Is anyone watching Fringe? I am. (Crude and Feckless, I hope you are. I am looking forward to your synopsis!). I started out watching it because, well, because I was too damn lazy to watch anything else. 200+ channels and a remote! I sit there slack jawed because I can’t trouble myself to get the remote. Sigh. This perhaps will explain what comes later.
The show itself is pretty good, if a bit overwrought at times. Anyone who liked ‘The X-Files’ (or The Twilight Zone, for that matter) or likes bizarre conspiracy type drama will probably like Fringe. And it does not hurt that the mahvelous Anna Torv is in the lead role of Olivia Dunham. The overall weirdness is appealing, and the paranoid conspiracy theories are fun to try and string together. It can also be a bit gross at times (episode 6 as an example), but one of the things that makes it worth watching is the inappropriate and funny verbal outbursts of the mad scientist character, Dr. Walter Bishop:
Riding in car with his son and Olivia:
“Aahhh!”
“Walter, what’s wrong?”
“I’ve just pissed myself!”
In a diner, scene of a horrific event involving exploding heads. Sees bowl of onion soup on counter in the midst of brains and blood:
“Can we get a sample of that? That looks delicious!”
My favorite so far is in the premiere episode, where Walter has recently been released from a mental hospital after a seventeen-year stay. There is a lot he has missed out on, including the wondrousness that is SpongeBob Squarepants. In the scene, he is sitting on a couch, eating a bowl of cereal and watching an episode of SpongeBob. He has been asking Agent Dunham and his own son questions about the show. He cocks an eyebrow:
“You say this is for children? It’s really quite profound!”
Just how profound I would find out some weeks later while taking Wee Lass to day care. She tends to be pretty chatty most mornings, as we walk to the car and as we drive to the day care center. She talks about anything and everything, and least, anything and everything that is within her field of vision. Example:
“DaddylookIseeadogDidyouseeadogAwwwhatacutedoggiewearingacoat.
The show itself is pretty good, if a bit overwrought at times. Anyone who liked ‘The X-Files’ (or The Twilight Zone, for that matter) or likes bizarre conspiracy type drama will probably like Fringe. And it does not hurt that the mahvelous Anna Torv is in the lead role of Olivia Dunham. The overall weirdness is appealing, and the paranoid conspiracy theories are fun to try and string together. It can also be a bit gross at times (episode 6 as an example), but one of the things that makes it worth watching is the inappropriate and funny verbal outbursts of the mad scientist character, Dr. Walter Bishop:
Riding in car with his son and Olivia:
“Aahhh!”
“Walter, what’s wrong?”
“I’ve just pissed myself!”
In a diner, scene of a horrific event involving exploding heads. Sees bowl of onion soup on counter in the midst of brains and blood:
“Can we get a sample of that? That looks delicious!”
My favorite so far is in the premiere episode, where Walter has recently been released from a mental hospital after a seventeen-year stay. There is a lot he has missed out on, including the wondrousness that is SpongeBob Squarepants. In the scene, he is sitting on a couch, eating a bowl of cereal and watching an episode of SpongeBob. He has been asking Agent Dunham and his own son questions about the show. He cocks an eyebrow:
“You say this is for children? It’s really quite profound!”
Just how profound I would find out some weeks later while taking Wee Lass to day care. She tends to be pretty chatty most mornings, as we walk to the car and as we drive to the day care center. She talks about anything and everything, and least, anything and everything that is within her field of vision. Example:
“DaddylookIseeadogDidyouseeadogAwwwhatacutedoggiewearingacoat.
Look.TheresanotherdoggyDaddytheeresurealotofdoggiesoutthismorning.
WhyisthatladywalkingherdogOoohDaddyBirds!Birds!Birds!
WhyisthatladywalkingherdogOoohDaddyBirds!Birds!Birds!
IsitcoldDaddy?IsitcolduntilspringWhenisthespringcomeDaddy?
Isitwhenwinterisover?Wheniswinterend?ValentinesDayismyfavoriteholiday?
DaddytheresureisalotoftrafficWatchout!HeyIsawasquirreldidyouseethesquirrel?
DaddyDossquirrelscomeoutinthespringAretheysleeping---“
Finally, I sense an opening. “Yes, Abby, they are sleeping. Do you know what that’s called, when the bears and squirrels go to sleep for the winter? It’s called hibernation.”
“Hibernation! Daddy, just like Sandy Squirrel, on SpongeBob!”
I knew that would pay off someday. Now, we can watch all the SpongeBob we want. It’s educational!
And for you metalheads out there, let’s thrash to “Pre-Hibernation Week”. Enjoy!
Isitwhenwinterisover?Wheniswinterend?ValentinesDayismyfavoriteholiday?
DaddytheresureisalotoftrafficWatchout!HeyIsawasquirreldidyouseethesquirrel?
DaddyDossquirrelscomeoutinthespringAretheysleeping---“
Finally, I sense an opening. “Yes, Abby, they are sleeping. Do you know what that’s called, when the bears and squirrels go to sleep for the winter? It’s called hibernation.”
“Hibernation! Daddy, just like Sandy Squirrel, on SpongeBob!”
I knew that would pay off someday. Now, we can watch all the SpongeBob we want. It’s educational!
And for you metalheads out there, let’s thrash to “Pre-Hibernation Week”. Enjoy!
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