OK,
so, despite the fact that an airline pilot's face dissolves to the
point that his inferior maxillary bone drops right off his face, we
can't quite call
Fringe's pilot "jawdropping." It's excellent,
intriguing, absorbing... but it didn't blow us away. Which is fine by
us. Because that means we're not dealing with a
Lost-type
situation here. The first 45 frenzied minutes of that show's pilot were
so strange and affecting that we sometimes think we're still under
their sway, particularly when we find ourselves trying to reconcile all
the magnetism, ghosts, and clockwork monsters made of smoke on that
damned island.
But
Fringe is content to work with milieus
and characters that we've seen before: the mad scientist, the broken
family, the federal agent searching for the truth in a vast single-wing
conspiracy. Does it sound like we're disappointed? We're not.
Fringe may do what it can to color in the lines, but man, what vibrant colors it chooses to color with.
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