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Will_B 
Does anything happen in the show in between the middle of the series and the finale? I mean anything worth watching?
Well... the show picked up a "24" style pace so that ridiculous obstacles would be thrown in the main characters way and then solved by the end of the episode. As in "24", the 25th Amendment is used to take a sitting president out of office and the scheming vice president tries to hold on to that power longer than he should. Some minor characters die in rather silly fashions, often abandoning any sense of logic (or even memory of the previous week). Sophia goes from being a nice lady, one admittedly too stubborn (stupid?) to just level with the President which would have gotten her closer to what she wanted at the beginning of the series, and becomes an all out, cold, calculating baddie in the time it takes to flip a light switch (the actress may have been fine at it, but the writing didn't make it believable to me).
So, as to anything worth watching - well, it was pretty much more of the same. For the most part you have a sense of who's going to die and who wouldn't, so that undercuts the suspense of seeing those people threatened week after week, and while the show might drop a little hint about something, they spend far too little time actually exploring those ideas, instead focusing on earthly problems like, "we need to hide in this house" or "I need to steal someone's cell phone".
As a Monday night, I just feel like throwing some on after work cause it's there sort of thing, it was alright - but as something to get excited about renting, to be honest I don't feel there's an overwhelming need to be enthusiastic about it. I could be wrong, maybe it plays better in one sitting. But having watched the first half of the season in one sitting, and the second half live, I don't really think it's any different either way.
BTW, the discussion here about another planet sharing Earth's orbit is reminding me of a sci-fi flick from maybe 1969 called "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun", done by the guys that did Thunderbirds of all things - basically the film was about that idea, another planet on the other side of the sun sharing the orbit, but not being visible. Although, what happens on that "other planet" is more akin to parallel realities or multiple dimensions than finding an actual planet somewhere else that was an almost exact copy of Earth - I guess the concept of multiple universes was harder to sell back then.
I do watch Fringe... and it freaking rocks. Season one started off slow, but once they dumped the "John Scott" plotline halfway through and started focusing on Walter as having had an interesting past as opposed to being just a mad scientist, the show really took off, and it's been nonstop fun ever since. I really like how it started as a monster-of-the-week kind of show and used that to slowly reveal that there was a continuing storyline to be found - much the way the characters were brought together to solve random cases and then found one underlying larger one that was responsible for most of the little things either directly or indirectly. I think it's rare to see a show transition from one format to another like that, but they pulled it off, and in my opinion, it's a much better show for having made that leap.
