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.
― moonstone (soda), Sunday, 16 November 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Sunday, 30 November 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
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.
― abanana, Sunday, 30 November 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
About halfway through S1, I hope Walter remains this awesome
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 29 March 2015 07:02 (nine years ago) link
He does!
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Sunday, 29 March 2015 09:14 (nine years ago) link
Easily the best character on the show
― Roz, Sunday, 29 March 2015 10:49 (nine years ago) link
otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 March 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking recently about a certain issue of the show but don't dare discuss while milo's watching it.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Sunday, 29 March 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Spoil away, I was the kid who read the last pages of a book first.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 29 March 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
cool, here you go:
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― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 March 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
Which one's Charlie and which one's Algernon?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Ha I just remember Oleonardia Nimoy
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Remembered
Fauxlivia's bangs 4 eva
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 March 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
oh wow, didn't realize that my #1 celeb crush (Ari Graynor) was Olivia's sister until the Evil Spam Popup episode.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 30 March 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm having my own oh wow btw - THIS guy
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is NOT the same as this guy (from Taken, the Spielberg mini series)
http://i61.tinypic.com/bguxab.jpg
― StanM, Monday, 30 March 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
second guy is the 4400 guy right?
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 30 March 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
and first guy is Human Target?
2 x yes
― StanM, Monday, 30 March 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 24 July 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Friday, 24 July 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 24 July 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
you should talk about it--just say "Spoiler Alert for Show that Ended Years Ago" at the beginning
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
OK, spoiler alert.
Whence Peter if they've just erased the situation that allowed Peter to be saved from drowning. & therefore there was never a September?Or is it that with no September there was no September accidentally preventing Walternate from saving his son, in which case Walter presumably wouldn't have taken him over to the main Earth in the first place. September was about the first Observer to arrive, not sure exactly what happened in 1987. & I didn't notice anything saving the Earth 1 Peter subsequently the point they looped back to at the end of the series was not one they could have got to was it?
― Stevolende, Friday, 24 July 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
that's an interesting question. I think itt we had given up on trying to follow the time logic as it seemed the show had its own idea of causation and whether events in the past caused by people traveling back from the future would still have happened if those future people never traveled back...
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Friday, 24 July 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
Aspirin <3
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― Roz, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
I just found out that when Olivia's lover is a see through catatonic in the early episodes it's actually the genuine actor. Would've thought they 'd just use a dummy. Surprised by that
― Stevolende, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
I've been copying Fringe episodes to my media center computer and was skimming through them to make sure I had them labeled correctly when I had to pause, because wait, is that a future princess of England shooting a guy in the chest?!
I'd completely forgotten she has a brief appearance in this series
― mh, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
LSD MILF, yes?
― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
'do you still like bacon?'
<music swells>
'i love bacon'
― j., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
On recommendation of hearing this show is really out there and good I started watching the pilot. OK so I kind of like it, but also, it is, for lack of a better word, SO NETWORK -- like, just lots of people looking gravely at other people and saying "I want them out of here -- NOW" and "There isn't much time" and "Will it work?" "It has to" and shots of a dude in a mental hospital facing away from the camera and dramatically turning to face the viewer and etc. etc. Like fundamentally the show is not that weird and I want to be weird. Is it all like that and I just have to accept it? Or is there a place in the run I can pick it up where it gets weird and "how was this actually on TV?" That's what I want.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
Walter at his best has some good out there-ness (tamped down after the first season and a half, though) but overall it's less out there than the X-Files at their best.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 29 January 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
The show kind of infamously takes most of the first season before it breaks from the sub X Files stuff. But when it gets good, it is thrilling and, and at its best, heartbreakingly beautiful.
― John Mayer McCheese (Leee), Sunday, 29 January 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
the longer it goes the less networky it becomes
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
like even Hannibal started as monster of the week, Bones-ian team of weirdos in the lab i think it’s just what shows had to do to get dumb studio execs to give them a deal
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
I really loved this, bought the bluray box set, but still never managed to finish the last season (didn't care anymore), so I don't know how it all ends. I'm going to soldier on with the whole thing, one day. maybe.
― StanM, Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
haha, I even said it here in this thread 8 years ago - 15 minutes into the first episode of the last season I stopped watching.
― StanM, Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
So do I need to go through the whole first season to get it or can I start with S2E1 or at some other point?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
suck it up & do the work! imo jk do what u want but its not like s1 is bad. there are far worse things than formulaic ffs
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
S1 is fun, definitely wouldn’t skip.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 29 January 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
the s1 finale was the first big WTF moment - season is definitely worth watching just to get there
― Roz, Monday, 30 January 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
I could tell we had lingering love for Fringe when My wife and I were watching The Last of Us and when Anna Torv showed up we both yelled “Bolivia!”
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 30 January 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
buuut if you wanna cheat cannonically you do so thusly: hazy cosmic jedi (abanana)Posted: July 15, 2010 at 7:04:22 AMwatch theseSeason 1: 1 (pilot), 4, 5, 7, end of ep 8, 10, 14, 17, 19, 20season 2: 1, 4, maybe 7, 8, 10, maybe 14, end of 15, 16 (Peter), 17, 18, 22, 23
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 January 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
The pilot is considerably more dramatic than even episode 2; I think it lightens in tone quite a bit, for the better, so don't give up yet. One thing I really liked is that mythology builds on little moments scattered through S1, and not always the ones you expect, so I don't think S1 should be skipped, although it is a bit monster-of-the-week
― Vinnie, Monday, 30 January 2023 09:44 (one year ago) link
I miss Walter and Astrid together, there were such sweeties
IIRC the third season is fantastic, and then the fourth season goes back-to-basics in a somewhat unsatisfying way. Then the fifth season, the Days of Future Past season, is pretty good again.
That Peter Weller episode though :(
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 30 January 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
We started rewatching S1 and ended up bingeing almost the whole season todayCan report that it is all still v watchable, love this show so muchAlso lots of good cameos: Betty Gilpin! Ebon Moss-Bacharach! Jared Harris! etc
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 August 2023 03:44 (eight months ago) link
Finally made it to S2e10 “Jacksonville” aka LETS FUCKING GOOOtruly this show still holds up so well, i fucking love it <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 August 2023 04:04 (eight months ago) link
But people living andcwaljingbunder suspended place names... were there ever accidents, like.
― Stevo, Monday, 14 August 2023 06:45 (eight months ago) link