Fringe: Season 5

[KAB]

IMHO, this season so far is just dreadful. Only watching because it's the last, but each episode is a chore to watch. It's like a whole different (bad) show, but with the same characters. Ratings keep going down. I would have been happy if they had just pulled the plug last season.

 

[riffjim4069]

An Origin Story: Friday, 2 November 2012 (9:00 PM ET)

"As the team responds to devastating events, one of its own makes a significant and shocking move."

Don't forget to rate this episode over at IMDb.com: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2385736/

 

[riffjim4069]

I can't recall the last time Fringe drew more than 3.1 million viewers. Sure, this show has had problems the past couple years, but these numbers are pathetic. It's no wonder shows like Jericho, Invasion and FlashForward are cancelled after their first season...and why Sci-Fi or Syfi or whatever it's called show so little Sci-Fi these days.

9 p.m.
CBS: "CSI: NY" (9.9 million, 6.5/11)
NBC: "Grimm" (6.0 million, 3.8/6)
ABC: "20/20: All Access Nashville" (5.5 million, 3.9/6)
FOX: "Fringe" (2.6 million, 1.8/3)
The CW: "Nikita" (793,000, 0.6/1)

 

[Sean Mota]

IMHO, this season so far is just dreadful. Only watching because it's the last, but each episode is a chore to watch. It's like a whole different (bad) show, but with the same characters. Ratings keep going down. I would have been happy if they had just pulled the plug last season.

I agree. It does not even feel like one is watching the same show we started with. This has gone so deep and far that is quite confusing to follow the story. Sometimes I do not even know what I am watching.

 

[Derwin0]

I can't recall the last time Fringe drew more than 3.1 million viewers. Sure, this show has had problems the past couple years, but these numbers are pathetic.

Considering the "quality" of this season, I'm surprised it scores as high as it does.

 

[riffjim4069]

Considering the "quality" of this season, I'm surprised it scores as high as it does.

I'm sure 1.5M are tuned to Fox during that timelot simply because it's background noise while they've walked out of the room cooking, are talking on the phone, washing their hair, washing the dog, etc.

 

[KAB]

0.9/3, 18-49 share is pretty deplorable. Also, just saw this regarding the final episode:

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ur-series-finale-on-friday-january-18/155973/

 

[riffjim4069]

Did we just witness the origin of Peternator?

 

[Dah-Henny]

Yep, Peter is "the one"!

 

[riffjim4069]

Yep, Peter is "the one"!

Well, I guess we'll have to refer to him as Peo from this point forward...along with Walterus and Olivacle.

 

[KAB]

Don't know yet. My recording stopped about 10 minutes early...that722K bug, again.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I wouldn't know I didn't see the show last night. Both hoppers recorded channel 101 for Fringe instead of Fox. So now I have to watch on Hula instead in SD.

 

[KAB]

I wouldn't know I didn't see the show last night. Both hoppers recorded channel 101 for Fringe instead of Fox. So now I have to watch on Hula instead in SD.

It's HD on the Fox site, if you would want to watch that way. I watched the last 10 minutes my 722k lost.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Thanks, I 'll check it out.

 

[riffjim4069]

Well, I guess we'll have to refer to him as Peo from this point forward...along with Walterus and Olivacle.

Correction...it should be Olivity since Neo never got intimate with the Oracle, as far as we know.

 

[KAB]

As "Tweek" from South Park would say, "Stop with the Matrix metaphors, Man..eeeeehhhh"

 

[lakebum431]

Yes, very matrix like. I have a feeling I'm not going to like the way this show ends.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

On the episode where Etta was killed,did they mention someone called the "Dove?" At first I thought that it might be Broyles(which maybe it still is),but lately,since of all the observers shown so far this season,Saturday isn't one of them,I'm starting to wonder if Saturday is "the Dove(or whatever that mysterious character is called)?"

 

[MikeD-C05]

Just read on the entertainment /tv section of the Huffington Post (online), that the final two hour finale will be January 18th,2013. So they will have to wrap up the story between now and then ,give or take holiday hiatuses, that will interfere with the showing of the actual program.

 

[riffjim4069]

I'm sure Fox has a mid-season replacement ready to go in late-Janurary/early-February. If that show turns out to be a dud they can always rerun episodes from the final season. Yep, the show is going to have to wrap things up pretty quickly. Hopefully the former Fringe team can continue to use their bag of oddities acquired from the first four seasons. We shall see.