I love Fringe. It’s clearly one of the best shows of the new TV season - although that’s not saying much in a season that has delivered us such turds as “True Beauty”, “Mammas Boys”, and “My Own Worst Enemy”! I wanted to resist it at the start because I still hate Pacey for stealing Joey from Dawson and people being cool with it, but at the end of the day, can we call ourselves “good people” if we can’t support Dawson’s Creek alums?
The show has been good – not great yet – but JJ Abrams is laying down a good foundation. The core girl, Anna Torv, has been getting consistently better after a rough start and I love the whole concept of “The Pattern”! I want to attribute my recent gassiness to the Pattern – that could be my contribution to science.
What kills me about the show though is the intro – they play this spooky music and have these three screens that flash words about “fringe” phenomena. They put up stuff like Precognition, and Teleportation, and Suspended Animation and Transmogrification – but they also put up stuff like Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Dark Matter!
Yo JJ – read a copy of Scientific American, “nanotechnology,” while sounding cool is not fringe!! And artificial intelligence, seriously? Do you play video games? AI driven bots in newer games are smarter than half the people I know! Come on TV – you’re better than that!
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