Fringe Sci-fi tv series

[Bob Kontak]

Any Fringe freaks here? I have watched and recently re-watched the first four years via torrent ripping to gear myself up for the fifth and last season.

I have to say that the show intrigues me but I am only now - 5th season - seeing a little meat that I think has been missing since the beginning.

I guess what I am asking is, do you think Fringe is crap or great, or just somewhere in the middle?

I am still trying to decide. Honestly, I can't get a handle on it.

[BReif61]

I watched it weekly when it first came out, but slowly declined as the plots became more absurd. The episodes became too formulaic for my taste at that point.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

.........via torrent

How does that torrent thing work?

Do you have a safe link?

I missed the first couple of seasons, but quickly became hooked.

I'm Sci-Fi starved, so I'll eat up just about anything in this area.

It's a good show, and I don't see any decline.

[epbrown]

I think it follows the same formula for any JJ Abrams show - an interesting concept that quickly jumps the rails and meanders all over the place. Alias (originally they were tracking semi-mystical artifacts), Lost (I still dunno what happened there) and Fringe (remember "the Pattern?").

I started watching Fringe because it was interesting - the fringe science stuff, the consipiracy bits, etc; it seemed like a more directed X-Files. It lost all that, and I continue to watch it because the cast is so entertaining. John Noble's character is great and Jasika Cole is fun as his bemused handler, and leads Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson are solid. But the writers have done nothing to engage me in the current plotline, or the previous one, for that matter.

As an aside - the best writing I'm seeing right now is The Vampire Diaries. You know how Pixar cartoons have what they call bi-level writing, where it's entertaining to kids but adults pick up the references behind it and laugh too (like Frozone putting on Hai Karate in The Incredibles)? TVD is like that - it looks like classic teeny-bopper Twilight fan-girl crap and they definitely work to appeal to that audience, but the writers can work a plotline like no one else.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by kach22i

How does that torrent thing work?

Nothing is totally safe. Look for numbers of seeders and leachers. If the seeder number is high you are on to a clean torrent. Also, old stuff is very safe. Newer stuff (like just released movies) is where crap will be found.

Go to download.com and download bittorrent. There are several torrent agents available but I get on ok with bittorrent. Install it and then use kickasstorrents.com to enter in your search query. When you select a movie or whatever, use the first "download this torrent" icon you see.

It will then download the file using bittorrent as the tool/app that does al the magic.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by epbrown

...same formula for any JJ Abrams show - an interesting concept that quickly jumps the rails and meanders all over the place.

That is the response I needed to hear. It makes sense then that not making linear sense is the norm for Abrams stuff. Never watched Alias or Lost.

I looked it up on Wiki and they had a breakdown of the writers. Lots of different folks.

List of Fringe episodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Pattern was hot stuff in Season 1 but faded. Alternate universe? Bowling alley guy? Little boy September? Dirty air? Red Herrings or will the stuff all tie together. Note in the link above, the last episode in the final season is already written. So there will have to be a miraculous set of coincidences for it all to make sense.

At least with science fiction, it does not have to. (e.g., Prometheus)

[Brando]

I've been watching since it aired. The plot truly jumps around like any other JJ Abrams show. This season has quite a bit of continuity and has been great so far.

[gtc]

i would suggest utorrent ("Mu" torrent) over the regular bittorrent client.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Brando

This season has quite a bit of continuity and has been great so far.

Given they only have 13 episodes to pull it all together, it's refreshing to finally see some rubber hit the road.

Sweet to see Peter snuff a couple of baldies. If you look closely at the end of the most recent episode, the head Observer smiles a wee bit after seeing Peter snap the last one's neck.

FWIW - Nina Sharp was William Hurts girlfriend in the movie Altered States.

Here she is in all her hottness: