Jrecee wrote:indecks wrote:Gamerforlife wrote:Watched the last Fringe episode, great stuff. The show feels so different this season. People lament the cancellation or end of a show, but that is often the most exciting time. It's when shows get to be their most daring, because there's nothing left to lose. Fringe feels that way this season. Now, I could probably find some things to nitpick about this season sure, but overall this feels like the show I kind of wish Fringe always was. I love that they've dropped the crisis of the week, procedural format for this season. That's the biggest improvement. Plus, there's more action and it feels somehow more cinematic too.
I agree about creature of the week type shows, but I always thought that was part of Fringe's charm. Seeing as how Olivia's job was to find creatures and wacky things on a weekly basis. And of course I totally loved the overall story arc. But this season to me doesn't feel like Fringe. I feel like they've actually ended the show with last season, and now they're just sorta milling around with the Observers.
I hope we get an answer as to why they attacked, other than 'they ruined their Earth.' I want to know what made them evil. It didn't seem like they were bad guys during the show's run. They always felt like Utau, the Watcher to me. They were watchers, Observers, not some invading alien/future race. It was surprising in that one-off episode from last season when they said the Observers attacked and took over.
Anyway, the season hasn't been bad at all, it's been great, but it just doesn't feel like Fringe to me.
I agree. I like serialized TV shows much more than the procedural monster of the week, but Fringe always managed to blend it in a way that a lot of shows fail. Sometimes the main story was so good that I wanted to get away from the monster of the week storyline, but most the time I stayed entertained with both. This season just doesn't feel like fringe. It's entertaining for the most part, but it feels like a brief subplot before the show gets back to its core. . . except it's not, it's the end. The show really started picking up when the Massive Dynamic/William Bell storyline got going, and really got into its prime when they started fleshing out the alternate universe. But now they've dropped the alternate universe for the most part, and turned these sort of Mystical Observers into electronics powered Agent Smiths. A lot of things have been dropped completely too, like the guy in the animated episode who "kills Olivia", and the fact that except for Peter and Olivia, none of the characters are actually the ones we watched for the first 3 seasons. The ending of the most recent episode gives me hope though. Maybe September can shed some light on all this stuff and make it work.
Boy, we've gotten really spoilery here.
You guys make some good points. I always hated how they dropped that whole subplot about the guy who was supposed to kill her, and I do miss the alternate universe. Few shows are perfect though (except maybe Breaking Bad) so I've cut them some slack for that stuff and have just tried to enjoy the final season for what it is. I think they've delivered some great drama, great action, and very emotional moments. I think we'll get a better ending than Lost gave us
This season feels a lot like the final episodes of Dollhouse, but that's spoilery
BurningDoom wrote:Gamerforlife wrote:Green Lantern and Young Justice came back too this past Saturday. YJ had a potential game changer moment at the end of the episode and Green Lantern continues to put out some seriously epic episodes that feel like mini-movies.
For sure. Last week's Green Lantern episode was awesome! It was like Hal Jordan visited and Elseworlds universe. The Steam Lantern and his world was just so cool. Victorian, yet Pulp-like at the same time.
And then the appearance of the Anti-Monitor at the end...WOW! If Green Lantern TAS gives us the Crisis on Infinite Earths story, I can't freaking wait! How epic would that be?!
Yeah, that ran through my mind with the Anti-Monitor being on the show, but I think that's too complex and big a story line for them to do on TV. Kudos to them if they can pull it off without confusing the heck out of the audience though
On a completely other note, I just watched the season 1 finale of
Homeland and it was fucking brilliant! Few shows have built up tension and suspense like this episode did, and that was only in like the first half of the episode. So many other things happened after. Jam packed episode that held my interest all the way through
I think when Breaking Bad goes off the air with its last season, people will be calling Homeland the best show on TV. Of course, I say that with the assumption that season 2 has been as stellar as what I've seen in the first season. I think there are also parallels between Homeland and Breaking Bad. Although the shows are very different overall, there's one particular aspect of the show that is a lot like Breaking Bad. I don't want to say too much more in order to not spoil either show for others.
