Oh, hello. LJ-versary. Also, Fringe.

[idlerat]

Yesterday was apparently the ten year anniversary of my LiveJournal, so I thought I'd post something. I just finished mainlining all 5 seasons of Fringe, so I guess I will put some blah-blah about Fringe under the cut.

Comments

[la_sonnambula]

Holy crap! 10 years! It's almost 10 years for me too.

Happy LJ-versary!

Waitaminute. I thought you like X-Files!

[idlerat]

Meh. I loved it at first, then much less so very fast. I never actually made it to Skinner times, so maybe I'd have liked better if I stuck around. But I didn't like the constant paranoia and irrationalism - I liked it better at the beginning when all these things were in tension (government agents/government plots; rational/irrational; science/magic, etc). But then it always came down on the same side - Mulder was always right, Scully was always wrong (or being convinced), the government was always evil. And I didn't trust that the whole thing would make sense. I did like the portrait of America as a nation of isolated weirdos though.

[la_sonnambula]

I think you would've liked Skinner. He's grey. Doesn't hurt that he seems to have sexual tension with every character.

The consipiracy-themed plots bored me. The--ugh--"mytharc" is a hot mess. I love the monsters-of-the-week episodes though. They have the right amount of creepiness and scariness. I

[idlerat]

That sounds pretty much exactly how I felt - one day I'll try it again, I guess, but it sounds like at least 2 weeks utterly down the tube.

[la_sonnambula]

And after watching you might want to look for fanfiction. More time spent.

I don't know if I told you, but The X-Files was my intro to fanfic.