The awesomeness that is Fringe

[yahtzee63]

Despite feeling better physically, overall (and thank goodness), I have been in a funk for the past couple of days. Professional woes = woe. Weight gained = bleah. Appointment cancellations and delays = right and left. Undercovers = cancelled. Headache = intermittent. Also, RAIN.

Thank God for "Fringe"!

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[cassi0pei4]

Everything you just said = OMG YES. My day was definitely not one of my best and then I started watching Fringe and I was giddy. Giddy, I tell you, and I am not someone who generally gets giddy, *ever*. The moment that totally made it for me? Hearing Ella's voice on the other end of the phone. Because I could just feel the emotion of her old life pouring into brainwashed!Olivia. And then when she was yanked back, damn, I *felt* that and it killed me.

Damn, Fringe has been so on this season and I am loving it.

On the Rachel front: maybe they can't get the actress who plays Rachel so they're trying to discreetly explain away her absence? Though that explanation makes me sad because it means less Ella and I love Ella.

[yahtzee63]

This season of "Fringe" has been almost unbelievably brilliant; I mean, I thought they were hitting it out of the park last year, but this year has taken it to a whole new level. I'm not sure when I've seen something so high-concept executed so smoothly.

Until this week, actually, my only quibble might have been with the smoothness -- there's so much naked emotion here waiting to burst free, and with the exception of the fabulous season opener, those emotions have remained beneath the surface, simmering. Which is right and good in a plot sense, but I've been yearning for more -- and now we've got it.

Maybe so re: Rachel, but they could have just had HER take a job in Chicago without the weird plot conundrum with the husband she was having custody battles with just a half-season ago. (Or maybe DreamyPeter is getting most of the facts right, but a few things from her fake memories are bleeding in too? That confusion could be significant, later, if that is a deliberate choice on their part. But I suspect not.)

Ella! ELLA!

[cassi0pei4]

re: simmering - I totally agree. I've been wanting more but torn between loving the anticipation and just wanting it all right now. This week was sort of the best of both worlds: Olivia's emotion but not her resolution. And dreamy!Peter is just done so smoothly. Like we could forget that he exists when Olivia is solving a case and then, bam, he right there. It's just so good.

re:Rachel, I hadn't seriously thought about it, but that's a really good point. Maybe dreamy!Peter's mistakes are on purpose, but it feels a bit more like a dropped ball, which considering how many balls are flying at the moment, is kind of understandable.

[cassi0pei4]

Okay, was just reading about Undercovers getting cancelled, and found this.

Fringe CANNOT be canceled. If I say this enough it will become true.

[yahtzee63]

"Fringe" has been a bubble show basically for its whole run. The story thus far has been that Fox figures it's doing about as well as they're going to do in a god-awful tough time slot, but who knows when that will change? I feel confident that no matter what, we get all this year, and my gut says we'll get one more season -- but beyond that, no idea, and my gut is not expert, sadly.

[sizequeen]

Damnit. If Undercovers had had any tension or a sense of real Jeopardy, it would have been a good show.

[yahtzee63]

I think there was a good show in there, but they kept holding out on us -- teasing it here and there -- instead of telling us the story. The potential was totally there, though.