Quinn knew the wrong Professor Slid

[@davidagiel8130]

The only hole in this theory is the fact that after they slid without knowing which professor came with them, they landed in a world with the truth device around their neck that would electrocute them when they lied, so it’s basically implied he was the real professor because they would have asked him at some point.

[@slidersprime5653]

yeah i get what ur saying. that was the intended ep order. the dino world but fox changed it. however, since it never happened on screen, most folks dont consider that canon. thats just thinking outside the box but i do agree, they should have asked him that. u have to remember also by the 2nd season the studio kept telling them to move forward and drop certain storylines. in season 2 the network didnt care if quinn got shot and the creator had to fight to put that in the premiere of the 2nd season

[@nmstranger]

Well you can argue he wasn't the original Arturo as he is shown to have no knowledge of American football in The Guardian which is in contrast of Summer of Love where when Quinn hits him with a rock by accident when trying to hit that Spider Wasp despite having played quarterback in high school. Arturo asks him what offense his team played which Quinn answers wishbone. Arturo states that explains his poor throwing ability. So he went from knowing what a not so well known Football Offense is in Summer of Love to not even knowing what to call the position of QB in The Guardian. You can argue that even if asked he could get out of it. Example: Are you our Arturo? He can say yea he is and tech be telling the truth because the OJ professor is gone so he is NOW their Arturo.

[@XFactor5a]

Well the version I got Dino World with the truth bracelets came first, then this episode, and apparently they don't have access to those bracelets anymore.

[@AmityvilleFan]

Tracy Thromé said in some interview, that the Alternate Arturo slided with them.

[@Tarragon_]

@@slidersprime5653 don’t worry that’s the episode 7 from season 2 so the theory could still work.

[@sirfog8604]

Hey folks - just watched the Dinosaur episode which occurs right after the episode with the good/bad professors. In that episode, there is a scene the professor talks with Wade in the cave with the truth collars. They talk about the world they visited with folks wearing no cloths - they both remember it and comment , and we the audience saw that world too after Quinn slid from the Astroplane earlier in the season. Thus, the good professor slid overall because his truth collar would have shocked him lying about remembering that adventure. I know the writers said after the fact that the bad professor slid, but that simply could have been to save the face and legacy of the great actor.

[@theblackwidower]

Unless... that episode aired out-of-order... Just a thought.

[@krimson4980]

That would be perfect for a reboot. The bad professor was killed and the groop find the good professor and start sliding again.

[@slidersprime5653]

yup

[@paulberken4003]

Group not Groop, Moran.

[@thatsjustprime8096]

@@paulberken4003 It's moron, not moran. You fool.

[@ncdxero88]

With the recent announcement of a Quantum Leap reboot series(Heard it was a continuation of the original series), I certainly hope that Sliders can also have some modern love.

[@Non-religiou]

They should reboot the series or do an alternate version, bring back the professor and Wade, didn't like that they added that Maggie character, Kromags even Quinns brother(Also real life) who didn't exist in his prime world etc, dont know what the writers were thinking then.

[@glennhubbard5008]

There was an episode soon after where the Professor said something about their doubles being indistinguishable from them and Quinn gave him a hard look, but didn't say anything. If the Professor was left behind, at least it was on a world where he would be honored in his ongoing profession. And, in that case, the double Professor was dying and ended up giving his life for Quinn, even though he had tried to steal Quinn's accomplishment when they first met.

[@karlgreene2177]

I think Sliders is the best Science fiction show ever!

[@slidersprime5653]

yes next to the star trek series

[@caramelspice7244]

Im watching the show for the umpteenth time and i refused to believe the wrong professor slid... but in the back of my mind....😌

[@phoenix825185]

I would be interested in a sliders movie 🎬

[@rafetizer]

It's a good setup for future payoff, tucking the good professor away for safe-keeping. I think a single-season with the original four re-assembling and finally making it home would be sweet. The good professor could be the one leading the charge, sliding around to find and recruit his friends to go home. Remy would be the obvious choice for the first pickup. He's always been a supportive friend to the "eggheads", and never seems to have any luck with trying to settle back down anyway. Mr. Brown and Mr. Arturo catch up at a diner, with Remy revealing Wade's fate. It wouldn't take much to persuade Rembrandt to re-join the band, pun intended. Quinn on the other hand, would now have a family. He doesn't want to return home because he's already lost his mom to old age on this world, and he has a family he can't just abandon or drag along. He rightly points out that Wade is long since gone, so there's nothing they can do. The professor has a proposal, however. If they can find the world where time ran backwards, in theory they could leave themselves a message to find when they visited in season 2. It seems they might be able to prevent Wade's fate from ever happening in the first place. Quinn is angry, turning them away to sulk in his basement. Arturo and Rembrandt plan to go ahead without Quinn, since neither of them can bear to try and pull him away from what he's built over the years. The plan is to inform their past selves about Logan St. Clair and the tracking tech. With this foreknowledge the sliders will be able to avoid sabotage _and_ gain St. Clair's tracking technology. They decide that the message must relate to an event that happens shortly after its discovery, to maximize success, and this is a win/win. (only two episodes after the backward time one) The sliders will be able to dodge St Clair, sabotage her program instead of marooning her, and swipe the coordinate software or whatever. The monkey wrench would be Older Quinn having arrived after Remy and Prof to alter their message. Max theorizes that they must exit the backward time world in order for the message they left behind to become part of the reverse time flow - like holding a twig against the current of a stream, it doesn't become part of the stream's flow until you let go. (besides which, they'd have to wait around some twenty odd years) So the elder sliders drop off the message and slide out. Unbeknownst to them, Quinn arrived shortly after them, and was spying on their activities. He destroys the message and replaces it with one of his own, hoping to prevent his current reality from being erased. Thus "Don't trust St. Clair" is replaced with "Take the other Arturo". Quinn can't just let it go with no message at all, because all these events will just happen again, and he's afraid becoming caught in a loop. He is counting on good Arturo prime to take the bullet just like the other version of him did. He knows "evil" Arturo - left behind this time around - won't come crusading in two decades later like Arturo prime did, Wade will still be captured, and he gets to keep his current reality. (his family) This time around, though, the situation plays out differently in "Exodus". This time Quinn isn't suspicious that they are with the wrong professor. He's not aware of the other timeline or anything, but just for reference, he's more emotionally invested in this professor than he was in the other one. Anyway, that little bit more is all it takes for Quinn to act selflessly, though perhaps a bit rashly, in charging Rickman. The professor is unable to get in front of him this time, and Mallory takes the hit. He dies instead of Arturo, which ripples through the timelines. Future Quinn's reality ceases to exist, since he now died in season 3. Wade's fate remains the same. Arturo prime and Remy eventually figure out the same plan, but this time Quinn isn't around to undo it. They leave the message, receive it in S2, and manage to avoid the St Clair trap, prevent Wade's horrific fate, and eventually, get home. (by end of season, as their current older selves) The epilogue would see everyone reuniting with their now much older families. Quinn has dinner with his mom. Rembrandt goes to a jazz dive to get a feel for the vibes of a world he hasn't seen in decades. Arturo goes to sit by himself in the park, pondering what to do now, how much to information to divulge to the public. Wade is regaling her sister's college-age children with tales of sliding adventures. As a lead-in for another series, this could also be where Wade's niece/nephew and a friend or two sneak in and get themselves lost on a slide. Being temporarily unable to go after them, and also probably rather exhausted after _finally_ making it back home, the sliders would exchange slightly annoyed looks. Quinn explains that he can whip up another timer, but it'll likely take a few weeks to order a few of the more rare components. Wade pipes up with, "You know what, they're smart kids, and we just got back. Let's take a minute to appreciate the ground under our feet actually being _home."_ She walks out into the back yard and sits down on the ground. Quinn sits down next to her, and they both lay back onto the grass, looking up at a clear night's starry sky. Okay so that' probably a lot cheesier than it sounded in my head. Might still be better than the latter half of season 3.

[@slidersprime5653]

true

[@davidagiel8130]

The original timer could return back to the previous world, it’s just they had to start the timer early because of the tornado in the ice world, that’s what put them in a random spin. The Egyptian timer had the ability to store coordinates in its memory, not just the previous world.

[@olympicnut]

The Egyptian timer was given the ability to track wormholes and store coordinates in "The Exodus: Part 2".

[@mace9930]

"Slider's Domain" Oh sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of the multiverse That started with this college guy and a voyage that was cursed The kid was a brilliant scientist, his teacher Arturo 4 passengers did slide that day would they ever get back home? Would they ever get back home? The Sliding started getting rough, the Sliders they were tossed Without activation of the Rosen Bridge 29 years would be lost, 29 years would be lost They visit many dimensions picking up some friendly folk With Mallory, the Timer too The Crying Man, and Quinn's Bro The sexy girl (Maggie) The Professor and Wade Wells too Here in Sliders Domain!

[@ziejackson6236]

If they were to bring back the show this is how they would bring back the professor by stating that his double slid, in 2010 the creator stated that the double slid so we have confirmation of that, with regard to dinoslide and the truth collars we don't know that that world is the next world they slid to say they had slid to a different earth before, the double may have already quelled their concerns and even if not I believe he his smart enough to craft an answer that is truthful enough to convince them without setting off the collar, I also think people forget that quinn, remy and wade would want the double to be their arturo (knowing that if they found out he wasn't there wasn't anything they could do about it) they were most likely desperate to believe any answer they got that didn't set off the shock collar as confirmation that the double was there arturo, for fear of facing the truth so they buried their concerns and continued on and the more the double behaved like their arturo the easier it was to shake off doubles and they were most likely frightened to bring it up

[@nmstranger]

or all the returning Characters are just doubles on another Earth

[@sirfog8604]

Thanks for the video! Thinking the original writer knew shit behind the scenes was starting and J.R. Davis was vocal about the direction of the show. Therefore, this story of switching professors left an open ended character back door to saying that ‘well, it might not be our professor that went through getting sick and then getting shot’. Thus, it’s up to us I believe at the end. However, this leads to us now getting a reboot in the works and this story line can certainly connect easily to starting the new show. We will see! Slide on man!!

[@slidersprime5653]

totally and thanks

[@sirfog8604]

@@slidersprime5653 hello sir - just watched the Dinosaur episode which occurs right after the episode with the good/bad professors. In that episode, there is a scene the professor talks with Wade in the cave with the truth collars. They talk about the world they visited with folks wearing no cloths - they both remember it and we the audience saw that world after Quinn slid from the Astroplane. That specific episode occurred before the good/bad professor episode. Thus, the good professor slid overall because his truth collar would have shocked him lying about remembering that adventure. I know the writers said after the fact that the bad professor slid, but that simply could have been to save the face and legacy of the great actor.

[@slidersprime5653]

lol u dont have to call me sir, im not that old yet. lol i hit the big 4-0 next year. yeah u bring up a really good point. ive wonder that myself. i also wondered why they didnt just ask him if he was the real one or not but it was part of the mystery. however, u have to remember a very important thing...good professor said that bad professor read wade's diary and wade was very detailed. so thats how he knew about naked world, just like he did about good prof. meeting his dead wife. sorry it took me so long to reply, i been busy on my other channel

[@sirfog8604]

@@slidersprime5653 lol - we are the same age - very cool that you just wrote and I’m about to watch a season 3 episode before bed - that makes sense about the diary. Also, there was a detail that in Dino world the professor got potentially quietly shocked after a comment which I forgot at the moment but it shows his face in pain and a noise like a shock. It’s a small detail. Also, at the end of season 2, before they slid, it looked like the bad prof. Was apologizing for being so bad as a double - slide on man!

[@classicstorm]

I thought they slide with the wrong one because at the end he was like oh no or something implied that the fake one went but they never said anything after just like when Q was shot at the end of season one and they slide with that guy and season two they brushed it off…

[@FalcOHNO]

I've always just hoped the wrong one slid. But there are too many moments where the professor risked his own life to save the Sliders. I want to believe that the real Maximilian is still alive, but i don't see the double would put his own life on the line for the others.

[@slidersprime5653]

people change. after going from world to world and interacting with so many others and the group of sliders, probably reached his heart

[@jesselockwood8958]

Quinn Prime slid without a functioning timer as evidenced by the incomplete equation on the chalkboard. He is not even from the world where he meets the other Quinn in the first episode (we'll call that guy Quinn Arrogenses) - So the Arturo, Wade, and Rembrant that he slid with halfway through the first episode - those are not people from his original world. HE NEVER, EVER MADE it back - he just slide into a very similar world where that Quinn slid out also without completing the timer equation. Quinn Arrogenses just assumes that's the original Quinn from that world, because... well, arrogance - completes the equation for him, and that cements Quinn Prime's belief that he's on his primary world once he meets him. Someone hold my beer.

[@XFactor5a]

Ok let's put it this way the scene in the basement, the tied up Professor was all sweaty and a mess, and very agitated which is consistent for someone chained up for days, while the one that came to confront them and has the timer, was clean and calm. Later when he claims to be the real one, his eyes look away for a few seconds before claiming to met his late wife and made an A-Bomb, info he got from Wade's published diaries, the fact that his eyes wandered and he paused indicates he's lying and trying to come up with a quick excuse to convince the others. So the real one is the one chained in the basement. Later during the fight between both Professors, the both get messed up so they couldn't see the physical difference. But there is a difference. Since after they freed the real Professor and he KO'd the doppleganger, it was stated there was only 17min to slide, the Sliders rush to Quinn's house to say goodbye to their doppleganger's family. It's reasonable to assume the real Arturo must stink like hell and not had enough time to get cleaned up. They could've used that to tell which one was the real one. So the Fake Prof or Prof2's reason for sliding now is to either find a world with a cure for his illness or just experience sliding before he dies. Regardless he's not evil or bad, he did give his life for Quinn.

[@Thespeedrap]

I knew myself that why did they have 2 Professors and the one who beat the other probadly was the real they left behind.The bad one did get killed so hopefully the good one returns in the reboot.

[@classicstorm]

Are they really rebooting and with the same cast?…

[@Thespeedrap]

@@classicstorm That's what I heard I hope it's true given to how 📺 really sucks nowadays with this reality crap.

[@Thespeedrap]

@@classicstorm Last I heard

[@slidersprime5653]

jerry wants to but there havent been any word on it since, he tried. he said he has to find out who has the rights, if that owner doesnt want to give the rights up then no go

[@slidersprime5653]

im so sick of reality tv. i havent watched a reality show in years. only problem i have with newer shows is a lot of them dont know how to write anymore or be creative. that i know what you did last summer tv series i hate to death

[@traverserred]

One way they could Reboot the show is starting out with that young Quinn when hes older. He didn't invent the slider tech till he was older because Quinn changed his future. We could start out with old Quinn as a collage professor, inventing the Sliding machine then accidentally pulling some of his students in with him.

[@slidersprime5653]

thats what confusing about this show. they say that slider is never time travel. yet in season 4 and 5 had time travel elements in two of their eps.

[@slidersprime5653]

now is the perfect time for sliders to be rebooted or given a season 6 cuz the multiverse is bigger than ever in works of on screen fiction

[@nmstranger]

@@slidersprime5653 You can argue that Sliding isn't about time travel. It can be argued that it is just the effect of the Special Theory of Relativity. The Special Theory of Relativity in regards to time causes time dilation. In simple terms faster you go relative to someone else the slower time is for you relative to that person. Time dilation is why GPS satellites need to account for time dilation or they would be inaccurate quick. So hear me out. Maybe some parallel Earths are going around the sun just slightly faster in some than others or vice versa. The difference in time dilation between Earths could make a parallel Earth be the year 1865 and you can stop the Lincoln assassination or in some other parallel Earth it is the year 2260 and you can say hi to your great, great, grandchild and find out how you died and when. It wouldn't be time travel in the traditional way but in practice it would be. You didn't go back in time in a slide. You just entered a Earth that was time dilated over billions of years of it going slightly faster or slower than our Earth . It would be a plausible and actually scientifically sound reason why a parallel Earth would be in our past or future relative to our Earth

[@BrianAwesome]

@@nmstranger Or that some universes, had an earlier/later start in existence. Hince how some current earths, could be in 1994 or 2094.

[@Caylee319]

Dude, your head-cannon is on overload.

[@slidersprime5653]

thanks

[@johncalabro8710]

I just brought the Dvd collection of the series after watching JoBlo Originals video on Sliders and remembering it as a kid. Cool that you are disscussioning it, I just subscribe.

[@slidersprime5653]

thanks

[@Head173]

I remember at the time I thought the bad one slid.

[@slidersprime5653]

i still believe the bad one slid

[@newjer41]

Most of the things that happened after fox bought the show i just consider a bad dream.

[@jesselockwood8958]

This will help with the reboot.

[@sirfog8604]

Can’t remember, did they ever use the Egyptian timer to go back to a previous world?

[@slidersprime5653]

yeah a few times

[@terminat1]

Slider's, what is your least-favorite episode?

[@slidersprime5653]

i'll do a vid on that later. ive been making vids for a new channel i created

[@idanbjacobs]

For me The Dream Masters as it’s the only episode without the vortex!

[@terminat1]

@@idanbjacobs Really? I like the Gerald character. But certainly overall the episode could be better, and it's really a rip-off (more or less) of Nightmare on Elm Street.

[@STILuVa]

@@terminat1 it actually has one of the actors from the third nightmare on elm street. And also the main bad kid in the episode is the red haired bully from A Christmas story!! I like the episode overall

[@Thespeedrap]

Any episode that deals with the Kromaggs except for the western one.Maggie tight pants song is freaking sexy as hell.

[@Freys_tired]

I'm trying to find that clip where Rembrandt is in therapy with an alien version of his psychologist talking about the fact they don't know if it's the real professor travelling with them or not. Does that scene exist or did I dream it up?

[@slidersprime5653]

it exist. its at the end of the post traumatic slide syndrome ep. right before they slide out of there. however it wasnt a alien psychologist, it was a human one.

[@heathj7794]

Definitely exists.

[@lbjohnnyjohn]

My sons and i watched this show right up until this happened. I was so irritated that it happened i just didn't want to continue with the story. For someone who has trouble letting things go this was absolute torture. I put it out of my mind for a while, but now i figured someone had to have seen what i did. Forgive me if someone has mentioned this already i wasn't about to read every comment. OK here's my thought. The episode before the switch happened, they had slid into a dino-preserve. The professor used his watch (i don't remember why or for what (it's been a while)). I just remember the watch broken and when they left, he wasn't wearing it. At the end of the next episode the professor who slid had on the watch.

[@slidersprime5653]

its been a while since i watched the dino ep. man such a good ep. i dont remember a watch but at some point i will rewatch the show again cuz its been a while since i watched sliders, due to all these streaming apps. by this time in sliders the studio didnt care about continuity. the dino ep aired out of order. i think it was supposed to come after this one. yeah i hear u, its kinda hard to let go of something and not move on. there have been shows i loved recently that went downhill and i refuse to finish the series out

[@pferreira1983]

My take on Season's Greedings is that Wade was feeling insecure because she wanted to go home and Quinn noticing this through her rambling snapped at her which lead to the conversation of when Quinn was going to get the team home.

[@slidersprime5653]

i dunno. he snapped pretty fast with a reply. the reply had to do with the professor and not her upset about not getting home. cuz when he did talk to her about getting home, he said it in a very sincere tone, then looked sad.

[@pferreira1983]

@@slidersprime5653 Remember also Quinn was hiding from the other two the Professor had an incurable disease. Most probably that did it.

[@slidersprime5653]

that incurable disease storyline was always strange to me. that was when the new showrunner came in, the one john didnt get along with. its sad they wrote that in hopes to probably kill off his character

[@pferreira1983]

@@slidersprime5653 Nope. The Guardian was written by Tracy Torme not Peckinpah. I believe it was a way to give JRD something to do as he was complaining about the writing during the first two seasons as well.

[@slidersprime5653]

yeah but they had problems with john as well cuz of the complaining. they even dissed him a lil in the commentary of the first ep, on dvd. which shocked me cuz i thought john just didnt get along with peckinpah but when they shaded him i was like wtf? it was probably written in to show the difference between the two professors. like with the two different types of glasses they wore, that surprised wade.

[@helenatorresgonzalez3885]

I was in denial about that for a little bit. I liked the Professor... funny guy. His double that slid was ill. The good professor, originally stayed after that fight, but he was famous because the bad professor wanted fame anyway.

[@stephaniepage4334]

What

[@Thespeedrap]

Makes sense to me.

[@dashaunharris8449]

It didn't effect the sliders because It wasn't a light from a explosion that temporarily blinded him. He was shot in the face with some sort of ray-gun in that episode.

[@slidersprime5653]

he wasnt shot in the face. im pretty sure he wasnt. im sure it was a explosion and the flash blinded him

[@dashaunharris8449]

Sorry But No it wasn't a flashbomb he got shot in the face with a laser unless Mandela Effect

[@slidersprime5653]

oh ur right. the energy blast went through the car window and hit him in the face.

[@Vince-jk5my]

Here's a simple way to tell who's who. Evil Arturo wore bifocals. In the episodes after that one, do you see Arturo struggling to read or see things? Do you see him trying to get eyeglasses? If so, then it was the evil Arturo. If not, it was the original Arturo.

[@slidersprime5653]

dude the show creator even said the wrong one slide. now the real professor wore glasses as well. they only wore them to read and only to read

[@rlb2k1]

I KNEW IT😂

[@Allangulon]

Thanks for the warning Klaxon, now I'm gonna be evicted!

[@slidersprime5653]

?

[@Allangulon]

@@slidersprime5653 At the very beginning of the video a loud noise was issued and I had to scramble to turn it down!

[@slidersprime5653]

oh yeah. i do that at the beginning of all my videos now to let folks now, their will be spoilers. i do that cuz i dont wanna say it. also who is klaxon?

[@Allangulon]

@@slidersprime5653 A Klaxon is a type of siren and describes the sound you use.

[@ironzion3747]

Great show but after they killed off the professor it just wasn’t the same & I stopped at S3 but the 4 Jerry,Sabrina,John Cleavant had great chemistry in 2.5 seasons & change🔥 Poor Rembrandt left holding the bag!😢

[@carlgreene538]

Nice video shame about the silly alarm sound!

[@shadycnetwork]

Okay I'm only 2 minutes into the video maybe you talk about this. Why would the bad professor step in front of Quinn to save his life thus killing himself??

[@slidersprime5653]

people change.

[@stephaniepage4334]

Will quinn mallory return to sliders series six?

[@slidersprime5653]

well quinn died in season 5 so probably not. now if jerry can get the rights to sliders, as he wants, then he will return in some form. either as a double or he might just say screw season 5 and continue the series from season 4

[@Coolremac]

I thought Quinn was merged with his fraternal double and they called him Mallory (I’m a fraternal twin myself). After the merger, he had the other Quinn’s memories, but later got repressed. In the episode “Eye of the Storm”, they tried to separate them, but they were merged too long. That season was so confusing.

[@slidersprime5653]

it is confusing. i think they said something like he's gone and thats why they cant try again or something. i dont really remember its been years since i see that season. ive only seen that season once and really dont want to watch it again but i cam curious to rewatch it. its so hard to rewatch that season again.

[@jonathanlibeskind7641]

@@slidersprime5653 hi, they could seperate Quinn but it would delete the existence of Mallory. Meggie told them to stop the sepeation, because she thought Quinn would not wanted it(Because the cause death of Mallory).

[@Life-Row-Toll]

@@jonathanlibeskind7641 that's how I remember it as well.