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

the bald/no eyebrow Observer guy

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/334676849_47b1bd270f.jpg

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!

http://www.adiyamanim.com/b/userimages/colina.jpg

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.

OTM, the last few episodes have been really enjoyable.

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.

this show is great

Apparently William Bell (Bishop's old partner, Massive Dynamic guy) is going to be played by Leonard Nimoy at the end of the season

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.

this episode was written and directed by hollywood superhack AKIVA GOLDSMAN

wow. really?

well i guess that explains that scene with the stripper kiss. i thought that was mighty outta place for this show.

noticed tht zack whedon writes some of these eps

wow, i am digging this show more and more.

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.

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.

also, wow, alternate reality! hope they're going somewhere with that.

hasn't that always been the plan? "we're being invaded by SLIDING ALBION!!!"

all the good stuff in this episode was nearly canceled out by the window pane that could be played like a record

"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.

OK, now that I know that Nimoy is going to play Bell the star trek refs on last nights ep are even funnier.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. :(

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.

er, i guess i got mixed up there.

lovely final shot to this season.

i'm hoping there's a good william bell, and an evil william bell who has a goatee.

I was expecting the final shot to be otherworldly, but not otherworldly in that particular way.

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.

oh snap

the gravestone

nice final shot

solid 1st season

roll on the next

Kinda regretting giving up on this now

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.

u r ghey

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.

lovely final shot to this season.

― abanana, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:02 PM (5 days ago)

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, 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.

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?

They've got to stop using that dimly lit hallway for all of the climaxes.

I really wish I didn't hate the actress that plays Olivia so much but I do and I can't really pinpoint why either. I just don't think she's very good.

U r crazy episode was awesome.

the debut was pretty cool and thursday's was a good monster of the week thing. the monster was even a little creepy, though it felt like they probably showed a little more of it before the censors got to the episode. i guess it's a fine balance when you're trying to kill a child on television, SPOILER even when said child is some kind of mutant underground scorpion hybrid troglodyte.

to paraphrase the swans, KILL THE C.H.U.D.

Hey there, actual exposition on the show mythology woven into a decent enough episode.

fringe was sick this week

lol i was watching a Lou Reed interview last night and my wife walked by and said "is that Walter from Fringe?"

Just started watching the first season. Seems a mix of X-Files with a bit of Jon Pertwee's Doctor as the not-really-human dude acting as a scientific advisor to a gov't agency.

Everything's shot thru that pale blue tint.

the second season has been consistently good

I disagree, first season was way better. The mytharc is going nowhere right now.

I think the show would benefit from having split up half-seasons as the slow grind it's on isn't moving the arc at all. Doesn't help the Fox's scheduling seems to forget that the show is even on.

Walter remains my co-pilot. Regardless.

Walter is the best.