And Nov. 4 is almost here! Just would like to say that the worst thing about the two Olives is that I hate her new haircut. Her bangs = bleh.
― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Thursday, 4 November 2010 05:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
wrong
― Dork City (Gukbe), Thursday, 4 November 2010 05:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Astrid so cute this episode. ^_^
― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Friday, 12 November 2010 06:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
so cute all episodes!
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Friday, 12 November 2010 06:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha true enough, but tonight she was superlative. <3
― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Friday, 12 November 2010 06:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I kind of like the last minute twists they pull sometimes. Like tonight. Otherwise it just felt a little filler-y to me? Like the bad guy was creepy and stuff but they didn't invest him with anything but the most vague hint of a personality.
― you're not là-bas of me (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 November 2010 06:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
This is moving to Fridays when Idol comes back. Not sure how to interpret that.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 20 November 2010 01:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
last episode was definitely more drama than sci-fi or mysterybut this show is greatit better not get canceled
― that's a great joke (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 20 November 2010 01:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thought this last ep was really gripping, thought it was great!
― Brakhage, Saturday, 4 December 2010 19:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Glad to have Olivia and Fauxlivia back at home. But poor fake Broyles! (To add insult to injury, I can't even come up with a decent alt-universe nickname for him.) Also liked the blink-and-you-miss-it "Springsteen Station."
― lindseykai, Saturday, 4 December 2010 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
love this show
― whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Saturday, 4 December 2010 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
the dramaish episode regarding fake Broyles' kid is much better after this episode continued Broyles' drama
― ZOUNDS! (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 4 December 2010 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thought this last episode had lots of plot problems, unintentional lolz, in spite of which, loved the scene where Olivia surprises Astrid. (Other Astrid is such an Aspie, btw.)
― leTeReL (Leee), Saturday, 4 December 2010 22:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
caught up on this show again and omg so good. the doomsday device is a bit much but everything else has been really entertaining. bummed i have to wait another month.
― ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Thursday, 16 December 2010 00:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, the last episode about reanimation (the marionette) was one of the best episodes this season. The new snag in Peter and Olivia's relationship has me riled me up in a good way. Anna Torv has some great acting in this episode and I feel for her
― Help! I'm a bug (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 16 December 2010 00:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
her character*
― Help! I'm a bug (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 16 December 2010 00:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I didn't like alterna-Olivia...I was SO glad when real Olivia came back home again because that other Olivia with her bangs and her fake smile was just a nasty piece of work. (I invest too much in the show. It's okay. I know this)
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 00:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I didn't like alterna-Olivia...I was SO glad when real Olivia came back home again because that other Olivia with her bangs and her fake smile was just a nasty piece of work
zomg FINALLY someone else AGREES WITH ME ON THE BANGS. Ditto on the ickiness of Fauxlivia.
When the guy had the still-dead girl dancing, THAT WAS SOME MESSED UP STUFF. SO RONG IT IS RITE.
― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fauxlivia's hair gave me major problems, I won't lie, it's nice to not be alone on that anymore.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
i still like the idea of chicks wearing dark khakis with lots of pockets
― Help! I'm a bug (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
i assumed it happened and i'm not just dreaming this
― Help! I'm a bug (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just saw dead-girl-ballet episode...Holy wow what the...Great ep. Damn this show is so creepy & cool & real & weird.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
And Anna Torv has the best gestures & facial expressions. Economical but she just makes such perfect choices.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
havent read the thread cuz a spoilers but this show is so much better than id given it credit for
i mean it never makes any sense even a little but its incredible all the same
― Hyrule's (Lamp), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 22:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
lane pyrce as hannibal lecter is so far my favorite part
Yeah he is so great in Fringe.
The thing I think that Fringe does best is get you really comfortable with the 'normal' aspect of the show & warm you to the characters so that the unusual aspects, while crazy and out there, don't completely jar you out of the show altogether. It's the biggest complaint I always had with Stephen King adaptations...that in the book he was really good at introducing the weirdness at the right moment, whereas in the movies it always felt like they couldn't wait to get all crazy on you and it just took you right out of the story.
gee, tl;dr much? lol
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
the unusual aspects, while crazy and out there, don't completely jar you out of the show altogether.
yah by the end of the 1st season ive just granted them license to operate entirely outside reality & just wanted to see how far theyd go with ~concepts~ & they go p damn far, really
im not really emotionally attached to any of the characters but the central mystery is really compelling - it starts seeming to be so stupid & formulaic but im honestly unsure of a # of characters atp
― A ‰ (Lamp), Thursday, 30 December 2010 07:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haha, my wife has almost had the opposite reaction to alterna-Olivia's bangs. She was really hoping real Olivia would keep them!
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 December 2010 14:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think it's really to Anna Torv's acting credit that the two Olivias really do feel like real and separate people. the differences in how she plays them are quite subtle instead of all 'oooh, evil twin'. thought her scene with the washing machine was totally great/heartbreaking.
seems they are still hiding the observers in the backgrounds too. there was one to the left of Springsteen Station.
― Kim, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that washing machine scene was heartbreaking
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
i thought this show was boring and seriously derivative when i first saw it (and promptly tuned out). now that i've seen the whole first season i've changed my mind—it's pretty much exactly as entertaining as the good parts of 'alias' or 'lost'.
i was impressed by anna torv's post-car crash 'injured' acting.
― j., Friday, 31 December 2010 02:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
s2 really gets going w/ the olivia in peril shit huh? wonder if joshy jacks requested the writers make him seem like less of a pussbot or what
― ban (Lamp), Sunday, 2 January 2011 06:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok, i officially love this show.
http://www.tvline.com/2011/01/fringe-spoilers-violet-sedan-chair/
― Kim, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Awesome Twin Peaks reference ('my friend Dr. Jacoby from Washington state')
― Brakhage, Sunday, 23 January 2011 02:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol am watching this now and was just coming to post that. so good!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rang a vague (William) bell when I watched it but I am disappoint I didn't catch the reference.
Good ep, dammit want more.
― Fairport Dinkum Convention (Leee), Sunday, 23 January 2011 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
For a sec I thought he said 'my friend Derek Jacobi' which prompted some I Claudius flashbacks
― Brakhage, Sunday, 23 January 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
And a hope that the Master would guest-star on Fringe
― Brakhage, Sunday, 23 January 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Have to say this last one was pretty flawless
― Brakhage, Sunday, 6 February 2011 02:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
It was aight, but this was pretty lolzy:
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Sunday, 6 February 2011 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, I caught that. I think that by the end of this season the 2nd Universe will have run its course
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 6 February 2011 05:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also noticed that the last episode they were conspicuously using Dells in the lab, though in episode prior to that, they were using Apples. Hmm!
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Monday, 7 February 2011 02:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Commercial sponsorship is a tricky beast!
Posted from my Sprint Videophone (tm)
― w/no hesitation (mh), Monday, 7 February 2011 02:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
it seems like they made good use of the mind-reader on the liv-peter luuuuv plot.
― j., Monday, 7 February 2011 06:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sam Weiss!
― w/no hesitation (mh), Monday, 7 February 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Walter draws the line at ghosts; I draw the line at bad math.
― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
I liked this past episode but the episode before it with the ghosts was iffy. I didn't really feel it when Peter and Olive hooked up but maybe that's because my tv room was full of annoying people talking when I watched that episode. I feel like I missed a few lines of dialogue.
What was yalls opinions of that one?
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 26 February 2011 07:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
'i'm compiling some recordings on my new betamax…'
― j., Saturday, 26 February 2011 19:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess the conception of the ghost episode was ok—it wove together some of the gotta-get-past-our-bad-emotions hints from earlier episodes with the war-with-the-other-universe stuff (and i liked how they started upping the stakes on the crumbling of the home universe)—but the execution seemed tepid. i don't know where the weak point was, though. peter and olivia's reconciliation was pretty fast. maybe if they had delayed the episode a bit more, the convergence between the personal storyline and the ghost monster-of-the-week storyline (two pairs of people who can't accept the current state of their relationship because they can't recognize the other as not really the one they loved in the past, one pair of whom notices the other couple and changes) would have been stronger.
i get the sense that they're trying to set up a variant on the story from 'the constant' from 'lost'. which is good. but how long had desmond been in exile / searching for penny before that came together?
― j., Saturday, 26 February 2011 20:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wasn't quite clear from this last 80s episode: is the idea that as she was confessing that her stepfather hit her, olivia was appearing to walternate, or had actually passed over to the other side, and then was pulled back just as the real walter entered the room?
i'm also having trouble remembering what grown-up peter's attitude was toward his childhood when it came out that he wasn't from this universe (as an adult, last season). this episode suggests that he would have had a pretty good grip on the memories of his childhood doubts, but i don't remember them being alluded to in past episodes; is the idea that he must have just pushed them down somehow and that partly explains his character as it is as an adult, or were there more definite indications that he did retain those doubts and i'm just not remembering them?
the last scene between young peter and his mother made it seem pretty plain that peter didn't believe her and just began to play along with her lies, which probably works with either interpretation (peter continued to remember, since he deliberately chose pretense, or peter had to suppress his childhood memories and feelings, in order to be able to keep up / live with the pretense).
― j., Saturday, 26 February 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink