Not bad - hopefully if its picked up it can be a better Sliders (spoiler

Sliders had a lot of potential but bad writing and extremely limited imaginations did away with that. Hopefully this can be much better.

One of the weakest points for me in Sliders is how a cell phone (or cell phone sized device) that is supposed to control the equipment in Quinn's basement can do anything from the other side of the wormhole. How does it connect? Especially after they're lost. Never made any sense to me. The building here on the other hand with a set interval avoids that issue.

I agree that Polly is a great, enigmatic character (or characterS, lol) she's the the best thing this series has going for it so far.

But Quinn Mallory and Prof. Arturo are hard to beat. They are awesome characters that had excellent chemistry and made Sliders something truly special. Male lead characters like Quinn - technical genius, charismatic, brave and mature - don't get made any more. Nowadays they all have to be flawed and anti-heroic, or man-children, or pretty-boys. Usually dumber than the female characters, usually worse at physical combat than female characters, usually... well you get the point.

The cast of Parallels is so-so, apart from Polly. I think it was a mistake to make the male lead a college dropout and dumb brute boxer who can't add 1 + 1 and has no clue what he is doing, constantly stumbling on his words. A loser. And the other male lead had to be the lovesick village idiot, of course. Does every show need comical relief? No. Rembrandt started out that way on Sliders, but that was gradually phased out. Of course we haven't seen much of Parallels yet to make a fair comparison, but Harry and his dumb crush on Princeton-girl (of course, SHE couldn't be flipping burgers or something) does't excite me at all. Where could they take his character?

I would prefer it if they made a new pilot and kept Polly, but totally changed the rest of the cast. The concept of The Building and how it works is fine.