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Missing Castle, I started watching the first season of Fringe last night. I'm up to the third episode, and remembering why I stopped watching when it first premiered. First of all, the junk science. Now, I am the first person on board with crappy science in novels and on tv. Give me spaceships or give me muppets that fart helium!
Yet the junk science in Fringe is so ridiculous and hard to follow that I am often flabbergasted. The big problem is not that it's stupid (even though it is). The big problem is that it isn't convincing. I'll believe a lot of stupid things in fiction -- if you can convince me that it makes sense in the world you're building. Fringe doesn't kick off with enough convincing world building!
Oooh, that's right, I said it. Fringe has crappy world building!
I'm still watching, though, because I am really bored with tv right now, and because I still have a crush on Charlie from The Mighty Ducks. (And, wow, helloooooo, Jasika Nicole!!! And Lance Reddick!! Yes, I am shallow.)
I find that Charlie-from-The Mighty Ducks and I often have the same reaction to things that happen on the show: Are you effing kidding? That's not how $THING works!
Normally I am okay with having someone in the thick of things telling the audience that they understand that the audience is annoyed by the weirdness and factual inaccuracies -- but in this show, I wish they'd've just tried a little harder to write a show that is either much much weirder, so that we can easily assume it is an alternate version of our reality, or a show that is slightly less weird, so that we can easily accept that it's just that weird things happen in our reality.
I'm sticking with Fringe this time, though, because so many people I know really enjoy how ridiculous it is, and I'm hoping that eventually I will too. I just hope (perhaps in vain) it kicks its world building up a notch or two.
(Second, I also hope that Charlie-from-The Mighty Ducks quits the way he talks to his father like his father is making a choice to be mentally damaged. Ugh. It really irks me.)
...Two of my favorite things are world building and cooking, and this blog entry will be about them both. Here is my recipe for making a delicious frittata, complete with pictures. Check out this picture: that is my new knife, a gift from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
perfectbound, which I am using for pretty much everything I possibly can. Need to cut up some pieces of celery? Whip out that knife! Need to slice eggs for egg salad? Where's that knife? The only thing I haven't been able to use it for so far is slicing bread.
It cuts the thinnest slices of tomato imaginable. Oohh, knife, be mine! Oh wait! You are!
( How to make a delicious frittata, with bonus instructions for roasted cauliflower, caramelized onions, and roasted baby red potatoes. )
Yet the junk science in Fringe is so ridiculous and hard to follow that I am often flabbergasted. The big problem is not that it's stupid (even though it is). The big problem is that it isn't convincing. I'll believe a lot of stupid things in fiction -- if you can convince me that it makes sense in the world you're building. Fringe doesn't kick off with enough convincing world building!
Oooh, that's right, I said it. Fringe has crappy world building!
I'm still watching, though, because I am really bored with tv right now, and because I still have a crush on Charlie from The Mighty Ducks. (And, wow, helloooooo, Jasika Nicole!!! And Lance Reddick!! Yes, I am shallow.)
I find that Charlie-from-The Mighty Ducks and I often have the same reaction to things that happen on the show: Are you effing kidding? That's not how $THING works!
Normally I am okay with having someone in the thick of things telling the audience that they understand that the audience is annoyed by the weirdness and factual inaccuracies -- but in this show, I wish they'd've just tried a little harder to write a show that is either much much weirder, so that we can easily assume it is an alternate version of our reality, or a show that is slightly less weird, so that we can easily accept that it's just that weird things happen in our reality.
I'm sticking with Fringe this time, though, because so many people I know really enjoy how ridiculous it is, and I'm hoping that eventually I will too. I just hope (perhaps in vain) it kicks its world building up a notch or two.
(Second, I also hope that Charlie-from-The Mighty Ducks quits the way he talks to his father like his father is making a choice to be mentally damaged. Ugh. It really irks me.)
...Two of my favorite things are world building and cooking, and this blog entry will be about them both. Here is my recipe for making a delicious frittata, complete with pictures. Check out this picture: that is my new knife, a gift from
perfectbound, which I am using for pretty much everything I possibly can. Need to cut up some pieces of celery? Whip out that knife! Need to slice eggs for egg salad? Where's that knife? The only thing I haven't been able to use it for so far is slicing bread.It cuts the thinnest slices of tomato imaginable. Oohh, knife, be mine! Oh wait! You are!
( How to make a delicious frittata, with bonus instructions for roasted cauliflower, caramelized onions, and roasted baby red potatoes. )