I've had high hopes for this show, and while it's not terrible, it doesn't grab me as I hoped it would.
I am not bothered by the preposterous 'science' of this show -- I just accept that it's happening in some kind of a parallel universe where this kind of science is possible. Nor do I share other viewers' aversion to the floating letters (they're just letters, people, get over it!).
It is fashionable to make comparisons between X-Files and Fringe. Fringe is made on a much higher budget and cute as he might be Fox Mulder with his unconvincing tenor was not a match to Joshua Jackson's charismatic character. I also never found X-Files' 'aliens abducted my sister' storyline particularly sexy. But unfortunately, The Patterns are just as tepid.
Where X-Files was far superior, was in its ability to build suspense. Mulder and Scully were constantly put in the way of danger, where the phenomena were after them, not after some girls off the street. This approach allowed to build up tension and suspense and, as a result, make the viewers invest in the characters, two mavericks who were constantly hunted by monsters and bullied by government agencies.
Fringe, on the other hand, is more of a procedural with a crazy old man (best character on the show) solving the problem, and then Olivia Dunham swooping in on a location with her SWAP team. It's just a little too... CSI-like for me.
I had hoped Fringe would be one of these shows I'd want to eventually own on DVD. Not so much. Gooey corpses notwithstanding, it's too bland to truly excite.
I am not bothered by the preposterous 'science' of this show -- I just accept that it's happening in some kind of a parallel universe where this kind of science is possible. Nor do I share other viewers' aversion to the floating letters (they're just letters, people, get over it!).
It is fashionable to make comparisons between X-Files and Fringe. Fringe is made on a much higher budget and cute as he might be Fox Mulder with his unconvincing tenor was not a match to Joshua Jackson's charismatic character. I also never found X-Files' 'aliens abducted my sister' storyline particularly sexy. But unfortunately, The Patterns are just as tepid.
Where X-Files was far superior, was in its ability to build suspense. Mulder and Scully were constantly put in the way of danger, where the phenomena were after them, not after some girls off the street. This approach allowed to build up tension and suspense and, as a result, make the viewers invest in the characters, two mavericks who were constantly hunted by monsters and bullied by government agencies.
Fringe, on the other hand, is more of a procedural with a crazy old man (best character on the show) solving the problem, and then Olivia Dunham swooping in on a location with her SWAP team. It's just a little too... CSI-like for me.
I had hoped Fringe would be one of these shows I'd want to eventually own on DVD. Not so much. Gooey corpses notwithstanding, it's too bland to truly excite.