also anna torv kicking ass was pretty fun.
― HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
last episode was good. somebody go back to watching this so we can agree that it has gotten better. i mean, last night's, with the german guy (played by vlad from happiness) was pretty awesome.
― dunt renaissance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
this show is great
― my dad has a bazooka (cozwn), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah much better than the initial episodes.
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link
If I want to pick this up again, would it be a good idea to re-watch the first two episodes I already saw? Because I don't want to waste 80+ minutes of my valuable life again.
― Leee, Monday, 16 February 2009 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
You don't need to rewatch anything. They recap everything, and do so too often. Just remember that Olivia mind-melded with her fiance in the pilot.
― abanana, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
alright, last night's was pretty damn good. anyone still watching this, other than people on the dollhouse thread?
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm watching and still enjoying it. I may be way late on noticing this, but has it been a trend to sneak the bald/no eyebrow Observer guy into every episode? I mean, he's obviously been made a relatively significant plot point in several episodes, but I mean just random appearances? Last night was the second time I saw him snuck into the episode. When Olivia and the team were heading towards the building where the reverse empath dude was threatening to jump, the bald dude walked across the crosswalk in front of the camera as it panned across the street.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, they stick him in here and there in just about every episode. also shows up on other fox shows, including american idol and their nascar coverage.
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
looool
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
This show got really interesting, and then I stopped watching it.
― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
They're upping the crazy Walter Bishop dialog, which is a draw for me. This character needs his own show where he does random shit on a weekly basis, minus the detective stuff.
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, has anyone else heard about Fox screwing up and posting a spoiler on their website? I have no idea how long it was up, but the Google result preview for the page had the spoiler, pretty much blowing it for anyone who googled for the show.
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
the bald/no eyebrow Observer guy
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/334676849_47b1bd270f.jpg
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't see that spoiler, thankfully, though with all the little twists and turns this takes I'm having a hard time imagining what the ONE HUEG plot spoiler could be. Don't tell me though!
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.adiyamanim.com/b/userimages/colina.jpg
― Pro Creationism Soccer 2009 (ledge), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i haven't heard the spoiler either. i'm having a hard time keeping up with the show, what with all the stupid breaks it keeps taking, but i love it.
at first it was really repetitive. they'd find something weird, and then it would involve a crime of some sort, and then they'd have to do an off-beat wacky experiment to solve the mystery. i understand abrams wants the show to be easier to follow than lost, so i suppose the formula was necessary to get people hooked, but i almost stopped watching because of how predictable it all got.
now that we're learning more about the characters and their connections to one another, i think it's finally getting more interesting. i'd say the show started to really pick up after olivia had been kidnapped.
― borntohula, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM, the last few episodes have been really enjoyable.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Nevermind, I think it was one of their forum posts that appeared on the front page that made it look like a spoiler from Google.
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
― genei-jin & tonic (cozwn), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently William Bell (Bishop's old partner, Massive Dynamic guy) is going to be played by Leonard Nimoy at the end of the season
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
this is true.
the character was going to play a bigger role, but because of nemoy's schedule, the writers have had to take it down a notch. unfortunate, because that seems like a really cool idea. i cannot imagine what it would be like to see walter and bell in conversation.
― borntohula, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
this episode was written and directed by hollywood superhack AKIVA GOLDSMAN
― abanana, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
wow. really?
well i guess that explains that scene with the stripper kiss. i thought that was mighty outta place for this show.
― borntohula, Thursday, 23 April 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
noticed tht zack whedon writes some of these eps
― genei-jin & tonic (cozwn), Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, i am digging this show more and more.
exactly. also now "the pattern" is starting to seem less like an annoying contrivance (which they introduced in the first episode! why?!) and more convincing even as they clumsily stick the monster of the week into it from time to time.
also, wow, alternate reality! hope they're going somewhere with that.
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link
hasn't that always been the plan? "we're being invaded by SLIDING ALBION!!!"
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
all the good stuff in this episode was nearly canceled out by the window pane that could be played like a record
― abanana, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
"They're upping the crazy Walter Bishop dialog, which is a draw for me. This character needs his own show where he does random shit on a weekly basis, minus the detective stuff."
YES!!! I love Walter. "Who you gonna call?" - *looks mighty please with himself*.
I thought the Clint Howard as Spock bit from last night was great.
― i'm still sick, he's still drunk (ENBB), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, now that I know that Nimoy is going to play Bell the star trek refs on last nights ep are even funnier.
― i'm still sick, he's still drunk (ENBB), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
It was pretty great, but I was hoping earlier in the episode his character would have a cameo late in the episode. There is no way they could have done all that and had Nimoy on there in the same hour, it'd be way too cheesy.
There's some comic series already out that flips between Bell/Bishop backstory and some random Fringe case, but I am not sure it is worth recommending based on the little I looked at.
― mh, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Did I see walter offer someone peak freans in an episode? You cannot get peak freans in the US and it is very aggravating to see fictional realities where peak freans are readily available.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I swear I you've posted about these cookies before on another thread! You're really into them, huh?
You're talking about these, right?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w_BQCHbsRSI/Scf6c3iyuSI/AAAAAAAAAI0/AkIDyHtav9w/s320/peekfrean.jpg
You might not be able to get that exact brand but very similar cookies can be easily found.
― i'm still sick, he's still drunk (ENBB), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, my Tivo cut off the end when massive dynamic lady got on the elevator. What happened next?
This show is great. I'm trying to remember what happened the first episode when bald guy showed up. Wasn't he at a coffee shop by a construction site? The one with something buried in the ground? BTW nice call bald guy spotters and thanks for the heads up on the Nimoy reference.
There are so many hanging plots. I like the fringe physics-science better than the bio-science. Like teleportation, walking through walls, etc..I don't care for Olivia being able to relive that one dead guy's memory, but the déjà vu and Jacksonville child testing stuff is pretty cool.
― Mulvaney, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
When she got off the elevator two masked dudes shot her with something although it wasn't clear if it was a gun gun or a tranq gun or what.
I am still kind of unclear about the whole bald observer dude guy thing but I think you're right about the coffee shop by a construction site thing. He has appeared in a bunch of episodes though.
Holy shit I just went on the Fringe forum and stepped into nerdworld. There are PAGES of posts on there just about him. I want to read more but I'm a little scared now.
― i'm still sick, he's still drunk (ENBB), Thursday, 7 May 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Well fuck. I went to watch this week's show and our DVR up and decided not to record it for some reason. Recorded the other shows scheduled for last night, wasn't full, etc etc. Fuck. :(
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Olivia was on the elevator and got shot. The Massive Dynamic woman delivered pictures of the bald alien to lance reddick and said his appearances were increasing, and "remember the last time that happened". The bald alien then appeared in the lab and told Walter it was time to go.
― abanana, Thursday, 7 May 2009 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
er, i guess i got mixed up there.
lovely final shot to this season.
― abanana, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm hoping there's a good william bell, and an evil william bell who has a goatee.
― abanana, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I was expecting the final shot to be otherworldly, but not otherworldly in that particular way.
― mh, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
niiiiice finale. i have no idea how they're going to live up to what they've set up there, but i'm looking forward to next season.
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
oh snap
the gravestone
― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 14 May 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
nice final shot
solid 1st season
roll on the next
― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 14 May 2009 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Kinda regretting giving up on this now
― massive dynamic lady (ledge), Thursday, 14 May 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
caught up with it over the past few weeks. Certainly far better than the first few episodes, but it still left me a little cold. Enjoyable enough, and the finale was pretty decent without being mind-blowing.
I think moving production to Vancouver will take a lot away from the show.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 14 May 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
u r ghey
― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i haven't watched this at all but thought about catching up with the whole thing over the summer. is it better than heroes? cuz I got off that bus after season 2.
― akm, Thursday, 14 May 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
― abanana, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:02 PM (5 days ago)
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:14 AM (4 days ago)
seriously? didn't life on mars US just do the same thing?
i agree that the ending was interesting, and that i'm hopeful it'll have some sort of relevance in the second season, but my gut is telling me that they're just pulling at your heartstrings.
i'm a bit surprised at how quickly everything is moving from olivia the FBI agent to olivia the transdimensional being.
― borntohula, Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
So many things wrong with the season premiere, but I was kind of distracted so it might be better if I view it again. It might have been all the exposition that's supposed to get new viewers up to speed, but I got annoyed pretty quickly. The entire "we're shutting down Fringe division!" thing was horrible and obviously so much an X-Files rip that they EVEN REFERENCED THE X-FILES in that scene ("the X designation"). Was that X-Files on the tv when the other-dimensional assassin was changing into bald dude, too?
― mh, Friday, 18 September 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
They've got to stop using that dimly lit hallway for all of the climaxes.
― abanana, Saturday, 19 September 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link