The Morning After: Into Thin Air

Happy Lost Day, Tuned-Inlanders!

I have to admit, I freaking love this show

I really like the show's clever little touches when it comes to plot devlopment - like how Walter reads through the manuscript and notices the offset "y", and pulls out his ancient typewriter to show the same keystroke. It's not indicative of great writing, (or of bad writing for that matter), but I personally enjoy little nuances like that. I also foud some the dialogue to be skimming on the edge of being really good. The argument between Olivia and that mysoginistic FBI boss was crisp and engaging. I'm not sure what to think about the alternate universes thing. It's not bad sci-fi, it's just a little more out-there than I thought this show was going to be.

ugh. spelling errors.

I've taken the path of least resistance with Fringe: I just DVR the thing and only bother watching it if any given episode is reviewed after the fact as a mythology episode. Congrats Bad Robot, this is now two episodes worth watching this season (after, of course, the Observer)!
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And the parallel dimension thing is out there for a network show, but does allow them to continue the X-Files theft homage, with the parallel dimensioners replacing the aliens - William Bell is from the other dimension, and Massive Dynamic is all their tech, but like the Cigarette Smoking Man & Co. from X-Files, will be revealed to be working on our side (he shared a lab with Walter for years and certainly had access to his typewriter, people), with someone else turning out to be a double agent for the parallelers: either Sharp, or far more likely, Astrid.

Absolutely LOVED last night's epi. Couldn't quite contain myself when I heard them mention my (partial) alma mater. Go Buckeyes!! I actually watched it 2.5 times, much to the chagrin of a certain 'Oxonian' in the house--heh.
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OK, this and last week's sets of creatives, yeah, totally working for ya, Mr. Prod.
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Also, totally heart Kirk Acevedo's expanding role, in all his "...does anyone have a Ricola?" smoothness. Cool.

I like Fringe, but it's hard for me to explain why, I'm gonna bullet point my favorite points.
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Walter, his presence makes the show terribly watchable. I just love the idea of a psychotic mad scientist with a giddy personality.
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The special effects, by which I mean, they're pretty bad/low tech a lot of the time. Teleportation was just a beam of light after all. And even though it makes almost no sense that they would let Walter run all his experiments in a dated research facility with faulty equipment, it lets them keep things low key. But I like the vibe it gives the show, it's almost retro.
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Their take on super science. Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic is an old adage, and this show clearly runs with that. They don't get bogged down in explanations of how that would work .Virus's large enough you can hold them in your hand, christmas tree lights which hypnotize and paralyze you... which by the way is my favorite tech the show has had, I really, really want that to be part of a betrayal at some point. Some character who you think is on Olivia's side, just randomly in the middle of some conversation where things seem to be going her way turns over his cell phone and shows her the screen of it and the lights are there.
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It's hybrid serial/episodic, which is one of my favorite combinations. Episodes can be appreciated stand alone, but also contribute to the ongoing plot arc. So I can feel the pleasure of following character/plot development, but I'm not stressed about missing an episode or two and being totally lost.