Syfy aired The Twilight Zone episode "Mirror Image" recently which involved evil doubles. It made me think of Fringe.
Fringe: "Os" - 3/11 on FOX - Grading & Discussion
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Yes, they could have given his "chakra" to anyone else. What I'm saying is that Anna Torv was embarrassing as she tried to talk like Nimoy. It was an awful, awful choice making her his vessel.
"Bellivia" reminds me of when Curzon Dax inhabited Odo in "Facets".
And the preview of next week looks good too. We finally get to see our universe's Lincoln. Looks like he's a geek here!
If wonder if it will be a running gag for him to get burned.
Above Average.
I was pondering while watching this how it's come to be that I've completely flip-flopped on the whole Peter and Olivia romance. I was really rooting for them towards the end of season 2, and was cursing Folivia for screwing things up at the beginning of Season 3, and now that their romance has become the focus of the current plot line I just find myself not caring about it at all. Too much of a good thing maybe?
I loved seeing Hurley and Walter together, so cosmic.
Olivia's Leonard Nimoy impression was pretty absurd. I didn't hate it, but man was it wacky. This show is really bizarre at times.
I was pondering while watching this how it's come to be that I've completely flip-flopped on the whole Peter and Olivia romance. I was really rooting for them towards the end of season 2, and was cursing Folivia for screwing things up at the beginning of Season 3, and now that their romance has become the focus of the current plot line I just find myself not caring about it at all. Too much of a good thing maybe?
I loved seeing Hurley and Walter together, so cosmic.
Olivia's Leonard Nimoy impression was pretty absurd. I didn't hate it, but man was it wacky. This show is really bizarre at times.
3 weeks ago, I had never seen an episode of Fringe--I started watching on the recommendation of a friend. A mad scientist whacked out of his mind on psychotropic drugs? A parallel universe with airships, an intact World Trade Centre and a copper Statue of Liberty? A vaguely sinister multinational corporation working closely with the US federal government? How did I manage to not watch this show when it first came out????
Now I'm completely caught up...this show has come a long way from season 1, and I remember--it was only a couple weeks ago for me.
The episode itself was good, not exceptional. It was a standard "mystery of the week" that managed to tie said mystery to the larger problem of instability in the two universes, which was nice. Walter and Hurley smoking bongs at the beginning was great, but as others have said, Anna Torv's channeling of William Bell was a little cringe-inducing.
Overall, above average.
Now hopefully this show that I'm fully caught up on DOESN'T get cancelled after season 3...
edit: I also just wanted to mention that I find this show SO much more enjoyable than Lost...although there are plenty of unanswered questions in Fringe, it seems that the writers are far more intent on trying to actually, you know, ANSWER them once in a while...
another edit: Why has John Noble not won an Emmy for his role as Walter (s)? He is amazing, and one of the major reasons I stuck with the show during the shakier episodes at the start of the first season.
Now I'm completely caught up...this show has come a long way from season 1, and I remember--it was only a couple weeks ago for me.
The episode itself was good, not exceptional. It was a standard "mystery of the week" that managed to tie said mystery to the larger problem of instability in the two universes, which was nice. Walter and Hurley smoking bongs at the beginning was great, but as others have said, Anna Torv's channeling of William Bell was a little cringe-inducing.
Overall, above average.
Now hopefully this show that I'm fully caught up on DOESN'T get cancelled after season 3...
edit: I also just wanted to mention that I find this show SO much more enjoyable than Lost...although there are plenty of unanswered questions in Fringe, it seems that the writers are far more intent on trying to actually, you know, ANSWER them once in a while...
another edit: Why has John Noble not won an Emmy for his role as Walter (s)? He is amazing, and one of the major reasons I stuck with the show during the shakier episodes at the start of the first season.
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Just got around to watching--below average. This show is getting more and more strange and not in a good way.
Wack a bell summons the soul of Bell inside the show's worst actor. The continued Peter/Olivia romance has really hurt this show-does anyone think they are really romantically interested in each other--they seem like brother/sister--no chemistry whatsoever. More pointless filler freak of the weak plots--no real focus on the mythology.
This show has jumped the shark. At this point I don't care if it gets canned.
And I don't think Fringe has answered all that many questions--who are the observers? what is the machine? how did walternate learn of it? who are the first people(this was suppose to be a big part of the last half of the season and I've seen very little) who is sam weiss? why is peter central to saving the universes?
If you want a more comparable mystery arc to compare Fringe-S3 to that wasn't as complex as LOST I'd look to ENT's Xindi arc(laws of physics don't work, two forces trying to stop the other from destroying them a la Xindi/Earth, a pointless romance Trip/T'Pol, a third party manipulating everybody time travellers a la Daniels/Sphere Builders) which while uneven in my opinion was better than Fringe.
Wack a bell summons the soul of Bell inside the show's worst actor. The continued Peter/Olivia romance has really hurt this show-does anyone think they are really romantically interested in each other--they seem like brother/sister--no chemistry whatsoever. More pointless filler freak of the weak plots--no real focus on the mythology.
This show has jumped the shark. At this point I don't care if it gets canned.
Lost amounted to a whole bunch of nothing but it was superior to Fringe because it actually was fully serialized, advancing the plot each week and it was actually fresh and inventive. I don't find myself looking forward to Fringe the way I would for LOST waiting to see the next big revelation or intriguing connection feeding into the larger mystery.
And I don't think Fringe has answered all that many questions--who are the observers? what is the machine? how did walternate learn of it? who are the first people(this was suppose to be a big part of the last half of the season and I've seen very little) who is sam weiss? why is peter central to saving the universes?
If you want a more comparable mystery arc to compare Fringe-S3 to that wasn't as complex as LOST I'd look to ENT's Xindi arc(laws of physics don't work, two forces trying to stop the other from destroying them a la Xindi/Earth, a pointless romance Trip/T'Pol, a third party manipulating everybody time travellers a la Daniels/Sphere Builders) which while uneven in my opinion was better than Fringe.
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