Fringe season 2
I am now on Fringe 3x01, "Olivia". Here are my thoughts on Fringe, you guys.
So. I stuck with season 1 on all of your say-so, and I adored the creepy shenanigans in "Ability" and "Bad Dreams". And then there was the season finale, and I was like, yes, give me more of this, creepy-weird-oddly-humane show! Yes. So I got back from India and blew through season two in, like, a week and a half. And oh, oh, slow start again but it heated up. I thought "Jacksonville" and "Peter" were a perfect pair of episodes. They're what I love, love about this show: the immensely complicated character dynamics. I love how Olivia and Walter have this strange, fluid relationship where she is justifiedly, slow-burning angry with him for things he undeniably did: but is stepping back because of his vulnerability, because of how unsure she is he's the person he was. (My view: Walter is endearing and charming but hasn't actually changed that much. I think the show is very clever in how it does this, giving him a half-redemptive arc without him ever quite renouncing what he did, or even not doing that shit any more (what episode is it where he drugs an FBI agent assigned to look after him? yeah.))
And then, "Peter". That was perfect, that was one of the best episodes I've seen of anything. It was freaky and well-imagined and heartbreaking and gorgeous. And, and, I like Peter a lot and I adore Olivia, both far more than I ever expected to. But I think the best thing the show has done so far isn't an episode, even: it's a brief handful of scenes. Peter waking up in the other universe, this strange, quiet, muted lakeside world, and meeting his mother. I wanted tonnes more of that - Peter in the new old world, more about the hidden history he has with his mother - but then it all sort of becomes an action movie at the end, doesn't it? And I'm sort of not thrilled with where it's going - I feel like the mystery's draining out of it a bit. (Also, at the end of "Olivia", there is now no character on the show who is the same Olivia Dunham who I've been watching all this time, and there goes half my reason for watching the show.)
But I'm still watching. Please, no spoilers, I'm really enjoying watching it unspoiled.
In other news there is no other news. Job still awful, life correspondingly so. I have started copying out poetry on the bathroom tiles because I am JUST THAT COOL.
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So. I stuck with season 1 on all of your say-so, and I adored the creepy shenanigans in "Ability" and "Bad Dreams". And then there was the season finale, and I was like, yes, give me more of this, creepy-weird-oddly-humane show! Yes. So I got back from India and blew through season two in, like, a week and a half. And oh, oh, slow start again but it heated up. I thought "Jacksonville" and "Peter" were a perfect pair of episodes. They're what I love, love about this show: the immensely complicated character dynamics. I love how Olivia and Walter have this strange, fluid relationship where she is justifiedly, slow-burning angry with him for things he undeniably did: but is stepping back because of his vulnerability, because of how unsure she is he's the person he was. (My view: Walter is endearing and charming but hasn't actually changed that much. I think the show is very clever in how it does this, giving him a half-redemptive arc without him ever quite renouncing what he did, or even not doing that shit any more (what episode is it where he drugs an FBI agent assigned to look after him? yeah.))
And then, "Peter". That was perfect, that was one of the best episodes I've seen of anything. It was freaky and well-imagined and heartbreaking and gorgeous. And, and, I like Peter a lot and I adore Olivia, both far more than I ever expected to. But I think the best thing the show has done so far isn't an episode, even: it's a brief handful of scenes. Peter waking up in the other universe, this strange, quiet, muted lakeside world, and meeting his mother. I wanted tonnes more of that - Peter in the new old world, more about the hidden history he has with his mother - but then it all sort of becomes an action movie at the end, doesn't it? And I'm sort of not thrilled with where it's going - I feel like the mystery's draining out of it a bit. (Also, at the end of "Olivia", there is now no character on the show who is the same Olivia Dunham who I've been watching all this time, and there goes half my reason for watching the show.)
But I'm still watching. Please, no spoilers, I'm really enjoying watching it unspoiled.
In other news there is no other news. Job still awful, life correspondingly so. I have started copying out poetry on the bathroom tiles because I am JUST THAT COOL.
raven is also at Dreamwidth: there is or are
comment(s). Comment there or here.