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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Neumatic Date: August 24, 2013, 10:48 pm
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Finally finished the series... I'm actually trying to remember
what the heck happened in the other seasons, I remember wide
swaths of storyline and lots of gore (hence the "don't eat while
watching Fringe" rule) because the fifth season is so different
than the others-- no science experiments and so on. It's
actually what I imagine NBC's Revolution being like. The black
market scene actually made me think of what little Dark Angel I
saw.
I enjoyed the series (though probably not as much as, say, the
war between parallel universes, which was a TV concept *I* had
but they beat me to the punch, but they did a much better than I
ever could have) but I can't wrap my head around WHY the
Observers took over 2015 in the first place... it's my Red Dawn
problem all over again. Why did they come back, what did they
have to gain, and what was the point? And I'm annoyed whenever
we see fascist forces in the future and they dress like Nazis
from the 1930s. Especially here when the Observers are based on
the 60s, they're VERY Twilight Zone.
Oh, I've gotta call you out, Chip: the Black Blotter sequence
isn't Yellow Submarine, it's Monty Python. You heathen.
There was one scene where Windmere jumps to 2609 and we get to
see the future (including the floating title translated which I
thought was a brilliant touch) and it reminded me of Enterprise
and I kept thinking it's SO weird that these guys would have
done a brill job with that series (which also had time
travelling invaders, parallel universes, experiments and stuff)
but they DID Star Trek and it wasn't barely as interesting as
this. I just thought that was weird.
I also thought it was weird that they had full run of their lab
with the lights on and loud equipment and it didn't draw any
attention after they aged up that one guard. Hard to believe
that.
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 24, 2013, 10:56 pm
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Sure, if you look hard enough. Well actually, you don't have to
look all that hard, you will find lots of holes. I don't even
remember anything about any Yellow Submarine. I am drawing a
blank on that. Anyway, I'm gonna have to revisit this as a
whole. Even though I loved pretty much everything the entire
series had to offer, it was and is a very dense series that
casual viewers would not be able to jump into the middle off. No
amount of "Previously on Fringe" would fix that. I watched every
episode as they aired, but during the summer hiatus, I would
forget huge chunks of plot that had happened the previous
season. So, I am definitely gearing up for a Fringe Marathon. I
just have to wait for the price drop for the Complete Series. As
it stands now, it's still out of my price range, even though
it's on "sale". Once it gets down to around $70-75 range, that's
when I will grab it.
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 24, 2013, 10:58 pm
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Okay, I got a couple of watches going on for the Complete Series
on eBay. Plenty of bids right now, but still relatively cheap.
The price will definitely swell as the auction gets closer to
ending 4 days from now.
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Neumatic Date: August 24, 2013, 11:13 pm
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The Futurama ep "Bender's Game" has a great Yellow Submarine
tribute animation.
I wanna watch the whole thing again just cause I love Walter
Bishop so much (I love that in the first episode he wanted a cow
just to watch cartoons with it). John Noble got to do so much
with Walter, he starts as this hurt, scared, lost individual,
then you get Walternate who's cold and cruel and you realize
just how much range all this actor can bring to the table. I
also just adore Parallel Universe Astrid, she's so cute!
Actually dig all the actors in this, I really do hope that they
all do something together again like a romantic comedy or
something, they're fun to watch together and so bloody talented.
I have to say one of the things in the series that won me over
was the opening sequence, at first I didn't get it, but then we
start seeing these alternate versions (I love the VHS-y 80s
version) and I "got" what it was supposed to be.
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 24, 2013, 11:21 pm
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The opening Theme is awesome. FYI, it's done by Andrew Kramer
and you can find a boatload of his tutorials here
HTML http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/09/fringe-intro/.
Whenever
I'm looking for something good to try out and learn on After
Effects, his site is the first and last place I go to.
Speaking of the gang working together again, John Nobel hinted
at Comic Con that the idea that a film is a possibility. Yay!!
One last thing, this past year at Comic Con, it didn't feel like
the Con of years past. I had seen them every year for the past 3
years at the FOX booth signing autographs and roaming the
floors. This year, it felt empty without them. Sigh. I miss my
Anna Torv.
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Neumatic Date: August 24, 2013, 11:27 pm
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I was about to say that I did my own take on the Fringe titles
HTML http://neumatic.deviantart.com/art/Fringe-1776-300088437
but it
had to be stills only since I don't have AE or anything like
that.
There's this series on Netflix that Noble did, it was kind of
like Beyond Belief and he was doing a total Walternate, and it
was all this hooey they were trying to pass off as secret
science (stuff like Stalin's monkey soldiers) and the greatest
part was John Nobel saying, with some intensity, "he inserted
slices of monkey testicles into men's scrotums. The results are
promising."
(fixed)
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Neumatic Date: September 7, 2013, 9:21 pm
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Oh, and here's the trailer for Dark Matters: Twisted But True.
[center]
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKF-FDjvN24[/center]
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 7, 2013, 9:26 pm
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I've been tracking a few Brand New Complete DVD Sets on eBay the
last few weeks. They start off veeeery cheap and as always, a
ton of people come in and snipe at the last second, driving the
price up big time. They have been selling Brand New around the
$50-60 range, which itself is a pretty solid deal when comparing
it to Amazon. I'm just waiting for that one auction that I can
walk away from it literally stealing it out of the Sellers hand
by getting one for $25-30. Now THAT would be an episode worthy
of Fringe!!!!!! ;D
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Neumatic Date: September 7, 2013, 9:46 pm
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No, the Fringe-worthy ep would be the one where you get all the
blu-rays of the series dirt cheap and then jaunt back from the
future to yourself after you saw the first episode for the first
time, then gave yourself the entire series right then and there.
That's how I would use time travel. I would cheat and get
myself toys ahead of time. The ultimate early Christmas gift.
Haven't really figured out how to turn that into an interesting
movie.
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Re: Fringe (Season 5 - 2012)
By: Neumatic Date: September 23, 2013, 11:16 pm
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Today's offerings on Teefury
HTML http://www.teefury.com/--
double shot of Fringe-y goodness.
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