Fringe is on the Edge
I didn’t get it. But sometimes that happens when you just see one episode of a show. Especially a show that’s clearly going to be complicated and has just started out. But I so much wanted it to be good. I wanted to get it.
I watched the first episode of Fringe (”presented with limited commerical interruption”) and maybe I was just expecting too much, but I wasn’t thrilled. I purposely haven’t read any reviews about the show, since I wasn’t able to watch it right when it aired and I wanted to see it without seeing what everyone thought. I’ll read other reviews after I write this one, so I know this is my opinion and not anyone else’s.
I want Fringe to be really amazing, but I don’t know if it will be. Maybe it was just the fact that I have a hard time accepting Pacey as a leading man. Maybe it was all the ookey, face melting in the first few minutes. That definitely put me right on edge and made me worry about whether or not it was gonna happen again. I’m not totally against gore or anything like that, but it was yucky. Although the see-through skin thing was cool.
There was just a little bit too much of weird randomness for me, too. Like, I can understand the FBI investigating a strange illness that kills everyone on a plane, that somehow manages to land itself with extra special auto pilot software. But I draw the line at an agent floating nearly naked in a tank of water and some probe in her head being able to mentally communicate with someone in a medical coma. Or whatever it was that actually happened. Plus, the cow thing was stupid.
Don’t get me wrong, there were some high points. Personally, I liked the raised letter 3-D place signs. Also, I keep feeling that since this is JJ Abrams, I need to give it a chance. Not every show can be as awesome, right out of the gate, as Lost.
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