late, Iolaus opens it and it sets off an alarm that wakes everyone up. I like how the whole crew was sleeping during the day. Now Iolaus, Jason and Herc have to fight the rest of the crew who wants their heads. The three friends end up in cargo hold and get locked in by the crew. It seems that they will finally find out what is down there. It seems the crew has a group of Amazons prisoner down there. The Amazons tell them that they don't hurt boys and that is why they haven't done anything to them. Their leader, Cyane tells them they are taking over the ship. She tells them she is in charge and Hercules points out that without them they can't do anything. They come to an uneasy truce. Cyane tells Hercules that they don't hate men, they just live without them. This is the Telaquire tribe and that there are 12 tribes in all. They hate Centaurs because of the great war. She also tells Hercules that Zeus is the one who tricked her people into becoming slaves. He doesn't want to believe it. They ready their attack just as the people above spot land. Iolaus tries to trick the people above but they spot him and pull him out. Hercules uses this moment to lead the Amazons out of the hold and into battle. It isn't long before they take the ship. Hercules saving Cyane's life at the last minute, before the two of them team up to take out the captain. They get off the ship and go their own ways but not before Iolaus messes up a kiss between Cyane and Hercules. This whole adventure teaches the 3 of them an important lesion that woman can be just as great a warrior as any man. Something they all needed to learn. Season 1 of Buffy is over but it is not yet time for season 2 of Buffy. In the meantime we have the events of Europe to deal with. In particular the reason that Spike and Drusilla show up in Sunnydale this season. Written by Drew Goddard himself. A great writer for such an important story.
This book tells the story of Prague and what happened to Drusilla that made the two of them flee to Sunnydale to try and help her. In this story she is captured and Spike is beaten and almost staked before being thrown off a bridge. He wakes up to find that Dru is gone. She wakes up tied to a chair that slowly puts spikes into her arms and legs. It is a device that is made to cause pain for vampires that they won't forget or get past. It is made so that the pain will stick with them for all time. Meanwhile elsewhere Spike fights his way through the mad doctor's men. Trying to find out how much information as he can to lead him to Dru so he can save her. The pain is driving her crazy, not hard since it is Dru and Angel made her crazy long ago. The mad doctor thinks that he may have pushed Dru too far so he gets ready to stake her but this is when Spike crashes in and saves her while killing the doctor. Dru is badly hurt and their only hope is in Sunnydale. Spike looks forward to killing his third slayer. This is a great story that sets up all of season 2. On top of that it is written by Drew Goddard, what could be better? Read it now! |
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