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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
But people living andcwaljingbunder suspended place names... were there ever accidents, like.
― Stevo, Monday, 14 August 2023 06:45 (seven months ago) link
Walking under
So we have been bingeing this like crazy and are now about 5 episodes into Season 5
watching it back to back definitely made everything make a little more sense to me this time around, I felt way less confused by the timey-wimey shenanigans of Season 4 for sure.
some stray thoughts - the Observers kind of suck? (pre S5 Nazification, I mean). Like they're just really not good at their jobs and just absolutely fuck up entire timelines every time they try to 'fix' something. - that being said, Michael Cerveris as September is the ONLY convincing Observer, in terms of performance. Such a soulful delivery and he has such a lovely tone to his voice. All the other actors act like dead-eyed robots. - big Fathers/Sons thematic energy throughout this show, like when you see it all lined up the whole show is really about Walter's love for Peter- Lincoln Lee is still lovely - Olivia/fauxLivia/third-timeline Olivia - how I sum this up to an extent: Peter would bone her in any timeline, basically LOL
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 00:37 (seven months ago) link
also, most importantly While i don’t mind the story of S5 & its quite exciting in its way — it does a thing I don’t like — they AGAIN re-maternalize Olivia, like they did in S1 “oh she’s too much of a cold fish lets give her a kid etc” Olivia becomes much more of a overwhelmed-by-feels emo sidekick in S5 in this very boys-own-dystopian-verse which is kind of a bummer
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 04:21 (seven months ago) link
While i don’t mind the story of S5 & its quite exciting in its way — it does a thing I don’t like — they AGAIN re-maternalize Olivia, like they did in S1 “oh she’s too much of a cold fish lets give her a kid etc”
This was one of my biggest disappoints with the last season; the show basically started off as the Olivia show, and then she gets turned into Lyra in the second and third HDM books.
― The Banshees of Ed Sheeran (Leee), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:03 (six months ago) link
yeah it’s a bit disappointing esp w the September backstory reveal it’s like, ok huh it’s just dudes & dads all the way down then ok good
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:48 (six months ago) link
Yeah Peter even gets the last shot of the show iirc. Pacey gets a proper arc with closure, Olivia gets multiple soft reboots instead.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:09 (six months ago) link
i wanted them to do more w Olivia & the Jones/Jared Harris character! their scenes in those early seasons were so electric
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:41 (six months ago) link
also that observer kid Michael? his facial expression looked exactly like Eminem, could not unsee ithttp://scifiempire.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Michael-played-by-Roman-Longworth-Fringe-Liberty.pnghttps://yve.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/18-lucruri-interesante-despre-Eminem.jpg
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:44 (six months ago) link
my big takeaway:these dads just need to grieve for their dead children & stop trying to time travel everytime a kid dies. also: is it just me or was there some kernel of possibility that David Robert Jones was Olivia’s real father? like a story thread that they may have hinted but never picked up. i was v fixated on the way he said “that’s my girl” after she completed the lightbulb test originally maybe it’s just me
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:23 (six months ago) link
anyway we finished the seriesFringe aka Dads: A Love Story is a very good series & 100% holds up the worst part of the whole series was Peter turning himself into an Observer but even that wasn’t terrible bc the rest of the story was good. oh and Joshua Jackson’s cry-acting is a bit too much, still bringing the old Dawson’s heat lol Give John Noble all his flowers, what a blessing he is to the series. Denethor The GOAT.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:39 (six months ago) link
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― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 August 2023 13:55 (six months ago) link
ahaha stone cold classic RIGHT IN THE FACE
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:51 (six months ago) link
The entire series is on sale in the Apple TV store for $30. Heck of a deal if you don't mind all-digital
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 3 February 2024 07:26 (one month ago) link
Just started back in with this on Max, having stopped midway through season 2. The season 2 episode with Peter Weller as a time traveler, "White Tulip," is fucking incredible. Noble and Weller have a scene together that might be the best thing I've seen, TV or movie, all year.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 26 February 2024 04:27 (one month ago) link
i love that episode so much, still hits as beautifully as it did the first time
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 February 2024 04:41 (one month ago) link