X-Files 2.0?
Fringe Series Premiere
So when the show opens, I’m immediately thinking, “Come on. Plane crash? No. JJ would not do that. It’s so 2004.” It turns out he wouldn’t. He would just kill off everyone on the safely landing aircraft (yay for autopilot). I was really hoping, though, that it would be an Oceanic flight. I didn’t hear any indication that it was, so I was sorely disappointed. And if the FBI doesn’t end up investigating Milo Rambaldi at some point in this X-Fileseque show, I shall be entirely put out. Come on, big red ball!
Hey, I recognize that guy from one of my soap operas (I think Days, which I no longer suffer through) and from many things more recently, but I couldn’t tell you his name. And neither can imdb, so whatevs. I’ve always liked him, though. Anyway, I figure him for dead. Especially since he isn’t even listed as a series regular. Or maybe he is and I just can’t find him.
I don’t like the actress playing Olivia. I have no reason except that she comes across as pompous with that silly accent. So either she’s British trying to do an American accent (FAIL), or a rather pompous American. And… imdb says she’s Australian. She needs to work on the accent.
So before any investigations have begun, I’m like, hey, FBI, like the X-Files! Frank notices the lists of fringe science types scrolling through the credits. I notice the music over the opening credits is X-Filesy. We get to the larger-than-life lettering that tell you the locations… Frank says, “Hey, that’s something different from the X-Files! They float the letters there instead of typing them!” ALIAS typed them.
Music sounds like Michael Giaccino.
The Spore commercial is one of the most retarded commercials I’ve ever seen. Halfway through I was sure it was something ManBearPig-related.
LOVing Joshua Jackson’s character.
Going into people’s dreams. *sigh* I miss ALIAS. It was cool when Sydney and Larvin had a chick brawl in season three in the dream sequence. Good ol’ Larvin. Never hated a character as much as that one. Never was more ticked off about any particular season of any show than season three of ALIAS (exception made for 3.15 FACADE due to Vaughn’s bespectacled accent and Spydaddy’s awesomeness as Master of the Universe).
What’s with the random images? First a butterfly, then an apple. I’m not going to think on it too hard, because give it a week, and there will be ten fansites and blogs called things such as butterflapple.com and appleflyfans.com. You watch. They will do all the necessary analysis and more. The apple was important in the last few seasons of ALIAS — the Rambaldi cube had the word Apple on it, and it eventually ended up meaning Irina. Oh look, a handprint. buttapplehand.com, coming up!
Ooh. The Pattern. New entity. Watch out for that, I’m sure we’ll be hearing about it again.
Is the elder Bishop one of the hobbits or elves? Checking… yep. Return of the King, Denethor. Oh YEAH! He was that evil dude in Rohan or wherever.
I’m confused. How is the boyfriend not dead? He’s supposed to die, unless this is to be a love triangle. Oh. DUDE. A super-evil mole, he is! /Yoda.
A frog. Make that froghandapplebutt.com.
Ah. There we go with the appropriate deadness of the evil mole boyfriend. Poor Olivia. JJ likes to kill off the true loves in the pilots, and I’m cool with that.
Argh. Boyfriend’s back. Die already! (No offense to the actor. But as Doug from Scrubs says, “Dead things should be dead!”)
A leaf! appleleafbutthandfrogfly.com. Coming soon to an interwebz near you. Also massivedynamic.com, which I’m betting already exists.
That was fun. And I don’t mind an X-Files 2.0. I thought the first one ended too soon, as it could have done just fine with Doggett and Reyes. I know I’m the only one who thinks that, but I’m usually right in my thinking, because I’m awesome.
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September 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am
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September 10th, 2008 at 10:59 am
uh…well…they lost me on the first scene with the whole pukey supercalifragilistic virusy killing off of the whole plane of people. i switched channels and watched “WipeOut”…the show that makes me roll on the floor laughing every week…why is it so funny to watch people flung about by the big red balls? skinny, fat, old, young, women, men…none can conquer those bad boys…sorry. maybe i will try again next week.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I love the character of Walter — the mad scientist guy. He seriously reminds me of C.S.M. from X-Files, only instead of being cryptic and mysterious, he’s moderately insane.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:54 am
1) I should have bought some dramamine for the camera shake. It was a little much
2) I thought the bad FBI mole boyfriend dude was from Melrose Place, but I never watched that show.
3) I was reminded of Medium with the music and the random images. (Did you notice the apple has fetuses (feti) where the seeds are supposed to be? That’s from somethinf, but don’t know where.)
4) The best part of the show was the Massive Dynamic ad at the end. I thought that was awesome, and think they should work them in to the middle commercial breaks.
5) Overall I liked it, and I’ll probably continue to watch it. Are going to watch it because you like it? Or just to have another new show to write about?
September 11th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Ladybug is a HYOOGE X-Files fan, so of course we had to watch this. They stole the floaty words from Heroes, I’m pretty sure… but the rest of it was liberally cribbed from Mulder and Scully.
Anyone else groan when Walter talked about the virus possibly being based on US Gov’t work during Vietnam? OF COURSE we were the ones behind it, and not, say, a known terrorist organization, or a state ally of said organization that has actually used chemical weapons before.
When I finally get off my sad ol’ rump and get my stuff into print, I guarantee that any such Big Bad Weapons will be the brainchildren of evil Space Hitlers and such, and not the good guys. MAYBE a rogue working for the good guys, whom they beat down hardcore. But the actual factual good guys? Nope, I like my good guys good, and not simply just as evil as the bad guys, only on our side.
OK, I won’t rant any more…
NO, wait, I WILL rant, but at my place, a bit later.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Walter was a lot of fun. The virus was creepy as hell, however. {shudder}.
I agree with nightfly…wouldn’t it be refreshing if it wasn’t the US governments fault for a change? Just for some variety?
On a lighter note, have you ever seen Eureka? A little less serious (OK a lot less serious, usually), but usually pretty funny. Charactor are pretty likeable as well. Just started it’s third season on Scifi channel, last couple of episodes can be seen on Hulu, and season 1 & 2 are out on the internet, in a less “official” capacity.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
My verdict: Eh.
Probably won’t watch again.
That actor’s name is Mark Valley.
That is all.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
No, no, no - it is completely different from The X-Files - ’cause see, the guy is the skeptic and the chick is the believer. Whole different deal.
Yeah, OK - it’s a total rip-off of The X-Files except the lead actors are even worse actors than Duchovny and Anderson.
I give it half a season.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
About 20 minutes into this it was “get on with it already”. If they are all going to be that slow its going to be hard going.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
finally, got around to watching it last night and enjoyed it. Thanks for figuring out where those actors were from cause I was too lazy to look it up. Anyhoo, i think it has promise.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Another steaming loaf from the JJ Abrams Crapfactory.
Alias: sucked massively
Lost: OK, I watch it but I just *know* the ending is going to suck massively
Cloverfield: sucked massively
Mission Impossible III: sucked massively
I’m beginning to detect a pattern here…