Is Fringe already becoming to predictable? »
Posted By Wil 1 year, 3 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentFringe has a tricky balancing act to maintain. The show wants to pull in the same rabid, Easter Egg-obsessed audience that made Lost a hit, but it also wants to win over the much larger crowd that loves procedural dramas like CSI. The show risks alienating both types of viewers if it leans too far in either direction. As someone who is more a fan of serial mysteries than procedural dramas, I'm finding that Fringe is becoming a bit too predictable in the way it sets up and solves its cases.
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Wil1 year, 3 months ago
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I really wanted to like this show, but it seems to follow the formula that drove me away from Lost:
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1. Ramble around for 39 minutes of occasionally-interesting exposition.
2. 20-30 minutes after the audience has figured it out, solve the mystery.
3. Cram a bunch of shocking stuff into the last 2 minutes so the audience will tune in again next week.
It also makes so many demands upon our suspension of disbelief, and requires so many extraordinary leaps of logic, it gets tiresome by the third commercial break.
I'm giving it one more episode, because I see the real potential in it, but I think I'm done with this show.
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