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I’ve just finished watching the pilot episode of Fringe of Fox.  I don’t want to ruin it for anyone who has Tivo’d it or is planning to watch the encore showing on Sunday night, so I’ll just give a quick impression.  If I close my eyes real hard I can imagine a world where Fox has kept the X-files on air well beyond the days where T2 Robert Patrick took over for Mulder and into the Season 15 world where Pacey from Dawson Creek and some unknown blonde are saving the world with the help of their lunatic grandfather.  I think I remember something about Pacey being brought onto the show sometime in late 2002 during the controversial X-files / Dawson Creek Crossover.  Also I’m guessing they defeated the aliens around season 8 because nobody said anything about them.  Chris Carter has handed the show reigns over to JJ Abrams of Lost fame.  JJ has an expertise in  loud violin sounds at the exciting parts and a firm belief that every new series should begin with an airplane disaster.

The show wasn’t bad.  I’ll give it a chance.  The things I liked about it are: disintegrating people, lady with robot arm, communicating with the dead, resurrecting the dead in future episodes (zombies here we come!!), scientists who know all kinds of occult magic, one good explosion, killing a man with a pillow, Pacey roughing a guy up Dawson creek style, car chase, car flip, and several characters with extremely scary eyes.

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10 thoughts on “X-files Season 15: The Fringe

  1. I guess I should probably check it out.
    I thought Pacey was baby william? It always amazed me how Mulder wasn’t all sad and bitter about Scully shipping their love child off to some couple in some place like Wisconsin or some shit and they don’t even know where he is. I forgot all about the psychic spawn until I saw Mulder and Scully shacked up in that movie, it was so shitty I don’t even feel cheated that I downloaded it from some site where some guy filmed it in the theater from a camera in his armpit and then I watched it on winamp.

  2. I know so little about what happened at the end of the X-files. I actually had to look up who baby william was. The only thing I know is Giovani Ribisi had electrical powers.

    Check it out. I think you’ll probably like it.

  3. yeah jack black was in that episode and when the guy died in the parking lot they played a james song that wasn’t “laid”, it was the one about ringing bells, I used to know that shit, back when I used to like them and I only owned 4 cds and then they sold out to Westin hotels and they had that one ambient song about the bear…yeah I think I will. Man I used to work at that shoe store and I didn’t get out of work until 9pm and the show started at 9 and I didn’t have a vcr. I would drive home so fast that I would only miss the opening creep music, I miss liking something that much.

  4. Oh weird. It was Jack black who was the buddy. I just looked it up on youtube.

    Laid still holds up today. I just pulled it out. Not sure if it’s because I listened to it so much in those days or what, but I still like it.

  5. ok, so im watching fringe right now. So I saw the 80 year old man baby and was like yeah no, then Walter’s ridiculous accent had me saying yeah no even more, and then when they are like yeah the dude knocked her up and passed the rapid growth on to the spawn, and the whole think with the pituitary gland was just retarded the way he was like oh yeah he has to take the victims glands to keep him from aging, and I was yelling yeah no at the TV. I know it’s scifi shit, and they don’t operate in reality, but my suspsension of disbelief was just like gone.Then when it got to the eyeball camera I just said come on now! It was like that pottery episode in csi where they recorded the voices in a bowl or some shit on the potterswheel Maybe I am just jaded and I’ve seen too many things along this vein but it seemed old. Even the little insignificant details were derivative. The whole hand in the jar in the car inthe dirty old garage was totally silence of the lambs, and there was shit from the x-files, and jacobs ladder, and the list goes. I will still give it another chance. I didn’t see the first episode, I think the material for this episode was just poorly thought out, It’s like when you buy an album, you know that only about 85% of the album is going to be good, but that doesn’t make you hate the album, but when the first song on the album is their shitty We’re-going-to-break-into-a-new-genre song, then it makes it a little harder to really get into the rest of the album. I also think I just have a problem with the plausibility of 80 year old man babies and growing test tube super soldiers in general, it’s tired old shit and it doesn’t intrigue me. Don’t get me wrong it had it’s good points, I just can’t see them right now.
    There is still hope for me, I hated primeval and torchwood when I first saw them, and now I can’t stop watching. I will just chalk it up to me being overly critical.

    Oh yeah and the on screen text is just ridiculous how they attach the name of the building to the building and make it look like part of the environment. But I won’t deduct points for that because it’s original.

  6. Yeah I didn’t particularly like how they went for the csi style crime at the beginning then solve it formula, but what can you do? It was a cool intro, I have to admit. Some of the dialogue was kind of annoying and repetitive, but it still has a lot of potential. Lots of shows suck at first then hit their stide. I still like it.

  7. i think i enjoy hearing you converse about the shows more than i’d enjoy actually watching them. i don’t watch tv, listen to popular music or go to movies.
    why bother?

  8. I used to think the Xfiles was ok to watch after a few beers, but to me it wasn’t believable.
    Moulder wasn’t like any cop I’ve ever met, he obviously smoked weed and was an acid head, and probably even did meth, so I doubt they’d ever let anyone like that in the FBI even.
    What was that one they were grooming to replace it, the character’s name was sam black and he was always chasing the devil or something? Milenium?
    That was a good beer show too.

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