Great thoughts! One of my favorite geeky things to do is watch an old episode of a show followed by a new episode, and marvel over how the universe has grown and changed, and the characters as well. It's been awhile since I watched the pilot, but I remember the last time I did - oh, four or five months ago, beginning of summer or thereabouts - thinking how amazing Olivia's journey has been. There's been a lot of reviews and essays calling Fringe "The X-Files Lite," but I think in this respect, Fringe is the far superior show. As much as I loved Mulder and Scully, in a lot of ways, they were essentially static characters, though Scully did loosen up toward the end. But Olivia? It's incredible, her story over just three seasons.
I have a friend who watched the pilot and HATED Anna Torv, hated her so much she refused to watch another episode. To this day I still can't figure out what bugged her so much, but I cannot convince her to give the show another shot.
that's deft on the same level as them finding the bus full of ambered people in 1x03 and then discovering amber comes from the other universe in season three.
I give a tremendous amount of credit to the new writing staff that came on at the beginning of S2, for going back into S1 and finding all these threads and being able to pull so many of them together into one cohesive mythology. They didn't manage everything - they just totally did drop John Scott, and it was kind of weird - but what they did manage was kind of incredible. Because you know the original writers had no intention of doing anything else with the amber.
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Date: 2011-10-14 01:50 am (UTC)I have a friend who watched the pilot and HATED Anna Torv, hated her so much she refused to watch another episode. To this day I still can't figure out what bugged her so much, but I cannot convince her to give the show another shot.
that's deft on the same level as them finding the bus full of ambered people in 1x03 and then discovering amber comes from the other universe in season three.
I give a tremendous amount of credit to the new writing staff that came on at the beginning of S2, for going back into S1 and finding all these threads and being able to pull so many of them together into one cohesive mythology. They didn't manage everything - they just totally did drop John Scott, and it was kind of weird - but what they did manage was kind of incredible. Because you know the original writers had no intention of doing anything else with the amber.