I think this was the best episode so far.
It moved along at a good pace and worked. Have we seen them “talk” to the dead before on this show?
Is “The Gentleman” that bald alien like guy we saw a few episodes ago?
First episode you see the Massive Dynamic old lady/assistant roll in the body of Olivia’s boyfriend after he died from the car chase scene. We are to assume that he was “brain-scanned” after death as Walter alluded to the possibility of it being done as the same way they hooked up Olivia and her FBI boyfriend (he was alive but dying). The timeframe they said was about 5 hours before death can you “steal” the information from a corpse. I assume Massive Dynamic has a better way to extract info than did the amateurish hookup Walter made for the dead guy and his son.
the bald guy we saw just before Olivia arrived to Germany coming out of the airport is “The Observer” from a few episodes before. I dont think his name is “The Gentelman”. He is always at the site of The Pattern or something mysterious.
The end scene was good, I wonder who exactly that guy who had the funky stuff on his heart was. I thought he was a friend to the Head FBI dude (the black guy from Lost).
I really hope this show doesn’t get the axe, not sure about the ratings or critical acclaim.
I’m having a hard time buying the “science” on this show. I’m not sure why. I believe warp drive and transporters work when I watch a “Star Trek” show. I even buy that Ben can turn a wheel and move the island on “Lost”. The former is well into our future and the latter is,…well we don’t know, fantasy or something else?
But asking a corpse a question and getting an answer? Wouldn’t a corpse have to hear the question? How would that work? And the answer arrives as a series of partial letters? Not as a mental impression or a Wheel of Fortune puzzle or a Jumble puzzle, but as the vertical strokes of the letters that form a written answer? Not buying it.
Maybe they’re just not good at writing sci-fi technobable that sounds convincing to me.
Anybody else have trouble suspending their disbelief when watching this series?
If you measure The Fringe by its science, you’ll be sorely disappointed. I kind of enjoy the show for its campiness, but I have to grit my teeth and pretend not to hear any of their scientific explanations, kind of like an old comic book.
I guess I need watch it in a different frame of mind. An it’s supposed to be campy frame of mind.
I started watching a serial from the early fifties last night called “Zombies from the Stratosphere”. It’s about Martians (not zombies and not from the stratosphere) who are plotting to move their planet from its orbit to the Earth’s orbit because they’re dissatisfied with the weather on Mars. But first they must blow up the Earth because, presumably, two planets can’t occupy the same orbit around the sun. (Could they? Another thread, I guess.) In the context of a fifties kid’s entertainment all this seems fine to me. Though even in the early fifties I would think it seemed pretty outlandish to the adults who may have seen it.
To me “Fringe” seems to be presenting itself as a serious drama. And within that context the science is eye-rollingly bad. And this comes from someone not versed in any branch of science.
I think the problem Fringe has with its science is that it’s over-explained – you see a guy flying on Heroes, you buy it. They try to come up with some mumbo-jumbo explanation for how the guy can fly, yeah, pretty much everyone’s gonna see the gaping holes in that, since, well, people can’t fly. It takes away the assumption of a reasonable explanation.
Yet, since the ‘science’ is kind of the point of Fringe, it wouldn’t work without it, either – you either got to take it or leave it, I think. Personally, I think Walter’s reason enough to stay with it for a while.
The science, while bad, is pretty consistent within the show - the dead guy ‘heard’ the question thru the electricity flowing from the other dudes brain, and responded in kind. the reason for the “straight lines” was explained - the bullet caused brain damage that elimiated the horizontals - now, how he was able to get “little hill” out of it, I’ll never know.
all of this “science” is based on “fringe” research - not stuff any reputable (accountable) scientist would do - many based on old wives tails and theories.
We enjoy it for the Walter moments -
I gave up trying and just accept it. Walter is worth it. And if it sounds like sciencebabble, you shouldn’t be surprise. I mean, the guy’s crazy.
Yup, this show is mostly annoying and the female lead tends to have an expression on her face like she’s desperately trying to hold back a wet fart all the time and only semi-succeeding, but Walter is priceless and is the only reason that I watch the show.
I don’t take any of the “science” seriously. But I think the stories are entertaining, and I like the leads. (That’s why I watch any show, really.)
I was entertained, and not just by the “Little Shop of Horrors” theme song that played in my head every time I saw the parasite. Olivia was finally something other than brooding, and I love that she couldn’t follow through with the ex, and that she came home and wanted to chill with Peter.
Don’t worry! Its been picked up for a full season. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993202.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
I believe it is winning the timeslot in the crucial 18-49 ages bracket, even though The Mentalist is picking up more total viewers. Sadly, the two best new shows of the season are up against each other. Thank goodness for DVR!