Fringe season 1
Apr. 9th, 2011 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm up to episode 12 and I'm starting to get the same feeling I usually get with a CD full of audio where it's all separate stories. The snacks instead of meal feeling. I been trying to figure it out. I think it's cause so far there's just a bunch of weird stuff happening for some plot reason. I been trying to find emotional resonances and evolving storylines and... not so much. I mean Olivia starts the pilot telling us she has trust issues with relationships, and then her partner is apparently a traitor, and hey, big trust problem, big issue, still an issue, still an issue, still an issue... Stuff keeps happening, but it's plot stuff, she's still the same as she was 12 episodes ago. Same with Walter and Peter, they have a parental relationship where they're both so much in a mess they're not sure who the parent is, Walter is crazy, Peter is running from something, and twelve episodes later... yeah, I don't see how that has progressed much.
And then there's Astrid. Who thus far is a joke about not remembering her name followed by a lot of running around doing errands. A couple of times she knew languages or basic cryptography like a person with real skills. But thus far she's not, you know, a person. Which is not cool. She's right there, all the time, some person-ness would happen in a whole season, and at episode 12 I realise I'm feeling like a season has happened while knowing full well it hasn't yet on account of being American.
I don't know, it might be that I've been awake too long, but it seems like things are happening to people and the writers spend more time on the things than the people.
What I like it it: weird things keep happening to people. And they have dreamscapes sometimes. And killer butterflies. And when Scary Black Boss tells Olivia off for being too emotional she tells him that's what guys always say to women so it's like 'hi, cliche over here, we knows it'. And Olivia rescues herself, much win. And Walter isn't a cop out 'they think he's crazy but he's right!!!' he's quite clearly crazy and right.
I just don't know if I actually care if this new imaginary world is going to get taken over by killer giant cold virus slugs or whatever (eew) because I don't know if I care about this world cause I don't feel like I really know people, at least not much better than I did in the first episode.
Grump grump. *shrugs*
... the thing is, I'm up late cause I keep on watching the episodes cause they may be giving me the snack feeling but they're quite nice snacks and feel like surely the next one will be what I'm looking for.
So, as television mostly wants eyes on, that works.
And then there's Astrid. Who thus far is a joke about not remembering her name followed by a lot of running around doing errands. A couple of times she knew languages or basic cryptography like a person with real skills. But thus far she's not, you know, a person. Which is not cool. She's right there, all the time, some person-ness would happen in a whole season, and at episode 12 I realise I'm feeling like a season has happened while knowing full well it hasn't yet on account of being American.
I don't know, it might be that I've been awake too long, but it seems like things are happening to people and the writers spend more time on the things than the people.
What I like it it: weird things keep happening to people. And they have dreamscapes sometimes. And killer butterflies. And when Scary Black Boss tells Olivia off for being too emotional she tells him that's what guys always say to women so it's like 'hi, cliche over here, we knows it'. And Olivia rescues herself, much win. And Walter isn't a cop out 'they think he's crazy but he's right!!!' he's quite clearly crazy and right.
I just don't know if I actually care if this new imaginary world is going to get taken over by killer giant cold virus slugs or whatever (eew) because I don't know if I care about this world cause I don't feel like I really know people, at least not much better than I did in the first episode.
Grump grump. *shrugs*
... the thing is, I'm up late cause I keep on watching the episodes cause they may be giving me the snack feeling but they're quite nice snacks and feel like surely the next one will be what I'm looking for.
So, as television mostly wants eyes on, that works.