Well... not all reviews are getting canned from this blog. I've decided that too much of my time during the week (when I actually get time to blog) ends up going towards reviewing television episodes of Dollhouse and Fringe. Now I enjoy writing those reviews, but too often I feel obligated to make sure I get those out, even if I have a better blog post on the burner.
Furthermore, the reviews often end ...
Every once in a while you need a good episode that plays off of a classic science fiction theme. This is that episode. Borrowing pretty liberally from James Cameron's Alien movies, this episode of Fringe finds the team investigating a crashed freighter with illegal immigrants that had giant hook worms bursting out of their stomachs (up through their mouths however - not actually through their stomachs).
This was another non-mythology episode, which is a pretty ...
This was probably the best Fringe episode of the current season. We don't learn a whole lot about the Observers, but what we do find out is brain food for any geek or show mythology buff.
In this episode, one of the Observers kidnaps a young woman, which sparks Olivia and the team to try and track him down. Meanwhile, this Observer stirs up trouble with his associates by interfering in the natural course ...
After a couple of weeks off and then a missed episode, I'm back on point with the Fringe episode reviews, and this episode brings us back with a non-mythology episode.
Everything about this episode was pretty much standard fair - disgruntled child, mind control, lead character being forced to shoot another character. In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw most of the elements of this episode in a few different episodes of the X-Files ...
Things did not go as planned this weekend. I had missed the episode of Fringe on Thursday night (DVR'ing it), and didn't watch it later in the night like I normally do. I didn't watch it Friday either, but figured Saturday could be a day of television and comic books and I could get two blog posts done by the time everything was all finished.
The first problem I ran into was ...
A decidedly non-mythology-based story, last night's episode of Fringe turned into a belated ode to the Jekyll and Hyde myth with everybody's favorite fringe sciences. This was an episode of feel-good affirmations, bizarre murders and actually unforeseen twists that turned it into a pretty good standalone episode.
Dream states have always been an interesting concept to me. Though I've never slept-walked, I have been adept at lucid dreaming, having spent some time ...
I've been quiet on my blog recently, but it has nothing to do with laziness or discontent, so rest assured that the posts will go on. I made a promise to myself to keep this thing rolling and even include some podcasting and video casting along the way. Recently, I've only been posting comic book and sci-fi television reviews, but that was mostly due to my switching jobs. Now that things have settled ...
Before getting into the nitty-gritty of the episode, I wanted to again point out the growing rapport between the main characters - particularly Peter and Olivia. It's really making for a solidly acted show. In fact, Peter's character as a whole has grown in subtle ways that continue to help Joshua Jackson get out of "Pacey hell."
Non-mythology Fringe episodes are good because they always leak in just a little bit of mythology to ...
Fringe is back on television, which is great for fans such as myself; but moving the show to Thursdays at nine o'clock at night could be the death knell for this great show. Pitting it against CSI, Grey's Anatomy and another cult show in Supernatural doesn't leave many viewers left. FOX is really banking on hardcore Fringe fans to keep things elevated. Thankfully this could change, as Fringe is partially handicapped by ...