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There was a lot of hype surrounding J.J. Abrams latest series, and with good reason. Almost every one of Abrams tv series have been a huge sucess. Not just good or great but golden: Felicity, Alias & LOST were fantabulous but after watching the entire first season of Fringe I have to disagree with the general consensus who keep banging on about how great this series is.

The two biggest problems this series has is 1) It suffers from Monster of Week syndrome which really isn't all that bad if its explained and resolved in an intelligent & reasonable manner but its not - which brings us to problem #2) One of the central characters: Walter Bishop the crazy mad scientist. Walter Bishop spend 17 years in solitary confinement in a mental hospital. Prior to that he was a brilliant biologist. However, every week when a problem arises and whether its biological, chemical, geological, physical, technical, robotic, cybernetic, natural, supernatural, paranormal, or related to any # of psuedo-science fields that this series is based on, Walter refers to some obscure bit of research he did and based on that tiny bit of research he able to whip up an antidote for whatever is ailing the victim of the week.

I love sci-fi and I'm willing to suspend my belief but only so much. I need to keep some things grounded so that when I'm reading a book or watching a movie it doesn't read like awful fanfic - which unfortunately is what Fringe is doing. I don't care how brilliant Walter Bishop is, for him to be able to understand every bit of psuedo-science to the point where he can whip up an antidote/formula for the disease/problem of the week in 5 minutes flat just reeks of bad writing.

Other than that its an okay show.

It reminds me of The X-Files somewhat. The show is completely different, but the Monster of the Week and the alien thing kind of remind of it.

I'm in the middle of Season 2 and I just love it. Definitely has a lot of X-Files type episodes, and they even reference X-Files in the beginning of S2. There is one episode in S2 that PISSES me off, where a character that died earlier in the season stars in an episode with no explanation at all. Ending up that episode was supposed to air in S1 but they either didn't have time or what and shelved it until middle of S2. So stupid...

wally your wrong, fringe is immense

CBKA wrote:wally your wrong, fringe is immense

It's not immense to your casual viewer.

The over-reaching arc for fringe so far has been slightly convoluted, not as much as lost, but still pretty off, and it doesn't help for regular viewers how off Fox's airing of their shows are.

It's in-depth if you want to take a bunch of time and go researching stuff on the internet, and look for the tiny easter eggs every episode.

that makes 2 of you that are wrong then