Home Theater Forum  ›  Forums  ›  Entertainment and Media  ›  TV and HDTV Programming  ›  Fringe - By J.J. Abrams
Forum Nav More Forums | All New Posts | New Thread

Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

#271
Rating: 0
1/28/09 at 1:12pm
  • Joined: July 1999
  • Post Count: 6,448

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
It creates some tension, though. Especially since he's the SOB that Liv put away.

Is she still not liked by a lot of people here? I grow fonder of her with every episode.

Thats the one point that annoys me. I can't see his superiors putting him in charge of investigating a unit knowing that one of the unit got him in trouble. I know he has pull. But, this just seems to be too much.

Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.

Export to Wiki
#272
Rating: 0
1/28/09 at 9:50pm
  • Joined: January 2000
  • Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Post Count: 1,313

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Quentin
I enjoy the occassional stand alone. Though, it does draw attention to how much fun the conspiracy stuff is...I missed it.

Yes, Olivia's sis is now a part of the love triangle. I like it. A fun wrench to throw into the works since we know they can't get together right away. I enjoyed the development of father/son with Walter and Pacey.

The one plot that already annoys me is the cliche FBI dude investigating them. Bleeeeeehhhh. Boring. Been there, done that.

So you like the cliche love triangle, but not the jerk boss with a grudge?
Export to Wiki
#273
Rating: 0
1/28/09 at 9:55pm
  • Joined: May 2002
  • Post Count: 6,931

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Well one of those does involve two attractive women.

He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it. -- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King"

Export to Wiki
#274
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 12:59am
  • Joined: February 2000
  • Post Count: 398

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cameron Yee
Well one of those does involve two attractive women.

Export to Wiki
#275
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 6:41am
  • Joined: January 2000
  • Post Count: 644

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

The problem with Anna Torv is her mannish features and her teeny tiny head (like Tony Shaloub in Men in Black, after Tommy Lee Jones shoots his head off).

Always Tim's (and Dennis's, Hannah's, and Oksana's) loving dad
Please consider supporting Voice of an Angel, The Tim Jackes Scholarship Foundation:

www.voiceofanangel.org
___________________I have learned that some pain cannot be healed, but must be endured. I believe our Higher Power will help us...

Export to Wiki
#276
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 7:31am
  • Joined: December 1969
  • Post Count: 7,219

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Thats the one point that annoys me. I can't see his superiors putting him in charge of investigating a unit knowing that one of the unit got him in trouble.

I suspect that the Fringe unit, like it conceptual ancestor, the X-Files, has a lot of enemies within the FBI bureaucracy who dislike it for a host of reasons. Many of them would probably like to see it shut down. Letting the jerk boss do the dirty work for them is a classic passive-aggressive way of getting what they want without leaving any fingerprints. They simply don't get in the way of his vendetta, and he takes out Fringe. And if the whole effort blows up in his face, everybody else has plausible deniability. (And can try to take down Fringe by other means later.)

Regards,

Joe

P.S. Re: The sister:


Warning Spoiler! Click to show
I think she's there to conveniently die and leave Olivia with Ella - instant single mom. When Olivia asked her if anything was wrong (other than the obvious like the recent death of her husband) the sister denied it, but in a way that makes me think she's lying. I think she's got a fatal illness and is waiting for the right moment to drop the bombshell on Liv. And those looks she's giving Peter are about sizing him up as a potential mate for Liv and step-father to Ella. BTW, I think the more interesting potential triangle is Liv-Peter-Astrid.)
My Home Theater

My DVD Collection

My niece, "Miss Goofy Face"
Export to Wiki
#277
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 7:33am
  • Joined: December 1969
  • Post Count: 7,219

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Jackes
The problem with Anna Torv is her mannish features and her teeny tiny head (like Tony Shaloub in Men in Black, after Tommy Lee Jones shoots his head off).

I think her hairstyle (a very unflattering choice) makes her head look smaller than it actually is.

Joe
My Home Theater

My DVD Collection

My niece, "Miss Goofy Face"
Export to Wiki
#278
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 8:59am
  • Joined: December 1969
  • Post Count: 9,306

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

I think you guys are nuts. I, admittedly, thought she was a little plain-looking at first, but she's grown on me quite a bit, though a large chunk of it is liking the character.
Jay's Movie Blog - A movie-viewing diary.
Transplanted Life: Sci-fi soap opera about a man placed in a new body, updated two or three times a week.
Trading Post Inn - Another gender-bending soap, with different collaborators writing different points of view.

"What? Since when was this an energy ball...
Export to Wiki
#279
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 9:56am
  • Joined: February 2002
  • Post Count: 1,845

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh Dial
So you like the cliche love triangle, but not the jerk boss with a grudge?

Yes! We haven't seen the love triangle with the sister in a long time. Old cliches are like new ideas!

The jerk with a grudge (he's not the boss) was just done in House, it was done in CSI not long ago, and somewhere else I can't remember. I'm over it.

Plus, the sister is cute.
Export to Wiki
#280
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 10:07am
  • Joined: June 2001
  • Post Count: 1,248

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Quentin
The jerk with a grudge (he's not the boss) was just done in House

Technically its been done twice on House, but who's counting.
Export to Wiki
#281
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 11:34am
  • Joined: May 2001
  • Location: North Central Texas
  • Post Count: 11,751

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Seaver
I think you guys are nuts. I, admittedly, thought she was a little plain-looking at first, but she's grown on me quite a bit, though a large chunk of it is liking the character.

Same, though I liked her from the start. She isn't a glamour queen, no, but "regular looking" doesn't mean bad.

And I like her super straight shiny hair.
Export to Wiki
#282
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 12:03pm
  • Joined: March 1999
  • Location: On duty and takin' out the fullscreen trash.
  • Post Count: 10,270

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

I might as well weigh in on this.

The problem I have with her isn't about her looks, she's attractive enough I suppose, but it's that she always seems to have a dark cloud over her head. I just can't seem to make a strong connection with her.

The last two eps have been really ICK-worthy, first that ugly slug/cold thingy and then liquid brains...blech! All I know is i'm off of pudding for awhile.

No mention of Walter's funniest line yet...

"I hope she doesn't notice the $2,000 for the baboon semenal fluid I ordered. Or what I ordered it for."
"You have no idea how far i'm willing to go to acquire your cooperation." - Jack Bauer
Export to Wiki
#283
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 1:40pm
  • Joined: July 2003
  • Post Count: 849

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
"I hope she doesn't notice the $2,000 for the baboon semenal fluid I ordered. Or what I ordered it for."
I think the second part was "I hope I can recall WHY I ordered it."

2K worth of monkey jizz...I don't think I want to know what Walter is up to with that.....

It takes 52 pounds of pressure to rupture an eyeball...

Export to Wiki
#284
Rating: 0
1/29/09 at 2:10pm
  • Joined: March 1999
  • Location: On duty and takin' out the fullscreen trash.
  • Post Count: 10,270

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

LOL, I knew that second part was wrong somehow, guess I was still reeling from the first part that the second part got garbled in my head.
"You have no idea how far i'm willing to go to acquire your cooperation." - Jack Bauer
Export to Wiki
#285
Rating: 0
1/30/09 at 5:49am
  • Joined: August 2002
  • Post Count: 1,645

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
Is she still not liked by a lot of people here? I grow fonder of her with every episode.
I am getting to like her a lot and throwing the jerk boss investigating her is probably designed to help us get more sympathetic with her as well.
Export to Wiki
#286
Rating: 0
1/30/09 at 6:39am
  • Joined: August 2001
  • Post Count: 1,827

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

She still looks like she is smelling a fart. LOL
Other than that, she is cute enough.

-----
Scott

View My DVD Collection
Stop the on-screen Bugs!!!!!!

Export to Wiki
#287
Rating: 0
1/30/09 at 10:51am
  • Joined: March 2000
  • Post Count: 910

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott-S
She still looks like she is smelling a fart. LOL
Other than that, she is cute enough.
The Tribianni method.
Export to Wiki
#288
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 9:33am
  • Joined: December 1969
  • Post Count: 9,306

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

I just have no idea how trustworthy Scott and/or Massive Dynamic are, and that's fun.

I don't know if I mentioned it back in fall when his first episode aired, but good call by the show on having Boston/New York filmmaker Brad Anderson as one of their regular directors. Granted, a guy who has made such a great string of movies since Next Stop Wonderland shouldn't have to be doing TV, but if he's available, they might as well use him.
Jay's Movie Blog - A movie-viewing diary.
Transplanted Life: Sci-fi soap opera about a man placed in a new body, updated two or three times a week.
Trading Post Inn - Another gender-bending soap, with different collaborators writing different points of view.

"What? Since when was this an energy ball...
Export to Wiki
#289
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 9:49am
  • Joined: February 2002
  • Post Count: 1,845

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Fun episode.

I don't EVEN buy the NSA John Scott story. Somehow, when she visited Scott's body, MD altered her memory thing and manipulated the backstory. I just don't believe it and I'm paranoid of MD.

I'm just glad Pacey is also suspicious.
Export to Wiki
#290
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 10:02am
  • Joined: July 1999
  • Post Count: 6,448

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Actually, it would be interesting if MD is actually one of the good guys.

Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.

Export to Wiki
#291
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 10:02am
  • Joined: June 2001
  • Post Count: 1,248

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

I liked this episode much more than the last two because it definitely seemed to tie in much better to the big picture. The episodes that do that catch my interest much more. I hate to say it, the show is decent enough, but if this got cancelled right now, I wouldn't be all that disappointed either.
Export to Wiki
#292
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 6:04pm
  • Joined: May 2001
  • Location: North Central Texas
  • Post Count: 11,751

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

I try to avoid reading celebrity news when I can, but I stumbled on the tidbit in the paper today that Anna married the guy who plays John Scott. So, she's off the market. I know you guys are all broken up about that.
Export to Wiki
#293
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 6:09pm
  • Joined: May 2002
  • Post Count: 6,931

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Well he has a really big head so it all evens out.

He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it. -- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King"

Export to Wiki
#294
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 7:09pm
  • Joined: July 1999
  • Location: The stars at night.....
  • Post Count: 4,273

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Favorite Walter line.
As Hicks is "transforming".

"No, that doesn't seem to be working."

"No one would know us there."

-Far From Heaven- (2002)

Export to Wiki
#295
Rating: 0
2/4/09 at 8:28pm
  • Joined: January 2000
  • Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Post Count: 1,313

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Henry Gale
Favorite Walter line.
As Hicks is "transforming".

"No, that doesn't seem to be working."

I liked "I love to cut things..."
Export to Wiki
#296
Rating: 0
2/5/09 at 8:20am
  • Joined: July 1999
  • Post Count: 6,448

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

I find it funny that everytime Walter is working on something gross. He either is eating something or gets hungry and asks for food.

Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.

Export to Wiki
#297
Rating: 0
2/5/09 at 5:25pm
  • Joined: September 2007
  • Location: Oakland CA
  • Post Count: 12

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

TV is full of pretty, tiny women who fail to convince as agents or detectives. Anna Torv looks like she could actually handle a gun and beat somebody up. This business about her "tiny head" is a result of comparing her to the many actors on TV who are quite short and look like they have big heads. Her character has also shown an ability to relax and smile which also contrasts her with almost all of her contemporaries.
Export to Wiki
#298
Rating: 0
2/5/09 at 5:50pm
  • Joined: May 2002
  • Post Count: 6,931

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

I would count Mariska Hargitay as another woman who looks like she could handle herself.

He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it. -- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King"

Export to Wiki
#299
Rating: 0
2/6/09 at 4:35am
  • Joined: July 2003
  • Post Count: 849

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cameron Yee
I would count Mariska Hargitay as another woman who looks like she could handle herself.
I'd like to see that....

It takes 52 pounds of pressure to rupture an eyeball...

Export to Wiki
#300
Rating: 0
2/6/09 at 10:30pm
  • Joined: September 2007
  • Location: Oakland CA
  • Post Count: 12

Re: Fringe - By J.J. Abrams

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cameron Yee
I would count Mariska Hargitay as another woman who looks like she could handle herself.

No question. I'm sure many SVU fans watch that show thinking "Slap the cuffs on me Mariska. I've been a baaad boy!"
Export to Wiki
Forum Nav More Forums | All New Posts | New Thread