I don't think that's wholly unrealistic though. It's a nice idea that you could have four people put into extreme situations and end up closer, and I do think they came to have a natural sense of value in one another, but it's the people closest to you, that can also get the most under your skin. They're under intense pressures, a constant ticking clocking, frequent pressing danger and the uncertainty of ever getting home; that's a perfect recipe for tension. The infighting wasn't anything new, though you're not wrong that the dynamic changed once Maggie came on. She's a very bitter pill to swallow in the earlier parts of her role, but thankfully they do soften her later on and becomes more tolerable at least. There was quite a lot of production discord that influenced some of the story developments.
I've come to regard Sliders as something of a modern tragedy, if albeit unintentionally one. When you think about it, the odds of the story of the original four characters ending happily were, by all rights, incredibly low. Yet the expectation was that they'd manage to overcome them, and why not, it borders on the cliché for a premise like this to end without them getting home. It's dissatisfying them succumb to the greater probability of failure, but there's something about it that rings a little more sincere. It's sad to see the series in its entirety, then go back to the beginning and know what the future holds for each of the original characters, but's it a remarkable sadness; because they died doing what most others would at least like to think they'd do - trying to get home, and make the best of the circumstances they're in, in the meantime.
"Can you... You can cook, right?"
"...Your father seems to think so..."
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