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they probably should have not bothered with season 5 as it becomes a long drawn out conclusion that makes very little sense with the previous seasons. Fringe could have been better if the 'creators' didn't rely on so much borrowed material from other established sources. Characters were credible and excellent. But the other side got cancelled out to make room for the boring baldies!
As much as I like fringe i would rather let it slip quietly into the night then be kept on crappy life support.
Observers? If they aren't Bill Corbett in clown white makeup, I'm not interested. The Observers aside, it does seem like an intriguing show, so it's a shame it's being kicked off. Probably to make way for "yet another" Seth McFarlane show.
This makes me sad. Like pretty much everyone else, I want my favorite shows to go on forever. Fringe is pretty much the only show I look forward to watching every week. I'm going to miss Anna Torv so hard. :(
Oh, Robbie, Robbie, Robbie, why are you so upset that this happens? You should know how Fox works by now. In case you have forgotten, I present to you...
THE FOX MENTALITY
Quirky new title that brings something interesting to the table and appreciated by lots of fans, growing from a small niche audience to a larger following, yet not enough to attract advertising spots? Cancel it.
Reality TV about people getting arrested by cops? RENEW THAT SHIT FOR TWENTY FOUR SEASONS AND GIVE NO CHANCE FOR NEW SHIT TO BE PREMIERED BECAUSE IT ATTRACTED ADVERTISING INVESTMENTS AND WE ARE GREEDY FUCKS AND ALSO FUCK YOU! HAAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAA!!
Well done, Fox. Well done.
At least they aren't leaving us with a "WTF happens next?" cliffhanger like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" did.
Fox's reputation for being run by dicks is well-earned.
Let's face it, with the ratings it gets, almost any other network would have axed this show at least two years ago, so let's give Fox credit for sticking with it as long as they have.
I got one word for you: "COPS". 24 years of, what, watching people being idiots and getting arrested is better than 4 years of Fringe? Really?
Let's face it: Fox should change their names to "Old White Folks TV", because that's the kind of shit they like to see.
I hate to see Fringe go, but if it means we get a nice chunk of mythology episodes before it burns out, then I'm kind of happy with that. And for me, there's not a lot of high expectation with the ending, so there's no pressure. As it was more a procedural show with a cool backstory as opposed to a swamped down serial that you HAD to watch every week. Hell, this season was more of a reboot of the series if anything. I'm happy Fox is allowing them to wrap it up, it may be their most merciful act toward a low-rated but beloved sci-fi show ever.
I will stand by my original hypothesis that Fox wanted to cancel Fringe a long time ago and were embarrassed that the fans moved with it to the death slot...
The whole thing about some Fox executive loving the show is a bunch of hogwash like stuff that comes from Fox News.
Not to give anyone false hope, but TV Line says that a 5th season of Fringe, either a shortened 13 episodes (a'la Chuck) or a full order is "A Sure Thing." http://tvline.com/2012/01/03/2...
*sobs in a corner* Why do you keep toying with my heart, Fox? Why do I keep trusting that network? It's as if I have an abusive partner to whom I keep seeing out of hope that he has changed.
Once it got bounced over to Friday night, it was truly inevitable. Really blows. Admittedly though, this season has been a little rough. I've been watching from day 1, and they are asking us to recall a lot of little things from earlier incidents - and, it doesn't help when some of the stuff is mis-remembered, or from different timelines - often, i cant figure out if its 1) something i forgot, 2) an episode I somehow missed or 3) something that happened in timeline 3, which we never got a look on in the first place.
alas, sad news.
I've enjoyed this season and would like to see a fifth, but I understand the difficulty in trying to remember very specific events from season one. Luckily for me, I simply turn and ask my husband, as he has a ridiculously precise memory. Normally that is annoying, but in this case it works to my advantage : )
I'll be honest, as much as I love Fringe, I'm kinda hoping Fox cancels it so I can go back to boycotting everything made by them. I mean lets be honest, even IF it gets a fifth season, there is no way in HELL its getting a sixth, that's for damn sure. Ah well, when it gets released on DVD I'll buy an extra copy just to appease my conscious.
Wait, are you saying you're ok with Fringe not getting a fifth season because it wouldn't thereafter get a sixth? Wouldn't an extra season be better than no extra seasons? I'm not making a judgement about the quality of the show. I really liked it, but lost track of it somewhere in season 3, I think, but if you like the show I'd think you'd want more of it.
Gee, I feel bad for not caring a bit. I mean, I'm not the least interested in the show, not even after watching half of the first season, but I know it's a big deal for some people and that it represents one of the few Sci-Fi series still around. So sorry for you, guys.
This seriously depresses me more than I think anything else could have today. Fringe is the best sci-fi show since the X-Files, and one of the only hour-long dramas that never feels like a chore to keep up with, like some. I hope Fox does the right thing, but that's practically asking for a miracle.
As you said, this is Fox. That pretty much guarantees that it will be cancelled at this point. To them, if it's been 4 years and the ratings still aren't as big as 24, the show is a failure. it's a shame too. I really like the show. I'm thankful that the producers are planning for the inevitable, and we'll hopefully get a satisfying ending either way.
I don't even understand why they bother putting shows on Fridays without announcing the cancellation. Has a show ever succeeded on Friday nights?
It still baffles me that networks haven't figured out a way to gauge a show's success by taking Hulu, Netflix, and iTunes usage into account. It's like a movie which only does OK in theaters but blows up in DVD sales. It may be worth continuing to make Fringe if there's enough of a non-live audience for it, but the last I heard networks didn't take that sort of thing into account at all.
Fringe has been on Fridays for two years now. Frankly, it's half a miracle it wasn't cancelled after they moved it (I know I'm grateful it survived).
Having said that, I know I'm part of the problem because I can almost never watch it when it airs. I usually catch it on Hulu a few days later.
The Observers taking over the planet? I'm only a couple episodes behind, that's a pretty annoying spoiler...
I'm caught up and it's not a spoiler per say, it's more a "oh is that what those Fers and up to?" This statement doesn’t ruin anything for you.
I'm completely caught up, but I never watch next week's preview (because that's just how I am), and it's just as insane to hear that. Don't worry.
If it gets cancelled, maybe the producers will use their own money to fund a spin-off Hollywood film where Olivia suddenly develops kung fu skills and a sword-wielding pseudo samurai guy without a name tries to hunt them down before eventually siding with them.
If Fringe and Eureka both end this year then there will be no true hard sci-fi that I'm aware of on television. Sure there are plenty of shows with slight sci-fi twists, otherwise known as gimmicks, but I need a good space opera or time travel show to get me through the day.
Oh wait I forgot Falling Skies....now I just need to re-forget it
I do completely count Doctor Who and Misfits and a host of other great non US sci-fi shows. Just being America specific in my post without bothering to actual say I was being America specific in my post, my apologies.
Oh, don't worry. I'm guilty of the same, really. I do tend to forget that Doctor Who isn't the same cultural behemoth elsewhere as it is here in Blighty.
I'm not sure Who should really count. It's more a science fantasy show than scifi and certainly not hard sci fi. Everything science in Who is wibbley wobbley. That's not necessarily bad (the current show is bad for other reasons), but it's not really science fiction. Fringe and Eureka are really both shows *about* science in a way Who isn't.
Well, I suppose that's fair enough. I do think there's a distinction between Who and shows like Fringe and Eureka, but it's possible that I'm just splitting hairs here.
That said, if Eureka and Fringe are cancelled there really will be a bit of a dearth of good scifi shows on TV today.
For that matter I wouldn't call Fringe "hard" sci-fi, and it's only a hair less wibbley wobbley about its science as Doctor Who is.
If Eureka counts I'd think Doctor Who would as well. (Then again I wouldn't describe either as "hard" sci-fi.)
Ugh. I feel like I'm part of the problem, not the solution. I caught up around season 2 ... But it's too damn difficult to watch week to week, I find it way superior to watch it after the season is completed. 2-4 episode chunks at a time =/
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