It kind of blows my mind that LOST and Desperate Housewives debuted the same fall. And LOST ended two years ago.

What's the consensus on "Angel"? I'd only consider myself a casual watcher (I catch the early morning reruns on TNT pretty regularly.) Cancelled in the fifth season, but with the advanced warning and all, that last run of episodes are some of the strongest the series ever did.

Well I wouldn't say I'm offended by it, just disappointed in the writers. There's a huge difference between "expository dialogue" and "informing the audience". One is a subset of the other. You know, the whole "show, don't tell" thing.
LOST was pretty good about showing. One of my favorite moments is the scene in the…

Count me in the group who was underwhelmed by this ep. There was way too much "holy shit we've gotta move these chess pieces around pronto!!" going on for my tastes. And I've already posted my objections to some of the dialogue, especially in that boardroom scene.

Well yeah, I'll admit those scenes were sappy as hell, but I'm a sucker for sap, at least if it's these actors selling it. I just have a real bug up my ass about plodding expository dialogue (think Eloise Hawking in the Lamp Post at the beginning of "316" in LOST. Ugh, I hate that scene)

Hmmm, your theory about what may result from Jones' plan to collapse the universes doesn't seem to be born out from what we've seen in the show, particularly "Welcome to Westfield", where the result of his merging experiment there was…..devastation- a wasteland. And Walter's graphic presentation last night (a new "Big…

We don't know what his mission was re: getting Broyles to "do something" to the machine. Destroying it may not have been his intention at all. Maybe what Broyles was going to do was rig the machine so it couldn't be turned off. Who knows?

Quite a lot of things in Fringe Division would be completely different without Peter, but the show has explained almost none of them. For example, the mission to bring Peter back to the blueverse in "Over There". We know something like it still happened (Fauxlivia still crossed over and posed as Ourlivia and got…

You'd have to ask him! :)
Seriously, I don't know how the existence of the bridge works in season 4's Peterless timeline. No Peter, no bridge, since it's established that the machine obeys the intentions of its operator ergo Peter, so the bridge couldn't have just "happened" by activating the machine.

It's a paradox, and never explained.

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I thought this ep was a B at best. It was good in all the ways Noel pointed out, but one thing "Fringe" has never handled very well was exposition, and holy crap that conference room scene where Walter lays out the bones of DRJ's plan was one big clunky infodump. A solid 15…

And that annoying music in the final moments of each episode, all percussion-heavy, announcing "something almost happened this week!".

Oooh, good point! Since she never banged Peter or got pregnant, Dr. Boyfriend may still be in the picture.

Anna Torv takes that award, too. Like someone else already pointed out, you definitely felt Olivia's absence in this ep., but Torv was in it all the way through.

I considered this too. Maybe Nick comes to Lee's funeral? It would be nice if the writers wrapped that up.

This is my first post here (Hey everyone!) but I missed that Austrid may have figured out FauxBroyles. I just thought she was about to break the bad news about Lincoln. *sob*