I watched the last 4 hours of Fringe this weekend with my younger daughter, and it made us glad we had stuck it out for the whole five seasons (well, she bailed half way through season 1, but then came back after season 3, having caught back up). I am not sure exactly how Fringe made it through. It started out very slow and dull, but found it's stride (just around the point that my daughter bailed) when it figured out that at its core this was a Father-Son show, not a gifted-girl in distress show. The relationships between Walter and Peter, and Walter and Astrid, then Walter and Olivia and Peter and Olivia, eventually made Olivia an interesting character in a way she never was or could be when they tried to make the whole show just orbit around her.
Few series have embraced change as much as Fringe, and while not all changes were successful (like most Fringe fans I rebelled against the Peter-less timeline of part of Season 4 was it?), unlike Abrams' "Alias" (and, to a lesser extent, Lost) for the most part the show got better as it went on, not worse. Fringe will not go down as one of the great shows of its time, but it was a good one. If Emmys were only given to programs on broadcast networks John Noble for sure and probably Joshua Jackson would have won one or two during its run - and the show itself would have too (or at least deserved to). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
