I missed it last week, but I watched Fringe again last night, and enjoyed it.
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I watched it. It was very....inelegant.
Personally, I tend to give shows a free pass for their first several episodes in terms of their "elegancy." Shows usually take time to develop into a "good" show. I can give you three quick examples:
1. Star Trek: The Next Generation. Remember the first season? Go watch the first few episodes and notice how stilted they are. It really wasn't until the second season that it started to gel, to me.
2. Friends. Ever watch reruns of the first several episodes? Not great shows at all. But it turned into a show that I watched for years.
3. Sports Night. This is a show that I listed as one of my all-time favorites, yet the first several episodes didn't work for me. They had a laugh track at the time, and it just didn't work for it. It wasn't until they removed the laugh track and tightened up the dialogue that it became the show that I loved.
Fringe, to me, has all the right stuff to become the next X-Files type show. Reviewers really like it too. I'm going to be watching this one for a while, me thinks.