Comments on: Fringe – Episode 11: “Bound”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:42:45 +0000

A “catfight”? That’s pretty sexist

By: The non-science of Fringe: Bound « weak interactions

The non-science of Fringe: Bound « weak interactions — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:28:49 +0000

[...] episode is debunked at Popular Mechanics and Polite Dissent, and you can read more about it at Fox, IMDb and the A.V. [...]

By: beka

beka — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:56:55 +0000

Credentials: high school science student.

And even with that, I am lol’ing at your description and practically sputtering: Viruses don’t work like that! Cube-square law doesn’t work like that! And EWW slug beastie.

I love this blog, especially for the Legion of Super Heroes posts but also for the nitpicky nerdiness and assured writing style. Thanks for the laughs :D

By: TayJK

TayJK — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:15:29 +0000

Apparently someone learned science from the original Star Trek and the ship eating giant single cell creature.

This is the first episode I watched in its entirerty, and I agreed with others, besides the stupidity of the single-cell thing, wasn’t bad at all.

@Johua: She was still on the run from whoever kidnapped her in the first place. Note sure if she got in contact with the home office at that point, but just because backup is on the way, she was still disoriented, possibily drugged and at least one kidnapper unaccounted for.

By: Krista

Krista — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:28:31 +0000

Shouldn’t the actors or the cameramen or somebody, somewhere involved with it know how ridiculous that sounded? Do the writers of this show not have access to Wikipedia? This is not some insider detail, and I really hope that one doesn’t have to go to medical school or major in biochemistry to know that viruses are not cells, and they cannot grow to that size. They don’t even really “grow” at all… they “assemble” and “mature.”
Actually, other than how much I laughed and cringed at that, this was one of the best episodes of the show, and really showed its potential. As long as I still enjoy making fun of how bad the “science” is, and the rest of it is at least that good, I’ll still watch.

By: the Original Keith

the Original Keith — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:22:44 +0000

I picture the writer’s meeting for this episode as something like:

Writer 1: OK, what’s next on our list of plot devices?

Writer 2: : Giant worm crawling out of mouse…no, sorry – MOUTH.

Writer 1: OK, what’s the least amount of thought we can put into making that happen? My daughter’s grade-school festival is tonight…

Fringe is just a pale reflection of the X-Files, right down to the female character being kidnapped and symbolically sexually abused. JJ Abrams really needs to retire.

By: Erich

Erich — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:52:59 +0000

It makes me think of a bit from a Graham Chapman sketch (written outside of his Monty Python work, produced posthumously as a stage show):

“We have developed a germ so large that it can kill a man through physical violence. We call this bacteria “The Big Strangler,” after its discoverer, Dr. Bigstrangler.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:05:37 +0000

They made the virus grow to enormous size that fast by switching the scientist’s cold medecine with Dr Bunsen Honeydew’s Germ Enlarger drops.

By: Tooms

Tooms — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:57:54 +0000

“Decongestants treat the symptoms of the cold (or more accurately the symptoms caused by the body’s reaction to the cold virus). They wouldn’t have any effect on the virus itself.”

I was thinking exactly the same thing during the scene.

Oh, doc Scott, how I wish this blog existed during “The X-Files” run. Your hands would be full.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:25:47 +0000

They just don’t try very hard on this show…

Why did she bury the vials she stole? She’s such a hero all the time, she couldn’t have possibly expected to be re-captured. The only reason was so that the FBI agents who took her into custody wouldn’t take them– which she could not have known about.

What’s the deal with shooting her with a tranquilizer dart?

The whole thing about giant cells and ostrich eggs was nearly unbearable. You said it was a virus! Not a cell!

Loeb telling his wife to kill agent Dunham also stretched my credibility. He must have known she’d have no chance of winning. And then she was shown as an expert fighter… really? I suppose every law-enforcement wife is a martial arts expert? That whole scene was superfluous.

Maybe I should just stop watching this show. My roommates love it, though.