Fringe

The BEST show on Television! Please 'like' "The Fringies Page: We Want a 5th Season of Fringe" on Facebook and help us get the 5th season that this masterpiece deserves!

I initially thought like pablosplinter, but now I think they've been very clever. How many shows ever get the opportunity to re-analyse character's relationships? And remember, if everything is right in the Fringe world, the Peter doesn't exist.



However...... my question would be the timing. The show had only recently got Olivia and Peter together, and I can imagine some people may have liked that resolution. However, this is a show where Peter has always been an outsider, and from series 2 we've had multiple universes and time-lines.



So in a way, these things should be explored. I think the last episode of series 4 was brilliant. Having recently re-watch series 1 on DVD, I can see the show is defintely better now. It was always great, but it has got better.



Will series 4 be as good as series 3? I think it can be. More than that, I think what series 4 is setting up could make for a much better series 5 (had Olivia and Peter been together for the whole of series 4, it might not have led so well into series 5).



What surprises me is that, even with everything that has happened, I think their is still the possibilty of so much more. Series 4 has already got me thinking about series 5.... and I don't normally do that.

I liked season 1, I would give it 7.5/10

I really liked season 2, I would give it 9/10

Season 3 was absolutely excellent! 10/10



Season 4....... I don't understand how they could ruin it like this, I am so disappointed. Nothing that happened in seasons 1-3 matter in the slightest.



The Peter/Olivia/Fauxlivia relationship was really well done, but has been completely ignored, as have many other things.

I really enjoy this show and would be very disappointed if it was cancelled. The characters work well together, and I love Walter's humour as he portrays a modern day mad scientist. With all the technological advances in the ways we can view the shows, it must hurt some of the series network viewings.

I just started watching the show and got up to date with the current episodes. I rated this show based on the season 1-3, really unsure about season 4 it's a little bit early. I love the characters Peter, Olivia, Walter, Astrid and than there's Broyles which is great at time when he does pay a visit or enters the scene once in awhile. It can do some character development, but seeing how this show is a fast pace to different times many different versions of people that seems hard to do at times. They mostly write great episode stories even though sometimes they write boring or not to good shows, no show is perfect. This show has great entertainment and scifi with great science, that will make you think. This series is well worth the watch especially if you miss some of JJ Abrams work when he did Lost.

do not let finish this beauty , great series ever

Hey, I head that this show was about to be cancelled. What the hell? Speculations are that this show is expensive to make, well aren't they all? Come on people, use your brains and don't cancel the coolest show since the X-Files! Rethink this. The actors all have such good chemistry, they are smooth together and this show so works! DO NOT CANCEL IT PLEASE!!!

Excellent episode

Fringe has really developed since its first season, with fascinatingly interesting characters, stellar mythology, incredible acting, not to mention a parallel universe. ITS THE GREATEST THING TO HAPPEN TO TV IN A LONG TIME! Fringe moved beyond the "monster of the week" and similarly mediocre X-Files-like stories into a dramatically engaging, beautifully convoluted, and extremely elegant show. This is the epitome of science fiction.



Also, if Fox cancels Fringe like it did Firefly, I will be really, really mad. And even more sad.

This show is smart! The scientific aspect is believable, the characters are excellent. Cleverly written, the show is immediately engaging. A winner!

Since I boycott FOX I hadn't seen the show previously, but when it came out on DVD I was curious enough to view it.





It's like someone decided to copy X-Files but did it badly. Like they didn't get what made the show interesting.


I think one of the things that most annoys me is that they're making up fake science and claiming things can be done that can't. It's a small distinction, I grant you but it does make a difference to me.


In X-Files, they took paranormal situations and examined them with real science - so the only silly part was whether you could believe that Aliens existed and all these crazy things might happen.

Fantastic, fantastic show. Definitely my favourite on television. Great characters, great storylines, great acting..it's a beautiful show. It got me hooked from the very first time I started watching. I really, really, REALLY hope it doesn't get cancelled. IT CAN'T! It's one of the best shows on tv! It's so unfair when exemplary shows like this one are at a disadvantage because of the ratings.

Fringe is one of my most favourite shows, but it hasn't been so much fun watching this season as the previous ones. I hope that this show doesn't get cancelled and in order to keep it going I hope the writers solve this kind of new universe-stuff real quick and make Peter part of the continuing storyline again instead of letting him be some kind of bystander. Watching the fringe team solve mysteries without Peter is just not so much fun, like Bones without Booth or House without House. Please writers: make Peter a part of it again, get the fun (and the love) back.

The acting is great, the story is just my taste and the camera & special effects are stunning.

Please keep it going!! Just one of the best shows ever.

In a row with: Lost and BSG ...

Can't wait to see the next episode!

Adam

it's one word to describe this show "PERFECT"

..perfect acting , perfect cast , perfect story line , perfect in all ways it remind me of lost., because of fringe i'm seriously thinks of parallel universe and if it is i'm sure their fringe would go for tenth season.. Not "may be" "may be not" season five like here

Fringe is a fantastic show. It's pretty graphic, but, has a point to all the violence. It's smart, and it's brilliant. The character development of each character is brilliant, and it's amazing actors make the heroes super likable and the bad guys super unlikeable. In the end, I think everyone should watch this show.

Just started watching really Great show.Keeps you wanting to know want is going to happen next,really had a hard time turning the dvd off to go to work.Hats off to all actors great show nice to see the actor from Dawsons creek he,s a Good actor :-}

This show started off strong and has increasingly shown the badges of the poorer elements of LOST. The writers and producers are falling back into their dithering ways. It is no surprise the show was moved to Friday night. That is its last stop before cancellation. I watched every episode up until tonight. I was seriously holding back puke when they started up on this whole angle of "which universe survives depends on which Olivia Peter chooses" bubble gum crap. Wait.. I think I just threw up a little.. OK, I'm better now. The arrival of William Bell's spirit in Olivia was too much. Her creaky, old man voice is probably some of the worst acting I've seen in the entire series. It's done. I can't stomach another episode of this junk. J.J. Abrams and his crew are selling poop and I won't sit through another minute of it. I guarantee this show gets cut after this season or sometime in the middle of the next.

It was sad that the show was almost cancelled after season 3, thankfully FOX took the reigns. we love this show so much that the characters have become like weekly members of our family.

Thank heavens Peter is back, sad that no one knows or remembers him. will theobserver men in black come after him? we will have to stay rivited to find out.

Best Show Ever!!

The story line is just spectacular and intriguing. Its amazing how much attention is paid to the details.

All the cast is great. They are doing amazing job especiallyJohn Nobleand the cute & lovelyAnna Torv..Love you :)

People say that they are copying X-Files whether its true or not but one thing is for sure that Fringe has its own Charm and Style and we just get addicted to it.

People don't miss out of the best Sci-Fi television..

Cant wait for the next season..

For example, how could Bolivia switched with the real Olivia if they never went to their universe!! they only went there because of Peter... With no Peter, they had no reason to go there...

But wait, that lives us with another paradox, if Bolivia never went to there universe, then she never found the missing piece of the machine, therefor the machine was never started by Walternet!!

Another example is Walter. The only reason he checked out of the Hospital was because of Peter. Olivia had to drag Peter's ass so that Walter would Check out!!

With no Peter, no Walter!!!

I could go on and on with this paradoxes that were left out with no explanation. There is plenty more of those.

But, i guess i can ignore those holes for a little longer to see where the show will lead us...

All characters are really well written. Acting is great.Walter's character is the best.

Science fiction plots are very verisimilitude.

This series has it all - science fiction, action, drama, a little fun with Walter.

And the reload in the current season is very interesting.

So in general the series is Suprb+.

I just loved the "transmogrification" reference to Calvin & Hobbes comic strips in the opening sequence.





Fringe opening theme on Youtube :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1P9KQ0RfRs





What's transmogrification, according to Calvin / Bill Watterson :


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=124008#Cardboard_boxes





Apart from that, well, the pilot was pretty well done & the acting (I'm curious to see how John Noble's character will evolve - & maybe Mark Valley's) and special effects are decent but it feels so much like a remake of the X Files that it's a little embarassing. Still, I intend to keep an eye on the series, just hoping that the episodes plots will focus on the conspiracy rather than making it peripheral as it happened in the X Files...

Fringe is definitely Top 5 material if you ask me. It is true they are trying to copy X-files. That can be only a good thing.

Fringe has a great potential for at least 3 more seasons if not more. I like it when series are not cancelled and could go up to 6 or 7 seasons! That makes it special.

I really adored the parallel reality switches. The NY towers still there. The airships above NY city. I got goosebumps. They can make even a third reality if they will.

Fringe is simply the new version of X-Files, it took its goods and even improve it.

The characters are just genious how can they just made you feel everything and be sad or happy when they are.

I love all the cast but speciallyJohn Noble(Walter)is just a genius actor which will made you laugh in the middle of your tears.

I'm waiting for the new season with what it will bring to us.

Watching this show is a waste of 1.5 hours of your life. There is not one original moinute of programming, and if you cannot predict the shockingly unsurprising plot twists then you have either not watched a lot of television or should not be allowed to vote in national elections.








If you want to save some time in your life, here's a quick summary:








I missed the first few minutes of the show (Well, I wouldn't say that I "missed" them, to borrow a line for Office Space), but joined in time to watch two FBI agents following a suspect in a freight yard. The suspect causes an explosion that knocks the female FBI agent out, but strangely fails to cause substantial concussive harm to her male companion, who seemed to be at pretty much the epicenter of the blast. It does, however, cause the male agent to sugger from a nasty skin condition.





Some random stuff happens and suddenly the female agent (whose name I don't remember, and frankly don't care to try and remember. I'll call her "Sue" for future reference.) decides that she needs to go find some genius guy with "an IQ of 190".





So we see the genius guy negotiate a $600,000 deal in multiple languages, yet he is not bright enough to see a terrible bluff from 1000 miles away. Here's a tip, if the FBI has you over a barrel they'll just start in with that, not beg you for help. Here's another tip, real FBI agents who are really working usually travel in pairs, display credentials, and don't seem like they are on the verge of tears.





The genius guy (we'll call him "Bob") and Sue go back to find Bob's dad, who is some kind of insance scientist, only he's crazy like a fox!





Stupid stuff happens and they catch the guy from the first scene. More random stuff happens and the bad guy tells Sue that he taped the interrogation and buried the tape in the yard. Sue believes this because she is an idiot and doesn't remember that the police usually search suspects before they interrogate them.





More stupid stuff happens, there's a random scene where Sue mind melds with her blown-up boyfriend, then her boyfriends gets better and kills the bad guy, but not in a good way. Then, because Sue and bob want to get it on, or at least have some sexual tension, the boyfriend dies. Thank god, cuz that would have been awkward. Except he's only "mostly dead", so whatever.





The plot was predictable, the dialog laughable, and the acting performed by spasmatic monkeys with less emotional complexity than my Nintendo DS.

Just because you slap "J. J. Abrams" on it, doesn't mean that it's any good. This guy gets a lot of credit as a creative genius, but I don't see it. Lost went downhill after season one and this show doesn't deserve to be aired on any network, even Fox. This is bad. Late night tv imported from Canada (no offense intended) bad. Bad acting, bad lighting, and horrible dream sequences. And the music!!! yikes. How did this get picked up???? Anna Torv, who plays Olivia Dunham is a horrible actress. John Noble, playing Dr. Walter Bishop, is just as ridiculous. Odd camera angles don't help anyone. I watched because someone compared it to the X-files. This show is nowhere near the X-files. Seeing the title credits, I had high hopes, but an hour into this pilot episode and I am thoroughly disgusted. Here comes the fake robotic arm!!!





Sadly, this form would not let me rate this a zero.

Each episode will show you a different way that life and math come together in amazing and impossible acts in nature. When the show goes through each case and how to figure out what is going on in the world and what could be possible. Some of the cases seem impossible but each time they are explained in a way that really could be possible.


An amazing show after the X-files! All the actors do an awesome job with how the show is played. The beginnings are always something to suck you in to the show.


An amazing show after the X-files! All the actors do an awesome job with how the show is played. The beginnings are always something to suck you in to the show.

This has to be one of the most fascinating TV series that I've faithfully watched in recent years. I love that it was moved to the Friday night slot. Usually it's a deathknell to weaker shows. Not so here despite concerns. This was actually a wise move. Finally, a return to Sci-Fi Fridays the best night of the week to celebrate the strange and the unknown!


JJ and the crew have struck gold with FRINGE. Two Universes share the same space and time. Portions of each infringe upon the other trying to occupy the same physical space causing catastrophes, mysterious events, and gruesome deaths for those caught in the transition. Only one Universe may survive the final devastation but more than likely both may fall unless a solution is found. Two worlds. Two opposite sides of the same coin. Lots of similarities between the two but also differences in technology, ecology, economy and politics. You have a wacky but brilliant scientist whom has spent much of his adult life institutionalized with a piece of his brain missing that he longs to have returned. It's the part of his brain that he needs to solve the puzzle of how to stop the two Universes from cancelling each other out. He has a son, whom he had abducted from the 'otherside' after his own son's untimely death. He now holds the key as to which Universe will ultimately be the winner in a contest that spans ages as well as dimensions. There is an abundance of weird science and mysterious beings. Who is the woman who can travel between the two Universes using her own powers? Who are the secretive and mysterious Observers with strange abilities not possessed by mortal man? What does an ancient civilization have to do with modern events? What is the secret behind the machine that was assembled from parts that were scattered around the globe and potentially may save or destroy an entire Universe? There is a love story unfolding between a man, a woman and her trans-dimensional counterpart that gave birth to a child altered by scientific tinkering. There are those that want to possess that child at all costs.


Well thought out characters with meaningful story arcs have driven the series to compete with the best that TV has to offer. Not since X Files and Lost has a network TV series created such a rich and satisfying milieu. Questions about what makes us human, the nature of consciousness, the existence of the soul--all these things and more are explored.


While most of the show's critics have found fault with the love story arc I think it is crucial to the entire plot and adds a critical element that otherwise would crumble under close scrutiny. Of course, there are those (1 star voters in particular--read their posts and their comments sound like adolescent chitter-chatter) that just want a cartoonish, explosion packed, chase scene after chase scene, super fantastical and unbelievable events to unfold weekly. They cannot handle a story that takes a dozen episodes to unfold or deep philosophical and intellectual concepts. Give them superficial bug-eyed monsters and bloody murders... they're content. The rest of us (adults) prefer something that allows us to invest in the plot and to identify and sympathize with the characters. Love, trust, commitment, loyalty, family--all the trappings that real adults feel are contemptable to the 1 star reviewers. Stories with substance makes them ill (they actually admit it in their reviews too). Until the next LOST-like blockbuster comes around FRINGE will be the only show to delve into the souls of the characters and its viewers. One that makes us all question the reality that we so easily take for granted. And to actually mourn the passing (if no equitable solution is found) of whichever Universe that loses the ultimate battle for survival. I highly recommend FRINGE for any thinking, emotionally secure and adventurous souls seeking a Speculative Science TV show and not a cartoonish, derivative and mind-numbing experience. To the latter I suggest Disney or Nickelodeon programs.

The end is almost in sight. Fringe gets more exciting week after week. I'm really curious about Sam Weiss and what his purpose really is in the events started. The machine was not only to destroy, but also to create depending on Peter's state of mind. What will happen when he learns that he has a child on the other side, will he choose for the love of a woman or for the love for his child. Personally I always thought that the last episode would end with the death of Peter; in the sense that Walter goes back in time and keeps himselve from taking the peter from the other side. If both peters were left to die, the other side would never come to fall apart and the machine that creates and destroys would never be used, simply because the other side will never be aware of the fact that they are not the only universe. Let's see what the writers have in store for us. I'm still very curious





p.s. But I do think that all of these problems started because of the observer. If he didn't distract Walternate when he was making the cure, Walternate could have seen that he could save Peter.


So i'ts not only Walter's foult that the universe is falling apart but also the observer's