JJ Abrams' FRINGE on Fox

[Kit]

also-a bit weirded out to see Over There's Broyles alive

These unexplained changes (Did Olivia grow up with Nina in this new continuity? The conversation between them this week sure seemed to imply that.) are getting on my nerves as well.

Even worse, if a bunch of random things have changed on this side, does that also mean that a bunch of random things have changed in Walternate's universe as well? Ugh.

I dont want to give this a lot of thought, but I'd expect Over There to be more historically intact as its history of peter is relatively intact. That said, the changes dont seem to make sense and, IMHO, detract from or otherwise screw up both the big plot of the show AND the human drama of the show. It gets a few more eps from me or I will sadly wave goodbye. I'll be very sad that what is doubtless the final season of Fringe has been so weak.

[Black_Gold_Saw]

Reading this makes me really sad, Season3 of Fringe just finished airing 2 weeks ago over here, and I was really into it and hoping the cliffhanger would end up really cool.

Not so, it seems.

[Kit]

Was tonight's episode any better?

[Kit]

At least Peter is back. But I still hate the new direction. It pains me that we spent 3 years building up dynamics and a world-ending threat and seem to have abandoned them.

also, why are we not seeing Walternate this season? I bet he would be very interested in learning of Peter's existence.

[saint_matthew]

Was tonight's episode any better?

Nope.

[Jameson]

I rather liked this episode, at least as compared to the prior ones this season. Peter is back, which is an improvement, but this show is in a downward spiral that the rating show the viewers aren't happy with, how many episodes left before it gets canned I wonder?

[Kit]

Damn, I hated the last episode. This season has been such a damn waste. I'll watch the ep in January to see if it improves, but I seriously doubt they can get this show back on its feet. Such a waste of three years of character development [with two different versions of most characters!] and plot development. Bah

[Kit]

Huh. The latest episode was almost like a FRINGE episode

[Kit]

re: "Letters of Transit"
What the hell?

[Mr Mole]

I love Fringe. I freely admit it. I love all the major characters and most of the not-so-major characters.

I'll watch every episode they make as long as they keep making them.

This last episode, however, makes me rethink my views. Ouch.

[Setothes]

Gosh, that's just what we needed, yet *another* alternate reality that isn't the one we wanted to see...

Argh!

[Arthur Eld]

I might be in the minority here, but I liked it. Fringe has done a couple of episodes that exist outside even its ever-shifting continuity, and I'm ok with that.

Walter's 'This is anti-matter' moment was awesome, too.

[Dureign]

Walter, as always, is awesome. He's the only redeeming feature of the last episode (and other episodes that I don't like, actually).

But seriously, wth.

As soon as that crawling text appeared, I facepalmed. Redflag for lazy writing/lazy build-up when you have to narrate whats going on. I usually don't have issues with plot; but lazy storytelling is lazy storytelling.

Show jumped the shark for me. Sure, they might do something clever later on and make this all worth it; but that requires way too much goodwill from the viewership and I have other shows I can spend my limited time on. I think I'll follow Fringe from the distance and return once I get confirmation this DOES all make sense from a narrative standpoint.

Maybe they didn't have the episode time to develop this (hint that the Observers weren't just weird, they were also going to go evil), but man, it doesn't help that this seems like a time-travelling/parallel universe/parallel future Dark City knock-off.

[Mr Mole]

Show jumped the shark for me.

It was just occurring to me, seconds before reading this, that a show with the premises Fringe operates under actually can still jump the shark.

Parallel universes, alternate timelines, ESP, porcupine men, observers, government coverups, a cow in the lab, Astrid, licorice and more... All relatively acceptable and believable within the confines of the show... But they finally managed to cross the line into a realm where I just don't buy it...

[Setothes]

I did like the new intro, with words like creativity and freedom replacing stuff like singularities and similarly 'fringe' stuff, foreshadowing what this new alternate reality would consider 'fringe.'