To paraphrase the Hold Steady, we like to stay positive. At Science Not Fiction, staying positive means that we don’t debunk (or nerdgas.) If the sonic screwdriver solves the problem, then by all means whip it out.
That being said, this show Fringe is seriously stretching us to the limit.
Fringe Gets Fast Aging and Frozen Optics Wrong [Popular Mechanics]
Fringe “violates basic tenets of biology, chemistry and physics without any explanation.” [Polite Dissent]
Now that we’ve gotten that off our chest, here are few other links to help lighten the mood:
You say Obama? I say Adama for President. [LA Times]
H.P Lovecraft as the Whitman’s Sampler copy writer [McSweeney's]
September 25th, 2008 at 3:49 am
What about the fact that the only person who can help them is some nutjob who spent the last 17 years in a mental asylum.
Surely there is someone else who knows their stuff as well as this crazy.
Don’t forget the mind meld between Dunham and Agent Scott. Come on.
But should we expect any less from JJ Abrams?
September 25th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Its on FOX, do you really expect it to follow the laws of reality?
Regardless of the fact that they make up their science, its a fun show. Brings back memories of X-Files when it was mostly weird creatures and unusual phenomena, with a dash of conspiracy.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
[...] working to understand things, often over a course of episodes or even seasons, instead of just magically knowing it all–for example, it took a long time for the franchise to go from a few captured enemy [...]
December 5th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
[...] 1000 fsw. It has an operating maximum of 7.5 bars, or about 244 fsw. Okay, we’re not in Fringe territory yet, but tsk, tsk, Eleventh Hour, we’ve come to expect more from [...]
April 29th, 2009 at 10:17 am
[...] As we’ve mentioned before, though, this is sometimes problematic when it comes to J.J. Abrams’s Fringe. Still, we try not to critique. [...]