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Mr. Pumroy posted:i couldn't get past the first season. it seemed like x-files, but all the things about x-files i liked: the grunginess, the juxtaposition of supernatural and extraterrestrial strangeness against the drab grays and the shadowy corridors of federal bureaucracy - replaced with the techno gee-whiz of a csi show. mulder and scully worked out of a basement office and the rest of the fbi treated them like a joke. these fringe guys have a huge studio/lab in an ivy league college. The X-files parts were good, but then they actually meshed together explaining poo poo later on. The digging alien device? That's explained later on. The parallel universe stuff was loving excellent, just that they loving decided to forget about it for the last season for a stupid temporal war.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Until the last episode of the season, where it turns out it was some stuff Walter made and then tossed in a wormhole in Central Park That's the suckiest part of it all. Walter created everything.
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Apr 23, 2015 16:54
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never expect anything, op
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Apr 23, 2015 17:11
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I actually liked the 5th season of fringe. Bunch of people die,olivia has some control over her powers, peter tries to become an observer (thought that was an awesome subplot), and it brought an end to JJ abram's parallel universe obsession.
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JebanyPedal posted:I want to watch Better Call Saul but it's not on Netflix. Six Feet Under is one of the best Drama's ever. IDK how well it aged but it was really really good when i watched it a few years ago, way better than House
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Apr 23, 2015 17:28
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when olivia started larping as spock i put a bullet through my skull and in dead now just watch supernatural or something. after about season 4 it sort of accepts that its ridiculous trash and runs with it, and if youre a pervert theres tons of slash for you to read
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Apr 23, 2015 17:33
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A few weeks ago some goon said that in thevalt universe the people lived in sky ships or something and that made me want to watch Fringe. Do they drop that entire part of the show for the last season?
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Apr 23, 2015 17:33
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Locker Room Zubaz posted:Six Feet Under is one of the best Drama's ever. IDK how well it aged but it was really really good when i watched it a few years ago, way better than House Well, it started as a nice piece of dark humor with drama underpinings and then went all fucktarded. I stopped watching house Season 3, or 4. I own the DVD sets since I got them as gifts, but I can't be bothered.
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Apr 23, 2015 17:34
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Ehud posted:My wife and I watched like four episodes and I went to start the next episode and she said, "do you like this show?" and I said, "not really" and then we watched Top of the Lake instead. This was a really good decision, nice job
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Apr 23, 2015 17:46
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I tried to watch an episode once. Got to the post where some woman does the cliche " drat it i'm a good cop because I get emotionally invested " and so I realized there's no actual hint of originality in the show and turned it off
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Apr 23, 2015 17:56
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It's kinda like the shows nerds never shut the gently caress up about are pretty campy and poorly made
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Apr 23, 2015 17:58
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abrams has never had his hand in anything genuinely good, and he's making the next star wars gently caress
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Booblord Zagats posted:It's kinda like the shows nerds never shut the gently caress up about are pretty campy and poorly made dats firefly no nerd really talks about fringe anymore, even when it was on it wasnt that popular
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Apr 23, 2015 18:04
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Can't believe people are still talking about this poo poo show. I remember my parents watched it. The only episode I remember was about how the military or something created babies that matured super quick so they could grow soldiers. The protagonists found one of these guys and he was already an old man and then I think he turned to dust or something quickly after that. Even teenage me knew there's a difference between aging and maturation. 
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Apr 23, 2015 18:05
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mind the walrus posted:Well yeah Abrams is.the storyteller equivalent of a snake oil salesman. He's living proof that slick visuals and careful marketing trump literally all else. Abrams literally had nothing to do with the show after the pilot, so you're actually right because even goons who think they're too smart for marketing still attribute everything to the name marketing used to promote the show
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Apr 23, 2015 18:06
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if you want a modern X-Files just watch Supernatural. it has all the same writers and the same Canadian actors and locations only with a different coating of genre paintMale Tears posted:Can't believe people are still talking about this poo poo show. I remember my parents watched it. The only episode I remember was about how the military or something created babies that matured super quick so they could grow soldiers. The protagonists found one of these guys and he was already an old man and then I think he turned to dust or something quickly after that. Even teenage me knew there's a difference between aging and maturation. television isn't real
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Apr 23, 2015 18:08
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Sleeveless posted:Abrams literally had nothing to do with the show after the pilot, so you're actually right because even goons who think they're too smart for marketing still attribute everything to the name marketing used to promote the show Well its kind of strange how nearly everything JJ abrams touches has to include alternate universes to explain away lovely plotlines that never make sense.
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Apr 23, 2015 18:09
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On the subject of this, I think there's a guy who does the conspiracy circuit named Andrew Basiago who I think claims the TV show Fringe based everything on his real life... WITHOUT his permission.
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Apr 23, 2015 18:41
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The show was alright as a monster-of-the-week style show, kind of a low rent X-Files in HD if you will. Then it became a fan-service wankfest and basically unwatchable. tl;dr goons killed this show
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Apr 23, 2015 19:16
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Sleeveless posted:Abrams literally had nothing to do with the show after the pilot, so you're actually right because even goons who think they're too smart for marketing still attribute everything to the name marketing used to promote the show
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Apr 23, 2015 19:33
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Fringe is p good. Had a good ending that tied up the main loose ends of the show in a satisfying way (unlike loving Lost and BSG), and featured a lot of great acting that saved the show from some of its awful storylines (SOUL MAGNETS). I'd say the bread & butter of the show is seasons 3-5, with 1 & 2 filled with some good stuff but a lot of poo poo too.
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Apr 23, 2015 19:37
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It's cool how Abrams can use coke to come up with TV and movie ideas by combing different TV and movies that came out before. Abrams: I'm gunna make a show SNNNIIIIFFFFFFF based on Lord of the Flies only SNNNIIIIFFFFFFF combined with Twin Peaks and then make a movie SNNNIIIIFFFFFFF based on Godzilla only SNNNIIIIFFFFFFF combined with the aliens from Independence Day SNNNIIIIFFFFFFF Edit: and by cool I mean terrible and bad
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Apr 23, 2015 19:52
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It's gay.
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Apr 23, 2015 19:53
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The X-Files was a crappy show that was totally watchable because the two leads did a great job making their characters interesting and likable. Fringe was a much better show, but the two leads were terrible lifeless C-list props. They should have been written out so it could have just been about the crazy drugged out mad scientist dropping acid and trying to save the universe.
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Apr 23, 2015 20:23
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mind the walrus posted:Well yeah Abrams is.the storyteller equivalent of a snake oil salesman. He's living proof that slick visuals and careful marketing trump literally all else. not uh star trek ROCKED
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Frankenstyle posted:The X-Files was a crappy show that was totally watchable because the two leads did a great job making their characters interesting and likable. Fringe was a much better show, but the two leads were terrible lifeless C-list props. They should have been written out so it could have just been about the crazy drugged out mad scientist dropping acid and trying to save the universe. no no no you're dumb shut up. X-files was carried by the main characters but the mutants of the week were always great, the smoking man's backstory and mulder's dad's were great and you're ignoring Skinner. Not only that, they kept the continuous story to like 4 episodes per season (lol) because it couldn't carry the show, but what story they had was coherent up until like season 7 or 8 after mulder left. At the very least they used believable pseudo science to explain most of the poo poo in the show. fringe has an awful story with embarrassing plot devices like "soul magnets", constant doomsday devices, and dumb poo poo like how peter is "the chosen one". The story loving sucked and olivia is a cold, unempathetic character. I remember one of the episodes where it was done completely with cgi or computer animations where they enter olivia's dream and it was the most awkward things I've ever watched in my life, horrible animations and terrible directing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_Acid_Diethylamide_%28Fringe%29. Then they just gave up on actual "fringe science" and went full-fantasy where absolutely nothing was believable in the show. fringe is loving dumb. a bone to pick fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Nah. X-files was a weekly battle with Swamp monsters and vampire towns, and yet somehow every other character was like "Mulder would be a good cop it wasn't for his bigfoot fetish". Then the overarching story had the same problem as Lost with the whole "Let's set up a super mystery without any idea where we're going so that we write ourselves into a corner where there's no payoff for the hype". It was a bad show with with a good cast and a handfull of great episodes. Like the hillbilly episode, goddamn.
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i think a part of what made the xfiles own so hard was the atmosphere. the music and environments and lighting and poo poo made it super creepy. some of the writing wasn't great but i think as a whole it was pretty solid. until the last couple of seasons. when they brought in budget-mulder and super saiyan soldier alien hybrids
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Apr 23, 2015 21:14
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on second thought budget mulder did a pretty good job but the fact that he even had to be introduced suggested that maybe the xfiles had begun to over stay its welcome
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Every time I try to binge through all of the X-Files I get stuck in season 7. Usually it's that goddam Kathy Griffin episode. Or that one ep with Scully walking around in slow motion to sexy music that feels like a fever dream, I can't even look it up because I don't think anything actually happens
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If you haven't tapped out by the time X-Files gets to the first movie you should seriously question whether you have better things to do with your life.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Fringe did one thing that I liked. In the third season there was this plot about the "first people" who left behind some advanced technology and all that poo poo, and I was rolling my eyes pretty hard. Guess the writers liked Assasins Creed.
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Apr 23, 2015 22:08
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yeah I don't like how it cuts into my forum posting time
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Sleeveless posted:Abrams literally had nothing to do with the show after the pilot, so you're actually right because even goons who think they're too smart for marketing still attribute everything to the name marketing used to promote the show Abrams is a blanket term for all the assholes involved in the production of Fringe, much in the same way we credit Tarantino or Cameron for their projects despite being the collaberative efforts of literally hundreds of people. Cool that you're a pedant about it though.
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JediTalentAgent posted:On the subject of this, I think there's a guy who does the conspiracy circuit named Andrew Basiago who I think claims the TV show Fringe based everything on his real life... WITHOUT his permission. I looked this up lol quote:Basiago reveals that President Barack Obama (who was known to him as Barry Soetoro at the time) was his classmate in a Mars training program held at the College of the Siskiyous in 1980. Other classmates were Regina E. Dugan who Obama appointed Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2009, William C. McCool who was piloting the Space Shuttle Columbia when it disintegrated, and William Brett Stillings. Stillings says he also traveled to Mars and saw Obama on the planet. Stillings and Basiago say that the class was taught by Major Ed Dames who was a Captain at that time. Dudes pretty crazy but there are a lot of overlaps between his story and Fringe.
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Apr 23, 2015 22:35
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just watch x files OP
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Flo Cytometer posted:So it was basically like Millennium that nobody watched and remembers either? Hey, Millennium was amazing. At least for the first two seasons. Season 3 was like an abortion that didn't die. They thought they were getting canceled, so they went out with a bang at the end of season 2. Fox came back to them and, basically, said "LOL, just kidding! give us another season." That's why season 3 is so bad. Don't know if the same scenario holds true for Fringe season 5.
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Professor Shark posted:I watched the first season when it originally aired but didn't pick up the next season. It's on Netflix mow, and I just finished rewarching the first season again and I'm on the second now. you shut your dirty whore mouth
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JebanyPedal posted:I want to watch Better Call Saul but it's not on Netflix. I would recommend fellow AMC show Halt and Catch Fire.
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JebanyPedal posted:I want to watch Better Call Saul but it's not on Netflix. The shield Rome
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