Fringe (OAD 10/13/2008): "Power Hungry"

[Sirius Black]

It's Friday and no one started a thread for a show back on Tuesday so I'll do it.

I'm starting to like this show a bit more. It is slow in getting me on board though.

We had another Observer sighting this week. Getting off the elevator as Electroboy was getting on the elevator. I guess that's going to be running plot point.

The consciousness of the dead guy crossed over into her mind. That's a little bit, no that's way past my threshold of 'whatever' land. Then again, if we can have homing pigeons that are attracted to Electroboy's signal, I suppose we can have this too.

Is there any real world science at all to that homing pigeon thing?

Like Lost, this show is taking its sweet time to get the overarching plot going. I'll stick around for a while longer.

[Jeeters]

I was really loving the beginning when we were following around the electroboy durign his workday and his elevator debacle, etc. The way that was all presented was *very* X-Files, imo, which is maybe why I liked it so much. But when her dead boyfriend shows up, I lose interest; I just don't care. I don't know why, but I also lost interest and electroboy was captured and the scientist dude was experimenting on him. By that time, I started FF through the show and I don't even really know how the episode ended. Still have the SP, though.

[Graymalkin]

Electro Boy must've been one of the 4400...

[pigonthewing]

Speaking of X-Files, when I first saw much as the opening credits to this show a few weeks ago, that is immediately what I thought. The problem, I think, is that it isn't like the X-Files; it just wants to be. I don't know what made the X-Files great and what makes this not, but it just isn't there for me.

Maybe I've changed. Maybe if the X-Files were to premier now, exactly as it was, I wouldn't like it anymore. I don't know. I'll admit that possibility, but I'm leaning much towards the alternate (and equally plausible) explanation that this show just plain is not as good as X-Files was.

That said, I did not watch this particular episode. I keep thinking about the show another (which would be third) try, but then, I never do. I've seen the one with that guy who had "super-dooper sperm" and, uhm... well, crap. I don't even remember the other episode. Oh, right. The "human radio antenna".

Wha'd'ya think? Should I try another one?

[TAsunder]

The last two episodes have been more entertaining for me. Perhaps I've just gotten over the pseudo-science and cheap tricks. They definitely used a cheap writing sudden solution trick in this episode (carrier pigeons). Or perhaps the plot "really" kicking in has helped.

[jimborst]

That said, I did not watch this particular episode. I keep thinking about the show another (which would be third) try, but then, I never do. I've seen the one with that guy who had "super-dooper sperm" and, uhm... well, crap. I don't even remember the other episode. Oh, right. The "human radio antenn".

I record this show OTA, Fox does not come in good OTA so last weeks did not record. Fox is the only channel without a good digital signal for me. I also missed one other week. I could record off Dish but only in SD and as of the beginning of this season I have no non HD shows to record. Since I don't really care about this show I've just been recording it when it gets a good signal.

[Worf]

One reason the discussion probably hasn't started was the bad guide data Fox foisted on all of us that listed it as "paid programming" rather than Fringe, and causing our TiVos to miss it.

At least they've toned down the scariness a bit... a few of the early episodes have got me a bit worried... (plus with TiVo, when you watch it after 10pm with the lights dimmed...).

(I had to torrent it in order to watch it... which means that Fox got zip for ad revenue. Perhaps next time they'll send good guide data.)

[Rob Helmerichs]

I doubt it was a Fox issue, and it certainly wasn't "all of us," since mine recorded just fine.

[Graymalkin]

Mine recorded without a hitch, as well. So FOX need only simmer in Hell for now.

[madscientist]

Fell asleep, right around the time they followed the pigeons. By the time I woke up, the show had ended and TiVo had jumped back to Now Playing. I've had a long, hard week so it's not entirely Fringe's fault... but it still doesn't bode well for this show for me.

[ruexp67]

It does seem to be missing something. I think that something is plausibility.

I like comicbook movies, and sci-fi. I am OK with incredibly imPROBABLE things, but this show pushes the bounds WAY too far, and it's annoying.

Are they that stupid? Or do they think we are? Neither option is particularly appealing to me. :(

[DevdogAZ]

Just watched last night. I liked it. I didn't mind at all that she's having visions/dreams involving John Scott. First, remember that he's not dead. He's being preserved at Massive Dynamic. Second, Olivia undewent that bizarre procedure in the pilot where her conciousness meshed with Agent Scott's. Under the bizarre rules of science as established by this show, it's completely plausible that there would be some residual effect from that procedure.

I also had no issues with guide data. I think it must have been Worf's local affiliate, not the national FOX feed.

[Rob Helmerichs]

Under the perfectly ordinary rules of magic as established by this show, it's completely plausible that there would be some residual effect from that procedure.
FYP. :D

[carriepete]

I thought it was funny that they showed the arial shots of Hartford and not Worchester. The arial of Worchester must really suck after they created the big Worchester graphic. Otherwise, they would have said that electro man was from Hartford. Or do they want all the locals to be in Mass?

[DevdogAZ]

I thought it was funny that they showed the arial shots of Hartford and not Worchester. The arial of Worchester must really suck after they created the big Worchester graphic. Otherwise, they would have said that electro man was from Hartford. Or do they want all the locals to be in Mass?
It's been talked about in other threads that none (or very few) of the exterior shots are actually the places where they claim to be. Nobody is quite sure why they can't send a second unit crew up to Boston for a couple of days to get some file footage for these shots.

However, I'm pretty sure all of the incidents are supposed to be taking place in the Boston metro. Otherwise, you'd think someone from another FBI office would be investigating. Until they establish that Olivia and her crew are the only ones that can investigate pattern related cases, regardless of location, I think they'll need to stay in Mass. If they write the story such that the "Pattern Team" is like Mulder/Scully on "The X-Files," i.e. the only people in the whole Bureau that investigate those types of cases, then it would make sense for them to go outside of Mass.

[dianebrat]

I thought it was funny that they showed the arial shots of Hartford and not Worcester. The arial of Worcester must really suck after they created the big Worcester graphic. Otherwise, they would have said that electro man was from Hartford. Or do they want all the locals to be in Mass?

FYP, if you're going to nit-pick them on the location shots.. ;)