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Tempo 119 posted:Eureka's good too but I never got any Fringe from it beyond the pseudoscience angle. No cow, no buys.
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Tempo 119 posted:Anyone else think Warehouse 13 is basically a campy, budget version of Fringe? It ends next week, I've been watching through it and it really strikes me as being very Fringe-esque. It even has the same kind of awful product placement for cars, but on the plus side they actually re-use some of the cool poo poo they find pretty often. It can be a bit rubbish sometimes, but I'm enjoying it on the whole. They're both following The X-Files, I suppose.
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Tempo 119 posted:Eureka's good too but I never got any Fringe from it beyond the pseudoscience angle. They do have an entire alternate universe that becomes a major point of the latter seasons. 
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May 15, 2014 18:42
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computer parts posted:They do have an entire alternate universe that becomes a major point of the latter seasons. Oh yeah I forgot they did the whole season 4 reset thing as well! It worked better on Eureka than Fringe IMO.
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May 15, 2014 18:53
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Are the videos from the op available anywhere other than the links?
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May 24, 2014 06:37
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just watching season 3 episode 2 (30 min mark). Olivia's bathroom is tiled with no fall towards the drain. Immersion ruined. 
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Did they ever explicitly link together the autistic genius dude that could calculate the probabilities of anything happening and the Observers doing the same thing?
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Did they ever explicitly link together the autistic genius dude that could calculate the probabilities of anything happening and the Observers doing the same thing? No, but I assume that was because the genius was from Over There, which didn't seem to have any Observers.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:59
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The alternate universe didn't seem to have any observers but they could get there as shown in the second to last episode when they rescued observer kid. For some reason they just didn't seem to have any interest. That reason probably being budget and time constraints but I'd have preferred to see the alternate universe deal with the observers instead of the bulk of season 4.
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I started re-watching the show recently, and in the very first episode there is a cat outside the lab windows, you just see its shadow walking along, and it makes a sound. This is the first time I noticed it, and it just seems like an odd thing, since it has nothing to do with the show.
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V-Men posted:No, but I assume that was because the genius was from Over There, which didn't seem to have any Observers. It's weird, because it's literally the same thing, down to the guy's brain being incapable of processing emotions. I wonder if they were going to link them somehow and then just didn't have time/money/forgot.
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i'm up to mid way through season 3 again. Just realised Fuaxlivia boyfriend is Stonebridge from Strike Back
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:It's weird, because it's literally the same thing, down to the guy's brain being incapable of processing emotions. That's actually a really good idea, but I doubt it even occurred to them. A 5th season where both Fringe Divisions were fighting an Observer invasion in the present would have been better than what we got.
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Jul 4, 2014 08:47
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Yeah, its not like fringe to just drop plot lines or anything.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:It's weird, because it's literally the same thing, down to the guy's brain being incapable of processing emotions. I thought it was just implied: "Look, here's where technology is taking us." We're A, Observers are Z, and genius guy was filling out one of the steps in between.
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I thought it was interesting how they just took it as a given that people should be genetically altered, just that they were altered "wrongly" in the future.
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I just got to the fourth season episode where "Welcome to 23 years in the future the Observers rule and poo poo" happens and I immediately stopped the episode. Where does this show go from this point? Does it suck or is it worth continuing?
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Jul 5, 2014 06:07
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It ramps up to excellence of the highest order.
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Jul 5, 2014 06:14
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An unexpected thing happened in an episode of a tv show I was watching, so I stopped watching it. Internet, should I continue watching it? YES / NO Every vote counts. Please help.
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Jul 5, 2014 06:37
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Yes.
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Jul 5, 2014 06:41
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Bloody Pancreas posted:I just got to the fourth season episode where "Welcome to 23 years in the future the Observers rule and poo poo" happens and I immediately stopped the episode. Where does this show go from this point? Does it suck or is it worth continuing? Almost everybody would agree that you're past the show's peak, but if you're enjoying it keep watching it. You pretty much have to watch that episode if you keep going since all of season 5 is a continuation of it, but even if you don't like that direction then you can finish up season 4 since it never comes up again for the rest of the season.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Almost everybody would agree that you're past the show's peak, but if you're enjoying it keep watching it. You pretty much have to watch that episode if you keep going since all of season 5 is a continuation of it, but even if you don't like that direction then you can finish up season 4 since it never comes up again for the rest of the season. Okay that's all I needed to hear. The sudden switch was pretty jarring and I was worried I'd lose all the silly banter between Walter and the cast. Bloody Pancreas fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Jul 5, 2014 06:59
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It is very jarring. The last season is really different, but it's got some really great moments in it (and the current thread title). It's a neat shift to the shows established style, and it's only thirteen episodes long. If yous kip out on it, I'll be happy to fill you in and show you the neat things to look up on youtube.
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Jul 5, 2014 07:23
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I just watched the episode. The bar scene and the notGestapo were a bit cringeworthy, but the reintroduction of half the cast was enough to make me enjoy it. I guess I'm in for the long haul.
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Bloody Pancreas posted:I just watched the episode. The bar scene and the notGestapo were a bit cringeworthy, but the reintroduction of half the cast was enough to make me enjoy it. I guess I'm in for the long haul. Season 5 is great (better than season 4 in my opinion), but it's essentially a miniseries too. It's its own plot. It also provides a much more suitable resolution for the characters than season 4's attempt at that, which felt rather rushed and pat to me.
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Bloody Pancreas posted:I just got to the fourth season episode where "Welcome to 23 years in the future the Observers rule and poo poo" happens and I immediately stopped the episode. Where does this show go from this point? Does it suck or is it worth continuing? Really? That's what lost you? If you've watched all of Fringe up to this point and you think that's too crazy, you probably might as well quit yeah Season 5 is strange as hell but they did certain things better than they ever had before. But it also constitutes Fringe getting to end on its own terms, in a way only Fringe could pull off. It rules.
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Jul 5, 2014 16:00
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Yeah the finale is awesome and if you've enjoyed Fringe at all, you owe it to motherfuckin Walter Bishop to stick with it until the end.
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Jul 5, 2014 16:08
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You'll miss the animated episode... you don't want to do that!
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Rocksicles posted:You'll miss the animated episode... you don't want to do that! That was season 3. Unless you're talking about that one short sequence during Walter's Final Trip™
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Almost everybody would agree that you're past the show's peak, Nope, sorry, not when season 5 dishes out poo poo like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwdKRiD4TJs
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Hard Clumping posted:That was season 3. Unless you're talking about that one short sequence during Walter's Final Trip™ Forgot about season 3. Yeah WTF WFT!
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pahuyuth posted:Yeah the finale is awesome and if you've enjoyed Fringe at all, you owe it to motherfuckin Walter Bishop to stick with it until the end. One of the things I disliked about the end was that it took away the concept of the trial of Walter Bishop for his crimes against the two universes.
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V-Men posted:One of the things I disliked about the end was that it took away the concept of the trial of Walter Bishop for his crimes against the two universes. That sort of went away when they closed the bridge though, especially when the two Walters sat down together.
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The show deserves lots of credit for not backing down from making Walter's indefensible selfishness responsible for destroying the other side. A lesser show would have had the other Walter be the driving force for most of the damage. Also, it would have made him less responsible for keeping Peter somehow, like making crossing too infeasible or a legitimate problem he couldn't solve. Really he was just weak. I'm equally impressed with them keeping the other Walter a victim wracked with genuine grief for the most part, and that they worked so hard to properly redeem him--even if it was kind of a cheat. I just love that the show kept compassion for everyone and made genuine human error the real villain. At least outside of insane Leonard Nimoy.
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Bloody Pancreas posted:I just got to the fourth season episode where "Welcome to 23 years in the future the Observers rule and poo poo" happens and I immediately stopped the episode. Where does this show go from this point? Does it suck or is it worth continuing? If that loses you then you may wish to reevaluate your taste in television.
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V-Men posted:One of the things I disliked about the end was that it took away the concept of the trial of Walter Bishop for his crimes against the two universes. The heartbeat of Season 5 is the redemption of Walter Bishop. While it would have been fun I guess to deal with some sort of courtroom drama involving a half insane man Emoting, The Wyman chose a wildass alternate future hellscape of honest to God full-on network sci-fi chock full of character moments.
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V-Men posted:One of the things I disliked about the end was that it took away the concept of the trial of Walter Bishop for his crimes against the two universes. Yes, the one thing missing from the show about futuremen smogging up the present and ghost typewriters and float bullets and a cow with an FBI jacket: prolonged courtroom scenes Hard Clumping fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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Jul 6, 2014 19:12
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Hard Clumping posted:Yes, the one thing missing from the show about futuremen smogging up the present and ghost typewriters and float bullets and a cow with an FBI jacket: prolonged courtroom scenes
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DirtyRobot posted:Yes, because that's totally what he meant. A literal trial. Not, y'know, an important thematic element of the show or anything like that. The only thing he could have meant was a literal trial, because Walter's entire Season 5 arch was an metaphorical trial. It was about a man finally coming to terms with what he had wrought in a very real sense, and sacrificing himself in order to redeem.
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