DAMMIT FRINGE.

[beccatoria]

Spoilers for the US and Canadian promos follow (available on your friendly youtube):

OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. SNOGGING? REALLY? WHY?

It wouldn't be so freaking bad if I even understood why Olivia liked Peter so much. I mean I guess as much as I understood it, it was basically like...he was sweet and safe and she wanted something normal?

I guess even if they'd handled stuff different in the last few episodes I'd be less squicked by it too, but Peter's mostly been...secretly psychotic and hasn't really addressed any of the issues Olivia's raised.

I know from the US promo that Olivia does at least confront him about still having feelings for Fauxlivia. And like...part of me even understands accepting that and trying to move past it and just...not wanting to be in stasis, since she does think Fauxlivia's gone. I don't like it, and I don't get it, but that's because I think the show have done a bad job in selling me on why her and Peter like each other beyond security and convenience.

And like I'm TRYING HERE. Because show-watching would be easier if I got it. Like, if this Fauxlivia thing hadn't happened, I might have been able to...sort of, through that lens of a slightly tragic desire for a piece of normality.

But...dammit, up until an episode ago, while I haaaate love triangles and disapprove of Peter/Olivia in general, I thought the show was handling the situation actually really well, if they were going to do it at all. And now in the space of two episode I hope they're not going to fall from adult drama to soapy melodrama but I'm concerned they will.

As I said, as long as the focus was still on Olivia, I could handle her liking Peter - I did the same thing for Laura Roslin and Adama until it stopped being about her.

But knocking up Fauxlivia in one episode and having Peter and Olivia reconcile IN THE NEXT ONE, is just so contrived and lazy. That's not organic suspense, that's cringe-inducing suspense.

But hey. It's in the promo. Maybe it happens at the start of the episode and by the end of it SNOGGING HAS DIED IN A FIRE. Or something. Blargh. I guess I'll just hope for limited screentime.

LOOK FRINGE, I have a vid about you premiering at Vidukon. I DO NOT WANT TO BE ASHAMED OF THAT BY THE TIME IT HAPPENS. DO NOT BECOME SHIT.

Here's sincerely hoping I'm overreacting. I've been known to do it before. Le sigh.

Comments

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

I really love Fringe and am very annoyed that it is choosing just this moment to mess up! With the baby stupidness and all. BAH.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I know! Also, I have noticed an annoying pattern where shows I love fuck up RIGHT when my real world life is all...stressful. I find this unhelpful.

I'm just...trying to negotiate what my boundaries of attachment are and whether I can control them. I'm also completely uncertain as to whether or not this is setting up for Epic Fail or just...moderate, passing fail. And I can't tell. And it makes a big difference.

I thought the saving grace of the baby stupidness was that perhaps it would free up Olivia to go off and be awesome.

APPARENTLY NOT.

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agreed a lot with your last post though I didn't manage to comment––I feel like Fringe has the potential to vary wildly on the fail front and redeem itself in fascinating ways, and I am not giving up on the possibility it might go somewhere interesting with this!

As you said in your last post, BSG had magic babyness that didn't always detract from the show. But I was pretty annoyed with the way the baby here was presented, too (immediate jump to love and normative coupledom, in a world that's weird enough there are any number of alternative possibilities that should at least be considered).

I am crossing my fingers hard that both Fringe and your RL stuff veer back from the precipice of fail...

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I always used to say that Fringe was a show that always seemed like it was going to fail but somehow never actually did. But what I think I meant was, it always seemed like it had the ingredients for faily storylines they never actually used and now they're using one so it's...an even closer line to toe than before. I suppose I'll see if it continues. I do still have a reasonable amount of goodwill built up from three and a half seasons, but it's doing stuff now that, if handled badly, really might eat all that up very quickly. I guess we'll just have to wait and see which is hard for me because I'm impatient. Which means I go looking for spoilers. Which means I get half the story and panic. ;)

Thanks for the crossed fingers. Actually got some possibly good news about funding today (the Council aren't actually cutting us down - we're getting the same for the next six months; downside is this may be to buy time to set up a more competitive tendering process we're unlikely to do awesomely in), so while work is still planning on downsizing it may not be as drastic as previously.

*crosses fingers on both issues too*