tvthatdoesntsuck

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FRINGE
Episode Three
“Ghost Network”
Written by J.R. Orci and David H. Goodman 

 I’m overwhelmed with meh.  This show is not going in a good direction at all.  The first episode was impressive, the second one was a mixed bag but had a really cool end… but this?  This episode wasn’t entertaining in any way.  Fringe seems to be on a steady downward slope, and it’s wearing my patience pretty thin.  There is a lot of great TV out there for me to be wasting time on a show that’s already staring to suck.  But I’ll be sticking it out, at least for the season, to see if JJ and co. can bounce back.

So why did this episode suck?  Pretty much the same reasons as the bad parts of the second one.  Only thing is, there was no saving grace ending.  The entire episode was just so dull.  The dialogue feel flat instead of popping, the characters seemed to be wooden exposition machines, other than the diner scene which was admittedly intriguing… but it went no where.  They seem to be aiming the larger arc of the series at the “bad corporation” angle, but Angel did that better in the first episode than they’ve managed to do in three.

The monster-of-the-week story was also fairly dull.  The script was dealing with interesting material–a man whose mind is connected to a sort of ghost network, enabling him to see horrific events before they happen–but the writers plodded through it, going through the motions instead of actually exploring what really makes such an idea interesting.

It really, really better be good this week.

2/10