Hey guys, it’s a little late to talk about this fall’s line up of TV shows, but better late then never I suppose. From 0:00-12:45 We talk about future shows. The following times we talk about each show:
12:45-13:43 | MONK
13:43-15:14 | PSYCH
15:15-20:03 | GLEE
20:03-25:55 | SUPERNATURAL
26:00-27:40 | LOST
27:40-28:35 | 24
28:35-29:20 |CHUCK
29:20-END |Thoughts on Spoilers as well as GB Projects
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What happens when you take Maya’s character from Heroe’s and give it a scientific explanation with a twist? You get the woman in the beginning of this week’s Fringe. A confused woman walked into a bar with bruises all over her arms, including injection spots. When a cop questioned her, wondering if someone beat her, she started acting all defensive, and began bleeding out her eyes, causing everyone else to bleed from their eyes as well, eventually killing them. That part is like Maya from Heroes, here’s the twist. Her little problem didn’t stop after that, oh no, her head blew up. Cue the opening credits.
Well once you have a woman’s head exploding, it’s clear you gotta call in the big guns! That’s right, Olivia, Peter, Walter, and Broyles, the whole X-Files team. When they got to the diner, it was blocked off, apparently self-combustion head chick also gave off an extreme amount of radiation, boiling everyone in the room’s brain. They found that out when the good Dr. Bishop stabbed the cops ear with a thermometer. They also found out that Emily, the girl whose head blew to chunks had a rare disease, so Olivia visited her doctor.
Emily’s disease, which is normally incurable, went into remission just before the incident at the diner, which is what Olivia asked her doctor. A main cause was radiation, but her doctor said he never gave her radiation therapy. Back at the lab, after further investigating, Walter found out that Emily was a sick lab rat specifically used to blow up in that diner.
Well now, Olivia got the call that another girl had just gone missing, Claire somebody. Claire had the same disease as Emily, but according to her father, Clai
re didn’t know an Emily. But according to Emily’s mother, the two did in fact know each other, they were friends, both treated by the same doctor. So back at Claire’s house, her dad tried to explain himself. The two were taking medication illegally. Uh oh, time to go see the lying doctor.
At the doctor’s office, Olivia confronted him with the new evidence. He didn’t deny it this time, instead, he gave her the name of the man he is working for, then shot HIS own head sky high. People and decapitation…..
Back at the lab, Walter found out what it was the twisted doctors were injecting the girls with, so he was able to create an antidote. He gave that to Olivia, and Peter gave her the location of where Claire was being held. He got that info secretly from the crazy redheaded chick from Massive Dynamic. Soon though, he will have to scratch her back as well.
Olivia found Claire, and saw that her head was about to explode any minute, so it wasn’t safe to go into the room with her, so through the safety box, she put the needle. Any second, Claire would blow up, and for a second, I actually thought she would, but thankfully, she injected herself, and all was well again.
Oh how I love Fringe. They enjoy trying to make it look believable as possible, but there are a few things in the show that no matter how hard they try, they can’t explain it. Each episode has these small details here and there, but I’ll get to that a little later. Here’s tonights recap!
On tonights episode, we meet Electro from Spider-Man. Actually his name was Joeseph Meegar, and thanks to some scientific experiments done to him in the past he’s like a human EMP device when he gets nervous. But don’t feel sorry for him yet, he’s not as innocent as he looks. Mr. Meegar here has been stalking a secretary, and had somewhere in the vacinity of 15 pictures of her on his cell phone. Anyways, things went crazy when he got nervous, he got into an elevator, and it plummeted, killing everyone BUT him, of course. Time to call Mulder and Scully!
At the scene of the accident, Walter had a look see inside the elevator, and from the looks of it, he came to the conclusion that everyone in the elevator was fried by electricution. He proved his theory by making Olivia’s neclace float. Ba
ck at the lab, Dr. Bishop found out due to a nasty beating heart of a dead man, that the electrocution was caused by a human being, not by any weapon.
Back to following Mr. Meegar, he was late to his job, and his boss fired him. Well again, Joeseph went berserk and with his electric powers, he had got his boss’s arm stuck in machinary, to which we find out later, that it had to be removed…eww.
Meanwhile, John, the dead guy from the pilot episode re-appeared to Olivia. He told her he still loves her, and is going to help her out with her case. Weird. I half expect Matt Parkman’s father from Heroes to show up saying he’s creating the vision of John or something.
Back to Mr. Meegar…he arrived back at home to his mother. Seriously, what is up with this woman? She hates her son with a vengance, I swear. Like the beginning of the episode, “LOOK AT YOU, BOY, COMB YOUR FILTHY HAIR!” Just saying…Well he told her what was going on with him, I’m guessing cause he wanted some advice to what to do. Of course evil mother thinks he’s completly insane, to which he freaks out, and kills her by shutting down her pacemaker. Then he tried to run away, but the men downstairs took him away to do some tests on him.
Back at the lab, Walter found out that Joeseph has a special electric signature that he leaves behind. He found this out by taking the music OUT of the cassette tape. You can’t just TAKE the music out. Anyways, with this unique signature, Walter planned to give it to carrier pidgins, hoping they will lead the way straight to wherever Joeseph was being held. Which they did, but still, a little far fetched.
Anyways, the birds led them to some kind of warehouse where a crazy scientist was doing experiments on Joeseph. Well they stop the scientist from doing whatever he was doing. They caught Joeseph and sent him to a hospital.
Back at the lab, Walter finds out that Olivia has been seeing visions of John, and he told her there is an explanation. When she went into the tub the first episode, she entered John’s mind. Part of his conciousness apparently crossed over into Olivias brain, so now there is two…..lines of thought in her head. Crazy, I know, but true. Anyways, THAT was the episode of Fringe. Pretty good, as usual, can’t wait for the next episode, PEACE OUT!
Fringe is back, and what an episode! We start this episode off in a diner. You see this creepy bald guy with no taste in food who ordered something nasty, but thats not the point. This guy was writing something down in his notepad in a different language. Let’s just say it wasn’t an earthly language.
Is he an alien? The only other option is it’s a child language he created when he was younger, and could never let it go. Anyways, there he was eating a nasty sub sandwich, and jotting down strange notes. He busted out his cool futuristic binoculars, that had some awesome technology built-in (I want one of those!) After scoping out some construction workers, an explosion of some kind went off, and off the bald man left. He put on his Men in Black suit and walked to the site and said “It has arrived.” OOOOOh, what is it?
Meanwhile Walter is blurting out the chemical formula for root beer at 3AM.
Broyles, the other creepy man in this episode ordered the team together at the construction site. Walter ordered the bullet-like thing back to his lab for further investigation. Meanwhile, a guy jumped out of a science fiction film, and started blasting people away with a pulse-ray gun, or something. He was obviously looking for the thingy-mabob.
In the middle of the night, Olivia got a phone call from…….Walter, telling her the formula to Dr. Pepper! oh wait, no, it was John! She hears dead people! After trying to trace it, she found out that according to phone records, there hasn’t been a call placed to her home in three hours.
Olivia went through some pictures, and saw a picture of the creepy bald guy from the beginning. She recognized him from another picture she saw before. She took that information to Broyles, and he confirmed that the guy was in fact creepy. He’s been sighted all over the place when it comes to strange phenomena, he is called “The Observer.”
Well Walter thought it might be a good time to have a root beer float with The Observer. I guess they are old pals. He thanked Walter for hiding the thingy-mabob, and that all his questions would be answered soon……..waaaa?
Okay, so theres something you should know. The guy from Sci-fi movies with the weird gun, also has the ability to read your mind. Well, after he hooks you up to a machine and frys your brain. So he was able to get a hold of Peter. He wanted the location of the beacon his father hid, but Peter didn’t know where it was. Though sci-fi guy was able to extract the location from Pete’s head, which was extrememly weird.
So he took Peter to a graveyard, and dug up a grave, found the beacon. Good thing Olivia came up out of nowhere, and shot the guy in the back. The only problem was, before she could get the beacon, it made itself vanish into earth’s crust, going somewhere, never to be seen again. Then Peter had a run in with old creepy face, and this guy could read Peter’s mind. Knew everything he was going to say……….WEIRD.
So now the day is over, and Peter asked Walter how he knew where the beacon was hidden when he really didn’t. Walter told him it was because of osmosis and proximity, and that the creepy observer saved both their lives when he was just a little boy. Which means when he read Walter’s mind, Walter’s and Peter’s mind could have meshed together…just a theory.
Then at the end, Olivia ran into John……..AHHH CREEPY
This episode kicked right off introducing us to a man who can see the future. He walks into a church and into a confessional, but has he really sinned? I guess by not knowing how to save the people on the bus, one might think they have sinned. Speaking of the bus, we also get to see the threat this episode. A man walks on to a bus carrying a briefcase, we the viewer, think he is going to blow the bus up, but he does something much, much stranger. He sets off a gas that quickly turns into a solid. Before leaving, he grabbed a woman’s backpack. So everyone on the bus within minutes were stuck in suspended animation…or something. Later on we find out that whatever he was looking for, was not in that backpack.
Olivia is attending her evil ex-partner’s partner when her evil ex-partner’s mom gave her the stink eye. She was still giving herself crap for not noticing that John was evil when he said he loved her. Then her captain, or whoever he was, said that it’s alright, John told the captain he loved him too….whatever. Bad joke. Moving forward…
Peter has his own skeletons in his closet, because while out with his father at a diner, he attacked a man with a camera. The man had been following him around for quite some time, and Peter took the pictures and left..okay..what’s going on there I wonder…
Turns out that the passenger in the bus with the backpack was a DEA agent. So Olivia contacted her partner about her demise. So he came and wanted some alone time to say goodbye to his partner, to which she let him. After a few minutes the FBI found the dude from the beginning’s home. It was covered in drawn pictures of crime-scenes that are dated before the crime….which doesn’t look good at all for this guy. Walter says it’s because the guy’s obviously a psychic.
So they took him back to Dr. Bishop’s lab. They found out that future-seeing boy here was once one of Bishop’s experiments back in the day. Bishop explains that his condition must have evolved. You see in the past, there was an experiment called “The Ghost Network” basically using the brain to telepathically transmit back and forth with another individual. Our guy in the lab was just intercepting all that jabber. So they got the machine to control his abilities.
So Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant began drilling holes into the poor man’s head. Apparently this was supposed to control his powers. Which it did. He intercepted a few calls between two bad guys planning something terrible. They found out that a picture that he drew earlier in the episode was linked to the dead DEA agent earlier. There was something inside of her hands. And apparently her partner, who was saying goodbye, was really taking out whatever was in her hand.
So they tracked down the bad guy, and got the thing that was inside the dead chick’s hand. Simple enough? GOOD. Anyways….Broyles, being the mysterious guy that he is, gave that small chip to the head of the Massive Dynamic Lab, to which she needed in order to find something out about………..dead John Scott! Confusing, confusing, confusing. Until next time, peace out!
He still scares me…
“Do you have any cocaine?” – Walter Bishop
It’s been a week already? I guess so, and here we are again, watching yet again, another episode of Fringe. In my opinion, so far this is the best new fall show of the year. I could be wrong, but it’s just my opinion. So here we go, what’s this episode about? Rapid growth. That’s right like Robin Williams in “Jack” except faster, much faster.
The episode starts right off in a hotel room. A man had obviously just stayed the night with a…mistress. She kept rambling on about her fake and real name while the man went to the bathroom to pee. Actually, he busted out a bunch of tools and weapons and orange goo. At first I’m thinking that he is building a bomb. But then I thought, “Wait, this is like X-Files, so he should be growing some spikes or something right?”
Well, I actually wasn’t too far off, except it wasn’t he who began growing anything. It was the woman who was with him. She was growing something….inside her. A baby. Every cycle in child birth began happening to her, and what should be 9 months was somewhere around 20 minutes. Morning sickness, baby kicking..or something, stomach growing, the whole shabang. He drove her off, and left her stranded in a alleyway, only to have doctors bring her into a hospital. She died quickly, but they were able to get the baby out. Only problem was, about 4 hours later, the baby was around 80 years of age, and dead.
Olivia and the rest of the gang are pulled out of bed to investigate. Walter was pulled out of a closet, rambling on about the song “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” They get to the hospital and Broyles explains the situation to Mulder and Skully. They take the case, and bring grandpa to the lab. Later, Olivia and Peter have a lead on a hotel room, so they check it out. This is where Olivia remembers a case she and John worked on in the case about a serial killer who would rip out peoples pituitary glands before overdosing them with anesthesia. It turns out, 4 year old grandpa’s case and the serial killer’s case are connected.
At the labratory, Walter finds out some more info and gramps. The man in the hotel was aparently part of an experiment done in his lab some 20 years ago, to make super soldiers fast. The only problem was growth was too fast, and they died shortly. His theory is that the serial killer was on of these super-soldiers, and he was stealing pituitary glands to stay young and healthy. To find more about rapid growth, they go see a professor who majors in rapid growth.
The man they meet said he used to work on rapid growth, but doesn’t anymore. Which is completely worthless for his character to be written in, which means…..he must be a bad guy. Anyways, the serial killer striked again, killing another girl, and taking her patuitary gland. Dr. Bishop decided to go weirder-than-Fringe-weird and said that with some bullcrap science, they can hook a computer up to her dead eye, and produce the last thing she saw.
So the good doc ripped out her eyeball…..ew…..then set up some cameras and snapped a few shots, and within seconds, got an image of a bridge. With technology, they were able to find out exactly where she was from that one photo. A warehouse. Where else would she be?
So they get to the shady warehouse, and what do you know? The killer is trying to steal some growth glands. When they come in, he bolts, and guess who else is there? That’s right. The professor from earlier, I TOLD YOU! Anyways, the professor got away when the girl flat-lined, and Peter had to improvise to get her heart racing again. Walter suggested cocaine, but a defibrillator works too. Olivia caught up to the killer, just in time to watch him die in old age.
Back at the lab, Walter mentions to Olivia about a medical condition Peter has, but he kept it a mystery when Olivia said, “huh?” So what’s going on with Peter I wonder….maybe he’s really a woman? I don’t know. We’ll find out some day, peace out!
I still don’t think I’ll ever get used to how creepy this guy is.
Holy crap. That is all I have to say about Fringe. I have to be honest, I had no idea what I was about to watch when I tuned into this show. All I knew was that it was another creation by my main man, Mr. J. J. Abrams. First off, everyone will most likely begin talking about the resemblances between this and “The X-Files,” so I’ll go ahead and note my observations between the two.
Who noticed the X-File like flashlights?
You cannot, however, say you aren’t going to watch the show because it is so much like “The X-Files” because even though it has it’s similarities, it also has it’s differences.
Fringe revolves around the life of agent Olivia Dunham, an FBI agent whose first case in the series is about a strange biological incident that happened in a plane while in mid-flight. This incident left everyone on the plane dead; with their skin peeled off their bones (It was sick, but so awesome).
Upon further investigation, Agent Dunham and John (her partner), went to a shipment facility to try and find the chemicals that were responsible for whatever happened in the plane. John got to the correct place first, but the guy inside bolted, and Olivia was too far behind, as the unknown guy John was chasing blew John up, into little bits. Well, not really, but that’s what I was thinking.
As it turns out, John was caught up in some crazy mojo. Some bad chemicals touched his body, and presto, his skin was see-through. That part got my interest, so I had to keep watching. Olivia couldn’t let this slide, so she went to Iraq to grab Peter Bishop (Played by Joshua Jackson). She needed his help releasing a man from an insane asylum.
So they did. You see the man they broke out was Dr. Walter Bishop, Peter’s father (A.K.A. Dr. Frankenstein), who is a brilliant doctor, but at the same time…is completely bonkers. Olivia needed Walter’s help to find out whatever happened to her hunny bunny, so she can save his life. Walter suggested her to get inside John’s head, which literally meant that she had to get…inside…John’s head. With the help of LSD of course.
At this point, I’m thinking the only purpose Joshua Jackson serves is a good character that just throws sarcastic remarks here and there. Anyways, Olivia finds out who set off the bombs at the shipment facility. It turns out, this guy was in the plane that everyone died on, but he wasn’t. Oooooh, Twilight Zone crap here.
So this is where we learn Joshua Jackson is actually useful as he helps stop the guy, after running over a couple rooftops, of course. After he won’t say anything in custody, Peter full on pulls a Jack Bauer, and smashes the guy’s hands with a coffee cup to talk.
Caffeine will kill ya! ~ Jim Carrey in Batman Forever
So the guy gave up the information they needed to save John’s life, just in time too, cause that guy was looking very transparent. So it works, John lives, and everyone lives happily ever after, the end. NOT! Here comes the twist, John’s really a bad guy out to kill the dude who I still can’t remember his name, who is….a good guy? A little confusing.
So Olivia figures this all out with the recording of a phone call, and has a super-awesome car chase with John, eventually leading to a car flipping over and, John’s dead. Or is he?
Overall, I had a lot of fun watching this episode, but I can’t help the fact that I was very confused with a lot of what was going on. Then again, it is a pilot, and those tend to be confusing some times. I’ll see how it goes next week. Peace out!
Oh, and this guy scared the crap out of me!
