{"id":3154,"date":"2008-09-14T23:33:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T03:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2008-09-14T23:33:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T03:33:30","slug":"fringe-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"Fringe benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, I watched an encore presentation of the Fringe<\/i> premiere. Basically? Meh.<\/p>\n

I thought it was halfway decent, if over-long and too infodump-heavy, with a few nice touches of humor and intrigue that could prove interesting (or untenable) when it becomes a weekly series. The premiere was more “movie” than “episode,” which I don’t think always worked in the show’s favor. Visually, it sometimes looked like it belonged on the big screen, but it never really felt<\/i> like a feature, never felt like it had enough of a self-contained story to sustain that. It was high on production, but also on padding, and neither really worked to its benefit. (And don’t get me started on those annoying locational title cards.)<\/p>\n

I’m interested in seeing the show’s first regular episode. I’m just not overly excited<\/i> by it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight, I watched an encore presentation of the Fringe premiere. Basically? Meh. I thought it was halfway decent, if over-long and too infodump-heavy, with a few nice touches of humor and intrigue that could prove interesting (or untenable) when it becomes a weekly series. The premiere was more “movie” than “episode,” which I don’t think … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}