Julie and I have been watching the new FOX show Fringe the last two weeks. I have to say, we're both a bit disappointed. The show could be intriguing and interesting, but the attention to detail in the show is nowhere near the detail on Lost (Abram's other current show on the air). Fringe is a little bit too unrealistic in the details that keep it in the real world. I'm talking about the forensic investigations, classified operations, and scientific procedures. The actual stories are pretty good, the characters have potential (especially the mad-scientist Walter Bishop), and the idea of investigating paranormal, supernatural, and just plain odd happenings is interesting. But Julie and I just can't get past the real-world inaccuracies.
Why in the world was Bishop's lab at Harvard still around after 17 years? In my experience good lab space is at a premium in academia. I would have thought his lab would have been repurposed pretty quickly after he was committed.
And why were Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop the only ones examining the hotel room in the second episode? We saw from the first episode that, while everyone may not have had top clearance to know what was going on, the resources available to the team working on The Pattern were pretty extensive. Don't tell me they couldn't have a proper forensics team exaining the room.
And speaking of Peter Bishop, if everything they were doing was so classified that Dunham didn't have the clearance at first, why in the world does he get to tag along everywhere? Walter is out, you'd think that Peter would be set up in some hotel where he could be out of the way and uninformed, at least until after he signed the confidentiality paperwork.
These are just a few of the problems we have with the show. There were a bunch more, like how did they get permission to move a comatose, quarantined body from isolation in the hospital to an old dusty lab, or why was the last thing the girl looked at a bridge when she was kissing the killer and later was staring at his face when he killed her (that's a lot of images between when she saw the bridge and actually died), or why the Miami Bank of America Tower was called the Boston Federal Building, etc. etc. etc... In a show like this details make all the difference.
People have been comparing Fringe to The X Files, which I can see. But The X Files was slightly more plausible in some respects. At least Mulder was doing investigations alone (or with Sculley) because he was a rogue agent and besides that, other agents thought he was nuts and didn't want to work with hi anyway. In fringe there's supposed to be this group of people all working on figuring things out, they obviously have vast technical and human resources, but they have a single agent and a mad scientist's son tracking things down alone? I just don't buy it.
I hope the show doesn't get as involved as Lost or Alias where if you miss a week or two you're totally confused. If that's the case we'll probably tune in when we can. It's right after House, so there's a chance we'll keep watching, but after two episodes I'm not impressed and wouldn't miss the show if it was gone. Sorry Fringe fanatics, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Why in the world was Bishop's lab at Harvard still around after 17 years? In my experience good lab space is at a premium in academia. I would have thought his lab would have been repurposed pretty quickly after he was committed.
And why were Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop the only ones examining the hotel room in the second episode? We saw from the first episode that, while everyone may not have had top clearance to know what was going on, the resources available to the team working on The Pattern were pretty extensive. Don't tell me they couldn't have a proper forensics team exaining the room.
And speaking of Peter Bishop, if everything they were doing was so classified that Dunham didn't have the clearance at first, why in the world does he get to tag along everywhere? Walter is out, you'd think that Peter would be set up in some hotel where he could be out of the way and uninformed, at least until after he signed the confidentiality paperwork.
These are just a few of the problems we have with the show. There were a bunch more, like how did they get permission to move a comatose, quarantined body from isolation in the hospital to an old dusty lab, or why was the last thing the girl looked at a bridge when she was kissing the killer and later was staring at his face when he killed her (that's a lot of images between when she saw the bridge and actually died), or why the Miami Bank of America Tower was called the Boston Federal Building, etc. etc. etc... In a show like this details make all the difference.
People have been comparing Fringe to The X Files, which I can see. But The X Files was slightly more plausible in some respects. At least Mulder was doing investigations alone (or with Sculley) because he was a rogue agent and besides that, other agents thought he was nuts and didn't want to work with hi anyway. In fringe there's supposed to be this group of people all working on figuring things out, they obviously have vast technical and human resources, but they have a single agent and a mad scientist's son tracking things down alone? I just don't buy it.
I hope the show doesn't get as involved as Lost or Alias where if you miss a week or two you're totally confused. If that's the case we'll probably tune in when we can. It's right after House, so there's a chance we'll keep watching, but after two episodes I'm not impressed and wouldn't miss the show if it was gone. Sorry Fringe fanatics, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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