I keep hearing you talk about it, and I keep thinking, "Hm, I should watch that..." Maybe over the summer, when some of my other shows are off...
TOTALLY WORTH IT. Although to be fair, it's slow to get going, and it's casefiley for the first ten or fifteen episodes. But it gets brilliant around the end of S1 and just keeps getting better. It's like if Chris Carter had had a clue about what he wanted to do with his mytharc!
How many seasons is Fringe at now?
The S3 finale aired last week. I don't think they're coming back until October, so you've got plenty of time to get up to speed.
I dunno, he was old enough to be all FOSTER!AAAAAANGST about it, so maybe grade-school? He definitely seemed to be old enough to remember it, at least, and not just be told it from his foster parents.
I was thinking maybe seven or eight, yes.
I wonder if the foster situation explains some of the class issues with Peter: maybe his biological family was lower class, then he got adopted by upper-middles, but he tends to identify more with his roots, class-wise?
Perhaps? I'm not familiar with Philadelphia at all, but if they were in NYC, his nearly r-less accent would strike me as an attempt to mark him as working class, in contrast to the neighborhood he said he grew up in. Though I think the simpler explanation is that Nic Bishop can't do the very best American accent yet... (Whyyyyyy won't they let him just be Australian? His accent is gorgeous! Also, that whole cast is adorable.)
But what is UP with the episode rearranging?? How does that benefit the network at all??
I have NO idea. My thought was that they knew the first several episodes were really awful and they wanted to put some better ones from later in the season to get people into the show, but I don't think it was worth the continuity-screwing.
They have 13 episodes in the can, and that's all for this season. If/when they get picked up (it's not a sure thing, but most people seem to think it will happen; we should know next week), they'll go straight to season two. Depending on how desperate ABC is and how good next season's crop of pilots looks, they may get either a 22-episode order of a 13-episode order with an option for a back nine if ratings are decent. At the end of this month, they're going to have four episodes of S1 left over; the question there is whether they'll show them in June, or roll them into next season. Hopefully they'll show them in June...
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Date: 2011-05-09 08:09 pm (UTC)TOTALLY WORTH IT. Although to be fair, it's slow to get going, and it's casefiley for the first ten or fifteen episodes. But it gets brilliant around the end of S1 and just keeps getting better. It's like if Chris Carter had had a clue about what he wanted to do with his mytharc!
How many seasons is Fringe at now?
The S3 finale aired last week. I don't think they're coming back until October, so you've got plenty of time to get up to speed.
I dunno, he was old enough to be all FOSTER!AAAAAANGST about it, so maybe grade-school? He definitely seemed to be old enough to remember it, at least, and not just be told it from his foster parents.
I was thinking maybe seven or eight, yes.
I wonder if the foster situation explains some of the class issues with Peter: maybe his biological family was lower class, then he got adopted by upper-middles, but he tends to identify more with his roots, class-wise?
Perhaps? I'm not familiar with Philadelphia at all, but if they were in NYC, his nearly r-less accent would strike me as an attempt to mark him as working class, in contrast to the neighborhood he said he grew up in. Though I think the simpler explanation is that Nic Bishop can't do the very best American accent yet... (Whyyyyyy won't they let him just be Australian? His accent is gorgeous! Also, that whole cast is adorable.)
But what is UP with the episode rearranging?? How does that benefit the network at all??
I have NO idea. My thought was that they knew the first several episodes were really awful and they wanted to put some better ones from later in the season to get people into the show, but I don't think it was worth the continuity-screwing.
They have 13 episodes in the can, and that's all for this season. If/when they get picked up (it's not a sure thing, but most people seem to think it will happen; we should know next week), they'll go straight to season two. Depending on how desperate ABC is and how good next season's crop of pilots looks, they may get either a 22-episode order of a 13-episode order with an option for a back nine if ratings are decent. At the end of this month, they're going to have four episodes of S1 left over; the question there is whether they'll show them in June, or roll them into next season. Hopefully they'll show them in June...