The Fringe
team battles the menace from the alternate reality.
In
retrospect is not rocket science but after the dismal failure that has been
Lost ending, Fringe philosophy is noteworthy. On one side they slowly advance
the various character arcs while on the other side they feed us the “Monster of
the week”. Every couple of episodes they reveal a little bit more of the back-story
of the world. It all works like a well oiled machine.
The main theme
is the alternate reality which becomes so much of a focus that we have many
episodes entirely settled there with alternate version of the entire main cast.
This trick rejuvenates a serial that in the second season was becoming too
formulaic. Of course it also means that it’s a little bit less newbie friendly
but it’s still a far far cry from the byzantine non sense of lost. Speaking of
that I can report that, standing the ending of season three; We are steadily
getting answers to our questions, those answers makes sense, new question are
arising from the show in a steady but not overwhelming number, those questions
are interesting, the overall world building is top notch, we want to know about
these places.
As far as
characters go this is the season where Anna Torv proved to everybody that she
is a great actress and that actually is Olivia, her role in the serial, that it’s
a bit boring. Not only she managed to develop a believable Alt Olivia, she even
had a couple of episodes of fun playing Leonard Nimoy in her body, don’t ask
you don’t want to be spoiled.
John Noble of
course still plays the archetypical mad scientist Walter Bishop to a pitch
perfect level. In the more dramatic episodes he can get a bit annoying with his
grief but in the end he’s wonderfully “out there”.
Mid season
there is a moment of slow down with sup par writing and a couple of aborted
plots, clearly filler material. If only they axed some episodes we would have
ended with a masterpiece, as it is it’s just good fun.
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