My super-quick impression of the TV show Fringe:
SHOW INTRO
Ridiculous and bad science premise results in someone being gorily murdered, often involving slime and/or blood.
CREDITS roll.
OLIVIA
(stares emotionlessly)
WALTER BISHOP
Something off the wall, either grossly inappropriate or involving food, while examing some grotesque CG creature or corpse.
(The audience laughs and shakes their heads).
PETER BISHOP
(smirks mysteriously)
THE END
And yet I love this show. I want to start a Doctor Walter “Crazy Motherfucker” Bishop fanclub.
Still, the most recent episode had some painfully bad science. The cold is caused by a virus. Viruses are not cells. Come on, Fringe, that’s first-year bio stuff. Don’t embarass me like that again. Or I might just have to download Walter highlight reels instead of actually watching your show.
Walter is that show’s saving grace. I wish the producers would drop all the crap about the Pattern and Massive Dynamic and just give me forty minutes of Walter Bishop Being Insane.
Right on. The Walter Bishop Show would totally be my favorite show on TV.
Yeah, details such as the virus as a giant cell totally stick out to me, too, but for some reason I don’t mind forgetting about them and just letting the plot carry my attention.
The intro credits sequence has the same words appear multiple times (e.g., “telekinesis,” “dark matter,” etc., though I’m not sure these specifically are the ones that repeat). Although every time I watch it I think, “they couldn’t think of enough names of fringe science topics so they had to repeat the same ones several times,” I still really enjoy the music and cgi during that sequence.