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FRINGE Season 3 |OT| Inexplicably renewed for a 4th season!

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big ander

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DoctorWho said:
Isn't V on ABC?
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Yeah.
One hypothesis from TVbytheNumbers was that either Chicago Code OR Fringe would be renewed. Not both.
Personally, I think both getting 13 episode seasons would be amazing.
 
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big ander

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NaM said:
lol yeah, nvm...
*leaves quietly*
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Decado

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Shit. I like hardly like anything on the big networks and Fringe is the only non-comedy I like. FOX cancelled my two favourite network shows and now they may cancel a 3rd? :(

big ander said:
Yeah.
One hypothesis from TVbytheNumbers was that either Chicago Code OR Fringe would be renewed. Not both.
Personally, I think both getting 13 episode seasons would be amazing.
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Oh please cancel Chicago Code. Mediocre cop shows can all die.
 
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big ander

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Decado said:
Shit. I like hardly like anything on the big networks and Fringe is the only non-comedy I like. FOX cancelled my two favourite network shows and now they may cancel a 3rd? :(


Oh please cancel Chicago Code. Mediocre cop shows can all die.
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TCC's far from mediocre. It's no Shield, hell it's no Southland. But it has only five episodes under its belt. It's not like it's another godawful CSI or NCIS or L&O or whatever spinoff.
 
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Decado

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big ander said:
TCC's far from mediocre. It's no Shield, hell it's no Southland. But it has only five episodes under its belt. It's not like it's another godawful CSI or NCIS or L&O or whatever spinoff.
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Not as good as The Shield, The Wire, Southland etc....better than "godawful" CSI or NCIS. Sounds mediocre, to me :p
 
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big ander

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Decado said:
Not as good as The Shield, The Wire, Southland etc....better than "godawful" CSI or NCIS. Sounds mediocre, to me :p
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Great job creating an informed opinion through misunderstanding what I posted! :p

It has Shawn Ryan at the helm so the stories are pretty great. The cinematography is excellent. The acting from a portion of the cast is great. Others not as much, but the bad members of the cast get less screen time. The music is great. The action is well choreographed.
Just because a show occupies the vast chasm between "godawful" and "god-tier" doesn't mean it's automatically mediocre. The show is good.
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Just remember, new episode tonight. (crosses fingers for ratings hold or slight increase).

Ken Tucker did a write up about saving Fringe.

Ken Tucker said:
The bonds of family, the ecstasy of romance, the exhilaration of intellectual inquiry, and a secret government agency working to protect you from all kinds of crazy, weird stuff. If I told you there was a TV series featuring all of that, plus great acting and superb action sequences, wouldn’t you want to watch that?

Sure you would. And people who are watching Fringe now know it’s doing something rare: It’s a TV show working on all levels, characters with which anyone can identify, imaginative scripts, crackling dialogue, and a positive message (boiled-down: All you need is love). It’s the kind of show that, every time you finish watching the latest installment, you want to see its next episode right now.

A new episode of Fringe, titled “Os,” airs tonight, and as I explain and exhort in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on sale today, you’re making a mistake if you miss it.
But if you’re not watching Fringe – and in case you haven’t figured it out yet, this is a passionate please-save-Fringe plea to you and to the dear, intelligent, how-much-flattery-do-you-need folks at Fox — here’s what I suggest: Forget everything you’ve heard about Fringe. Banish the notion that you’ll be confused by the serialized nature of its storytelling, that it’s too deep into its mythology for you to catch up. It’s not.

Because like the best TV, Fringe works on a number of levels, and one level is, it’s highly entertaining, accessible stuff. All you really need to know about Anna Torv’s Olivia Dunham and Josh Jackson’s Peter Bishop is that they’re brave investigators for the FBI’s Fringe Division, seeking to solve the mysteries of our world, which may be in jeopardy from another, alternate version of our world. And, by the way, Peter and Olivia are in love in a manner that’s so glowing with passion yet so challenged by emotional roadblocks thrown in their way, they make Romeo and Juliet look like Phil and Claire Dunphy.

And all you really need to know about John Noble’s Walter Bishop is that he’s a brilliant scientist who’s also emotionally fragile, playfully eccentric, and a junk-food junkie (it’s unlikely any other genius has referred to Pop-Tarts as “delicious strawberry-flavored death”). Oh, and by the way, Noble deserves an Emmy for his extraordinarily delicate, wide-ranging performances.

At its big, red, throbbing heart, the show tells the story of a love so powerful, it crosses universes: When Peter was seven, he died. His brilliant-scientist father, Walter, having discovered that there was a parallel universe containing doubles of everyone here, transported himself to that Other Side and brought back that universe’s Peter, to love and to cherish. In doing so, he created not just a rift in the universes (which are now dangerously, explosively out of balance), but also a rift between father and son (when Peter discovered who he really was, and grappled with the idea that he belonged to another Walter, a “Walternate”).

This is the bare-bones version of Fringe, which is creatively capacious enough to also take in the dual nature that resides in every one of us; arcane conspiracy theories that end up as eerie realities; and the over-arching idea held by every regular reader of Entertainment Weekly that we can experience everything – politics, art, philosophy, and cures for loneliness — through the culture around us.

From The Twilight Zone to Battlestar Galactica, the sci-fi/fantasy genre has been downbeat, dystopian, pessimistic, and bleak. In that context, who can blame viewers leery of Fringe, after seeing all those Fox promos in which the heroes yelp variations on “Our whole universe may end!”? We get enough of that kind of message on other channels, like Fox News and MSNBC. Successful, hit TV shows, all hits of any pop-culture kind, have one thing in common: Reassurance. They make you feel that, when you get up off the sofa, you’ve not only been entertained and, at best, mentally stimulated, but you’ve also been assured that life goes on and the future is sustainable.

This positive, utopian, optimistic message is the one Fringe delivers; it’s just that it comes wrapped in a package that some people have too quickly pigeonholed as “dark,” “gritty,” “complicated,” and “it might make my head hurt.”

I’m not going to guilt-trip you and say that if you don’t watch Fringe, you’re helping to create an atmosphere in which daring new shows won’t make it onto future network schedules. Instead, I’ll be sad that you’re not sharing in what could be the best puzzle-pieced epic since Lost, and the best portrait of a fractious family since Frasier, or M*A*S*H. Because right now, Fringe is promising you nothing less than the world – two of ’em, in fact.

Why do you think Fringe isn’t more popular? Will you be watching it?
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mm04

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That article makes me sad. I hate those Nielsen box owners who aren't watching it live. They get pretty large DVR numbers every single week. If just .2 of that .9 or so that usually DVR and watch it later would watch it live, we'd be feeling a lot more comfortable right now.

That being said, it's been a strong season and I'm looking forward to tonight's episode. At the very least, I hope the ratings don't drop, but Friday is such a crapshoot with competition from the box office and all.
 
Zoe

Zoe

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mm04 said:
That article makes me sad. I hate those Nielsen box owners who aren't watching it live. They get pretty large DVR numbers every single week. If just .2 of that .9 or so that usually DVR and watch it later would watch it live, we'd be feeling a lot more comfortable right now.
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I've only been able to watch it live like 2 or 3 times since the move :\
 
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zychi

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PhoncipleBone said:
Just remember, new episode tonight. (crosses fingers for ratings hold or slight increase).

Ken Tucker did a write up about saving Fringe.
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the bolded parts are perfect. i was hooked and ran through the whole series up to the newest episode in february. every time an episode ended i wanted to watch the next one. and it's not like lost where they leave a cliffhanger at the end of EVERY episode, they made me want to be around the characters and settings more. walter bishop is one of my all-time favorite tv characters as of right now(that could change if something occurs in the fringe story)
 
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mm04

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PhoncipleBone said:
The only non repeat competition it has tonight is CSI: NY. All other shows are repeats tonight, so that should help some I would hope.
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Well, people could go out to see Battle: LA tonight. Or watch the world news regarding the earthquake. Either way, all we can do is hope at this point. When do we start our letter writing campaign?!
 
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PhoncipleBone

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mm04 said:
Well, people could go out to see Battle: LA tonight. Or watch the world news regarding the earthquake. Either way, all we can do is hope at this point. When do we start our letter writing campaign?!
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Telling ya, strawberry milkshakes are what need to be sent.
 
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Decado

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I'm afraid now that I'm really getting into it, FOX will cancel it. I'd love to buy the blu-ray box set if this series is allowed to complete its full run. Two more seasons at 13 episodes should probably do it (they can pick up the pace).
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Decado said:
I'm afraid now that I'm really getting into it, FOX will cancel it. I'd love to buy the blu-ray box set if this series is allowed to complete its full run. Two more seasons at 13 episodes should probably do it (they can pick up the pace).
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Why not buy the blu ray discs now and show support to WB before it dies? I know that DVD/Blu sales don't influence the show's fate, but it would help the people making it in some way.
 
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MrDenny

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Decado said:
I'm afraid now that I'm really getting into it, FOX will cancel it. I'd love to buy the blu-ray box set if this series is allowed to complete its full run. Two more seasons at 13 episodes should probably do it (they can pick up the pace).
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Amazon has the second season for 28$.
The first season was on sale for the same price, but has already gone back to its original price.

I watched the first few episodes of season 1 yesterday, and I was surprised on the HD quality.
Way better than the fox tv "HD". I could see Olivia's wrinkles and freckles that I never knew existed haha.
 
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AceBandage

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I'm borrowing S1&2 from a friend.
Loved Season 1, but 2 is already pissing me off.

Killing off Charlie like some kind of bitch...
 
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Solo

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"Theres something here about floaters"
"Yes, thats it! Unless Belly was in search of the perfect bowel movement..."

:lol
 
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Solo

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I love Walter's reaction whenever Peter and Olivia leave together. Also, he looks like a lost puppy when talking about Bell.
 
ElRenoRaven

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Yea it's funny. I love their reactions to his reactions. I'd hate to see what Walter would do if he knew they had finally sealed the deal. He'd probably start cheering. lol
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Solo said:
I love Walter's reaction whenever Peter and Olivia leave together. Also, he looks like a lost puppy when talking about Bell.
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I know. It is so sad seeing him like that when he talks about not being smart enough.
 
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