DVD Reviews: That 70's Show Season 7, Sliders Season 1-2

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That 70’s Show Season 7
Donna becomes a blonde… and the show goes down the tube. It’s not that the show was that bad, but the writing just became a bit stale… and everyone knowing that Eric Foreman was leaving made the latter part of the season very crappy as the writers tried to find some way to fill the gap. Eric as a disco-roller-derby-dancer was pretty funny though… Hyde having a black father was far-fetched, and didn’t really enhance the show much… Fez just became more and more gross and just an odd pervert that was starting to become unlikable… and it never works when the viewers just stop liking the main character and he leaves for Africa. Not sure why this show didn’t end with Season 7… that probably would have made a lot more sense, but money is money… (3/10).

Sliders Season 1 & 2
What a great premise for a sci-fi show… Quinn Mallory (My Secret Identity’s Jerry O’Connell), Professor Arturo (John Rhys-Davies - the guy who would later play Treebeard and Gimli in LOTR), The Crying Man Rembrandt Brown and Ms. Wade get pulled through a portal that Quinn is able to create that brings them to parallel worlds… time moves on the same way, but it’s just a different world. The possibilities were endless! The mission – to find the way back to their own earth… In season 1 & 2 they ended up in worlds where the Russians ruled, where the Mexicans ruled, where Elvis lived, where population was controlled, where dinosaurs survived, among others. Some good episodes and some bad ones… they created more intrigue later when Professor Arturo seemingly got left behind on a world and where his place was taken by that world’s Arturo… and then had a crappier storyline where some aliens called the Kromaggs captured and tagged them to follow them back to their earth… these were supposed to be the main villains I think. Anyways, the show was quite good while Rhys-Davies was still on it… (7/10)