Still watching Fringe? Blimey, you’ve got stamina. Even I petered out around about episode six or seven. I want to like it, I really do, it’s just really boring.
There are some glimmers of light in it, though. One’s John Noble as the truly mad scientist Dr Bishop. If the show was purely about him, I’d watch it.
The other glimmer of hope is The Observer. Much like Lazar in Witchblade, he pops up in more or less every episode, but you have to be very observant to spot him – although the fourth episode in which he’s the focus was pretty much the only good episode since the pilot (as far as I’m aware).
To save you time – and to avoid watching Fringe – you can see all his appearances in this video someone’s mashed up for your delight
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
