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IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SEASON 3 YET DO NOT BROWSE THE THREAD
Another awesome TV show by J.J. Abrams!
Story
The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security. The team uses unorthodox "fringe" science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate "the Pattern", a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences that are happening all over the world.Characters
Olivia Dunham
Olivia, Leader of the Fringe team.
Peter Bishop
Son of Walter. Digs Olivia.
Walter Bishop
Walter Bishop, Fringe Scientist. Did science experiments on children (including Olivia) together with William Bell (CEO of Massive Dynamic) with a brain-amplifying drug called Cortexafan.
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I feel really sad everytime Walter gets lost or something, he's such a good character. :frown:
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We've seen the real Walter for 5 minutes or so. He's not a nice man.
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Been behind on episodes. Sounds interesting.
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:iiam:
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:ms: No, it's his son. Just kidnapped from the alternate universe when Walter created the first cross-universe gate since his real son died of the bird flu.
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Should I keep the OP spoilerless for those new to the show? Show is easily spoiled.
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Well its not really a serial show, you could start watching at any time during the series because the story arc is minor.
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yeah you could pick it up pretty quick
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Walter is like the most fucked up and yet likable character in television history.
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Pretty much every villain on the show is doing something that Walter is somehow tied to.
Every time a new toxic agent or super weapon shows up, Walter had some part in designing it.
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Fringe isn't really a "twist" series like Lost. They do a LOT of buildup and gradual realizations, rather than outright plottwists.
Like how we knew Real Peter died as a boy and Alternate Peter is the one we know now. They hinted at it for a long time and we knew about it long before it was directly confronted in the last episode. It was pretty much set in stone in the first Observer episode that Peter had died and Walter had done SOMETHING fucked up to bring him back
Speaking of which, OP needs more Observer.
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"I can't let Peter die again."
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@above's above OP will get more Observer in the future when I have the time to make it bigger.
Also, did everyone notice that Manhatan was typo'd on purpose last episode? It's the alternate universe's name for Manhattan. I love those little things.
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Now that you mention it, I do remember the word Manhatan looked weird.
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walter owns
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Have a feeling Dunham really really hates Walter.
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Olivia is hawt :blush:
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Marlamin, if I write blocks of content and PM them to you, would you add them to the OP? this thread is lacking in content
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Yes. I'm on internship at the moment and only have time to do stuff in weekends. It'd be great if you would write some stuff.
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Are they fucking kidding, a damn 1 and a half months pause?!
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Nope, they're pretty damn serious.
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I'm not sure why, but to me this looks nothing like the Olivia I see in the show.
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Difference is that that is a promo shot in which the actor is actually smiling herself. Olivia never "smiles", most are just forced smiles.
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I haven't watched it in a while, I should go to Hulu and catch up.
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Anna Torv looks exactly like my Zoology teacher in 10th grade and it's pretty sexy
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A quality show indeed.
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I laughed when I realized that, in the alternative universe where Manhattan is spelled "Manhatan," coffee is banned (at the beginning of the episode, the woman wonders where he managed to get "real coffee.")@above's above OP will get more Observer in the future when I have the time to make it bigger.
Also, did everyone notice that Manhatan was typo'd on purpose last episode? It's the alternate universe's name for Manhattan. I love those little things.
Caffeine must be a controlled substance.
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I thought coffee was scarce because of the Blight (see episode 10)
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I missed the last episode.
Something about the alternate universe? Apparently it was good.
Explain with spoiler tags?
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That picture at the top missed a perfectly good Slusho tie-in
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this show sucks so much, but that's why I watch it.
learn to go on wikipedia and find an episode synopsis
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No, NeoDement. It is you the one who sucks.
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know what else sucks so much
you know
do you know
I know
I don't think you know what else sucks that much
guess
you don't know
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Tell me what's good about the show.
It's like they have the whole of sci-fi to choose from, and they go ahead and choose whatever seems the most boring, then put a retarded twist on it. Like the episode with vampires, that suck... SPINAL FLUID. Or the one where Charlie Francis was suddenly alive again for one episode because some retard thought that broadcasting an episode from Season 1 half-way through Season 2 was a good idea (not an example of what I said, but still stupid)
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Shit stop trolling god damn.
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I like this show, easy to catch up on if you miss an episode, and science is always great :allears:
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The Observer episode was really sad. :frown:
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Walter :love:
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Walter makes this show. without him, it'd be nothing. easily my favorite character. but I felt especially sorry for him when they lost the pieces of his brain.
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woah just watched the jacksonville episode, pretty sweet
but i can see how always seeing peter as a glowing person could get pretty annoying
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She is wearing eye makeup making her look hotter than she is in the show when she usually wears none.
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So, please, help me like this show.
I watch the first 5 episodes of season 1 and got bored, and here is the reason why:
The major flaw of this show, for me, can be summed up in thee words: Deus Ex Machina.
See, it seems that every episode (and I'm speaking of the first 5 I saw, so if it get's better/different, PLEASE TELL ME, as I want to know) followed the same structure:
1. There is a mystery that Olivia has to solve.
2. She tells Peter and Walter about it, they can't do much.
3. She runs around, doing police work and getting shot at for 35 minutes.
4. She can't solve it.
5. Walter: "Oh, wait, I just remembered that did a crazy experiment [insert crazy experiment here]. This will solve the mystery!"
6. Deus Ex Machina happens.
7. Mystery solved.
8. G-men go "hmmm, we gotta look out for Olivia and those pesky scientists."
9. The end.
The problem with this is that it pretty much renders the story the same everytime . . . Olivia isn't much use for anything, and we know that Walter will solve the problem with some "magic" science experiment.
Does it get any better? I really wanted to like the show . . . but it seemed like a poor-man's X-Files to me.
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Informative x 1
Dumb x 3
Zing x 2
