My Week in Review

If any of you missed it, Fringe premiered this week. After watching the trailer in the spring, I thought this was going to be another gem in J.J. Abrams huge wresting belt (cue celebratory douchebag hand gesture), but I was left wanting something different. The show started well enough: a plane-load of people, infected with some sort of skin-melting herpes. Government agencies show up, yada yada; all is well and good. Then the romantic angle starts with our protagonist trying to save her lover’s life my dropping acid and jumping into a vat of water. I say, “Who gives a shit”. What about all the people on the plane? Why do you need a cow? How come the old scientist didn’t escape in a hummer a la ‘The Rock’? We will never know. In the end, more government conspiracies were revealed, and some semblance of hope was seen. All I can say is, “we’ll see”.