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[Fringe] Double the Walter, double the fun[spoilers]
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I'm 90% sure it started off on Thursdays and went to Fridays.
Why, Fox? Why are you evil?
Now I hear even more depressing news.
Well, I can dream.
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About 50 boring minutes followed by the world's most badass glare in the history of glares.
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It went all super-conspiracy and then ended on a cliffhanger.
They technically resolved The Gunmen in the last season of The X-Files, but they did it by killing them dead
At least you died young
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Eh, I liked it. Probably would have liked it even more if I hadn't read that book when I was a kid.
Forgot the name of it though.
Which is totally true. While I dont have the numbers in front of me, Fringe right now is pulling in DOUBLE the numbers Dollhouse and Sarah Connors were on Fridays before they were cancelled. If 3/4ths of the audience follow it, and that 45-50% keeps watching it weekly on DVR, they really could just leave it on Fridays like they did X-Files. As much as everyone says they just are trying to kill it - every network would LIKE something moderately successful (in comparison to other Friday shows) on the Friday schedule.
I love the subtle differences between universes.
Red Vines was a great moment, and Peter/Livia watching Casablanca was a great callback to one of my favorite lines.
"Like Cary Grant said... 'The Stuff that dreams are made of."
Also, Col Broyles at home downing a brew was a nice contrast to our Broyles and his AA Chip.
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I totally agree - just remember (and Im totally aware neilson homes are few and far between) - he said if it MAINTAINS, it will be FINE.
Dont stop watching when it moves to Friday. Dont stop DVRing. Dont stop Huluing (is it on Hulu?). Grab a season on DVD for Christmas.
This isn't yet the uphill battle that Dollhouse faced. No one has said "We're trying" or "We're going to give it a chance." This is just "We're just switching nights because when HALF of your audience is time shifted, who cares what night it's on?"
So if viewers decrease, and people give up, we have no one to blame but us. If viewership stays the same, and its STILL cancelled, then we rage. But never give them a chance to say "Hey - you knew what to do, and you didnt do it!"
I'm actually pretty hopeful that we're going to get a Season 4. Also - a key point - Fox doesn't make this show, it just airs it. Warner Brothers makes it, and Warner has been super easy going when it comes to cutting costs (moved it to Vancouver, made Krik Acedevo [Charlie] sit out a ton to avoid paying him, demoted him to Guest Star when he clearly still could be giving series regular status, just to keep his pay down). So, while its still a long shot, its a BETTER shot than most that Fringe could find another home or do a movie in the unthinkable event it is cancelled.
They better get 1 more season, because there's no way things are going to end nicely like things are at the moment.
I'd love to oblige him for Christmas, if anyone knows where one can get one.
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edit: damn, got beat.
Also I'm a pessimist and think that it'll lose a lot more viewers on the switch than FOX is thinking. I hope I'm wrong.
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because that's right where the move puts it again.
Preeeeeeeeeetty much.
I don't know if Supernatural will come back at the same time, but sometime during the spring portion of the season it will be up against it
But up against SupNatch? I don't know. I don't like the way this looks for either show in the long run.
And yet "No Ordinary Family" rolls on...
fucking Michael Chiklis
I disagree.
Three things
1. Smallville doesn't even need the ratings anymore considering its final season. Also the current season is actually arguably the shows best (and the most "Superman" one. Hell, Darkseids minions are even portrayed good for once for over the top comic stuff)
2. What's wrong with No ordinary Family? I mean it's the most harmless show you can get. Furthermore it has no I mean NO influence on Fringes survival. 0%, nada. It's not on on the same day and its a completly different network.
3. About Supernatural. I hope it gets cancelled this season. Yes, its a great show but it had its main arc and run and is dangerously close to fall into the "Smallville" trap.
I'm just assuming because I never watched the show or even know when it's on.
A bit of theorizing about Seamus Wiles, the writer of that First People Book.
Sam Weiss, when talking to Olivia about his past, said that he doesn't remember his childhood, is older than he looks, and is taller than he appears. The first and third part of that don't really matter to me, but maybe he is referencing that he was alive in the 1800's to write that book?
In Walternate's abandoned lab in the other universe, on one of the chalkboards you can read the words "A DEMON'S TWIST RUSTS" which is an anagram of "DON'T TRUST SAM WEISS". Not really sure where I'm going with it, but for sure it means there is something more to him.
Also, in the finale episodes of last season (Over There, Part 1/2) the first episodes Glyph Word was "WEAPON" and the second ones Glyph Word was "WEISS".
I don't know for sure what I want to draw from this, but I'm pretty sure that Sam Weiss is going to be important to the rest of the season.
Maybe he is the last of the Lost People? Somehow preserved/time traveling/immortal.
Fake edit: Reading back before the post, it looks like someone has already talked about this a bit. Awesome.
Smallville has been very faithful this season and last. But the two or three before that nearly killed it. No Ordinary Family is harmless, sure. That's part of the problem. It's a show almost guaranteed to survive for a long period of time because it's simple and takes very litle risk.
And Supnatch does look like it's starting to go. It's still a pretty strong competitor for Fringe, only because they draw similar demographics (and Supnatch also draws the teenage girl demo, considering it's network, style of humor (not an insult) and lead actors).
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Also:
I'm a bit let down by a lot of the details:
They let Leg-Guy go. Makes zero sense.
Olivia needed a deprivation tank still. Worse, Broyles got her to the 2nd one magically. What did he do? Tell everyone to close their eyes? If they wanted her in Walter's lab have Walternates functioning and move her there.
They let the Leg-Guy go? Seriously, what the hell?
The Other Side is crossing over way too easy all of the sudden. Injectx3, hack a body up (or they didn't and it was supposed to be the crossing over that did that, which just ignores the mass thing), and no matter where you are presto. Why they felt the need for her to be free AND back on that side I don't know. Guess it's less work for Torv.
On the other hand, yeah, "What's your daughter's name?!" and he didn't buy her "It started out as just an assignment..." hook, line and sinker. That would have played out better if she had said that when she had the gun on him and was more direct and honest instead of implying I Love You even if she meant less (guess she just forgot about Frank or whatever smallpox Doc name is if we're supposed to read into her keeping the pictures...). Then, after she says that, he goes "Then I'm sorry for this." and knocks out out or something since he cleverly disabled her gun before letting her get a hold of it. Or anything else but how that actually went.
Olivia didn't have amnesia or anything it seems so that's good. Now they just have to avoid drama over Peter 'cheating-but-not'.
The last time they used a cortexiphan-induced mode of travel and stayed in the other world was when in the finale when they went through the opera house which existed on both sides.
It's either that or it's because they were both 'weak points' in the fabric of reality. Maybe both.
Yeah, I think it's that there needs to be a weak point.
Walternate's old lab - technically part of the quarantined area around the Harvard Yard breach I think
Walternate's lab on Liberty Island - can't seem to get across; she just appears in the Statue of Liberty gift shop and then zaps back
I was thinking they were going to have to have her jump into the big East River vortex for the deprivation effect
To elaborate on the other theory ("tank on both sides"), it could be that her mind was 'tricked' into believing that they were still in the same universe because they appear in the same place (vs the DoD and gift shop) so it stayed in Our Universe instead of rejecting the idea and going back.
Weak spot is probably a better answer though. :P