Why Did Season Five End On a Cliffhanger?
This is one of the more asked questions since the Sliders production team had vocally stated that they were being told season five was Sliders’ last year (including Season Five Story Editor Keith Damron’s Season Five Journal for “The Unstuck Man”. If you knew that in advance, why would you not wrap it up? They originally planned to. The last episode of season five was originally going to be a huge battle with alot of FX (Damron’s Kromagg resolution he talked about in that last chat and elaborated more upon in the Year Five Journal for “Dust”). Production started pooling together FX money early on to prepare for it (hence some of the obvious penny pinching budget eps like “Heavy Metal”). That stockpiled money from season five ended up being spent on “Eye of the Storm.” This decision came after Executive Producer Bill Dial said he wanted to end with a cliffhanger. Here’s the reason I’ve been given: Production felt like it was ignored by the Sci-Fi Channel during season 5. Although it was
