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I find the two Aussies in the show rather bland, but the writing and plotlines seem to be improving. Hopefully their acting will too.

I have no interest in this at all, aside from the endless joy it gives me that we continue to confuse Mr. Jackson's wee superfans with our RIP references. Good luck to them trying to sift through everything here and over at WIMB to find the original blurb from, like, April or whenever. I found it once not too long ago because I linked to it from ZF, and even I don't remember where it was.

I am enjoying this show - maybe because last night Pacey got wires stuff up his nostrils to read his thoughts. Now thats just good TV.

Sorry, J.J., you have too many inconsistencies in characters ("Gee, this guy is a threat to national security, let me chase him for a little while instead of taking the motherfucker down with a shot to the leg. You know, to give him an opportunity to a) hurt me, b) get away, or c) both. Ooh, yeah, right I have to let him hurt me or else the plot is jeopardized, well I'm going with my gut (or not) on this one and behave in a manner unbefitting a fucking FBI guy....) to make me overlook the craptacularness of this show. Granted, I quit after two episodes, but still, I'm sticking it out with Lost -- does that count for anything? Besides, you really should get a grasp on regular science before you try tackling super-science. LSD can't be whipped up in a jiffy, a man missing many layers of skin can't be left in open air (hello? Infection, anyone?), said man doesn't then totally heal with nary a blemish in sight, and about a million other things I couldn't overlook before saying "fuck you" to the lame-ass wannabe X-files. It's called "bearing some semblance to reality", bitches, try it some time. Sorry, but my logic switch doesn't just click off because you want it to, lazy ass writers (yeah, I said it).

Ok, ranting about the show that's no longer on the watch list over. Thanks for the time, folks, I'll be here all week.

I know that J.J. Abrams is behind the show, but it really doesn't show all that much.

I am so very unimpressed by the premise, the plots, the scripts, the smart-ass 3D letters...by nearly everything, in fact; although Joshua Jackson (RIP) is not nearly as irritating as I feared, and the Torv-bot is kinda growing on me...

...but the only real reason I'm still watching is Walter. I fucking love Walter. I cannot wait to see what he will do or say next.

stipe42 is 100% correct. Television needs more mad scientists. And all of them should be Walter.

I watched two episodes, the first to see Pacey, the second because I didn't want to move off the couch when my roommate turned it on. It's meh for me, although I'll join in the chorus of Walter-lovers. He's awesome, albeit not enough for me to care about this news.

I do dig Anna Torv, though. She's a tall drink of glass.

Ouch. Drinking glass? That sounds hella painful.

Thank God Scientists Invented Magic!
But really, Walter is so badass. Sole reason to watch.

Walter is reason enough to watch this show. Great character. Some great lines.

It's sad that I am officially unlurking to post about Fringe, but seriously, this show is absolutely hilarious. I have been watching this with some fellow nerdy bioengineering grad students after House every week and we crack up the whole time. Conservation of mass? Totally outdated. First law of thermodynamics? Who needs that!? A man who intercepts secret latin conversations using spontaneously multiplying metal elements in his blood? WTF applesauce?!?!



I am relatively sure that it is impossible to come up with more sci-fi cliches and general hackneying of every other line of dialog than what has been contained in the two episodes I've seen, but the writers will probably prove me wrong soon. Also amusing- the floating text... that merits a snort every time it appears.



Good to hear this kind of priceless entertainment is sticking around a while longer.

I actually ragged on a bunch of negative nellys on another board that "were on the fence" about this show. At least Pajibites know whether they love it or hate it.
I still think the pre-credit openings are worth the price of admission.
I want to see where this goes.

I like it so far - mad scientist guy rules - but the floating titles are beginning to bother me. Once was, alright, that's clever; twice was, um... really? Now they are just distracting me.

But never mind JJ RIP - Friday Night Lights started again but nobody who uploads appears to have DirectTV, dammit!

I like the floating titles....

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Oh man, I hope the spambot is talking about me!!! I love being someone's favorite!

Thanks TylerDFC. I'll have to look into it and see if there's any word about it returning. That would blow if they just left it hanging. How is it that "Nip/Tuck" can linger on and on and on and ON?

The show's okay. The wide-open nature of "the Pattern" is good for any number of stories, but it also makes it hard to focus on any one event as being all that important. I guess we'll see how it develops.

But I'm liking Anna Torv for some reason. I just think she has an interesting look to her. And the scientist is fun. Joshua Jackson I'm not really feeling, but at least the character isn't too far out of bounds for his persona. It's not like he got famous for a teen soap and then got cast as, oh, I don't know, a bad-ass soldier from the future when he's really not fit to carry Michael Biehn's fucking JOCKSTRAP.

Wow, I don't know where that came from...

Man, I fall asleep pretty much anytime Anna Torv comes on screen. I find her so incredibly dull. I have enough Joshua Jackson love to keep me hanging on, but I don't know for how much longer.

Yeah, I'm on the fence myself about this show. On one hand, I'm a sucker for anything remotely sci-fi related; on the other, the show is just not grabbing me. I don't find myself comparing it to X-Files (which I loved) so much as Lost (which I also love). Again, we've got mysterious happenings that appear to have some connection, an apparently ageless guy wandering around, and now (at least according to the preview), dead people reappearing to speak to their friends and loved ones. So far it's been like Lost, only with FBI agents.

Olivia's character isn't interesting, either because of the writing or the acting. I like Peter OK, but they better give him a few more dimensions or the sarcasm is going to get old fast. Walter--not sure. He's entertaining enough, but fluctuates between childish, senile and genius with such regularity that I can predict it (OK, he's been goofy for 2 sentences, now he'll suddenly get mad, now he'll spout off a great new theory).

Speaking of, the science I can get past somewhat--yes, it's ridiculous that he can whip up a batch of anything in his little lab in no time, but if the show constrains itself to reality, every episode would be painfully boring as we wait for Walter to accurately portray the creation of LSD. But the constant use of the word "theory" when he really means "hypothesis" annoys the crap out of me.

Any ideas on what the observer is? A human mutant? An alien seems too obvious, so I'm going for robot.

I gave up on the show about the time they decided to do the "telepathy" trick. For those who don't remember (or purposefully wiped
their memory) that was when they took the main character, filled her with homebrew LSD and a cocktail of other drugs, stuck an electrode in her brain so she could "synchronize" brain waves, and then shoved her into an isolation tank and waited for her to have a "vision" where she sees the face of that week's bad guy. That was so freakin retarded on so many levels that I gave up on the show in despair.

Now I don't expect the show to be highly realistic but I would hope they would occasionally made a nod towards realism so that I can keep my self respect in the morning. Synchronizing brain waves? That was
cutting-edge sci-fi in 1963 maybe, but it's so ridiculously out of date relative to what is known today about the brain that the only
explanation for their using it is complete and total laziness on the part of the writers coupled with utter contempt for the audience. It's like a bad Star Trek episode where the solution to the problem-of-the-week consists of reversing the phase on the techno-babble generator. Or something. It's obvious that the writers just don't give a shit, any explanation will do for them, the audience is too stupid for words just give me my paycheck please I've gotta go buy some blow.

On top of this stupidity, there's the additional problem that even if this cutting-edge example of 1960's technology actually worked it would
have been totally worthless. If you take somebody and give them LSD and stick them in an isolation tank of course they're going to have visions, because they're TRIPPING THEIR BALLS OFF! They'll be tasting colors and touching the face of God! They'll come out of the tank convinced they ARE God. How could you trust anything they saw?

People like to compare this show to the X-Files, but one of the things that I remember for the X-Files (at least the early seasons) was that most of the mysterious stuff was presented as an actual mystery. If some guy would hibernate for 20 years and then suddenly wake up and eat a persons liver Scully didn't show up and say, "Oh yeah, I can
make that happen using my lite-brite set and a slinky". She would say, "This is really freaky". On "Fringe" when one of the reasonable
characters (AKA Audience) tries to throw in a comment to the effect that "This telepathy plan seems kinda fucked up" he get's bitched-slapped down by the Mad Scientist (AKA Writers) by saying he has no imagination? No imagination? That's like the Writers saying,
"How dare you even think about questioning what I wrote you plebe!" FU back Fringe.