Interesting, I actually loved the mother storyline and Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance, and probably enjoyed the first few episodes of the season more than season 1: it had really become a very fun twisty, frothy, complicated soap there around episodes 5-7. But then the couple of episodes after she left, and the…

Man that picture at the top has got to be some of the worst photoshopping I have ever seen. All the actors look like cardboard cutouts pasted over a postcard. It also makes the show look like a really generic teen soap kind of thing… networks really have no clue how to market shows.

I actually think it's a pretty good show overall, and had a great run of episodes with the last eight 8 episodes of season 2 and first 9 of season 3, but this last season has been pretty frustrating for me and I can't say I'll really miss it that much. Overall I think it was a very well acted show and one of the best…

I actually think it's a pretty good show overall, and had a great run of episodes with the last eight 8 episodes of season 2 and first 9 of season 3, but this last season has been pretty frustrating for me and I can't say I'll really miss it that much. Overall I think it was a very well acted show and one of the best…

Huh? Plenty of network shows have let plot lines run for the entire series and Lost brought back go nowhere plot lines all the time (and so did Fringe sometimes like with David Robert Jones… though that storyline felt even more pointless when they brought it back). The show did this with the Observers as well… I don't…

Season 1: C
Season 2: B (fantastic second half but really dire first half)
Season 3: A- (the only season that really ranks up there with the sci-fi greats)
Season 4: B+
Season 5: C+ (weak character development, lots of go nowhere story developments, and kind of dragged out story arc)

@avclub-3ceebd97be4d15313b9ffff365b2bec3:disqus X-files was actually willing to go all out and pull off a bunch of experimental stuff that Fringe never even approached. The "inventive" episodes of Fringe felt forced and unimaginative by the animated episode in season 3, whereas X-files pulled off a ton of crazy stuff…

@avclub-92a4841c9f86965effbc29fa6eae9f77:disqus You know at first I thought that was an odd comment, but now that I think of it like almost every other finale I can think of that I've seen had the main character in the final shot: Twin Peaks, The X-files, Buffy, Angel, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars, The Wire, Lost. Kind…

The last episode is not as disappointing as Lost's, as it doesn't involve a lot of kind of silly answers and lack of resolution to big questions (frankly because Fringe hasn't had any long term interesting mysteries since the second season)… however I found it much less compelling, spectacular and moving than Lost's…

The show would have been completely mediocre if the alt universe hadn't showed up till season six though, because the writers weren't able to make it gripping or interesting without that storyline: for much of season one they were happy rehashing the exact same episode structure over and over again.

He told Olivia several things, she seemed like the one that could communicate with him. And then other times he randomly couldn't…. they never explained it very well. Or he could've just pointed to coretexiphan or something, surely he would know it's in the fridge if he could see all this other future stuff.

Couldn't he have just communicated to her that she should dose herself with cortexiphan? That would be a lot less convoluted.

More like all about pulling off some kind of nonsensical MacGuffin plan, sprinkled with a few "tearjerking" character moments, capped by a reboot/reversal. Pretty much Fringe by the numbers at this point.

This was definitely a very, very messy series even by sci-fi standards, which is something that most fans don't own up to. A lot of once important plot elements were tossed to the wayside randomly, or given really half assed explanations once the writers were done with them. I don't think anyone working on the show…

Oh yes, Audrey Pauley isn't exactly good, but it is at least kind of different and inventive, something there wasn't a lot of in season 9.

Pretty amazing to think, would anyone believe you if after it originally aired you told them that that the writer of the episode would go on to create one of the greatest shows of all time, and that Michael Emerson would go on to play one of the most memorable tv characters?

Someone liked Hellbound? I think that's probably the most offensively bad episode of the season: it's Reyes focused, there's a ridiculous amount of pointless gore which just comes across as nasty, rather than scary or atmospheric, and it involves a really poorly done reincarnation/past lives theme (the show went to…

@avclub-2fae0ac9d905a76bfcac629b32cc3197:disqus Well to be fair I don't really think any S9 eps are quite First Person Shooter/Fight Club bad. I remember disliking much of the final season but I zoomed through it pretty quick so it's hardly unwatchable. I do have to warn you though, Scully barely appears in quite a…

Summer apparently, which probably means it's as good as canceled already. Very unfortunate.

I definitely saw that episode when it aired, when I was about 11 and don't think it really phased me… it stuck in my head but more as a cool/interesting scene than something really terrifying. Season 4's "Sanguinarium" terrified me much more for some reason (though I guess I saw that when it aired as well so I would…