FANDOM ENTANGLEMENT is back for our fourth review of the second season of SLIDERS! This time, we’re taking a look at Season 2, Episode 2, “Love Gods” (original airdate: March 8, 1996 on Fox).
On a world where a biological weapon wiped out most of the male population, Quinn, Rembrandt and Arturo become objects of desire and are imprisoned by the government to be breeders.
This episode was written by Tony Blake & Paul Jackson and directed by John McPherson.
Co-hosts Damon Sugameli & Mike Bloxam are joined once again by returning guest Jan Fennick. She has been a contributor for every volume of the Outside In book series, is the co-author of Red, White and Who: The Story of Doctor Who in America (both from ATB Publishing), and runs the Cosplay Tracks for L.I. Who (Long Island’s Doctor Who Convention), Trek Long Island, and most recently Gallifrey One (in Los Angeles). Her latest project, She Wants to Tell You: The Stories of Women Inspired and Influenced by The Beatles, is scheduled for release this year from kOZMIC Press.
In this episode, we discuss the moral implications of a world in which men are a rare commodity and are essentially used as breeding stock to repopulate the planet. Damon and Jan sure have problems with the men’s seemingly cavalier attitude toward being “ready, willing and able” to serve, but Rembrandt and the Professor seem a bit too eager…until they’re not. We also discuss the eerie parallels with THE HANDMAID’S TALE (a scenario we sincerely hope will remain fictional and not become factual in America’s near future), and the fact that SLIDERS doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to incorporating breeding camps into the narrative. Did we find any positives in this “icky” scenario? And perhaps most importantly: did Quinn become an absentee father? Join us and find out! Hope you enjoy our analysis and review!
Disclaimer: Issues of possible sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape are brought up within the context of the episode’s story.
Next up: “The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy” with returning guest Erik Dreiling.
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