Re: Fringe
Sorry. I watched two episodes of this show and then stopped. It's too dumb and formulaic for me to stay with it.
It's not that I mind the whacked out, totally unrealistic science. I mean, I watch Heroes and Pushing Daisies, after all. The problem is the science in this show is totally arbitrary (kind of like Heroes lately) and also implausibly convenient. I don't even mind that all the unusual events always seem to have something to do with this one scientist's research back in the day, but when he keeps coming up with a whacko solution that always works perfectly the first time, you just throw plausibility out the window.
Plus, the acting and writing is just not very good. My brother and I watched the pilot, and when we weren't laughing at some of the overly portentious lines, we were trying to predict the next line of dialogue (and we often succeeded which is not good). The genius father and son team are actually ok, but the lead actress is kind of blank. She may be the new J.J. Abrams lead, but she's no Jennifer Garner.
Speaking of which, does anybody here actually think J.J. Abrams has a full, finished plot laid out for this show? Because if you do, I've got a Rambaldi Device to sell you.
I won't say the show is bad or that there's no chance that it will become good later on. But there's just too much other good TV on the air for me to waste my time on the off chance that this one will be good later. I gave on Lost after it became clear that the writers were just making it up as they go along, and even though it's apparently better now, I've never regretted leaving it. The kind of cheap manipulation indulged by Lost and Alias is a little insulting to the audience's intelligence, and I have no reason to think Fringe will be any different.
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