Comments on: Fringe Update: Episode 3 Review + Ratings and Latest News

By: JWM

JWM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:49:18 +0000

Didn’t satellite TV exist in 1991?

Yes, yes it did. So did cell phones, but they were far, far, far more rare than they are now. The current models compared to the Zack/Screech ‘Saved By the Bell’ model with the torso-sized battery pack are truly a wonder. Sometimes when you are living in the middle of something so wondrous, you lose perspective on how special a thing it is.

By: JWM

JWM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:46:15 +0000

My take on Fringe is that it took a couple episodes to start up, but the third episode opened it up to tap into more of its potential. It’s a show that will take about half a season to really solidify (like a silicon gas?) into its true form. They have some good starts here and I hope that both Fox and the audience give it a chance. TNG started pretty slowly and look how that turned out — some great seasons once everything was established. DS9 as well — if you gave it a little time, it fleshed itself out and became a truly solid show.

This doesn’t mean that Fringe will achieve that artistic or commercial success, but I see enough positive indicators to show it’s on the right track.

By: LemonTwist

LemonTwist — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:40:27 +0000

FRINGE is dreadful telly. Absolutely awful. I have sat through three episodes now because I keep waiting for that glimmer of hope that the story is worth it, that the characters will actually turn into interesting and likeable people, in fact I’d settle for just watchable, that one of the writers will give the damn woman something other to say that just repeating the action of the previous scene, or sometimes even relating her precise movements IN a shot, seriously, watch out for it. If she isn’t describing her movements she’s tellings us the same thing three times over….’What was her job? She was DEA, she worked for the Drug Enforcement Agency???’(all this while a closeup of an ID card with ALL this info hogs the scene – seriously, I have an attention span more than the length of one sentence. I adore LOST, I miss LOST, I was hoping Fringe could fill a gap in an exciting and different way. But… It’s infuriatingly bad, makes next to NO sense, has dire dialogue that occasionally tries to shoehorn in some zany humour just to leaven the thoroughly grey and wooden atmosphere and endless scenes of basements or soggy streets in Boston.
God I don’t even have the will to criticise it any more. It just sucks. I will gibe it until episode 6 to grab me then, I’m gone. Ugh I feel sullied and unusual…

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:27:16 +0000

This show’s no Lost, but until Lost is back in January (or is it February?) this will tide me over. Assuming the show lasts that long. It certainly has potential. Of course, I might just be saying that because of Anna Torv. :-) Hard to say, really.

By: Decious

Decious — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:14:25 +0000

anthony… are you going to be reviewing “Eagle Eye,” too? just curious.

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:26:20 +0000

i really love this site! REALLY

but there’s just a bit too much “fringe” promotion going on here for my taste.

perhaps fans of that series might start their own site.

By: Charles H. Root, III

Charles H. Root, III — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:41:45 +0000

29. Bill – It’s filmed all over the place, but not in the Boston area. More details are here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/locations

By: SpikedCanon

SpikedCanon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:26:23 +0000

#31 I bet you are also one of the people that are screeming for a trailor or pictures of Star Trek because you just can’t let things take their own time

By: Gary the Gorn

Gary the Gorn — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:06:58 +0000

They need to step up the talk about “The Pattern” if they are going to keep my interest. Who are they or what are they. Maybe it’s a giant super computer.

Also, I think these people are living in a simulation or in The Mad Scientist dreams in the institution.

Need to find out who the bad guys are. I’d like to see more robots. Like the ladies arm in the first episode.

Just go crazy with it. Be creative. Don’t make it soooo much like the X-Files.

By: Kyle Nin

Kyle Nin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:05:13 +0000

I’m the opposite. I’ve watched all three and I’m quickly gaining interest. Each new episode is better than the last and I’m really really looking forward to next week’s ever since they showed clips of it from the season preview a few weeks ago. I haven’t been this excited to see a new episode since I was watching, well, “Lost”.