Fringe, my love
So I've been meaning to make a post about Fringe for a while now. And this is basically my last chance since the freaking SERIES FINALE is tomorrow night (or tonight technically since it takes me till past midnight my time to even start a freaking journal post).
I've been looking through my Fringe tag, and while at least half of them are just graphics, I see that I did try to at least make some actual posts about the show, and even attempted a half-assed rewatch at one point. It's sort of annoying to me that I haven't written about the show more, because it's really been the main current (as in, not finished canon) fandom I've had for the past few years. And tomorrow it's literally coming to an end.
I gotta say I have not loved season five. It's not been like epically horrible to me, but it's also not been great. I think part of that is that for me, the main thing I love about Fringe is simply Olivia. And she has been grossly underused in season five. I know some people have (rightly) been disappointed by her storyline for a while now, but I have never felt it has been so grossly blatantly disappointing as it has been in season five. She's had so little screen time and plot/character development. I feel like the show has wasted so much time in pointless plot shit that they could have simplified - looking for endless tapes Walter made and going in hunt of random objects to help them in their mystery plan - that they could have eliminated for some actual character time. I mean, among a billion other things, two of the main characters lost their fucking child that they were just reunited with. I feel like too much of it was devoted to Peter going crazy and becoming an Observer, and not so much what anyone else really felt. Sometimes the emotion in Fringe always feels just slightly more subtle than I prefer. Not that I need things more spelled out, just need things to be more.
Also I could write a whole rant (not really a whole rant, that is an exaggeration. Writing is hard.) about how this show is horrible to the character of Astrid. Season five pretty much ignores her outright most of the time. Olivia barely gets to have an emotional reaction to stuff, but Astrid doesn't even get to have ANY reaction to be fucking encased in amber for 20 years, and the only people she is stuck with that she even knows or cares about are 3 people who are so concerned with their own drama that they barely notice if she is still alive wherever they left her last.
I was going to post a link to my very first mention of Fringe on here, but I only started tagging Fringe stuff in Jan 2010, so I'm not sure if there are posts about it before then or not. And frankly I'm not in the mood to go looking at the moment. Also I suspect I am the only person who cares at all.
Anyway I just wanted to write something up about Fringe. It's been a show that has been significantly important to me for the past few years and it's ending in a few hours. I suspect I will not be happy with the ending (especially if they do a whole series reset which basically erases the whole fucking series which will piss me off so much) but I am looking forward to watching the episode (THE LAST EPISODE OMG). Also I gotta hope it can't be as bad as a certain other sci fi show's series finale (I won't name names but I'm guessing most people who actually read all this probably know which show I mean!). And if nothing else, the show has created some amazing original characters that I have come to love dearly.
This entry was originally posted at http://ghanimasun.dreamwidth.org/322475.html.
I've been looking through my Fringe tag, and while at least half of them are just graphics, I see that I did try to at least make some actual posts about the show, and even attempted a half-assed rewatch at one point. It's sort of annoying to me that I haven't written about the show more, because it's really been the main current (as in, not finished canon) fandom I've had for the past few years. And tomorrow it's literally coming to an end.
I gotta say I have not loved season five. It's not been like epically horrible to me, but it's also not been great. I think part of that is that for me, the main thing I love about Fringe is simply Olivia. And she has been grossly underused in season five. I know some people have (rightly) been disappointed by her storyline for a while now, but I have never felt it has been so grossly blatantly disappointing as it has been in season five. She's had so little screen time and plot/character development. I feel like the show has wasted so much time in pointless plot shit that they could have simplified - looking for endless tapes Walter made and going in hunt of random objects to help them in their mystery plan - that they could have eliminated for some actual character time. I mean, among a billion other things, two of the main characters lost their fucking child that they were just reunited with. I feel like too much of it was devoted to Peter going crazy and becoming an Observer, and not so much what anyone else really felt. Sometimes the emotion in Fringe always feels just slightly more subtle than I prefer. Not that I need things more spelled out, just need things to be more.
Also I could write a whole rant (not really a whole rant, that is an exaggeration. Writing is hard.) about how this show is horrible to the character of Astrid. Season five pretty much ignores her outright most of the time. Olivia barely gets to have an emotional reaction to stuff, but Astrid doesn't even get to have ANY reaction to be fucking encased in amber for 20 years, and the only people she is stuck with that she even knows or cares about are 3 people who are so concerned with their own drama that they barely notice if she is still alive wherever they left her last.
I was going to post a link to my very first mention of Fringe on here, but I only started tagging Fringe stuff in Jan 2010, so I'm not sure if there are posts about it before then or not. And frankly I'm not in the mood to go looking at the moment. Also I suspect I am the only person who cares at all.
Anyway I just wanted to write something up about Fringe. It's been a show that has been significantly important to me for the past few years and it's ending in a few hours. I suspect I will not be happy with the ending (especially if they do a whole series reset which basically erases the whole fucking series which will piss me off so much) but I am looking forward to watching the episode (THE LAST EPISODE OMG). Also I gotta hope it can't be as bad as a certain other sci fi show's series finale (I won't name names but I'm guessing most people who actually read all this probably know which show I mean!). And if nothing else, the show has created some amazing original characters that I have come to love dearly.
This entry was originally posted at http://ghanimasun.dreamwidth.org/322475.html.