New Fall TV - Fringe
Sep. 17th, 2008 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthI've decided that there's no way that I'm going to catch up on the seasons I missed last year (Bones, House, most of CSI: Everywhere, Heroes... and a bunch of other stuff that I didn't watch and do not miss) so I'm a little excited for new TV shows that Possibly Do Not Suck.
I'll have to admit, that I wasn't really interested in Fringe until I found out that it starred Joshua Jackson and I amnot at all embarrassed to admit that it is because I was such a fan of Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek. And in Fringe he appears to be playing Pacey Witter with a Much Higher IQ, which is totally okay with me.
But I was thinking this morning, about the similarities between Alias and Fringe. Not that that is a bad thing, and it's not like J.J. Abrams just keeps producing the same thing over and over again, but I'll be curious to see whether they converge or diverge.
Boyfriend Unexpectedly Dying as catalyst for Commitment To New Position.
Obviously (sadly? who am I kidding, I am a sucker) Peter (Joshua Jackson) is intended to be something between object of sexual tension and love interest, so Fringe neatly sidesteps the moral flirting dilemma by killing off Olivia's previous love interest, Agent John Scott. At least in Fringe, his death was actually connected to the central mystery, and not just angst-producing.
Vaguely Paranormal Science tied to International Conspiracy (Rambaldi, The Pattern). Fanatics yet to be determined/announced in Fringe. I am totally sold on the idea of The Pattern, and that this isn't just CSI: Paranormal, but X-Files really lost me sometimes, as did, uh, Lost, and assuming that Fringe makes it past 6 episodes, I'll be curious to see how they balance they need to discover things and the need to prolong some sort of mystery. Of course, they could uncover whatever the conspiracy is and then spend 3 seasons playing cleanup on splinter elements or whatever, so I don't suppose it really matters
And wouldn't it have been interesting if Olivia had "accepted" the position at Major Dynamics to try to find out as much as possible about everything. I wonder if there's always going to be something hugely open-ended at the end of every episode.
I'll have to admit, that I wasn't really interested in Fringe until I found out that it starred Joshua Jackson and I am
But I was thinking this morning, about the similarities between Alias and Fringe. Not that that is a bad thing, and it's not like J.J. Abrams just keeps producing the same thing over and over again, but I'll be curious to see whether they converge or diverge.
Boyfriend Unexpectedly Dying as catalyst for Commitment To New Position.
Obviously (sadly? who am I kidding, I am a sucker) Peter (Joshua Jackson) is intended to be something between object of sexual tension and love interest, so Fringe neatly sidesteps the moral flirting dilemma by killing off Olivia's previous love interest, Agent John Scott. At least in Fringe, his death was actually connected to the central mystery, and not just angst-producing.
Vaguely Paranormal Science tied to International Conspiracy (Rambaldi, The Pattern). Fanatics yet to be determined/announced in Fringe. I am totally sold on the idea of The Pattern, and that this isn't just CSI: Paranormal, but X-Files really lost me sometimes, as did, uh, Lost, and assuming that Fringe makes it past 6 episodes, I'll be curious to see how they balance they need to discover things and the need to prolong some sort of mystery. Of course, they could uncover whatever the conspiracy is and then spend 3 seasons playing cleanup on splinter elements or whatever, so I don't suppose it really matters
And wouldn't it have been interesting if Olivia had "accepted" the position at Major Dynamics to try to find out as much as possible about everything. I wonder if there's always going to be something hugely open-ended at the end of every episode.
