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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