| | Now you at home can write your very own Fringe episode! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Open with unknown characters and a crazy occurrence (usually intense and well-executed, the best part of the show. It's all downhill from here.)
2. The government agents arrive, shocked and baffled at what has taken place.
3. Bring in Walter Bishop, the crazy old scientist. "Wait!" says Walter Bishop. "I have an idea about what may have happened here even though none of these other government agent from various fields has any clue. We did experiments similar to this about 30 years ago in my lab and no one else in the world has made advancements in this area except for these particular evil-doers!"
4. Walter Bishop makes some unorthodox and seemingly insane requests to do research. He also asks his son Peter to pick up a random food for him (cotton candy, root beer, etc.) that he's not had in decades due to being institutionalized. (Note: an intelligent person might think "Hey, this was amusing maybe once, and doing it every episode is just retarded and lazy!" Well then you sir simply don't know comedic genius when you see it.)
5. Walter does his crazy experiments, while his son Peter is continually sarcastic and skeptical. This of course despite Peter's reported IQ of 190 and the fact that we're seven episodes in and Walter's hunches is always on the money and it always works EVERY TIME.
6. Walter forgets his assistant Astrid's name. Similar to his food requests, you might think this is getting repetitive, tired and completely unfunny. Well...shut up!
7. Olivia follows up on a lead elsewhere, eventually has to collaborate with Walter an his research and it's a race against the clock.
8. Whew! We just made it. Saved the day. All is well...or is it?
9. But wait...slight twist ending? Holy crap! Tune in next week!
And there you have it.
Look, I gave this show a shot. It looked kinda cool, it was by the guy from LOST, it had Pacey from Dawson's Creek and Charlie from The Might Ducks. (Splooge!) So I figured what the hell. But unless you're a brain-dead moron, you cannot deny that it is pretty awful television. It's got bad acting, bad plots, bad everything. It's The X-Files re-packaged for a new generation with J.J. Abrams' name slapped on it. But it's crap. Pure crap.
That's all.
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