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FRINGE #1 (OF 6)
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| tittom | 09/04/08 | No | Read Review |
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I can’t pull this. I just find myself not caring enough….
I pulled it. Can’t wait for the show, can’t wait for the comic!
Being in the UK I haven’t really heard much about this and I don’t think it’s going to be shown here but anything that blurs the "line between science fiction and reality" immediately gets my interest. It’s part of why I love Lost so much. Looking forward to this.
I saw the two hour pilot. Insanely mediocre.
oh. bummer. when did it air? I didn’t think it had started.
@deadspace I saw it at Comic-Con. I went in with insanely low expectations and came out insanely underwhelmed. I wanted to like it, but it felt like flashy writing with no real substance. Insanely superficial and no real depth and very cliche. When they say "From the writers of Transformers" they weren’t kidding. They’ve got me scared for the upcoming Star Trek movie and have me insanely blah on this series. It’s no LOST, or Alias for that matter.
well i watched it last night (hooray for the internet) and… yeah it wasn’t great. the opening scene made me LOL. i’m still interested in what other stories they tell, like if they do stuff on invisibility, time travel, that kinda thing and go into the science of it a bit then it might be good. maybe. the show itself didn’t play out that well though. it seemed contrived in a lot of places and a bit… silly. I didn’t believe in the characters and their motivations at all. hmmm. but maybe the comic will be good! ha 😀 I’m probably still gonna get this 1st issue just to see what it’s like. I’m a sucker for 1st issues.
@deadspace Good to know I’m not crazy. All I know is I’ll watch it and hope it gets good, but I am not spending money on something I have little interest in.
I watched the leaked pilot online, and while it wasn’t perfect, I tought it was enjoyable. Being a huge fan of Lost, and going in with a completely opened mind, it thought it was okay. It’s not AMAZING tv like Lost is, but was fun and I got hooked on the concept. Even Joshua Jackson didn’t bother me that much. But i definitly agree about the cliche-ness of the stuff, but this might get good. Still looking forward to the official premiere and yeah, I grabbed the book.
The moment I saw Joshua Jackson I just thought "oh great! the dude from Dawson’s fucking Creek is in this" but amazingly it didn’t bother me either. I’ll mark this next bit as a SPOILER!!!….
The bit where the girl went into the guy’s mind – I thought that was total cheese lol. And the way stuff happened like… oh you want to give me loads of drugs like LCD, hook me to some wires and close me in a small tank of water? and i only met you like half a day ago in a mental institution. SURE! I’ll do that. It didn’t really blur the lines between science fiction and reality for me 😉
yeah, that was cheesy. I get your point, but what stood more for me in the pilot, was the setting of the mystery, wich I hope will be a huge -in scale- as in Lost or something. All in all, what I remember is that I was entertained. But the thing is, that was just one episode, and I’m really looking forward to see what the whole deal is about, and how it devellops. Haha, " DAWSON’S FUCKING CREEK" I thought exactly the same. Now with the comic, I’ll post a review maybe tomorrow, I still have to read it.
The entire scene where the dad character explains to the main character about what’s going to happen… People were laughing and I was just…. Mehhhhhhh….
Here’s my beef with it. I don’t watch Abrams shows for "freak of the week" with basic and cliched characters; I watch them for longer, more serialized stories with interesting and intricate characters. Fringe had all former and no latter…
well, I don’t think you can say "had" since you watched only the pilot. Sure if the pilot didn’t get you hooked, but, at least, watch two or three episodes and then make up you’re mind…I watch Abrams shows for the same reason, I just found myself hoping this one would also be as good, later.
Hmm yeah the way it seems to be one of those shows like CSI or X-files, where the mystery gets wrapped up at the end didn’t really work here. It felt so rushed and that’s part of what made it seem so contrived and cliched.
I nearly took this off my pull list but then I read the little preview comic that was given out at SDCC and it was decent so I’m gonna give it a try… I think! I still might change my mind between here and the comic shop lol.
@tittom My problem with it is, you can watch the two hour pilot of Alias and you can watch the two hour pilot of LOST and you can watch the two hour pilot of Fringe and you’re basically getting the same thing every time: general plot, things are not what they seem to be, and a general idea of what the characters are and kinda what the point of it is.
Fringe had all of these things. But if you put it up against Alias and LOST it’s a HUGE drop in quality. Yes, you get a feel for the characters, yes you get a feel for the main conceit and premise, yes you get a feel for the general direction it’s headed. What’s wrong with it is, I just found myself not caring. LOST and Alias had substance and depth and the like. Fringe had none of that. It was very simple, very basic storytelling, and Abrams shows are better than that.
Well… I decided in the comic shop not to get it after all.
I bought it… I didn’t understand it. But, I bought it.
I really don’t remember Tom Mandrake’s art being as good as it was here. I was impressed with that aspect of it.