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Fringe - New Show this Fall
Have you seen the previews for the new show on Fox called "Fringe"?
What do you think? Planning on watching?
I'm not sure but it looks really interesting. I hope that it holds my interest. I have a problem with shows not keeping my interest after ahile. It happened with House, Lost, and a few more shows that I used to watch.
This is what I found on it:When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport with no signs of life, FBI Special Agent OLIVIA DUNHAM (Anna Torv) is called in to investigate as part of an inter-agency task force. After her partner, Special Agent JOHN SCOTT (Mark Valley), is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to DR. WALTER BISHOP (John Noble), our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: he's been institutionalized for the last 17 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son PETER (Joshua Jackson) in to help.
When Olivia's investigation leads to multi-billion dollar corporation Massive Dynamic and its manipulative corporate executive, NINA SHARP (Blair Brown), our unlikely trio, along with Department of Homeland Security Agent PHILLIP BROYLES (Lance Reddick) and FBI Agents CHARLIE FRANCIS (Kirk Acevedo) and ASTRID FARNSWORTH (Jasika Nicole), will discover that what happened on Flight 627 is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.
I will be tuning in for this one. I also lost interest in LOST and Heroes...Heroes went downhill big time last season and LOST just moved WAY too slowly for me. I know they have a series finale date set, which means they will accomplish more...I will probably watch this series on DVD one day when it is all done.
Oh my god I loved this show last night. Honestly...I'm thinking it may become my fave show this year. Loved the storyline, the characters, (Dr. Bishop is fantastic) and the writing is perfect I think. I will definitely be following this one!!
i liked the premiere but i am not sure if am hooked on the show yet. although the twist at the end REALLY got me and i have to say i did NOT see it coming! so had no idea! and if you ever watched a movie or show with me you know i always figure it out! so that twist on the end sort of reeled me in more than the rest of the show! it was fun to be totally surprised! i am excited to see more!
My husband was telling me about this one. He said it was written so that people could tune in at any point and not be -- literally -- LOST, as on the other show. I guess many people were discouraged from watching Lost because of that factor. I'm glad to hear the first show was good. I have it on Tivo but haven't watched it yet.
I loved it and loved the twist. I've read the shows after the pilot are even better. Great new show...hope it lasts...reminds me of x files.
I love it! And the fact that it does have that certain X-Files only with out the aliens is very appealing. What did anyone think of the grahics, esp the text. Very JJ Abrams style no?
I watched this show from my TIVO last night and loved it. I really liked how it was an xfiles type story. I hope the show stays in this direction. I liked the text that went across the screen. I usually like JJ Abrams work.
Interesting show.
Seems pretty self contained. I hate episodic shows where you have to tune in every week to pick up the story thread.
A lot like X-Files.
Its intriguing. A bit campier than expected, but eh definitely not the worst thing I could be watching.
Allen, yes, it is a bit campy... but not unenjoyable.It's kind of a conspiracy theorist (X-Files of the 2000's) meets a toned-down Alias, but with that familial twist.
I like all the different personal threads of the characters, but also that if you come in in the middle you can get the jest of their issues without having to have watched all the episodes.
I do think the show wouldn't be much without Joshua Jackson's character. We need that personalization of Walter, the interplay with Olivia, and the inner struggles we see on his face as well as played out. Otherwise it'd be too disconnected and "driven."
I realized the other day that this show reminds me of Threshold alot. That didn't last either, and the initial ratings for this were way lower than expected(although the network was hoping Abrams was going make it comparable to Lost).
i have to admit i stopped watching. it is too serious and dark. i like that but i need a mingling of laughter dispersed here and there. a little humor, not so serious all the time, no one even smiles unless it is to sneer in the show. i believe there was only one attempt at a jokes since the show started. i had the last two episodes recorded and i just didn't want to watch them, i kept putting it off until i was half way through the second to last and realized i didn't care. it meant nothing to me if the son stayed, i say he should have hightailed it out of there as fast as he could get his legs to go. at that point i took the show off of my DVR, i do hope it has a following but i just don't see myself picking it up again until a little more humanity is put in.
I really wanted to give this show a chance (Joshua Jackson is one of my all time favs), but I really couldn't get into it. I never was an X Files fan, so I guess I am not overly surprised that I can't do it... not even for my Joshua - lol...
The butterfly episode was crazy! I would be so scared especially since we are so used to butterflies being soft.
ew that butterfly part grossed me out..i'm surprised i didn't have nightmares about being ripped apart by butterflies!
One strange show! I watched two, just couldn't stomach any more yukky things coming out of or being done to bodies. But, I will agree, the father character makes it all worth watching ... ;o)
This show will be back in the fall but they are moving it to Thursdays up against the office. I don't think it will have any problems there though since they are totally different shows. What do you think of her being in a different reality?
i am totally addicted, check out http://www.fringebloggers.com you will find every episode reviewed and clues that were found, news and updates, clips its a great site for all the Fringe Lovers out there. my favorite gross episode was the first one with the guy on the plane turning into a skeleton, cool stuff
My problem with it moving to Thursdays is that it will be opposite Supernatural. I will have to watch one and tape the other.I really like Fringe, and I look forward to more Leonard Nimoy next fall!
i just hope that Greys anatomy and Fringe do not fall on the same day bc i will have to watch two at once, oh well
Gene wrote: "i like that younger guy what is his name???, he was in the movie mighty ducks..............."
The character is Peter Bishop, the actor is Joshua Jackson.
oh yeah thats right how can i forget i am so addicted to this show that i forgot the name
thanks Kat
I love the characters on this show and the mix of humor and horror. One thing I like is that the main female character looks like a normal chick and not like a Barbie doll.
Did anyone see tonight's repeat show? It was the one just before the finale. They're getting us all ready for the season premiere in a couple of weeks. Anyway, they did a "tweet-peat" with the producers, and a couple of the stars tweeting while the show was on, and they showed the tweets at the bottom of the picture on tv. It was fun, but it was on opposite the season finale repeat of Supernatural, so if they're on at the same time come the new season, I'm not going to be happy!
Just got caught up on the last two eps. Still not sure how I feel about where its goin... And I am still a bit disappointed about Charlie...I also thought it was cute where, in the last ep, the seaplane almost hits a ferry, but seaplanes use Lake Union as a runway, and ferries are only in the Sound(I live in Seattle).
It's still keeping my interest, but I will be disappointed if they don't answer some of the things they are alluding to.
I didn't like what happened to Charlie either and I still don't understand why they are keeping her alive if she has been to the other reality. Maybe they want to see how much she knows.
