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My thoughts on the first episode of Fringe

Eh.

I was sort of not-wowed, and then the following dialogue happened:

First guy: What do we do now?
[pause]
Second guy: Now, we wait.

Jesus fuck. No seriously, I had an urge to take pen to paper and list everywhere I’d heard that before.

I’m supposed to be into this shit? Become obsessed? The preview made me think “rip-off of Threshold.” Threshold was a sci-fi show that didn’t take off, and got cancelled mid-season, but I really liked it. Carla Gugioni, Peter Dinklage, Brent Spiner, Charles S. Dutton, alien invasion. I thought it was really intelligent. And I could see all these parallels, based on the preview. Well, Threshold was better. More compelling, scarier, with a more interesting assortment of characters. Hell, even the stiff pseudo-acting of The 4400 was better than this!

One more week, maybe, and then I’m done.