Fall TV Preview - Fringe

Got my grubby little hands on the premiere episode of “Fringe” which will be airing on FOX in the fall, and that means another fall TV spoiler-fest…so consider yourself warned.

“Fringe” is being talked about as the spiritual successor to “X-Files”, and for good reason, since it blends FBI action with real science and then adds it’s own twist on what is and isn’t real in the realm of science. Making all manner of pseudo-scientific strangeness up for grabs (think telepathy, teleportation, advanced robotics, anything on the “fringe” of science…), and surrounds the investigations of an FBI agent named Olivia Dunham, along with an eccentric scientist named Dr. Walter Bishop and his son Peter.

As a major science geek I tend to flock to shows that delve into scientific details with some amount of accuracy (Like “ReGenesis” for example), and get pissed when those shows start pushing mumbo-jumbo (like “Numb3rs” has been lately), but the mix is fairly easy to deal with in “Fringe” due mainly to it’s realistic approach to characters’ reactions to the stranger events or supposed science in the show, especially Peter, who is very skeptical of the less mainstream scientific research his father is into…..not quite Scully from the X-Files(for one thing he’s not a sexy redhead…) but a good balance for the personality of his father. Read more