FRINGE has become disappointing...
Feb. 7th, 2011 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carabeleI was hooked on FRINGE from it debut episode in 2008. It was different, well-paced, well-written and well-acted. I liked the idea of exploring the "fringe edges" of science. Not aliens or anything so humdrum, but the strange possibiltiies within human beings.
But then FRINGE became embroiled in its alternate universe vs. this universe plots and the series became much less intriguing. Sure, there was still plenty of good stuff, but somehow making the show an "us vs. them" rather than a true "us vs. strange us" caused it to lose steam.
Then came the nonsense with "The First People", a civilization of immense intelligence that existed "before the dinosaurs". Ho-hum. SciFi has gone there before. And then the whole silliness of -- for some reason completely unknown and therefore coming across as completely arbitrary to the viewer -- only the mind of Peter Bishop being able to connect with the devastating machine of those First People as a power source. [sigh] Like Abram's LOST, somehow I think FRINGE lost its way.
I continue to watch FRINGE because occasionally it still harkens back to its original concept and because the acting is excellent. The show is still different by the standards of most network television, but it's not as bright a beacon anymore.
Still, I think if this season proves to be FRINGE's last, I doubt I'll shed any tears or even utter an "Oh damn, I'll miss that" in disappointment. As long as everything they started gets wrapped up (cause I hate scattered pieces left all over the place when a show ends), I think it might be time for FRINGE to make its swan-song.
But then FRINGE became embroiled in its alternate universe vs. this universe plots and the series became much less intriguing. Sure, there was still plenty of good stuff, but somehow making the show an "us vs. them" rather than a true "us vs. strange us" caused it to lose steam.
Then came the nonsense with "The First People", a civilization of immense intelligence that existed "before the dinosaurs". Ho-hum. SciFi has gone there before. And then the whole silliness of -- for some reason completely unknown and therefore coming across as completely arbitrary to the viewer -- only the mind of Peter Bishop being able to connect with the devastating machine of those First People as a power source. [sigh] Like Abram's LOST, somehow I think FRINGE lost its way.
I continue to watch FRINGE because occasionally it still harkens back to its original concept and because the acting is excellent. The show is still different by the standards of most network television, but it's not as bright a beacon anymore.
Still, I think if this season proves to be FRINGE's last, I doubt I'll shed any tears or even utter an "Oh damn, I'll miss that" in disappointment. As long as everything they started gets wrapped up (cause I hate scattered pieces left all over the place when a show ends), I think it might be time for FRINGE to make its swan-song.
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Date: 2011-02-08 04:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-08 05:23 pm (UTC)But the whole First People thing is really crummy writing, isn't it? I mean that's a scifi cliche so old, it literally creaks. And now the "bowling buhhda" being the one who actually wrote the books... Okay, so he's hundreds of years old like Yoda or something? (Since many of those books are quite old.) I mean this is really stretching believablity to its core. [chuckle]
And Peter and the Machine... ugh! I have this wild urge to play the music from "Peter and the Wolf" anytime they go into bits about Peter and the Machine! [laugh]