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So J.J. “plot-dangler” Abrams has created a new show for Fox to reap more millions when Lost eventually gets found, and thankfully euthanized. The new show is Fringe, starring Anna “Blanchett junior” Torv and Joshua Jackson from Dawson’s Creek - whom I accuse of starting this whole trend of high school student teacher-fucking after I graduated high school and could catch the wave of “abuse”.

I hesitate to get drawn into this series honestly, having seen the effects of Lost with people quitting their jobs to diagram all the theoretical purposes and ramifications of the Dharma Initiative and modeling the island in mashed potatoes as their families fall apart. The draw is a function of my enjoyment of three related works. The first being Bones, which I wrote on some months back and is a quirky geek chic CSI that supplies tongue-in-cheek comic relief from all the gore.

Number two factor is Cloverfield - an Abrams work I did appreciate because it had a set duration to be enjoyed. There were back-story pieces and repercussion exposition on the net I’ve heard, but damn that. I wasn’t sickened by the camera style and enjoyed the mystery for what it was - and only that. I know he can be creatively entertaining when playing within set plot parameters, Lost is the effect of Abrams run a-fucking-muck. Thanks J.J., now get the hell away from me.

And C., the X-Files were a favorite and they’re trying to fill the niche left behind. Lost has rejuvenated the genre sort of by showing it doesn’t have to be that hardcore as Battlestar Galactica or SG-1. It can be more like a mood rather than setting, like X-Files was. The mundane world is being influenced by the supernatural or hyper-advanced. There’s no strong unity between the protagonists yet, nor an inclining of the Mulder/Scully polarity, and their weirdness gets mostly explained in Fringe.

I’ll give you a moment to recover from the pretension … OK? Fringe has a cast set up sort of like Bones and a bit of its humor with the overall mood of the X-Files and the super mysterious Abramic style of Lost.

A unique difference is that it’s not going into the supernatural so far. There’s a mad scientist Dr. Bishop who is the chief forensic guy for the good guy investigators led by Olivia Dunham (Torv), Jackson plays Bishop’s son Peter - a genius in his own right and object of the mandatory sexual tension with Dunham. The doc’s former co-worker is the now super wealthy innovator of the day, Mr. Bell head of Massive Dynamics. He is yet to be seen but has a underling Ms. Sharp that works with the FBI and has a cyborg arm - Star Trek quality - thanks to his tech. Lance Reddick from The Wire plays Broyles, Homeland Security supervisor and Dunham’s boss.

He and Sharp are the mysterious heavies that know a lot about the “Pattern”, for which Dunham is being brought into gradually to combat the multitude of unknown freaky threats. This “Pattern” is a code name for the non-UFO nor mystical freaky shit going on around the world, which is becoming like a giant lab for the ultra high tech projects of these unnamed corporate interests. Each episode starts with some heinously disgusting pattern shit that is solved over the course of the plot and replaced with the conspiratory technological implications of this source of that weirdness that trolls the depths of speculative science. Never really watched Alias, but from the little I saw it seems similar but swaps political intrigue for industrial flavor.

Unlike Lost, it seems to be setting up some safely contained story parameters, but it’s still too early to tell. The season finale could involve elf-like aliens that turn out to be Dunham’s biological parents and her betraying now dead boyfriend turned on her to keep her from being taken back to the mothership for an arranged marriage with Colbert advisor Gorlock, although it would break the deal struck in 1947 and now the harvesting of human farts to refine into a xeno-biological gaseous variant of Ecstasy for their tentacle raves.

If you liked Alias or Lost, now is your chance to get in on the ground floor of the next one.

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