Finally watched BRIDGE AT REMAGEN...

I received the DVD as a stocking stuffer from my son at Christmas, but I didn't have a chance to watch it until last night.

Can't say the movie itself impressed me too much, but then I didn't expect it to really. I'm not much into war movies.

Still, RV was lovely to watch in it (still Napoleon Solo gorgeous here) and he did get the best line in the movie, the "But who is the enemy?" question as he is about to face the firing squad from his own side.

Did anyone else notice though how the part in RV's hair switches sides during the course of the film? In the beginning and at the end it's opposite side from where he wore it during his Napoleon-years. But during the middle of the movie, it's to the Napoleon side.

Also, he had very short, looking recently barbered, hair in the very beginning. But in the middle it was less cropped. Then at the end it was that very short look again.

I realize that just indicates that the beginning and ending were filmed at one time and the middle of the movie at another, but you know it seemed a bit weird that Major Kreuger would have taken the time to go for a haircut and coiffure restyling before reporting to the general to try and get the bridge blown up at the end of the story. [chuckle] The continuity folks were a little sloppy there.

And wasn't it a bit strange that, after Kreuger is shot by the firing squad, we see two bullet holes in his uniform jacket, but no blood? I mean it's not like this movie was shy about showing blood, though -- considering it was a war movie -- there was probably less blood than would have been shown if this movie was being made now rather than in 1969.

FRINGE has become disappointing...

I 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.