Fringe

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The sister was acting extremely odd about why she was dropping in.  I imagine it will end up being the center of a story arch along with some sexual tension between her and the male lead.

I just want to chime in and point out that JJ Abrams always fumbles romance and it's notably the beginning of the end of any of his series.

JJ Abrams doesn't have the attention span to keep his projects going along full steam. He's as bad as Warren Ellis in that way.

[Bandit]

Story progressed nicely last night - so there are no episodes till April now? Is there even TV seasons anymore? so haphazard.

[MrHat]

Fantastic episode.  Just enough to keep me curious and the pacing was good.

The little revelation at the end was predictable but enjoyable.

[Tannhauser]

I like this show better than Terminator: TSCC now.  The mythos is developing but also creating more questions.  Writing still very good and I spotted The Observer!  Still haven't seen the gggr sequence though.  Massive Dynamic is back as well.


Consider me re-intrigued.

[tazelbain]

Well since TSCC is on Fridays now, it'll canceled soon anyway.

[Ironwood]

It'd fucking better not.

[Morfiend]

It'd fucking better not.

Has any show survived on Fridays other than X-Files?

[Trippy]

It'd fucking better not.

Has any show survived on Fridays other than X-Files?

A FOX show? Don't think so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_night_death_slot

[HaemishM]

Finally caught up to last week's Fringe. I've been enjoying the hell out of it. The worst episode was the computers melting browns episode, but it's been all uphill from there. The multi-dimensional war is a good change of pace from the expected aliens from outer space thing.

[Brogarn]

Fuck. I guess I need to pick this back up and catch up on episodes. Its starting to sound pretty cool. Or it really sucks and this is all part of some HaemishM evil plot to make our eyes bleed.

[HaemishM]

If you didn't like it before, I'm pretty sure you won't like it now. But it has continued some of the threads from earlier shows and moved them along slowly. And there are rumors that they've already started filming a 2nd season, so no worries about it getting canned.

[Hawkbit]

Might have been discussed here, but I'm too lazy to look. 

I recently found out that The Observer makes an appearance in every single episode.  Kinda like G-man from HL2. 

[EWSpider]

This week's episode was pretty good as well.  I saw the twist at the end coming a mile away, but it was still interesting.  I was pretty "meh" about the show in the beginning, but it has been in convenient time slots for me and it managed to keep me interested.  Since the new episodes have started after the short break I find I'm actually looking forward to the next week's episode instead of just watching it because it's convenient.

[Hawkbit]

Feeling exactly the same. 

If the show gets picked up again for next year, I hope they keep the feel of it.  They don't need to do anything bigger, because it's got enough back story for about six seasons as it stands.

[tazelbain]

That was some mighty fine fan service to boot.

[Cheddar]

Might have been discussed here, but I'm too lazy to look. 

I recently found out that The Observer makes an appearance in every single episode.  Kinda like G-man from HL2. 

He has also been seen on other Fox shows - he was in the front row at the beginning of American Idol last week.

[HaemishM]

This week's episode started REALLY SLOW, but by midway, I realized it was an "arc" episode and perked up. It got really good from there. What is it, 3 episodes left this season? Next week's looks to really open it up.

[Morfiend]

It'd fucking better not.

Has any show survived on Fridays other than X-Files?

A FOX show? Don't think so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_night_death_slot

From that wiki article:

X-Files (1993–2002)
At least one FOX show that premiered on Friday nights The X-Files, although nearly canceled by FOX, eventually became a success in its timeslot at 9 p.m. As TV Guide described it the audiences, especially in the college-aged demos, would watch the show just prior to heading-out for Friday evening movies or partying, and quickly grew from 6% to 10% household ratings during sweeps. Several other shows were paired with the X-Files, including The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, M.A.N.T.I.S., V.R.5, Strange Luck, and Sliders, all of which were canceled by FOX. The show eventually moved to Sundays in 1996 where it continued to pull 10-11% on average, and another Chris Carter show Millennium filled the empty timeslot at 9 p.m.

Bolded part is exactly what I did with X-Files. My friends and I would sit home getting ready to go out, watch X-files and have a few drinks, then head out for the night.

Oh yeah, and I really like Fringe.

[Mrbloodworth]

Might have been discussed here, but I'm too lazy to look. 

I recently found out that The Observer makes an appearance in every single episode.  Kinda like G-man from HL2. 

There is also, more than one.

[Hawkbit]

I'm aware of multiple observers in the lore.


But are there others showing up in episodes?  I haven't seen any others yet. 

[HaemishM]

We don't actually know that the Observer we see is always the same individual. It could be multiple clones.

[Tannhauser]

If we have an Observer does the other place have an Observer from us?

[ashrik]

hm possibly, but it seemed to me that the ZFT was much more of a guerrilla and defensive based organization in response to this otherworldly aggression. Maybe too early to guess at but that would be fun to see

[Lucas]

Looks like a kickass showdown is approaching 

Since the episode called "Ability", I always wondered: do you think Olivia will eventually change sides and join the "bad guys" (well, ok, whatever they are) ?  It would remind me of (spoiler about "Alias", series by the same authors)

[Hawkbit]

I hope they wait till S2 to blow that wad.  It would make sense though.  She obviously had the capability to fuck shit up royally as a kid and I'm guessing she still does now, only it's latent.  The ZFT are actually the "good" guys, you'll see. 

[Hawkbit]

Yowzers, tonight had a good episode.  This might be my favorite show on TV.

[HaemishM]

Show just gets better and better.

My thoughts for the season ender:

[ashrik]

The World Fucking Trade Center holy balls, batman

[Hawkbit]

Yeah, that got me. 

Excellent season.  Without a doubt my favorite show on TV.

My question is... What's up with the alternate world's versions of Bell and Bishop? 

[ashrik]

Here's what I think
I'm really happy I watched this through the season.

[HaemishM]

[ashrik]

I thought he went over to get his wife. I'm very slow on the uptake.

[tazelbain]

I didn't catch it either.  But it makes prefect sense. 

I bet the reason that that Parallel Obama is moving in to the new Whitehouse is because the planes hit the Whitehouse instead of the WMC on 9/11.

I am annoyed with this finale because, although a Mini-boss died, I still don't have a clue why there is a conflict.

[Hawkbit]

The scene in the beach house, where Peter picks up the dusty picture frame keeps bugging me.  He wiped off the dust only from the faces of his father and himself, yet there was another (presumably his mom) person he left dusty.  

So either they chose not to show the mom because it would require too much explaining in a short time or else there's a history there that remains to be told.  Peter never talks poorly about his mom, but it makes me wonder why he never talks about her at all.  

[ashrik]

The whole superior-technology-universe-exploiting-the-shit-out-of-the-inferior one seems to be the set up for war.

At this point, and all other points before this, we still don't know *who* they are preparing for war with. There's still a lot of mystery left in this show and a lot of room for it to grow in. I'm very glad for that, as a few weeks ago I would have thought we were reaching a terminus.