Stargate Universe and Fringe
May. 9th, 2011 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessTo answer a few questions sent in by email, the reason you haven't been getting any snarky comments from me on Stargate as it careens to its conclusion tonight is that the Syfy channel in its infinite wisdom has decided not to put up episodes of an already cancelled show/franchise on its site or Hulu until a month after initial broadcast, and while I in my little wisdom have decided that Game of Thrones is absolutely worth a trip to a nearby apartment especially because pizza is included, Stargate: Universe is most definitely not. If more recent episodes do pop up on Hulu after tonight, or if I allow myself to get Neflix in June/July (I'm saving it as a reward) then I might try to finish out the season, since I've invested this much time and am vaguely interested in how the show will fail to wrap itself up. Otherwise, eh.
Which – after a small digression to note that yes, I'm planning to write something up about that enjoyable popcorn flick, Thor – brings us to Fringe, which greatly cheered me up by providing an entire finale episode WITHOUT THE COW, and then proceeded to ruin that moment by further polluting an entirely innocent river. Oh, show. Sniffle.
And yes, I got that the Viking funeral was all dramatic and that, even if it left me convinced for a moment that something was wrong with my computer sound card. (I can watch Fringe live – we get Fox without a problem – but I've become so accustomed to the joys of watching with limited commercials and the ability to pause the show whenever that I rarely bother.) But, still. WHAT DID THE HUDSON RIVER EVER DO TO YOU GUYS, HMM?
Anyway. Otherwise, I found this the least satisfying of the three season finales yet. The unexpected shot of the Twin Towers in the first season was unpredictable and awesome and left me thinking, ok, what are they going to do with the parallel universe? The entirely expected shot of AltOlivia over on our side in the second season also left me wondering when/if anyone would realize and when/if they would rescue our Olivia and when/if AltOlivia would start killing people over here and so on. Exciting. Intriguing.
Here, I'm like...well, bleah.
I know Joshua Jackson is back next season, so, no emotional resonance there. I didn't see Joshua Jackson agree to disappear, just agree to try to get everyone to agree before the future got more bleak, so no sense of sacrifice there (in contrast to Buffy: Season 5, where, sure, I knew Buffy was returning in the next season, but she'd just DIED TO SAVE HER SISTER AND THE UNIVERSE and I was all sniffly anyway). And, of course, there's the time paradox, this time annoying instead of interesting: if the machine was built specifically for Peter, then why bother to build it if no Peter, and since the seeming reasons for the universes to be intersecting is Peter's abduction and Peter never existed then why are the doubles are looking at each other and yeah.
Mind you, these can all be explained. Maybe the explanations are even interesting, but for right now, the tired sense I got was complication for the sake of complication, instead of something cool. But I still enjoyed most of this season, except for the bits with the cow, so I'll be around for next season.
Which – after a small digression to note that yes, I'm planning to write something up about that enjoyable popcorn flick, Thor – brings us to Fringe, which greatly cheered me up by providing an entire finale episode WITHOUT THE COW, and then proceeded to ruin that moment by further polluting an entirely innocent river. Oh, show. Sniffle.
And yes, I got that the Viking funeral was all dramatic and that, even if it left me convinced for a moment that something was wrong with my computer sound card. (I can watch Fringe live – we get Fox without a problem – but I've become so accustomed to the joys of watching with limited commercials and the ability to pause the show whenever that I rarely bother.) But, still. WHAT DID THE HUDSON RIVER EVER DO TO YOU GUYS, HMM?
Anyway. Otherwise, I found this the least satisfying of the three season finales yet. The unexpected shot of the Twin Towers in the first season was unpredictable and awesome and left me thinking, ok, what are they going to do with the parallel universe? The entirely expected shot of AltOlivia over on our side in the second season also left me wondering when/if anyone would realize and when/if they would rescue our Olivia and when/if AltOlivia would start killing people over here and so on. Exciting. Intriguing.
Here, I'm like...well, bleah.
I know Joshua Jackson is back next season, so, no emotional resonance there. I didn't see Joshua Jackson agree to disappear, just agree to try to get everyone to agree before the future got more bleak, so no sense of sacrifice there (in contrast to Buffy: Season 5, where, sure, I knew Buffy was returning in the next season, but she'd just DIED TO SAVE HER SISTER AND THE UNIVERSE and I was all sniffly anyway). And, of course, there's the time paradox, this time annoying instead of interesting: if the machine was built specifically for Peter, then why bother to build it if no Peter, and since the seeming reasons for the universes to be intersecting is Peter's abduction and Peter never existed then why are the doubles are looking at each other and yeah.
Mind you, these can all be explained. Maybe the explanations are even interesting, but for right now, the tired sense I got was complication for the sake of complication, instead of something cool. But I still enjoyed most of this season, except for the bits with the cow, so I'll be around for next season.