Final thoughts on Fringe
Dec. 10th, 2012 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrReading all theses fannish journals has gotten me all inspired to meta!
So: I have stopped watching Fringe. I had been warned that things got annoying in season 3 after the plot threads of season 2 were finally resolved (in episode 8), so once I reached that point I looked up what would happen next and decided that yes, it was a good place to stop. I may watch more later but for the last few years I've found it really hard to motivate myself to watch more than couple of seasons of any show.
It didn't help that the first 8 episodes of season 3, while good, tended to be rather downbeat and I found that emotionally draining.
These two and a half seasons as a whole make for quite a good scifi story, the science is ridiculous and not all the worldbuilding makes total sense but the characters and their relationships are brilliant, and while the "ending" was (unsurprisingly) abrupt and not SUPER satisfying I still really enjoyed the story I got.
I'm also really happy that my original assumption that Broyles (morally ambiguous black guy in power) and Nina (morally ambiguous disabled middle aged woman in power) would turn out to be EVILLLLL and/or quickly dead were wrong. And even if Peter apparently becomes the center of the show in later seasons (URG 'ENSEMBLE' TV AND IT'S UNAVOIDABLE OBSESSION WITH THE PRETTIEST WHITE GUY) Olivia stayed central and amazing in all the parts I've seen :)
So: I have stopped watching Fringe. I had been warned that things got annoying in season 3 after the plot threads of season 2 were finally resolved (in episode 8), so once I reached that point I looked up what would happen next and decided that yes, it was a good place to stop. I may watch more later but for the last few years I've found it really hard to motivate myself to watch more than couple of seasons of any show.
It didn't help that the first 8 episodes of season 3, while good, tended to be rather downbeat and I found that emotionally draining.
These two and a half seasons as a whole make for quite a good scifi story, the science is ridiculous and not all the worldbuilding makes total sense but the characters and their relationships are brilliant, and while the "ending" was (unsurprisingly) abrupt and not SUPER satisfying I still really enjoyed the story I got.
I'm also really happy that my original assumption that Broyles (morally ambiguous black guy in power) and Nina (morally ambiguous disabled middle aged woman in power) would turn out to be EVILLLLL and/or quickly dead were wrong. And even if Peter apparently becomes the center of the show in later seasons (URG 'ENSEMBLE' TV AND IT'S UNAVOIDABLE OBSESSION WITH THE PRETTIEST WHITE GUY) Olivia stayed central and amazing in all the parts I've seen :)
