Comments on: Fringe – Episode 18: “Midnight”

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

The non-science of Fringe: Midnight « weak interactions — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:41:41 +0000

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

By: Spud31

Spud31 — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:56:02 +0000

One more nitpick on the spinal tap – Walter sat him right back up in his chair after the tap. It probably wasn’t a stroke, but just a really terrible headache. My head hurts just thinking about it. ;-)

By: FoxtrotCharlie

FoxtrotCharlie — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:25:10 +0000

So the evil genius behind ZFT is Mr. Spock.

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:22:10 +0000

Had to look up Billy Squier. Heh.
The “tranquilize crazy syphilis lady and toss her in the back of a vehicle with no barrier between her and the other occupants and no restraints” sequence was a head-scratcher for us, too. I mean, they’re constantly dealing with things out of the ordinary; why would they assume that she reacts to medications/sedatives in the same way as an ordinary human?

By: George

George — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:22:50 +0000

ZFT…

By: Dwayne "the canoe guy"

Dwayne "the canoe guy" — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:49:28 +0000

This was the first episode of this that my wife & I watched. We nailed the CDC/residential thing as well as the ‘human bite’/weird teeth bit.

I doubt that we’ll be back to that show.

By: Mark Temporis

Mark Temporis — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:26:03 +0000

I kinda liked the music. They led off with Bauhaus’ classic ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, which is a vampire favorite of course. I prefer Sepultura’s version, however.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:00:39 +0000

The teeth I had meant to mention, but it slipped my mind at the last minute. I was concerned not only in how the teeth changed (and so quickly), but that Walter had interpreted the bite mark as a normal human bite mark.

The eyes didn’t bother me as much. I figured the disease just pumped out some new pigmented proteins that changed the eye color.

I figure the disease must change the ears somehow as well; how else to explain the new found taste for bland techno music?

By: Fringe Doomsday Clock | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine

Fringe Doomsday Clock | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:17:11 +0000

[...] Polite Dissent does such a good job of it already. Head over to PD today for a recap of last night’s episode, including his ongoing homage to the Bulletin of Atomic [...]

By: e

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:46:21 +0000

I seriously thought the Doomsday clock was going to strike (no pun) midnight tonight. Morphing teeth and eye color? And you can get dental work done just by injecting spinal fluid? (She also appeared to move several shades towards a more attractive bleached tooth color.)

And the vampirewife won’t recognize people because she’s such an animal but still has time to do hair and makeup? And a psycho is just put in the back of a van without restraints?

And would someone explain to me the contortions needed to perform a spinal tap on yourself as was suggested in this episode?

I love the show usually but this episode was just dire.