Fringe

[HaemishM]

We still don't know who the Observer(s) is (are). Are they like the Watcher in Marvel Comics, just cosmic entities that can only observe and not act? Are they cosmic balancers trying to keep the two universes from destroying each other? I get the feeling we'll have a bit of explanation in the first episode of the season followed by a number of "monster of the week" episodes.

[Ookii]

Fox is juicing its repeats of the TV series Fringe with a new Twitter twist. The network will introduce this week "tweet-peats" -- an on-screen scroll of Twitter messages from cast and producers that will appear during the episodes.

Fox has come up with a new way to get viewers hooked into watching repeats of two episodes of the TV show Fringe. On Thursday at 9 p.m., the penultimate episode of Fringe will be accompanied by Twitter commentary from two of the show's cast and producers.

During the episode, a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen will provide insight from cast members Josh Jackson and John Noble and producers Jeff Pinker and J.H. Wyman. Dubbed "tweet-peats," the Twitter messages will also be available online and viewers can participate and ask questions.

The "tweet-peat" re-run of Fringe is followed by the pilot of the show Glee, which will also get the insight via Twitter messages from cast members. The Glee pilot, a repeat that previewed in May, is aired on Friday at 9 p.m.

[tazelbain]

Glee and Fringe?

[bhodi]

[tazelbain]

Tonight.

[Lucas]

Ready and waiting!

[Lucas]

Surely not earth-shaking, but overall it was a very good season-opener. I didn't have many expectations regarding an immediate reveal  about the "other side" Olivia ended in at the end of last season. Guess we'll have to be patient about that.

Not sure about the new female cop, but she's hot and that's enough for me, at the moment :P

Highlight of the episode: Asterix Astrid making Custard and listen carefully to Walter while looking at the open intestines of the dead guy like nothing out of the ordinary is happening :D

Another great scene was the typewriter one, pretty freaky 

Charlie   

[tazelbain]

Not that great.  Kinda undoing the advancement made at the end of last season.  Shape shifting super soldiers?  You mean just like X-Files.

[Lucas]

Not that great.  Kinda undoing the advancement made at the end of last season.  Shape shifting super soldiers?  You mean just like X-Files.

I always disliked X-Files (watched just a handful of episodes) but I read that in yesterday episode there were a couple of evident references to Carter's show, like an episode of X-Files running on the TV during a scene, and when Broyles is in front of the Washington committee, and they refer to an old "X" unit and their parascientific investigations

[NiX]

Didn't think they filmed in Canada. Neat.

[Boedha]

About that Charlie thing in the first episode of this season: It doesn't make sense right?

I'm mean Charlie ends up with the shape shifter in a room, the shifter take his form and hides charlies body. But then where does the nurses body come from?

[caladein]

I'm mean Charlie ends up with the shape shifter in a room, the shifter take his form and hides charlies body. But then where does the nurses body come from?

You mean where the shapeshifter got the form?

32 minutes in the shapeshifter walks up to the hospital and pulls the body stealing device out of his pocket.  It cuts to a shot of the nurse standing next to a door by a dark hallway drinking coffee.  She turns around and finds the shapeshifter behind her.  Cut to shot of new-copy-lady and Peter talking in car.

[Boedha]

Yeah duh!

But it's a bit too convenient for me, and how did the nurse's body end up with the bulletholes? I don't know, for some reason it irks my suspension of disbelief.

[Tannhauser]

What irked me was how fast he did everything after shots were fired and the others raced to the scene. 

Last week's episode was much better.  It was a monster of the week granted, but it was intriguing and suspenseful.

This show is such an X-Files clone, but at least they had the grace to refer to XF and sort of admit it. 

[Tannhauser]

Great episode for the winter break.  Really one of their all time best as Olivia's specialness is more detailed.  Episode packed an emotional punch that took me by surprise. 

[HaemishM]

Loved the last episode, but goddamnit... APRIL? The fuck?

[Mrbloodworth]

What irked me was how fast he did everything after shots were fired and the others raced to the scene. 

Last week's episode was much better.  It was a monster of the week granted, but it was intriguing and suspenseful.

This show is such an X-Files clone, but at least they had the grace to refer to XF and sort of admit it. 

Yeah, its neat, the x-files exist in the fringe world, been referenced a few times.

[tazelbain]

Damn it there is too much stuff on Thursday night.

[tazelbain]

It was awesome seeing the exact moment when Walter became a mad scientist.

[Lianka]

I loved the 80'sish version of the opening!  Font and music!

Also - Back to the Future starring Eric Stoltz. :)

[HaemishM]

Yeah, the retro episode was fucking awesome, especially the opening. Was the blond scientist he argued with the one who died in the lab experiment that drove him nuts?

[Nerf]

 

[waffel]

Guessing that's in response to the last episode?

If so, I'm kinda excited and kinda scared (since I haven't watched it yet)

[Tannhauser]

Never go full retard.

[raydeen]

Well, at least it wasn't a clip show.

Edit: I think I'm actually going to watch it again. I just got done watching it on Hulu and being that I'm working on a bit of a good old drunk right now, I honestly don't know what to make of it. I didn't hate it, but I don't quite know what to make of it. Goddamn Old Crow was caw'ing in my ear the entire time.

[HaemishM]

No, it was pretty much shit. Except for an interesting bit that bookended the show, everything in between would have been better as a clip show than this shit. It felt like someone really was forced to add musical aspects to go along with this Glee week shit, they hated it and their hatred ejaculated all over the screen and my face. It was fucking awful.

[raydeen]

No, it was pretty much shit. Except for an interesting bit that bookended the show, everything in between would have been better as a clip show than this shit. It felt like someone really was forced to add musical aspects to go along with this Glee week shit, they hated it and their hatred ejaculated all over the screen and my face. It was fucking awful.

I don't know. Watching Walter toking to Yes and then singing Tears for Fears was pretty goddamn awesome in my book.

[HaemishM]

When Walter started singing "Head Over Heels," I had the exact same expression on my face as Astrid and the Kid.  It was just so WTF AM I WATCHING?

[raydeen]

I don't know. I dug it. I mean, if you had to imagine Walter singing the most unlikely song in the universe that Walter would ever sing, that would probably be it. Least he had good taste in music. But then I'm partial to damn near anything 80's.

[Engels]

Ya, it was fine. I guess. I still need my Fringe fix, because even if it wasn't the incarnation of the Antichrist, it wasn't Fringe.

[Mrbloodworth]

I liked it.

[kaid]

Walter in full drugged up mode trying to tell stories to a little girl. That was full of  and some  the singing corpses and the cow with multi colored spots almost had me spew my drink out my nose when I saw them.

[Tannhauser]

Heh I knew it!  Also can't believe Peter carried a whole episode, an episode that rocked.

Preview looks  as well.

[kaid]

[Mrbloodworth]

Awesome episode indeed.

And is it just me, are am I seeing Martha Plimpton from the goonies in more and more shows lately?