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במקרה היום עוררתם אצלי חשק לבדוק מה לעזאזל קרה בכל התסבוכת הזו של גולשים בזמן...ואני חייב להגיד שהסיבות לעזיבתם של רוב הקאסט המקורי, של היוצרים המקוריים, ובסופו של דבר, הורדת המסך על הסדרה הן מוזרות יותר ממה שאתם חושבים.

שתבינו, למרות שעונה 5 נחשבת לזבל אחד גדול בעיני רוב האנשים, הרייטינג של הסדרה הייתה רק מאחורי הרייטינג של פארסקייפ בSci-Fi Channel...אז למה זה בוטל? יותר מדי אנשים טיפשים שהיו באזור הסדרה....האם ארטורו האמיתי באמת גלש עם החברה'? למרות שאין תשובה חד משמעית, לפי מה שקראתי, יש מספיק עדויות שהתשובה לכך היא לא. למה ג'ון ריס דייויס (ארטורו) פוטר? יותר מדי אנשים טיפשים............

אם אתם רוצים לקרוא על כל התסבוכת של גולשים בזמן, אני ממליץ מאוד לקרוא  את הדף הזה. (את התשובה ל"האם ארטורו האמיתי גלש?" ניתן למצוא פה.)

הנה קטע שמסביר על איך בן אדם אחד אנס (פשוטו כמשמעו) את הדמות של סברינה לויד, וייד וולס.

The beginning of Sabrina Lloyd's (Wade Welles) woes began in late season three" production when Kari Wuhrer (Maggie Beckett) came on board, but it's not in the way you think. When Kari came on Sliders as regular cast member, she reportedly viewed crew members as serfs as opposed to the stars, or as the lords. And Kari treated the crew in kind.

Even though Kari and Sabrina did not get along well to begin with, the major sticking point between the two was the fact that Sabrina was engaged to one of the Sliders crew members at the time (you can see Sabrina alluding to this several times in her 1997 Universal On-Line Chat). One day during a script read through, Kari made a snide comment about Sabrina's relationship, and this subsequently made Sabrina leave in tears to lock herself in her trailer. And thus, Sabrina held up production even though she wasn't totally at fault. To see allusions to more of Kari's attitude, be certain to check out this Night Magazine Interview. Though Kari doesn't name names, it is obvious that she is referring to Sabrina Lloyd in her comments about the actress who allegedly forgave her years later.

Now enter season four negotiations. At the nexus of these talks was David Peckinpah - the only production level survivor from the Fox years. In fact, David had a hand in getting Kari on the show to begin with. As Sci-Fi began to contemplate what they wanted to do with the series, the thought was that the show worked better with the 3 male/1 female dynamic; and Peckinpah was reinforcing this as he could. Sci-Fi finally decided to go back to that dynamic, and they told Peck that it didn't really matter to them which female lead was kept. This is when Peckinpah went to work.

He told Sci-Fi about how Sabrina had actually halted production in season three for a time thus costing money. Sabrina was also at that time asking for a raise (because both Jerry and Cleavant got one). Kari wasn't asking for a raise at that time. Another cost saver. Finally, it all came down to one day in Peck's office where Sabrina finally went in and told Peckinpah point blank "It's Kari or me." Peckinpah looked her straight in the face and said "Kari." And so Sabrina left.

But Peckinpah wasn't finished.  He kicked Sabrina one last time by condemning her character to perpetual rape in a Kromagg breeding camp. And yes...it was solely him who forced that idea. Peckinpah was cited in a TV Guide On-Line interview as thinking it was a funny situation to put her in; and as further proof of the relationships here, Kari made similar comments about how funny the breeding camp scenario was at a chat around the same time. Peckinpah's original plan was to just have the Breeding camp for Kromagg "kicks".  It was the other producers who later gave a purpose to the camp (Marc Zicree led the charge). This is why the Humaggs were not seen until episode 12 of the series...the producers had been fighting Peck to allow them to add reason to it all for that entire time prior."

Did that break your concentration?