Fringe: "In Which We Meet Dr. Jones" 11/11 - Grading & Discussion
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I didn't really link this episode a whole lot it was okay though. The show needs more sci-fi and less love story and drama. They could have left out the whole agent love story part and possibly the jail house interrogation. As a matter of fact they could have cut out the entire trip to Germany. They barely focused on the parasite which should have been the star of the show. Also this story has been done a million times before. The parasite infects the host, and the victims friends/lover/family have to remove it in order to save the hosts life, but they can't figured out how to do it without killing the host that the parasite has infected. This story is not what I would call being on the "Fringe."
P.S. The "fringe" device used in this episode was the worst yet... They have deus ex machina solution in every episode.... Some are better than others….
I will give this one a very generous Three out of Five Stars.
P.S. The "fringe" device used in this episode was the worst yet... They have deus ex machina solution in every episode.... Some are better than others….
I will give this one a very generous Three out of Five Stars.
I kept waiting for the parasite to say "Feed Me, Seymour!".
I like Walter's variations for poor Astrid: Astro, Astra, Asteroid.
I like Walter's variations for poor Astrid: Astro, Astra, Asteroid.
Starting to run out of patience for this show. Once again the ending left a lot more questions than answers, and I was shocked at how little of the parasite we actually saw in the episode.
Not usually a good sign when the pilot episode is the best of the show so far.
Not usually a good sign when the pilot episode is the best of the show so far.
Yet another uninvolving episode. Have I mentioned how much I hate the main character? 
So what exactly was the Observer doing? When did he appear?
I was unclear about what were looking at in the parasite on his heart. Was that supposed to be the lips of a venus fly trap with teeth with the heart in the "mouth", or was it just two coils of a worm with spikes sticking out?
So what exactly was the Observer doing? When did he appear?
I was unclear about what were looking at in the parasite on his heart. Was that supposed to be the lips of a venus fly trap with teeth with the heart in the "mouth", or was it just two coils of a worm with spikes sticking out?
Same here - they cut the guy open and I said "look, it's Audrey II!"
Yet another uninvolving episode. Have I mentioned how much I hate the main character?
I already gave up on the show, mostly do to her and the fact that the show clearly has no real plan or arcs going on besides lame ones.
I loved this episode. I've missed a couple of episodes, but I'm going to get caught up tonight. I'm in it for the long haul now.
I'm pretty much in the same boat, and I watched 'Enterprise' throughout its whole TV run.
I liked the episode and most of them so far but it is getting tiresome they aren't progressing the story a little faster. We know there's a "pattern" and that those involved are planted in all kinds of locations, jobs and areas of life to control or execute whatever the "pattern" is meant to do.
It was a surprise the guy was involved, it wasn't a total surprise though because almost anyone involved with this pattern organization seems willing to go to great lengths to accomplish their task. Of course we have the equally shady "anti-pattern" group trying their best to stop whatever's going on and the murkiness behind them is starting to be annoying too.
It was a surprise the guy was involved, it wasn't a total surprise though because almost anyone involved with this pattern organization seems willing to go to great lengths to accomplish their task. Of course we have the equally shady "anti-pattern" group trying their best to stop whatever's going on and the murkiness behind them is starting to be annoying too.
My and JJ Abrams answer to people like you... I personally think this generation of tv viewer are REALLY spoiled. They want answers now and right now and constantly view spoilers and such rather than just let the show evolve like we used to have to do.
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2008/11/jj-abrams-tells.html
In a spectacularly meta moment, Tuesday (Nov. 11) night's Fringe -- scripted by Abrams and showrunner Jeff Pinker -- addressed the issue head-long. After an episode in which Anna Torv's Olivia Dunham had to fly to Germany to rescue a man from a Little Shop of Horrors-type parasite latched onto its heart, the eternally fresh-faced Dunham got a little petulant.
"But what about answers?" she mewled to the ever-enigmatic Agent Broyles. "We don't know anything!"
Viewers at home were probably crying the same thing, which is why Broyles practically stared into the camera to give his next monologue.
"You have a problem, Agent Dunham," Broyles said, really speaking to the audience. "You're not easily satisfied. You want everything and you want it now. In your mind, somehow a small victory is no victory. What you did was save a man's life, but that does nothing for you. I would tell you to snap the hell out of it, to stop whining about what you can't know, can't control, can't change. I would tell you to get some sleep while you can, because tomorrow we'll do this all over again and guess what, you'll have a million new answers and a million-and-one new questions. I would tell you those things. But I won't. Because your dissatisfaction is what makes you so damned good, someone I'm proud to say I work with."
To which Dunham practically blushed and just muttered, "Thank you."
No, but it's clear there is no plan, and that pisses me off. They need to make the show more like The X-Files, have stand alone stories and then have arc stories, they try to have both in all episodes and it fails. They must realize they can't have stand alone stories because the characters are so dull.
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