{"id":125,"date":"2011-07-27T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=125"},"modified":"2011-09-18T04:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T04:02:03","slug":"just-killed-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Just killed a man"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know what’s ridiculous? Paying money for things. Don’t get me wrong, I buy stuff all the time. Or when I get the opportunity anyway. Money is a little tight right now so spending on unnecessary goods is last on the priority list. Especially when things are so way overpriced. Like the DVD\/Blu-ray sets of Fringe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I want to watch this series because it seems like a show that I’d enjoy. But everything in the world is stopping me from doing that legally. Netflix, which has been my go-to place for TV, does not carry it yet. Because stupid Canadian Netflix is stupid and has a considerably smaller library than American Netflix. Best Buy will sell me the more desirable Blu-ray set, but for $80 a pop. I make bad financial decisions, but I am surely not<\/em> paying that much for a single season of a show I’m not totally sure I’m into yet. They have the DVD version available for $65, which is closer to what I’d be willing to pay for the BD set, but not for DVD. Wal-Mart will supply me with the DVD sets for $30 each, only not a single Wal-Mart in the city has season one in stock. Ever.<\/p>\n

Also, Wal-Mart doesn’t sell TV Blu-rays? WTF?<\/p>\n

So I guess for now I’m illegally downloading the series. Yeah, ya heard me. That’s what I did with the first episode, which is all I’ve watched so far. It’s good stuff though! At least, I enjoyed it. I always find serious TV shows very hard to start watching, and if there isn’t a hook that caters to my interests, I will pass them by without a second thought not matter how good a reputation they have. CSI<\/em>? Not interested. The Sopranos<\/em>? Pass. Game of Thrones<\/em>? Oh God it looks so<\/em> boring. Actually, I don’t think there’s ever been an HBO series that I’ve even been marginally interested in.<\/p>\n

The ones I do like always have a specific little something that pulls me in. For example, I probably would have let LOST<\/em> go, if not for that scary thing that was roaring in the jungle and uprooting trees at the end of episode one. What is it? A dinosaur? A monster? Something more sinister? There were plenty of reasons for me to stick with LOST (NB: Hurley), but that spooky thing in the jungle was the number one thing that caught my interest and made me watch the second episode immediately afterwards. I wanted to know what that thing was, dammit! And I would watch as many episodes as it took to find out.<\/p>\n

Fringe doesn’t benefit from something so blatantly mysterious and intriguing, but rather the promise of many such things in smaller, episode-sized doses. From what I understand, the show is about a bunch of misfits solving mysteries and battling evil with “fringe science.” Already in episode one we’ve seen a creepy virus that makes skin invisible and mental linkage through copious amounts of drugs, so I have a feeling things will get pretty crazy pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

The show also seems to be going in the opposite direction of Dollhouse<\/em> when it comes to the subject of maintaining a running plot. As I explained yesterday, Dollhouse is working things together very slowly, while in the first episode, Fringe has already established basic character backgrounds, a huge corporation that may or may not have evil intentions, a possible secret society, and countless other plot threads that are clearly leading into something bigger. In short, it’s the sci-fi cop drama version of LOST. Which is almost exactly what I want to be watching. Really, my ideal TV situation would be watching LOST for a third time. Alas, I need to branch out a bit.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the rest of Fringe continues to tickle my fancy as well as the first episode did. Judging by the little bits I’ve read about it on Wikipedia, I don’t think I’m going to end up disappointed. The fact that it’s a Bad Robot production also leaves me greatly optimistic, as other TV shows by said company include LOST and Alias<\/em>, not to mention my 2011 Movie of the Year, Super 8<\/em>. So yeah, I’ve got a pretty good feeling about this one. Just wish it wasn’t so danged expensive to watch it legitimately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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