{"id":649,"date":"2009-09-06T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2016-04-18T21:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T09:44:48","slug":"box-watch-fringe-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-fringe-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch: Fringe, Season 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three reasons why I should hate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fringe_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Fringe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a pretty blonde FBI agent,<\/li>\n<li>said FBI agent has a tendency to go into buildings and rooms without backup,<\/li>\n<li>said FBI agent usually leads an assault team, sometimes taking point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And yet, godsdammit, I enjoyed the first season.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, <b>Anna Torv<\/b> is pretty and blonde but she rarely smiles, and the first couple of eps very nicely set up her tortured dourness.<\/li>\n<li>Sure, her habit of going into places on her lonesome gets a little annoying but the set up at least makes some effort at giving her good reason to do so.<\/li>\n<li>And the assault team-leading and point-taking &#8211; in any other show this would be unforgiveable but in <i>Fringe<\/i>&#8230; seriously, <b>who cares?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Fringe<\/i> is not <i>Law &amp; Order<\/i>, nor <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/box-watch-the-wire-seasons-1-5\/\">The Wire<\/a>, nor <i>Flashpoint<\/i>, and it doesn&#8217;t try to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What it <b><i>is<\/i><\/b>, is an exciting and intelligent series, riffing off <i>The X-Files<\/i> and Republic serials, and everything\/anything in between, with characters whose motives may be questionable but at least understandable (<b>John Noble<\/b>&#8216;s Dr Walter Bishop is a particular pleasure of <b>The Goddess<\/b>), solving the weekly mysteries and\/or crimes with wit and panache, meanwhile there&#8217;s some overarching season storyline that is tantalisingly touched on each week as well AND WHO THE HELL AM I TO WHINE ABOUT THE PROCEDURAL ASPECTS?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pacing, I think, is a large part of my forgiveness\/enjoyment. The mystery must be solved! Quickly, into that abandoned building! The assault team&#8217;s on location? You&#8217;re the only one who knows which room to take down! Quick! Hurry! Save the world!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the gods strike me where I slouch but I&#8217;m lapping it up.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on Season Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three reasons why I should hate Fringe: a pretty blonde FBI agent, said FBI agent has a tendency to go into buildings and rooms without backup, said FBI agent usually leads an assault team, sometimes taking point. And yet, godsdammit, I enjoyed the first season. Yes, Anna Torv is pretty and blonde but she rarely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-fringe-season-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Box Watch: Fringe, Season 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-fringe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4477,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}