Fringe!

[jpskewedthrone]

OMG! OMG! OMG! Fringe rocks! I've only seen the first episode and the one on tonight (althouogh pbray has taped last week's episode for me), but I think I can safely say that I have a new favorite show.

I feel all trembly inside.

Comments

[rkbwrites.livejournal.com]

1st Ep was good and this was one was good, 2nd ep was meh.

It's gotten better and I'm happy they're laying groundwork for on going storylines as quickly as they are.

The father's ramblin' is the best part of this show.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I think I'm drawn to the characters and the potential conflicts they could have in the future. My writerly brain is all fired up on where things could go. And the X-Files and Lost feel help as well. *grin*

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

Really? I've found it a boring, bland and determined to hit every cliché in the book, in terms of both plot and characters, and most of the "fringe science" has been laughable. To be fair, tonight's episode was the best of the three so far, and even the central plot seemed far less than fresh after Heroes, itself hardly a bastion of originality, did pretty much the same thing with the character Isaac a couple years ago. I've been sticking with it, hoping it'll improve, but while it's gone from awful to mediocre I probably won't be along for the ride much longer.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much with you on this one. However, I really enjoy the ramblings of the scientist who was institutionalized for nearly two decades. I love how he flip-flops from one perceived reality to another and then his moments of lucidity. "Do you have any cocaine?"

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, I like the characters and their potential and the quirkiness of it. It's filling the void in my soul left by the X-Files, which is why I'm drawn to it.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me. Everyone has different tastes. Fringe, although I'll give it one more episode (haven't seen the third one yet), doesn't seem to be doing it for me, but X-Files didn't really do it for me either, so it makes sense. I watched Smallville for 6.5 seasons and I knew it was terrible yet still enjoyed it. Sometimes you just enjoy something and who cares what anyone else thinks!

[diamondreads.livejournal.com]

I love Fringe! I've been lucky enough to see it from the beginning. Walter is a great character.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I'll be able to catch the missing episode, so I should be on track again by next Tuesday. And yes, they have great, quirky characters, which is one of the reasons I like it.

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

"The X Files" finally has a worthy successor. Episode one made the show while episode 2 was the pause in the shift between first and second gear. Liked both nonetheless. Episode 3, however, was opposite "The Mentalist" on CBS, which shall be one of my many programming conflicts. Watching missed shows online shall hopefully replace videotaping. I'm just waiting for the spoof where somebody walks into one of those floating captions or crashes a car into them!

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I thought about checking out the Mentalist, but Fringe won out by a long shot there. How was Mentalist anyway?

He's Just a little mental

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

I liked it. Think of the premise for the show "Psyche" played straight & dark.

Basically, he's a Holmesian detective, noticing stuff and computing logical deductions but with more compact dialogue.
He's an ex-John Edward type who dumped his psychic TV show and joined the cops when the serial killer he'd been talking about on air killed his family. Now he's somewhat obsessed. Again, watching online will be my answer to such conflicts for now.

[jehannamama.livejournal.com]

Oh you should try seeing the first one. I wonder if it's on the website? It's two hours of edge-of-your-seat goodness!

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

You can watch it on Hulu.com.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I caught the first episode and Patricia taped the second one, which I'll pick up tomorrow. So I should be all caught up by the weekend.

When we'll go see the movie "Eagle Eye". The geek in me is apparently roaring forth this week.

[jl-johnson.livejournal.com]

I didn't care for it. I watched 30 minutes of the pilot, as the intro caught my attention, but nothing after that grabbed me.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

It's always interesting that certain things catch one person's interest and not another's. I never got into Buffy or Farscape or a few other genre shows that found a huge following. And yet Fringe snagged me immediately.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

I really like it so far. Except that I could tell within the first 5 minutes -- when one FBI agent told the other FBI agent, "I love you" -- that either (a) one of the two was going to die horribly before the end of the episode or (b) one of them was going to turn out to be Working for the Wrong Side. DH and I are also having fun figuring out where in Toronto various supposed-to-be-Boston location scenes were shot :)

Woman-with-Red-Hair-and-Freakishly-Empty-Desk reminds me uncomfortably of the head honcho in Jekyll. (And if you haven't seen Jekyll, you really should.) I predict that she will ultimately turn out to be Very Bad Indeed.

Dr Bishop is hilarious. I suspect most or all of the science is on the far side of extremely sketchy, but I'm willing to suspend my disbelief -- after all, none of it is really any more implausible than the stuff on, say, CSI, which depends on criminals' being unbelievably twisty-minded and on police departments' having instant access to (and getting instant results from) all the most high-tech forensic gadgetry in the world, with no attention to equipment costs or overtime pay ...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the "I love you" was a classic moment--you knew one of them was going to die.

I'm enjoying it--except for the giant signage informing us each time we change location.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Of course, I didn't know that both (a) and (b) would turn out to be the case ...

Yeah, the giant signage is ... odd. Like someone got some awesome new graphics software and overrode all aesthetic considerations in his/her eagerness to try it out :P

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing, and then knew immediately he was bad when he showed up to help her look at the storage area, which she was sent to alone. I thought, "Why is he there?" and then immediately knew it was all bad on his part.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It's almost as good as having a ball!

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Almost.

[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

I have to agree.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

After the first few responses to my post were, "Are you nuts?" I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one. Good to know there are other fans out there!

[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

Ehwell, my firm belief is that people are losing their sense of wonder. Mine is still strong and happy.

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

I was beside myself when I saw John, at the end. 'Cause I love that bad, wicked man!

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, you knew he'd be back, on a show that pushes the edge of the science (and falls over it sometimes), they more or less HAD to bring him back at some point. And there's the potential for redemption! How lovely.

[ruthannereid.livejournal.com]

My word, it IS good. I only caught part of the first ep, but daaaaaaaaaaang.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Just watched episode 2 and I like all of the episodes so far. Yeah, some of the ideas are a little old (been done before) but the characters give it an interesting little tweak. Plus, there's that overlying "bigger picture" thing going on with the Pattern. I hope they can pull that off. (Meaning I hope they have a plan for that and aren't just faking it.)