Fringe irritates me.
Okay, granted Fringe isn't really my kind of show in the first place. I'm not really into horror. But pretty much everyone I like that I work with watches it and I succumbed to peer pressure and borrowed the first season from one of them. It's sort of interesting, if one is in to vaguely sci-fi horror, but it's irking me on other levels.
Okay, semi-spoilery necessary information for what's irritating me:there are three main characters, Olivia, an FBI agent, Peter, the son of a mad scientist, and Walter, the mad scientist. They are all part of a multi-agency task force to deal with fringe science related weirdness, and work under a guy named Broyles, who has some connection to Massive Dynamics, a megacorp that may (or may not) be evil and behind everything
Now for my irritation. About half way into the season, after Olivia becomes convinced that Massive Dynamics is up to something, a guy is brought in to decide whether or not the Fringe division is a good use of resources or some kind of oversight thingy, anyway. This guy is someone that Olivia put away years ago for raping three women, but has somehow been pardoned (by the conspiracy???). After a really creeping introduction which doesn't make much sense - Olivia has escaped from kidnappers but when she contacts Fringe/the FBI for help, she's captured by the FBI instead (which makes no sense to me) and wakes up handcuffed to a bed so Creepy Dude can gloat at her and explain why he's there. After she isn't intimidated, he gives her the handcuff key and leaves the room.
That's annoying enough. I have trouble believing that the show would have brought in a rapist bad guy and had him gloat at a male character.
But in subsequent shows Creepy Dude behaves as if Olivia, not Broyles, were the head of the Fringe division. THIS MAKES NO SENSE. It also makes the whole show feel really juvenile. Oooh, creepy rapist with a history with the only female main character may somehow shut down the good guys leaving us vulnerable to brain melting and other evils of the Pattern. ooooh. Oh PLEASE. I find the "oversight guy may shut down the good guys" plot boring and overused any way, and, no, throwing in that he's an evil rapist doesn't help.
Show, I want to find you at least tolerable so I can join my coworkers in talking about you. Please to stop being annoying, cheap, and sexist now. No love, me.
This entry was originally posted at http://smurasaki.dreamwidth.org/91744.html.
Okay, semi-spoilery necessary information for what's irritating me:there are three main characters, Olivia, an FBI agent, Peter, the son of a mad scientist, and Walter, the mad scientist. They are all part of a multi-agency task force to deal with fringe science related weirdness, and work under a guy named Broyles, who has some connection to Massive Dynamics, a megacorp that may (or may not) be evil and behind everything
Now for my irritation. About half way into the season, after Olivia becomes convinced that Massive Dynamics is up to something, a guy is brought in to decide whether or not the Fringe division is a good use of resources or some kind of oversight thingy, anyway. This guy is someone that Olivia put away years ago for raping three women, but has somehow been pardoned (by the conspiracy???). After a really creeping introduction which doesn't make much sense - Olivia has escaped from kidnappers but when she contacts Fringe/the FBI for help, she's captured by the FBI instead (which makes no sense to me) and wakes up handcuffed to a bed so Creepy Dude can gloat at her and explain why he's there. After she isn't intimidated, he gives her the handcuff key and leaves the room.
That's annoying enough. I have trouble believing that the show would have brought in a rapist bad guy and had him gloat at a male character.
But in subsequent shows Creepy Dude behaves as if Olivia, not Broyles, were the head of the Fringe division. THIS MAKES NO SENSE. It also makes the whole show feel really juvenile. Oooh, creepy rapist with a history with the only female main character may somehow shut down the good guys leaving us vulnerable to brain melting and other evils of the Pattern. ooooh. Oh PLEASE. I find the "oversight guy may shut down the good guys" plot boring and overused any way, and, no, throwing in that he's an evil rapist doesn't help.
Show, I want to find you at least tolerable so I can join my coworkers in talking about you. Please to stop being annoying, cheap, and sexist now. No love, me.
This entry was originally posted at http://smurasaki.dreamwidth.org/91744.html.