I've never heard of the band before, but methinks I need to check them out. (My RL friends ask me where I find all this awesome music...I don't have the guts to tell them it's from all the epic fanvids I watch on youtube.)
It's incredibly refreshing to see a show not only giving a love story the same level of development as any other important plot point
This. Because way too often, it's like the writers of sci-fi's think they have to slap it on the main plot in order to keep people invested. Which in my opinion, they don't if they do their jobs right. Good shows shouldn't necessarily need a romantic B plot to be good. But a well-written romantic arc skillfully written into an already intriguing A plot? That's like icing on the cake for me.
What boggles my mind with Fringe is the fact that throughout the whole first season, during all the interviews with the cast, directors, writers, etc, practically everyone (or everyone I was listening to, and yes, I'm looking at you, Joshua Jackson) was saying, 'they'll never get together', 'I don't think they should get together', 'it's completely platonic' or 'they're like family', which is pretty normal for a 'will they, won't they' type show. It was one of the reasons I was only catching an episode here and an episode there. Except then season two rolls around and suddenly it's instrumental to the plot. And...I just don't get all the denial during S1, unless they don't have things as well planned out as I wish they did.
(Heck, at one point in season three, Sam even tells Nina that the fate of the universes depends on which Olivia Peter chooses.)
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Date: 2011-10-09 03:01 am (UTC)It's incredibly refreshing to see a show not only giving a love story the same level of development as any other important plot point
This. Because way too often, it's like the writers of sci-fi's think they have to slap it on the main plot in order to keep people invested. Which in my opinion, they don't if they do their jobs right. Good shows shouldn't necessarily need a romantic B plot to be good. But a well-written romantic arc skillfully written into an already intriguing A plot? That's like icing on the cake for me.
What boggles my mind with Fringe is the fact that throughout the whole first season, during all the interviews with the cast, directors, writers, etc, practically everyone (or everyone I was listening to, and yes, I'm looking at you, Joshua Jackson) was saying, 'they'll never get together', 'I don't think they should get together', 'it's completely platonic' or 'they're like family', which is pretty normal for a 'will they, won't they' type show. It was one of the reasons I was only catching an episode here and an episode there. Except then season two rolls around and suddenly it's instrumental to the plot. And...I just don't get all the denial during S1, unless they don't have things as well planned out as I wish they did.
(Heck, at one point in season three, Sam even tells Nina that the fate of the universes depends on which Olivia Peter chooses.)