This show is on the verge of becoming a terrible joke. The Somali Man who captured our heroic crew was an absolute mess of a character. He was a ruthless killer, an overly talkative exposition giving blabber mouth, a believer in God, a gum chewer, and easily persuaded by our heroine. Also, thankfully, he is dead now.
I will not even begin to complain about how ridiculous it was that our heroes went with him into the structure after he killed half their crew. I will also not complain about how stupid he was for going with them alone and without any backup. Well, I will not complain beyond those two sentences I guess!
Janice and Demetri seriously discussing baby making had me feeling a little sick inside. Demetri has seemed like a stand up, if overly guarded, guy this entire series, why would he make the "I'm about to die" pass at an obviously gay woman considering he is happily engaged? Even though Demetri and Janice recognized the fact that their discussion was out of character for both of them, it does not excuse the lazy writing.
After avoiding Charlie for the better part of a season, Olivia is able to get her to reveal her flash in a 2 minute conversation. Is squirrellio and the other weird character name a real thing or is it simply an overly annoying fake kids show created for Flashforward? Did they need to cast the character of the C.I.A. agent before they could get Charlie girl to spill the beans or are they really just figuring this out as they go along?
Mark still has not noticed that his AA sponsor/only friend outside of work has packed his bags and headed to Afghanistan. That or he simply does not care. Either explanation is likely. I would like to note that Mark is a complete dirt bag for not moving to Denver. I hope Olivia does leave him and ends up happily married to Lloyd.
I will admit that I do now enjoy the Bryce and Nicole storyline. I still am furious about the fact that he was going to kill himself at the beginning of this series but I expect the anger to subside any day now. Bryce and Nicole are the only two characters that have not done something ridiculous to annoy the viewers of this series.
Does anyone else remember when Mosaic was so important that Wedeck was playing basketball with the President? Is it not odd that a random C.I.A. operative from China now outranks Stan?
While I despise 96% of the characters on this show I am interested in the payoff of the story. I was happy that Greek tragedy was mentioned as a cautionary tale for our characters last night, however briefly. FlashForward is not "Lost" or "BSG" but it at least wants to be and for that reason I will stick with it through its first and only (hopefully) season.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Fringe: Peter
Fringe took a fairly big risk with this episode and it paid off tremendously. Instead of giving us the story of how this Peter got to our world in bits and pieces, the show devoted an entire hour to the events of 1985. We even got an alternate opening to Fringe that was more than a little reminiscent of Tron. The best part about alternate 1985 was the fact that Eric Stoltz (now of Caprica fame) was somehow the star of Back to the Future.
While this episode was called "Peter", Joshua Jackson did not appear in it at all. That said, the little boy they hired to play young Peter was possibly the best case of casting I have ever seen on television.
The "Observer" caused the incident that motivated Walter to steal Peter 2.0 from "Walternate". That has got to be significant. We still do not know why the "Observers" do what they do or where the come from. Though based on the episode where an Observer died, I think it is safe to assume they are higher beings of some kind. What does it mean when a higher being believes you are too important to die?
One has to assume that Carla will play a big role in the future of this series. She attempted to be Walter's conscience and stop him from tearing the fabric of reality, but she failed. She is a believer in God, or at least was in 1985, and has four doctorate degrees. Carla was part of William Bell's inner circle before Massive Dynamic existed, which means she is currently rich, dead, or has had her memories removed like Walter.
I loved the way this episode felt like a giant Fringe puzzle piece just snapped into place. Moments like when Nina's arm phased out of reality and Walter fell through the ice with Peter 2.0 could be felt coming, but that did not take away from the overall impact of this episode. In fact, I began to feel like the writers of this series may actually have a plan on where is is going.
Kudos to the wig people. I truly believed that Walter was 25 years younger with that 1985 hair. Sure his face did not look much different than it does now, but the hair really did the trick.
While this episode was called "Peter", Joshua Jackson did not appear in it at all. That said, the little boy they hired to play young Peter was possibly the best case of casting I have ever seen on television.
The "Observer" caused the incident that motivated Walter to steal Peter 2.0 from "Walternate". That has got to be significant. We still do not know why the "Observers" do what they do or where the come from. Though based on the episode where an Observer died, I think it is safe to assume they are higher beings of some kind. What does it mean when a higher being believes you are too important to die?
One has to assume that Carla will play a big role in the future of this series. She attempted to be Walter's conscience and stop him from tearing the fabric of reality, but she failed. She is a believer in God, or at least was in 1985, and has four doctorate degrees. Carla was part of William Bell's inner circle before Massive Dynamic existed, which means she is currently rich, dead, or has had her memories removed like Walter.
I loved the way this episode felt like a giant Fringe puzzle piece just snapped into place. Moments like when Nina's arm phased out of reality and Walter fell through the ice with Peter 2.0 could be felt coming, but that did not take away from the overall impact of this episode. In fact, I began to feel like the writers of this series may actually have a plan on where is is going.
Kudos to the wig people. I truly believed that Walter was 25 years younger with that 1985 hair. Sure his face did not look much different than it does now, but the hair really did the trick.
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