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

you barreled through those!

Walter was on Good Wife a couple of weeks ago!

final disc of this showing up tonight. this show turned out to be really really good i think. the black umbrella episode was great, w/all the password stuff slyly hidden in the periphery of scenes (animated frog, painting of weird dog on the storage wall etc.)

I love coming across episodes of this show while I'm randomly surfing channels - now watching the one where Lincoln gets infected by the flying porcupine thing. He and Walter are hilarious - they should have had more scenes together.

Not having had cable at the time, have the Season 5 box set at home unwatched. Part of the viewing delay is the time commitment, but suspect the majority of it is not wanting to admit the show's over.

But fring wasn't on cable

Yes he was, AMC as a matter of fact

Ok, so the final stretch of eps was on Netflix for about a week and now they're gone. What gives?

ha

One of my faves is still the Peter Weller time travel one. Writers must have thought so, too, with the callback it got

― mh, Sunday, January 20, 2013 8:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

found myself thinking abt this guy the other day, figured it meant i should re-screen from day 1

I've been thinking about this show lately and how unfairly expensive getting all the seasons on BR/DVD is. Is there a whole-series box in the works/available?

Fringe: The Complete Series 1-5 Blu-Ray and DVD, Amazon UK and US:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fringe-Complete-Season-Blu-ray-Region/dp/B008HE9PUC
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fringe-The-Complete-Series-DVD/dp/B008HE9PGG

http://www.amazon.com/Fringe-Complete-Blu-ray-Various/dp/B00B5AAW9I
http://www.amazon.com/Fringe-Complete-Various/dp/B00B6OEC5S

Wow~~~~

huh, well, it's all on streaming services now, do I justify it by saying that might not always be the case and there's the small possibility I'd watch some extras/commentary?

I started watching last week and I'm now halfway season 2 - so far, I'd say no, the DVD's aren't worth it for the extra material. It's mostly "look at this one scene, aren't our stunt/FX guys/writers the greatest?", some cut scenes that only make you think, yeah, that wasn't necessary for the story at all, and a gag reel that's just like all other gag reels ever.

Meanwhile, Season 1 was great - it all ties together, but Season 2 is, right now, kinda disappointing in an X-Files kind of way (they've started with these monster/virus/ghost-of-the-week episodes that don't have any connection to the main story arc anymore and while these are ok in a character development sense, it's very meh because I want to know what's going on with the bigger story right now.)

but about what I said: YMMV, obviously:

The best episodes were those that fleshed out characters while doing a solid monster of the week

― mh, Monday, January 21, 2013 3:09 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have you seen the series before, Stan? Because my reaction (and I think most viewers') have reversed the season 1/season 2 preferences.

I ordered the set, just so I can bawl over watch "White Tulip" a billion times.

No, I hadn't seen any of it. At the start of season 3 now, intrigued + happy that everything seems to revolve around the main story arc(s) again.

Season two, I just don't know, it felt like they were unprepared for the renewal (let's stretch/delay telling Peter his big secret for 12 episodes and throw in a couple of musical/40s noir/monster episodes that don't have any connection to the main story line at all to fill the season).

I felt the same about the x-files sometimes. Even though those sewer worm dude/Scully gets a tattoo type episodes can be nice, I wanted to know what was going on with Mulder's sister, the black oil thing, the shape-shifting bounty hunters, the super soldier stuff, etc)

So you're the one who wanted to know about the Super Soldiers

I don't remember how/if it all tied together it the end though, in X-Files. I may have to rewatch the whole ten seasons again one day, I guess. I hope Fringe takes the story in fewer unresolved directions :-/

lol xp

I think there are a couple threads that don't quite make sense due to change in plot direction, but it wraps up pretty well. It's a story about family, in the end, which is kind of where it starts going by the point you're at.

It's funny how everybody in the Fringe team seems to have forgotten about the talking to the dead thing, that could have helped them solve quite a lot of their cases imho.

... and how is there only one alternate universe, after Walter explains how it splits up with each decision we make, there surely must be an infinite number of them? I know, I know, don't question, just watch.

pretty sure there are more than one. That just happened to be the one Walter snatched a Peter from.

and it fucked up the border between the two

(SPOILERS)
there has to be a third they collided with where Walter and Peter time travelled and hid the machine in the past

I think there are about a half-dozen universes explored during the show, but a lot of them are in the last couple of seasons? reallyw as a good show, on balance kinda wish i could go back and watch it again for the first time. season 3 and 5 i think especially. walternate was so great.

Just starting season 5. Seasons 3 & 4 were really really great, but now I'm surprised at not caring about 2036 dystopian blade runner chinatown underworld resistance zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I'm about 15 minutes into the first episode and I just switched it off. Not sure I even want to see the rest.

It's not worth it, no. Consider how bad everything Kurtzman & Orci do is, it's amazing they pulled off season 3. And season 4 could have been good if the writers didn't have to work with that stupid cliffhanger.

given any investment in the rest of the series, i thought season 5 ended up wrapping up things ok, all told. it does end up drawing you in within a few episodes.

About halfway through S1, I hope Walter remains this awesome

He does!

Easily the best character on the show

otm

I was thinking recently about a certain issue of the show but don't dare discuss while milo's watching it.

Spoil away, I was the kid who read the last pages of a book first.

cool, here you go:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqt-HidFSNA/Te8_iLL8t6I/AAAAAAAAACA/QDH543mcl4Y/s400/white+tulip.jpg

Which one's Charlie and which one's Algernon?

Oh I was just going to remark on how we all hated Fauxlive at first, but then she became so much better because we found out how boring Olivia was.

Ha I just remember Oleonardia Nimoy

Remembered

Fauxlivia's bangs 4 eva

oh wow, didn't realize that my #1 celeb crush (Ari Graynor) was Olivia's sister until the Evil Spam Popup episode.

I'm having my own oh wow btw - THIS guy

http://i60.tinypic.com/2ywu98n.jpg

is NOT the same as this guy (from Taken, the Spielberg mini series)

http://i61.tinypic.com/bguxab.jpg

second guy is the 4400 guy right?

and first guy is Human Target?

2 x yes

Did they ever have any accidents with those giant letters? Would think you might hear about them falling on someone in a bizarre show related accident.

Just watched things through from series 3, which means I saw half of that season and the next two for the first time.
Season 5 does look a bit tacked on and might have been better as being something else. It's not as execrable as I've seen it made out, not quite but I don't think it's where i'd want to leave the series.

Gone back to watching the first 2 seasons since I haven't seen them since around 2008, or whenever I managed to get hold of them. & certainly never saw them on a full sized tv since I was using a portable for a long period.
Seeing weird echoes after seeing the later stuff first. Wondering if they had thought about the later usage of ideas as part of the development of earlier ones or if they were takes on things that came to them later.

Fringe almost refreshingly seemed like a show where they had not really thought things out

Except that the final season fell a bit into the Lost trap of probably being some idea JJ Abrams came up with when they were writing the show bible, and the show runners felt they had to stick to it or face the "OMG are they just making this up as they go along!" fan reaction.

I just watched an extra thing presumably from the dvd for season 5 where they talked about trying to make sure there was some level of feasible science behind ideas in the show.

Also saw another where they were talking about maybe doing a film in a couple of years, which I don't think I've heard anything about.

& can think about at least one great glitch in the thinking at the end of the series that would be very central to the whole story but better not go into that if other people haven't got that far yet. Probably find out it's already been talked about at the time of the tv showing though.