Comments on: Fringe – Episode 16: “Unleashed”

By: Roel

Roel — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:38:07 +0000

btw did anyone notice the octopus underside of the tail of the monster, with all the rings. i do not remember that being in the formula

By: JOse

JOse — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:04:06 +0000

Not the best episode…Even I could have done a better plot with more scientific point of view, considering that the audience is not as dump to believe what ever they invent…I’ll better go to sleep…Greetings from Argentina

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)