Fringe (new JJ Abrams show) : Mad scientist, flesh eating virus, a cow and talks with the dead

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lol that is why he was only the bishop... but does that make Spock the queen?

Pot Leeedom (Leee), Sunday, 6 May 2012 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

Wait, he was diverting the sun JUST to kill Peter? Whoah and also lol

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 6 May 2012 23:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Man the product placement was so freaking ham-fisted in this ep, there was an entire exchange between Astrid and Walter at the scene of the spontaneously combusting people that seemed tacked on specifically to show off Sprint's pay-by-phone tech. Can't we be a little more, I dunno, creative with this shit?

Also somewhat bored with this one and felt DRJ's death was a MASSIVE anti-climax.

mikebee (BATTAGS), Monday, 7 May 2012 03:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

The product placement was hilarious.

I don't think that DRJ's death could be anything but anti-climactic: he's already died once before, and plus, it's the same episode that features Nimoy's return.

Pot Leeedom (Leee), Monday, 7 May 2012 04:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Only half of him crumbled away to dust! He seems to be good at recovering from losing half of his body as I recall.

wan brujo (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 7 May 2012 04:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

nah, that was another version of this universe

mh, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Use Sprint phone tech, immediately die by spontaneous combustion - I'd say that's A+ product placement right there. At least until REGENERATING PIG-BRAIN LEMON CAKE made in an Easy-Bake oven.

Roz, Monday, 7 May 2012 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

LOL

mikebee (BATTAGS), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ok, so what was that?

(I guess Bell is alive, but was the implication that the one we saw interacting with Walter was an astral projection, or some kind of Fight Club dissociative crazypants hallucination?)

Pot Leeedom (Leee), Saturday, 12 May 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Nah he teleported out or escaped to another dimension

mh, Saturday, 12 May 2012 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

The very first time Olivia crossed over to the alt-reality, iirc Bell rang the uh, bell to send her back. Guess he did the same thing here with himself?

The part where Walter shot then stuck a metal rod through Olivia's head was kinda horrifying.

Roz, Sunday, 13 May 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

no surprises in a finale (it was all locked in early to work out how it did) is a bit disappointing. so the final series is 13 eps of the struggle against the past-colonising observers. hmm :-/

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 13 May 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was wondering how much of the planning for the last few eps of the season was done before they knew they were being renewed. I suppose just a few changes (no future episode, Bell dies instead of escaping, September says something about how important you all are and keep wuvving each other) and this could have been the series wrap up.

President Keyes, Sunday, 13 May 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

the thing with olivia dying and comping back was genuinely frightening.

s.clover, Sunday, 13 May 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

er coming back.

s.clover, Sunday, 13 May 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah the wrap-up with Bell and DRJ, considering they've both been the mysterious big bad villains for four seasons, was a bit too neat imo. Suddenly the observers are now the Real Enemy?

And I still don't know what spontaneous combustion, moving the sun and lighting up the oil reservoir were supposed to have accomplished - apart from "activating Olivia" and lolkilling DRJ. Seems like a weird way to go about it, though I guess kidnapping her never worked in the past.

Roz, Sunday, 13 May 2012 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

"Fringe" will wrap up with a 13-episode season that jumps ahead to 2036. Producers plan to emphasize "core characters and family dynamics" over mythology.

Oh, barf.

R=J-L (Leee), Friday, 7 September 2012 05:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

having Lost flashbacks

Roz, Friday, 7 September 2012 05:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

shit that is lame and bullshit

j., Friday, 7 September 2012 05:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'd like episodes with less mythology and more crazy sci-fi shit, tbh

your naïve bacon (mh), Friday, 7 September 2012 13:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

they kind of wrapped up all the mythology--now it's all future watcher overlords

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:10 (8 months ago) Permalink

well, other than the fact they never revealed how/when walter and peter built the machine and sent it back in time

your naïve bacon (mh), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

they did it on the outrigger

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

what is up with the new credits sequence words! suddenly we're in an orwell novel

j., Saturday, 29 September 2012 04:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

well, yeah?

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

well, yeah

j., Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

Same credit sequence as that observer world episode last season right

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 September 2012 23:59 (7 months ago) Permalink

o probs

i don't really remember, what is it the observers want exactly? to drain earth's resources and enslave its inhabitants to drain them? or something?

j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

Dunno

It got so silly at the end of last season i'm just going to ride these last episodes out

But fuck the observers being nazis. Fuck that bullshit, jj

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:50 (7 months ago) Permalink

thought nazis

with fedoras

and CO factories

j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, as lame as that

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

who think music is just noise

j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:59 (7 months ago) Permalink

and have taken all the walnuts

j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 02:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

all the ads about the 'observer' stuff in this show now make it look like The Adjustment Bureau: The Series

the mirror has 2 chainz (some dude), Sunday, 30 September 2012 02:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

I think the deal is they destroyed their future so much that they need a new place to live, so they're colonizing the 21st century?

s.clover, Sunday, 30 September 2012 03:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

ok lol @ the search for walter bishop's betamax horcruxes

also why has no one bothered to ask Etta the very obvious question of what happened to her when the observers arrived at the park?

Roz, Saturday, 6 October 2012 12:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

I don't know, do we really want them wasting screen time with that kind of useless backstory?

I am a witch man, I am a Manwich (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 7 October 2012 05:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

Way behind, watching first ep now.

Thought carbon monoxide machines were going to be some geoengineering kludge for climate change.

Astrid Naugahyde == yay ^_^

Thought the preferred term was Amber Roma.

Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:16 (7 months ago) Permalink

Exposition filling in past details is boring.

ON NO, WALTER'S SHOE.

Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

I started watching the new episode of the new season and was so lost I've had to go back and read a recap of last season bc clearly I was asleep for half of it

I swear this show is so wtf I need a goddamn flowchart. But I love it.

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

I feel you there, like I'd forgotten Desmond was ambered so that they could get... Peter? out. And I thought September was dead? But somehow was able to hatch a plan with Walter after the point in the story where he died?

Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Sunday, 14 October 2012 05:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

God, I think I'm at least one season behind. Was watching it as self compiled dvdrs of d/lded videofiles and just stopped making them at one point. Not sure if it was just that I stopped making those things which I'd been doing with a few tv series or if I'd just stopped making them of that series while I continued with others.
Had watched it through from the beginning that way and got up to I think the middle of series 3, could have been 4. It's on 5 now isn't it?
Whichever series that was that was suddenly quite a bit longer tahn previous ones had been anyway.

Stevolende, Sunday, 14 October 2012 08:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

humanity's only hope!

j., Tuesday, 16 October 2012 00:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

I read all the recaps and was still completely mystified why the new season picks up in 2036...but I guess i'll just go with it.

God this show is like homework now, lol

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

it's pretty simple, they wrapped the last storyline, didn't have anything plotted, and had floated a "fringe in the future" episode last season as an out in case they had to plot out another season

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

observers come, fringe team ambered, they're let loose 24 years later - is there anything else to it?

j., Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

Well that's why I was confused --- I thought I'd missed something huge in the last couple of eps that triggered the future jump

Now I understand that *it's just a story* I can relax

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:16 (7 months ago) Permalink

be patient with me. I'm slow

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:16 (7 months ago) Permalink

'tape 6... or 7...'

j., Thursday, 18 October 2012 05:39 (7 months ago) Permalink

so...

Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 October 2012 00:23 (6 months ago) Permalink


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