Fringe. Have you seen it? It’s a show on television. It finished its fourth season on the Fox network and was renewed for a fifth. It has a lot of science fiction and carries on in the tradition of The X-Files, which had a nine season run on the same network.
I mean alternate universes (well, just one so far), laboratories with vials of mega-dangerous materials, creatures from far beyond the lost lagoon, death rays, teleportation not just across town but between parallel universes, a giant corporation that knows too much and enough conspiracy theories to refloat the Costa Concordia.
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That’s the problem with most TV and movie sci-fi. Too much of everything. Reality can’t be subtly different. There has to be shock and awe behind every potted plant. On the positive side, the acting in Fringe has usually risen above the material.
But sometimes actors have to say things that are laughable, such as:
“Our universe has been infiltrated by shape shifters from your side and your defence secretary is behind it.”
Or when one guy moans, “I lost a partner,” the other guy replies, “I lost a universe.”
So far, there is nothing quite as bad as what Liam Neeson said in Clash of the Titans:
“Release the Kracken!”
