Really? I didn't realize season one was unpopular. I've got a lot of love for seasons one and two. I would have been pleased if the show had just continued on as a case-of-the-week type show.
I think this show initially drew viewers from the Lost audience, which I quit watching after three episodes. Other than having a complicated, hard-to-unravel mythology, it doesn't have much in common with that show.
I came to Fringe late, after I binge-watched seasons one and two in about two weeks in order to be up to speed for season three when it aired live. And I only began watching the show because a trusted friend said I'd like it. The guy who's the driving force behind Fringe had a habit of taking his shows completely off the rails by the third season so I was pretty leery. But I think this show really came into its own once it introduced the concept of the alternative universe, with all of the implications.
Then again I've only recently started watching the X-Files and hadn't seen any episodes when I first watched Fringe. I guess I can see why it would seem old hat to those who had.
The Fringe writers were very obvious about drawing from The X-Files MOWs at the beginning, and were having fun doing so. The X-Files body-swap episode can be glimpsed playing on someone's TV screen during a season one episode. Like estella_c, I decided to be amused.
The Fringe formula of MOW+Mad Scientist-who-used-to-work-for-Massive Dynamic, and tying everything back to Walter's work--that is getting repetitive--for me. But I'll try not to ruin everyone's fun.
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Date: 2014-05-14 03:53 pm (UTC)I think this show initially drew viewers from the Lost audience, which I quit watching after three episodes. Other than having a complicated, hard-to-unravel mythology, it doesn't have much in common with that show.
I came to Fringe late, after I binge-watched seasons one and two in about two weeks in order to be up to speed for season three when it aired live. And I only began watching the show because a trusted friend said I'd like it. The guy who's the driving force behind Fringe had a habit of taking his shows completely off the rails by the third season so I was pretty leery. But I think this show really came into its own once it introduced the concept of the alternative universe, with all of the implications.
Then again I've only recently started watching the X-Files and hadn't seen any episodes when I first watched Fringe. I guess I can see why it would seem old hat to those who had.
The Fringe writers were very obvious about drawing from The X-Files MOWs at the beginning, and were having fun doing so. The X-Files body-swap episode can be glimpsed playing on someone's TV screen during a season one episode. Like
The Fringe formula of MOW+Mad Scientist-who-used-to-work-for-Massive Dynamic, and tying everything back to Walter's work--that is getting repetitive--for me. But I'll try not to ruin everyone's fun.