i was thinking of giving this one a good shot but i was wondering if you need to watch it from episode one a la lost; or can i just pick it up as episodes air?
Ive never seen it, but from what Ive heard there were some major revelations at the end of last season. Maybe you can read up on what happened and just pick up where ever the show is at the moment?
Similar to X-Files they have lots of Monster-of-the-Week episodes and then there are Mythology episodes. If you watch a mythology episode you’ll be lost, probably. If you start with a MOTH episode, you’ll really enjoy it and probably get into the show and its characters. It’s a great show and I really recommend it! It’s not nearly as dense and confusing as LOST, which I’ve watched from the beginning as well. I think you can pick-up Fringe and kind of get the idea and then go back and watch on DVD and understand better later if you want. It’s an excellent, excellent show. Walter, Peter and Astrid are my favorite characters.
Well said. I love Walter, such an intensely passionate and playful character. Boom Boom, I think you’ll love this show. Dive in.
Fringe is my fav show right now, now that BSG is over. If you started now (even though the show alternates between MotW and Pattern stories), you’d probably be lost. If you don’t want to go all the way back to the beginning, you’d have to start at least with the S1 finale “There’s More Than One of Everything” (and I would say, if you want, 1-2 eps prior to that), cause you’ll be totally lost if not for that key episode, and you’d miss most of the subtext between Peter and Walter so far this season.
Most of the current mythos plot lines connect back to an episode in season 1 called “in which we meet mr. jones”. There are ties further back, but that one kind of gives you a sense of where things are going. I think it’s episode 7 though, so at that point you might just want to start from the beginning. It’s worth it, IMO.
The difficult thing with Fringe is that even their stand-alone episodes have little nuggets thrown in throughout or right at the very end that have pretty large significance to the overall story arc. So, it’s hard to know EXACTLY what’s going on without going all the way back.
It’s a more rewarding expierience to watch it from the start, as a whole.