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An article from Entertainment Weekly compared the offices of Nina Sharp of Massive Dynamic and Catherine Weaver from Terminator:SCC. Both office have big money looks to them. Catherine’s office is made up of almost all glass with a few clear plastic chairs and a couple plants. Nina’s office from what I’ve seen has changeable backdrops with large spacial area and slanted windows. Nina’s office is more high tech but the bathrooms in Catherine’s office have liquid metal urinals.
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/09/fringe-terminat.html
Score – 94/100
It keeps getting better and better. This is the most intriguing episode yet. It starts off with a bang when a guy with no hair devours the most delicious roast beef, pepper, jalapeno, Tabasco sandwich ever. All of a sudden, something comes from underground and creates tons of chaos for a construction site and a neighboring building. The bald guy confirms the mysterious object from the ground with an unknown colleague that turns out to be a vibrating cylinder. Our hero trio is of course put on the case. This cylinder is indeed very important because an unnamed killer is trying to recover the cylinder while Walter is keeping his fellow cohorts in the dark about what this cylinder is and what it can do, something he hasn’t done before. Walter even assaults Agent Farnsworth and hides the cylinder where no one can find it. Peter is especially upset with this and right as he is leaving for good, he is captured by the unnamed cylinder hunter and asked a few questions. This brings us to this weeks Fringe science, Mental Osmosis. The antagonist uses electric currents to hear his captive’s thoughts. The machine is able to read deeper than the conscious thoughts of the captives as long as the line of questioning is on track with the information he needs. Our antagonist gets the info he needs from Peter and tracks down the cylinder. Olivia comes to the rescue and subdues the beanie wearing baddie and the cylinder disappeared into the ground where it came from.
I enjoyed this episode more than the others, however I think that the characters of Walter and Peter changed their personalities pretty drastically. Walter in the first three episodes is the crazy, kooky scientist that never raised his voice to his son. Then all of a sudden he is defiant and aggressive, maybe for good reason, but outside of Walter’s character in my opinion. Peter’s case is worse because it happens twice in the same episode. He seems to enjoy Agent Dunham’s company and running down bad guys with her in most of the first three episodes then all of a sudden he wants out. Then a bump on the head makes him want to stay and uncover all of the unexplained events in the world with his father that he has thrown under the bus the whole episode before this point. The intrigue level is sky high however, with the Observer and what seems to be his mysterious cylinder. Agent Scott’s cameo was also something that I didn’t expect so soon. Thanks for leaving me 2 weeks to think about that Abrams.
Star of the Show – The Observer
“Apples, bananas, rhinoceroses…I want to hold your hand.” He is some sort of weird. No hair, no eyebrows, always there, but no one ever sees him. He can read thoughts with only a blank stare and he doesn’t age. What is he, what other powers does he have, and can he eat my world famous fire chili?
Back in action – Gene the Cow
Score 90/100
Fringe seems to be a show that will be a hit for a long time. Based on the first 3 episodes, there are a lot of things to be revealed which gives the show legs. In this particular episode, “The Ghost Network,” focuses on what seems to be some type of terrorist attack. A public bus is bombed with a silicon based aerosol that freezes everyone on the bus like “mosquitoes in amber.” The team’s only lead is a man named Roy McComb. Roy has, for the last 9 months, drawn or constructed the horrible events that have been happening and the bus incident was no exception. That brings us to this episode’s fringe science called… The Ghost Network. Using metallic particles in the blood as transmitters, persons can communicate to each other similar to telepathy. Roy can only communicate his thoughts visually however. With some “minor” brain surgery, Doc Bishop and crew let Roy communicate audibly so Olivia can hunt down the terrorist.
Flight 627 from episode 1
This episode had many twists and turns and led to more questions that I can’t wait to see the answer to. The relationship between Peter and Walter is awkward and it should be because Walter is awkward. I also want to know what the relationship between Sharp and Broyles will lead to. The female characters are very plain and uninteresting with the exception of Nina Sharp.
It’s sad that I want to know more about Roy, a filler character, than I do about Olivia. I would love Olivia to have something more to her and it would be nice if they gave Agent Fransworth something to do other than be Walter’s helper. The show does have me intrigued and I can’t what to see who…
on train watching Olivia
…this guy is.
Star of the Show – Peter Bishop
Peter signs of a shady past are getting better and better. Exactly how hardcore is Pete? He can also play the piano and wanted to be a Brontosaurus when he grew up.
Missing from Episode
Gene the Cow
My Score 92/100
This episode of Fringe was greatly superior to the pilot in every way, shape, and form. The first episode was rushed due to the writer’s strike but you can tell that episode 2 was streamlined like a brand new Lamborghini. The characters were more fleshed out and you developed a connection with all of the main characters, even Agent Farnsworth got to do something.
There was a 4 minute sneak peek on the Sunday prior to the Tuesday, 9/16/08 episode and I really wasn’t impressed with the preview at all. It very much seemed like an X-Files episode and I totally expected an alien baby to pop out, but that’s why you watch the show. It turns out that the baby was a ridiculously fast-aging baby that died within minutes of his birth of old age. That leads us to this episodes fringe science “Celermitosis,” in which the pituitary gland is manipulated to speed up the growth process. This process obviously hasn’t been streamlined with the old baby and that is where the antagonists for this episode comes in. The serial killer is actually a creation of this science and he is stealing the pituitary glands of his victims. All in all, it leads to an action packed show that our field team of Agent Dunham and Peter Bishop are running down the suspects and our science unit of Dr. Bishop, Agent Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole), and of course Gene, figuring out how to revive dead people over the phone. I do find trouble in the fact that they let Peter run around as a citizen FBI/DHS (Dept. of Homeland Security) agent however.
Episode 2 raises even more questions and intriguing sciences to uncover. What is Massive Dynamics’ tie to the DHS? Who are the people in the last scene? How crazy is Dr. Bishop? Will Peter ever get a gun of his own? Is Peter okay? I want to know the answers to these questions and that’s why I’m gonna continue watching.
Star of Show – Dr. Walter Bishop
Mad scientist extraordinaire. Who else can reference LSD and Cocaine and get away with it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he became an icon for absent minded professors right up there with Dr. Julius Kelp, Prof. Ned Brainard, and Einstein himself.
For all you Josh Jackson fans
My Score 78/100
Fringe, the latest new ip (intellectual property) from mister money in the bank, J.J. Abhams, aired on 9/9/09. The show has gotten many comparisons to that other Fox show… the name slips my mind… oh yeah, X-Files, and from what I saw in the first episode, deservedly so. It doesn’t help that the main characters are FBI agents that are investigating “unnatural” events that are happening. I wasn’t a fan of the stale love angle that was in the episode but without spoiling the plot, I must say it ended in an interesting way.
Agent Olivia Dunham looking very angry
The pacing of the show was slow and badly acted, but the actors have potential which would make the dialogue bad. It starts off with an expensive bang with people turning translucent and melting all over this “smart plane” that lands itself in Boston. This eventually leads to Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) investigating a crime scene that leads to her partner Agent Scott (Mark Valley) getting disfigured and dying.
The last 25-30 minutes of the show really picked up as we learned more about what fringe sciences are and how the kooky Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) implemented the particular science in this installment. In this episode, the science implemented was “Mental Transference, ” in which Agent Dunham volunteers to be Dr. Bishop’s first test subject in some 17 years to save the agent she has a secret romantic relationship with, Agent Scott. She had to lay in a rusty tub of water with “Matrix” tubes in the back of her head while doped up with LSD so she could connect with Agent Scott to find his attempted killer so they could interrogate the criminal to find a cure for Scott . The concept was interesting but the corny love plot put a wrench in a well designed scheme. The uncovering of all of the events known as “the pattern,” is where the show… shows it’s legs. The show takes a predictable turn that ends in our new team of Agent Dunham, Dr. Bishop, and Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) coming together for the long haul and the demise of Agent Scott. There is a lot of upside to the show with all of the sciences to be uncovered and all of the secrets that are yet to be revealed. Fringe has as much potential as X-Files to become a hit show and this is evident in the first episode. However, the pilot in itself had bad dialogue, a stale feel, and no identity of its own.
Star of the Show
– Gene the Cow -
There are 3 reasons why Gene stole the show. 1) It taught me that cow’s and human’s DNA are only separated by a few strands. 2) She eats Chinese food. 3) Watching her getting pulled through Harvard during classes is hilarious. How many times have you seen a cow starring on network TV?
Photo shoot for the stars of friends
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