Comments on: Fringe – Episode 16: “Unleashed”

By: beka

beka — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:26:31 +0000

The theory of evolution applies to natural selection

Isn’t artificial selection also a mechanism in evolution?

Other than that, excellent post, as ever. I’m starting to feel I’m one of the few people in the world what hates Fringe :(

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

The non-science of Fringe: Unleashed « weak interactions — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:53:40 +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: Karl Withakay

Karl Withakay — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:16:19 +0000

By the way, it’s actually the Doosmday Clock, not the Doomsday Clock, as Scott has never fixed the typo.

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Between the earlette and the worms, I may not need to eat again for a while.
Why is it that, whenever an animal-research facility is shown on TV, there’s all sorts of animals in one teeny room, including the naked rats and mice? I wonder if there’s a special Animal Testing Room Pack of animal actors that one gets at a reduced rate. I especially liked the chickens and the whatever-it-was in the cage with the hamster ball, which was sitting on the table.

By: e

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:28:37 +0000

Oh noes!!!! That doomsday clock is threatening!!!! (Here’s hoping negative minute redemption next week.)

And I thoroughly enjoyed the omelette/ear.

By: LurkerWithout

LurkerWithout — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:45:22 +0000

Ah, who doesn’t love a show where the FBI has to hunt down and kill Madcoil from Elfquest?

By: Polcamilla

Polcamilla — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:00:33 +0000

While my husband and I had a gleeful time during the first third of the episode trying to guess the monster (”It’s a hippogryph! No, a chimera!”) the one unexplained element of this attrocious episode that really bugged me was WHY the lab in question created that particular creature.

I can just see the departmental meeting now.

“Alright, we have a mascara toxicity project for the next three weeks, then there’s the sunscreen trial, and after that—-well, there’s absolutely no medical reason to do it, but what do you guys think about mixing together a wasp, a bat, a giant python, and a tiger just to see what’ll happen?”

Seriously, if the goal was just a crazy transgenic animal, couldn’t they start simpler and mix a rabbit and mouse, with maybe a frog thrown in? Or at least have the decency to pretend they made such advances before whipping up a perfected killing machine?

By: The Muffinman

The Muffinman — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:40:06 +0000

I laughed so much when Charlie said he was “pregnant”. I read somewhere back in your last article about “Inner Child”. You were off ranting about something about male characters getting pregnant.

I think the writers are screwing with your head x)

By: as

as — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:23 +0000

Honestly… does it even matter anymore? I’m a sci-fi fanatic and Fringe has gotten me to the point where I can’t suspend disbelief anymore. Every episode has a “oh, come on!” moment!

Lemme get this straight: Walter is like… 60. Figure for the first 20 – 25 years he didn’t do much of anything. Last 10? In an asylum. So in 25 – 30 years he accomplished more than the rest of humanity combined?

Ugh. Your doomsday clock is more generous than mine.

By: Karl Withakay

Karl Withakay — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:04:10 +0000

There’s a saying in the shooting world to the effect of “the purpose of a handgun is to enable you to fight your way back to retrieve your long gun”

I’d never go after dangerous game like that with a handgun as my primary weapon of choice.

In a confined space like those sewers, there’s a few things to consider.

-Without hearing protection, there’s likely to be some significant hearing damage experienced.

-If there’s the possibility of methane pockets, incendiary rounds or not, it’s not a good idea to discharge a firearm. (It is a FIRE-arm)

-Ricochet is also a major concern in the sewers. I I’d lean towards a heavy, slow moving, soft lead bullet, like a Lead 400gr .45-70 in a lever action rifle, or a 12ga shotgun with rifled slugs.

Those shots were way to fast (close together) for a .50 handgun unless it was being fired by a Terminator.