Invasion
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections:
Sliders:
Season Two:
Invasion
Plot Summary:
Our dimension-hopping explorers stumble on ravaged world, littered with graffiti announcing the coming of the "Kromaggs." Encountering the Kromaggs, the Sliders learn that they pose a threat not just to this Earth but to all Earths. This is one enemy the realize they will encounter again...
Note: This episode was originally supposed to be the season finale.
Note: "A Big Bite - 2nd season - Invasion
The Kromaggs have been spreading their dominion
across the dimensions and now they're here to take
a bite out of the Big Apple. Known for their
disgusting habit of eating human eyes, these
descendants of parallel evolution were nevertheless
welcomed when they promised to solve the housing
shortage. Perhaps the humans should have read the
fine print."
"The Ancient Kromagg Homeworld
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, in another
dimension, early man was thrown off the evolutionary
tree by a race of war-like bipeds descended from
aboreal apes.
These early Kromagg's became the dominant species
by learning to survive in the dense forests covering
their planet.
In time, they all but abandoned the dark forest
floor, preferring to live and build in the branches
of fabulous trees large enough to dwarf even the
giant redwoods
The Kromagg Homeworld Today
The Kromagg's forests survived the rise of
civilization marked by centuries of fierce tribal
warfare.
With the emergence of city states, the Kromaggs
constructed spans between the trees to provide for
easy movement of trade goods.
Even today, the technologically advanced Kromaggs -
capable of creating spaceports and dimension spanning
ships in their quest to conquer all earths inhabited
by mankind - continue to live in the tree-top
communities of their birth."
By D. Stuart on Wednesday, May 05, 1999 - 3:00 pm: My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) Time passes until it is imminently nighttime, yet Quinn Mallory and Prof. Maximillian Arturo are in the same positions as they were hours earlier.
2) When Quinn Mallory observes a Kromagg spacecraft fully entering the world through a vortex, he glances at Wade Wells and exclaims, "They're sliders!" However, we clearly see in the next scene that the Kromagg spacecraft is still in the process of entering the world!
3) For an advanced yet sadistic alternate version of our species, you would think those Kromaggs would wear something other than regular military boots.
By D. Stuart on Wednesday, May 05, 1999 - 3:02 pm: That is, Quinn Mallory and Prof. Maximillian Arturo are in the same positions aboard the crashed Kromagg spacecraft as they were hours earlier.
By Gerald Zicard on Sunday, February 13, 2000 - 7:32 pm: Now me,I liked the restaurant scene,where they didn't have any money,so Arturo had to pay their bill with his watch.Oh man,he was steamed when they left;I half expected him to hurl a "You Blistering Idiot!" at their waiter.
By Lee Jamilkowski on Monday, February 14, 2000 - 10:08 am: In respons to D. Stuart, maybe time passes faster on that Earth due to a different rotation.
By Joel Croteau (Jcroteau) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 9:21 am:In response to D. Stuart #1, maybe they spent several hours in the same spot studying the ship. It's probably a fairly advanced technology and not something easily understood in a few minutes.
When we first meet Mary, she tells them that their Kromagg master refuses to learn a homo sapien tongue, but at the end, we see her master speaking to her in English.
By Joel Croteau (Jcroteau) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 10:17 am:These Kromaggs make imperial stormtroopers look like expert marksmen. Several times Our Heroes come under fire from them and the shots do not get anywhere near them. At one point near the end, when they are about to slide back to French world, a Kromagg stands about 2 feet away from Quinn, shoots, and somehow manages to miss by about 3 feet. This is very impressive even for someone who is trying to miss. Maybe that is why they take human eyes, they don't eat them, they use them as transplants cause they have such poor vision themselves.