Fringe Season 1 discussion

[Roland1919]

Chris Carter must be thinking, "J.J. - stick with LOST". For a show that deals witht he paranormal FRINGE was an uninspired effort with unengaging dialogue or charactres. The idea itself was decent but the delivery from the script to the characters themself was awful. I honestly felt cheated. I hold Sci-Fi shows to a different standard when it comes to dealing with subjects that fascinate us. Sure there is no "scientific" proof of the paranormal but where FRINGE fails is it tries to be like the X-FILES in that, they want you "to believe". through out the show I was rolling my eyes at the poor attempts to "coo" the audience with nonsense. {THE I CAN SEE YOUR DREAMS SEQUENCE WAS VERY B MOVIE LIKE}. Chris CARTER on the other hand allowed his audience for years to use their imagination. This is why the XFILES ran for 9 YEARS. J.J. Abrams dosen't know how to do this, not on this scale. Not yet anyway. The chemistry of the characters also felt "off". I give this episode a C-. Will I watch it again? Yes, because there is potential. But like Invasion, I think this one will down as yet another failed SCI-FI show that failed to capture the hearts and minds of SCI-FI fans.