What TV shows are you watching?

[indigo0086]

goddamn american television.  It pretty much eats my time when I marathon it.  I think I marathonned three or four several season long shows this year alone.

[Lady Macbeth]

There is a new series on FOX starting Tuesday called "Fringe" that I plan to check out. It looks like it is aimed at people who are nostalgic for "The X-Files". That would be me.

We are also seriously considering getting cable just to see Amanda Tapping's new series "Sanctuary". :sweatdrop

[indigo0086]

I downloaded the premiere of the fringe, gonna watch it soon, though I heard some bad reviews of the pilot.

I also just bought and am starting season 5 of Babylon 5.  Hope it's as awesome as the other ones.

[Jeff B]

i've been watching the first season of How I Met Your Mother and i'm pleasantly surprised...the show is hilarious.  i prefer comedies without a laugh track (the office, curb your enthusiasm, 30 rock, arrested development, etc) but HIMYM constantly makes me lol

[absolutezero]

More people should watch Supernatural.

[Gaelin]

I really liked Fringe. I think it's going to be a new favorite.

[indigo0086]

Originally posted by Gaelin
I really liked Fringe. I think it's going to be a new favorite.

y'mean...I wun see u in da Wost twead?

[Lady Macbeth]

I am reserving judgement on Fringe until I see a couple more episodes. Saku-chan called it "The X-Files for people with ADD" and I think that is an accurate desccription. :p

[indigo0086]

Watching Fringe and already hate the editing.  Removing any sense of time by cutting to scenes at arbitrary time-periods in the near future without any fore-warning is what I hate.  

One thing I do like though, are "Letters in the Sky".  I just love those.  They are so ominous.  What are letters doing, hanging up there, who put them there.  And what is up with F***ING FOX AND F***ING BEEPING COMPUTERS.  Computers don't make noises just because you do a stupid ass search or open up a window.

And sorry to say but the two main characters are the whitest people I've seen in a while.

[indigo0086]

This show kind of stinks.  It's an overproduced uninteresting X-Files.  Just divert funds to bring back lost.  They're even reusing Lost tracks.

[Lady Macbeth]

Yeah, there is an overabundance of white people in Fringe. I guess there was in The X-Files too, though.

About the computers...you should have heard Saku-chan castigating the 'scientist', who had all the wrong equipment and was doing everything wrong! :p

[indigo0086]

Originally posted by Lady Macbeth
Yeah, there is an overabundance of white people in Fringe. I guess there was in The X-Files too, though.

About the computers...you should have heard Saku-chan castigating the 'scientist', who had all the wrong equipment and was doing everything wrong! :p

It was just that the big chunk of the episode wasn't interesting.  They tried to establish relationships in a matter of short hurried scenes before flashing to the next scene.  Then this guy apperantly has 24 hours to live and they somehow populate the basement of some fucker with a ton of equipment and a goddamn cow.  I really see what Saku was talking about when he said for people with ADD.  I mean they basically capture this guy, then somehow get all the answers from him in the short time between the capture and the next flash to which they fix him.  Plus the guy's son is somehow a scientist now?

It really had the production value, the interesting setting, the camera and music (minus the Lost work song) but the actual interesting part [spoiler]The one where we learn about the pattern, which is an interesting concept[/spoiler] was saved until a hurried sequence at the last 12 minutes, which was interrupted by the continuation of the lame episode Plot.

My final words: Please keep my Michael Bay off my TV.

Now Gaelin, explain yourself.

[Rob]

Originally posted by indigo0086
And what is up with F***ING FOX AND F***ING BEEPING COMPUTERS.  Computers don't make noises just because you do a stupid ass search or open up a window.

Yeah?  How about 99.9788% of every contemporary movie or TV show in the past quarter-century whose sound editors believe that every f***ing video game sounds like Atari 2600 Donkey Kong, or worse, Atari 2600 Pac-Man, regardless of the actual console that's supposedly being used?

[Gaelin]

:lol You'll still see me in the LOST thread, whether you want to or not. :p What I liked about Fringe was actually the characters, or rather, what the characters have potential to become. I love the aged and mentally infirm psuedo-scientist (even if the "science" is off, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for now), I love to hate his snarky, too-intelligent-to-see-the-big-picture son. I don't love the female lead, but perhaps she'll grow on me as the series progresses (I hated Scully for a good season and a half). I like the idea of a corporation that has no morals or boundaries and the potential of an arch-nemesis at its helm. And most of all, in that guilty-pleasure sort of way, I love the gooey-ness of it - the bizarre textures, the weird off-color liquids, melty skin and all that other good stuff.

I'll agree that this show is trying too hard to claim that x-files audience, but I'm willing to cut them some slack (it's hard for new and interesting tv to compete for viewers' attention these days, and people are expecting something dynamic when they see JJ Abrahms' name attached. This episode had to deliver to pull in an audience and I don't blame them for shoving all sorts of extra stuff into it to keep people from changing the chanel. If the X-files pilot aired in this sort of market it probably would have tanked before the first season was over. And it is with all of this in mind that I'll keep watching Fringe, hoping that they'll slow it down a bit and give the geeks the good stuff that we want.

And now I'm just waiting for Pushing Daisies. :crack

[indigo0086]

Fringe = (Japanese Action Movie = Japanese music video) - action + (scenes <= 2 minutes)

I hate to say it, but this show is so juvenile...  Here's to hoping I won't fill up on it waiting for the main course that is Battlestar Galactica and Lost...

*Drinks fine Brevari that is Babylon 5 to numbs the pain*