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Nov. 21st, 2012 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretLast night I marathoned six episodes of Only Connect, a British quiz show/ puzzle show named after Forster. They give people sets of four things with a connection and people have to guess the connection. It's wonderfully brain-stretchy, though my problem with British quiz shows is that two thirds of the questions are hard but fair and one third of the questions are hard because I'm an American who doesn't have British pop culture knowledge. When the connection turns out to be "Last names of news presenters on BBC Radio," I just throw my hands up in frustration. My other problem is that I have no interest in the vowelless lightning round at the end, though this wasn't all that much of a problem since it made watching episodes go faster.
In other watching news, Fringe Season 5 continues to be better than my wildest dreams. When I watched 4x19 I said "I want to watch a whole show of this." And then they gave it to me! S5 is a totally different thing from what came before, I'm in basic agreement with the people who've said they regard it as a fanfic AU of Fringe, but it is a really great fanfic AU and the actors are totally on board.
My only problem is how much the show completely gave up on every plotline it developed in S4. I watched the Nina/Olivia scenes in this week's episode with total Nina's Back Glee, but kept wondering why they didn't do anything with the fact that Olivia and Nina had some heavy emotional dealings in S4 and shouldn't be quite the same with each other as they used to be. Did they work through that stuff in the years between getting married to Peter and getting ambered? Presumably, but how? Nina's "I never thought I'd see you again." was like early S4 Nina, not late S4 Nina.
I know S4 was a mistake, but... it happened. You didn't walk it all the way back, you know, you only walked it awkwardly half back and then acted like you'd walked it all the way back. The main reason I fell in love with Fringe is because it is a show where emotional consequences exist and choices matter, and Fringe S5 is acting like choices matter, but only choices made in S5, not choices made in S4.
In other watching news, Fringe Season 5 continues to be better than my wildest dreams. When I watched 4x19 I said "I want to watch a whole show of this." And then they gave it to me! S5 is a totally different thing from what came before, I'm in basic agreement with the people who've said they regard it as a fanfic AU of Fringe, but it is a really great fanfic AU and the actors are totally on board.
My only problem is how much the show completely gave up on every plotline it developed in S4. I watched the Nina/Olivia scenes in this week's episode with total Nina's Back Glee, but kept wondering why they didn't do anything with the fact that Olivia and Nina had some heavy emotional dealings in S4 and shouldn't be quite the same with each other as they used to be. Did they work through that stuff in the years between getting married to Peter and getting ambered? Presumably, but how? Nina's "I never thought I'd see you again." was like early S4 Nina, not late S4 Nina.
I know S4 was a mistake, but... it happened. You didn't walk it all the way back, you know, you only walked it awkwardly half back and then acted like you'd walked it all the way back. The main reason I fell in love with Fringe is because it is a show where emotional consequences exist and choices matter, and Fringe S5 is acting like choices matter, but only choices made in S5, not choices made in S4.