OH YEAH! Those depressing 
statements on low ratings for the FOX science-fiction drama Fringe had some people on edge, but I kept a steady head during all this madness. Fringe has been renewed for a full 22 episode fourth season, promising another year of the best show on television. However, don't forget that the struggle isn't over. We'll inevitably be in this same position next year, with some people talking of a final season order and the threat of cancellation. For now, though, we are able to celebrate the show's bravery in facing down two years of uncertain future with high-quality writing, directing, and acting. I think that more than deserves your recognition for tonight's game-changing episode! Don't miss it!
statements on low ratings for the FOX science-fiction drama Fringe had some people on edge, but I kept a steady head during all this madness. Fringe has been renewed for a full 22 episode fourth season, promising another year of the best show on television. However, don't forget that the struggle isn't over. We'll inevitably be in this same position next year, with some people talking of a final season order and the threat of cancellation. For now, though, we are able to celebrate the show's bravery in facing down two years of uncertain future with high-quality writing, directing, and acting. I think that more than deserves your recognition for tonight's game-changing episode! Don't miss it!
I'm excited for this too, but do you think they should treat season 4 as its final season so that we don't have to worry about it trying to survive for one more season to see another season? I think they should, I can't imagine the ratings moving unless FOX switches it's time slot (remember back in Season 1 when it averaged 8-9 million viewers on a Tuesday?).
ReplyDeleteOh and I've been seeing how people miss case of the week episodes that have nothing to do with the main storyline and want to see more of that, thoughts?
I'm actually fine with this season's lack of "case of the week" episodes. Even trying to ignore the larger arc of this show at this point is pointless. The mythology is much greater than anything the standalone stories offer.
ReplyDeleteAs for Season 4, I definitely don't think they should treat it as a final season. If this show can go on for 4 more seasons, I'd be unbelievably pleased. Why treat something as the final season when you have so many more stories to tell?
I agree with your you first point, unlike something like The X-Files (a show that this show is unfairly being compared to and yet even I compare it to) the mythology is way better than the standalone episodes and we are far too invested in the mythology for them to randomly investigate a case that will not really have anything to do with it in the long run (plus, I always thought most of the standalone episodes was Fringe at its worst, it didn't help that I always thought the mythology was far more interesting then anything else).
ReplyDeleteRandom X-Files comparison, the X-Files could balance both its mytholology and standalone episodes to make them both great, until the lack of any real payoff made me think that the standalone episodes were better, until The X-Files: I Want to Believe came along.
As for your second point, I wouldn't mind if they go over a fourth season either, but it feels like everything that's being set up can be done in one season, anything more and they;re just dragging it. Plus as soon as they end the current storyline with the doomsday device and Peter then the most they can do is: more standalone episodes, a new mythology, or Supernatural it, where the 5th season explores the consequences of what they did the previous season even though they thought it was for the right reasons along with going into the origins of a lot of the stuff (the first people, the observers, etc.). The result is the worst season of Supernatural EVER!
I think that the writers have a better idea of where this series is going than we do. I thought that they might start a new mythology at the end of last season, and it carried on in the most wonderful and spectacular manner.
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