Fringe

[catdad6]

Since we have all these "who watches what" threads

Who watches Fringe and do you like it.

I watch and enjoy it. Once again it seems like as the season progressed it seems to be going someplace. The reveal in the last Finale was pretty darn good (IMHO). I love the Walter Bell character. He cracks me up as much as he makes me say "OMG they did that?!"

Who can resist a company called "Massive Dynamics" which .. well ... massive.  

I like how they slowly built on a couple of episodes. In fact, this is the TV I like... I have to watch a few episodes to see where its going and if I really like it. Its like reading several chapters of a book before deciding to continue. I kind of like that.

[Navarre]

I haven't watched Fringe. I have heard both good and bad critiques on it.

For some reason I never come across it when watching television. I assume it has been renewed for the next season?

Is the tone dark, campy, heavy sci-fi, supernatural, all of the above, what?

[catdad6]

It's sorta all that and sometimes "monster of the week" as well. I hope its coming back I haven't really checked. You need a healthy suspension of disbelief to watch it. I guess that true of everything we're discussing though. I'm very much into interesting characters and their development. I can actually put up with a bad plot if the characters interact like real people.

In this show we have a LITERAL mad scientist in that he had a breakdown and was committed years ago. His son and an FBI agent get him out to help deal with some odd goings on. Think maybe X-Files back when it was good but as time goes on everyone accepts that what the guy says is true. "yes 30 years ago I invented an Oscillation overthruster but it was too dangerous because you could go back in time so I disassembled it and put the parts in various places but now I ... just ... can't remember where. Maybe if I had more drugs... Oooh look ice cream" . There is some type of bio / techno terrorism going on and  references to a smart drug he invented - results unknown.

Anyway convoluted but I like it, and y description doesn't really do it justice.

[Navarre]

Speaking of convoluted, I heard someone complain that it had that "Lost" element where they kept throwing things out there but nothing fit together.

But of course everyone likes to complain and patience is a rare commodity these days. So I take such things with a grain of salt.

So would I need to start at Ep 1, as was also recommended with BSG?

[morpheus11]

The joy of this show is that you won't have to start at episode 1 to really enjoy this show.  There will be some plot points that you might not understand completely if you start watching in the middle, but each individual episode provides at least a small bit of closure. 

For instance each episode solves what caused the strange event that occurred for that episode.  However, the answer to why all of these events are happening is still sitting there just out of reach. 

The reason I dislike "Lost" is the lack of closure at the end of each episode.  I got tired of watching episodes where nothing was resolved.  For me personally, I need some answers followed by more questions in order for me to stay interested.  Only giving me more questions will cause me to doubt if the writers even know the ending.

[Navarre]

Fringe sounds a little more like X-Files then than Lost. Although some of X-Files' eps were left way open-ended, many gave us a story, explored it, and closed it while still contributing to an overall plot.

I enjoyed that. So maybe I'll check Fringe out. thanx

[The_Julian]

Yeah fringe is certainly a very X-files style show. Where it differs, however, is in the overarching narrative that is clearly unfolding as time goes on. I kinda dig it, and check it out on Hulu every time it's available

[uglyhooker]

Almost done with season 1. Man I love this show!!

[Navarre]

The main site mentions that Fringe will have 13 episodes to conclude its fifth and final season. I have yet to watch the series but I am very interested in it.

Now that it is wrapping up, has it proven to be worth watching all of the episodes?

[Gaumer]

The main site mentions that Fringe will have 13 episodes to conclude its fifth and final season. I have yet to watch the series but I am very interested in it.

Now that it is wrapping up, has it proven to be worth watching all of the episodes?

Without a doubt!

[Navarre]

I will trust you.

... Should I trust you? 

[Gaumer]

Fringe on Sci Channel

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fringe-science-channel-328844

[greyman24]

So what does everyone think of the new season? I'm honestly pretty ambivalent.

Last season they removed all of the characters from the setting we were familiar with, and it was...okay. I was kind of hoping this year, we'd get back to basics. But, instead, it seems like we were presented with an ALMOST ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SHOW.

It almost seems like someone tried to pitch a show to the execs, was turned down, and the programmers instead said, "Well, re-write the characters for Fringe and we'll just do that for the new season." My memory isn't what it used to be. Did the whole thing with Henrietta actually happen last season? I don't remember them having a toddler. The whole thing smacks of a deus ex machina.

[Gaumer]

It does feel like an entirely new show, but I think I dig it.

They could have ended the thing last season and I would have been content with the show that we got. It was just great.

I think them knowing this season was going to be the actual last season gave them the opportunity to tell a better story about the Watchers, and its a really cool one. It almost feels like one really long episode the way they are pacing things, and I like that. They are playing off of one of the coolest episodes of the last season that foreshadowed this season, and I like that.

I almost don't want to like Fringe now, because its so different and I really REALLY like what they had done before. But I like this season so much I just can't do it

[Patrick]

Saw one or two of the first episodes of Fringe, but after this thread I am thinking of checking out the series again.