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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4481041" data-attributes="member: 41321"><p>I don't know... the show is becoming kinda "meh" for me. I wanted to like it, but it's just not doing it for me.</p><p></p><p>I have to admit that I was very annoyed that the South Station in the Fringe universe looks nothing like the South Station in real life. My boyfriend and I got excited at the idea of people on a TV show going into a place we visit regularly and have spent many hours in and were disappointed when it looked nothing like the real thing. The fact that they invented a huge bridge in Stoughton last week annoyed us as well (my BF used to work in Stoughton - which, by the way, is about 15 miles from the coast, not right on the water like it looked in that episode). </p><p></p><p>Somebody mentioned in an earlier thread that it seems each episode includes a deus ex machina where Walter pulls some made up science out of his butt to solve the mystery, and that's starting to annoy me, too. Bad science I can live with, but when a different piece of bad science comes out of nowhere to save the day in each episode it just becomes an exercise in making up fringe sciences for the sake of making up fringe sciences. It's starting to become predictable.</p><p></p><p>And Walter... I don't know why you guys like him, but I feel like he had so much potential but just fell flat. I liked the idea of him from the first episode when we just met him in the psychiatric ward, where he was this mysterious figure who had done terrible things in the past and the main characters were forced to work with him for the greater good (*chants* "the greater good!"). I want him to keep giving off a creepy evil vibe, but he's just not for some reason. Maybe by this point we know him too well, but he just seems to come across as an eccentric doctor. I think his mental problems make him seem too innocent to play the mad scientist role well. He's not a bad character, I suppose, but he's not who I wanted him to be.</p><p></p><p>I'll give it another couple episodes, but it's certainly not making me wait eagerly to see the next one. I've got too many other shows I want to watch to bother with one I'm only half-heatedly into.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and I'm pretty sure the dead guy at the end was supposed to be the agent that died in the first episode whose funeral started off this episode, but I'm just going by my writer's instincts, not out of any recognition of the face.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 4481041, member: 41321"] I don't know... the show is becoming kinda "meh" for me. I wanted to like it, but it's just not doing it for me. I have to admit that I was very annoyed that the South Station in the Fringe universe looks nothing like the South Station in real life. My boyfriend and I got excited at the idea of people on a TV show going into a place we visit regularly and have spent many hours in and were disappointed when it looked nothing like the real thing. The fact that they invented a huge bridge in Stoughton last week annoyed us as well (my BF used to work in Stoughton - which, by the way, is about 15 miles from the coast, not right on the water like it looked in that episode). Somebody mentioned in an earlier thread that it seems each episode includes a deus ex machina where Walter pulls some made up science out of his butt to solve the mystery, and that's starting to annoy me, too. Bad science I can live with, but when a different piece of bad science comes out of nowhere to save the day in each episode it just becomes an exercise in making up fringe sciences for the sake of making up fringe sciences. It's starting to become predictable. And Walter... I don't know why you guys like him, but I feel like he had so much potential but just fell flat. I liked the idea of him from the first episode when we just met him in the psychiatric ward, where he was this mysterious figure who had done terrible things in the past and the main characters were forced to work with him for the greater good (*chants* "the greater good!"). I want him to keep giving off a creepy evil vibe, but he's just not for some reason. Maybe by this point we know him too well, but he just seems to come across as an eccentric doctor. I think his mental problems make him seem too innocent to play the mad scientist role well. He's not a bad character, I suppose, but he's not who I wanted him to be. I'll give it another couple episodes, but it's certainly not making me wait eagerly to see the next one. I've got too many other shows I want to watch to bother with one I'm only half-heatedly into. Oh, and I'm pretty sure the dead guy at the end was supposed to be the agent that died in the first episode whose funeral started off this episode, but I'm just going by my writer's instincts, not out of any recognition of the face. [/QUOTE]
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