Comments on: Fringe

By: Retro-Deconstruction Review of Fringe, Episode 1 Season 1, Pilot « Cordial Deconstruction

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:32:18 +0000

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By: DJB

DJB — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:17:48 +0000

Well, primates are harder to take care of than cows, but good point on the rats and mice! I think the writers got their wires crossed and meant to have an aerosolized toxin as the culprit on the airplane…sometimes it’s as much fun to try to figure out how a nonbiologist got their ideas wrong as to nitpick them ;)

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:23:51 +0000

After reading your House reviews for years, and feeling somewhat stupid for not understanding half the dialog, nor why most of what they did on the show was insane, as a professional interpreter/German speaker/general polyglot I felt slightly vindicated at being able to nit-pick that the “German” people in the plane were apparently unable to speak their own language, sometimes bordering on unintelligibility. Not that that’s any surprise, most “foreign” people on TV have probably never heard a native speaker speak their lines, and rarely does anyone care. Like that “Korean” guy from LOST, who has a horrible accent as well. Not really a nit-pick I guess. You can’t hire a bunch of Germans and fly them to America to be extras. *sigh*

And yup, that’s all I have to add to this discussion.

By: Kardelen

Kardelen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:44:40 +0000

I am way to much of an X-phile to be able to enjoy this show…

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:14:32 +0000

“Right, let’s make some LSD…”

I used to have a professor like that too…

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:27:13 +0000

It’s nice to see that the FBI is still composed mainly of sexy young people, instead of paunchy, badly-dressed Mormon men.

That said, I enjoyed the show, especially the basset-hound visage of Dr. Bishop.

More disturbingly, can we have a show where suspects are NOT tortured successfully for information? Is this a new tv paradigm foisted on us by Jack Bauer and the Bush administration?

The cow was named ‘Gene’, lol.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:56:02 +0000

Leprosy?!

I’m assuming they thought: “people are still scared of leprosy and people with leprosy, so let’s use it as the archetype of infectious disease.”

I used to worry about leprosy (and cobras) when I was seven – I lived in Canada, so neither was terribly likely, but I was a bookish child.

By: Seva

Seva — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:37:08 +0000

I actually kind of liked it. And yes the cow seems to be simply a comic relief. This show will probably not be very accurate and it a cross between x-files, lost and gray’s anatomy ;) sounds weird right? I’ll give it a shot, JJ Abrams doesn’t usually dissapoint.

By: Your Obedient Serpent

Your Obedient Serpent — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:04:51 +0000

I think that the cow is just there because Dr. Bishop likes cows.

I don’t remember ever seeing him TESTING anything on the cow.

By: Mr. B

Mr. B — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:24:07 +0000

I got a good laugh about the “blood stored in case they are wounded in the line of duty”.

I used to wonder, why in cop shows, they would always see cops donating blood. I figured it was to show solidarity and to be dramatic. Did the cops think that fresh blood was better than the blood bank blood? Did they think extra fresh blood, had more fizz?

Well, they were right! Fresh blood is better/fizzier. lol
Nitric Oxide is the fizzy factor.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1669438,00.html

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: nitric oxide (NO). A workhorse of the blood, the gas helps red blood cells ferry oxygen to tissues and props open tiny vessels to allow freer blood flow. It turns out that within hours of leaving the body, levels of nitric oxide in the blood begin to drop, until, by the time donated blood expires after 42 days, the gas is almost nonexistent.