<![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff! - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff! - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> I was saying booo-urns.

mr4fingers

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Fringe may be the first show that takes longer to watch than it does to download a copy via bittorrent

c0dek

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Elbow fight! Elbow fight!!

ideaman2020

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Wow!! The Hoff looks alot like Leno in that bottom picture there!

Darkweave

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @braak: That on Fox or UPN?

Iamtehawesome

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Your god cannot help you now. This is J. J. Abrams' world.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @charliejane: Mother of God!

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @ManchuCandidate: Um, I live in Peoria, and I don't know that it will play here any better than anywhere else.

@ElijahDProphet: Good lord, no. Special Unit 2 was a great, funny show that died because it had the bad luck to be on UPN.

halloweenjack

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @The_Real_Quiet_Desperation: X-Files was great at giving us resolutions to their monster of the week episodes. They may have been ambiguous at times but they resolved. The Conspiracy arc could have resolved but then money was waved and Carter decided to add an extra spin and things got wacky. But it had an ending, maybe not as satisfactory as one could have been reached earlier but it did resolve.

Unlike say, anything Abrahms has been in control of, which just sort of meanders around in vaguely mysterious circles for a few seasons until all characters have become a mass of contradictory cliches and plots are so tangled that nothing makes sense without a scorecard. And then it stops.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @picardia: You mean that women have been historically dehumanized because we, the Patriarchy, have refused to let them be in bikinis in giant water tanks?

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @Plague: Hell, I'd watch that show. A pedophile heroine addict with a midget leprechaun sidekick fighting giant centipedes and evil chaos magicians in a psychically-constructed Egyptian afterlife?

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @picardia:
Sorry, pal. I love Lost and I loved Cloverfield, but this thing sounds like William Burroughs cut up some random thoughts and then picked them out of a hat.
Wait, that would actually work BETTER.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @ElijahDProphet:
Except that the show with the Leprechaun helping out the paranormal/alien/whatever investigations was actually FUN.
Fringe just sounds like a fanboy on meth scrawling things out in ever smaller handwriting until you can't see it anymore...

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> JJ is awesome, as are his works. He's unpopular with hardcore fanboys mostly, as far as I can tell, because (a) human beings who leave the house sometimes actually like his stuff and (b) women get to act like human beings.

picardia

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Well, I'm assuming the guy who reviewed the script for IESB wasn't just making the whole thing up. That being the case, it's all in there...

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Could you please clarify the point at which the actual Fringe pilot-script ended, and you just started making shit up.

Because I don't have 480 hours to spend on a single pilot episode.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @firesign: Daddy issues AND evil corporations. JJ is so predictable.

albo

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> so, daddy issues. just like lost. i'm sensing a theme with jj.

firesign

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Frozen-Tex said "And wouldn't it go against Abrams' principals to actually resolve a storyline in episodic TV?"

Yeah, the original X-Files was *so* good at that, wasn't it? [/sarcasm]

And the new KITT is a Mustang? Woot!

The_Real_Quiet_Desperation

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> You had me all the way till This involves putting her in a bikini inside a water tank, then zapping her.

jeeeeezus.

hystericalredhead

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> My Zod, it sounds like the rambling story a 13yr old would tell her parents to explain being out past kerfew.

It's almost like something Little Britain's Vicky Pollard would spew forth: "Ya but no but ya but no but anyway ..."

Jim (The Canuck One)

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Fringe sounds fucking fantastic. Where do I sign?

Marcus117

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Peter is a wacky gambler and rogue who has comedy moments involving urinating himself.

You can't kill me fast enough.

zerofritz

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @El-Zilcho: Do you think Mike Tracer knows that he's, like, a foot away from actually be able to hit that guy with his elbow?

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> That guy that Mike Tracer is elbowing looks a lot like Rob Schneider in Demolition Man.

El-Zilcho

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> APRIL FOOL'S!!!!

oh, fuck. wait. Fringe is real?

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> So the pilot for Fringe has weird skin melty chemicals, invisible chemicals, bionic hands, mind transference and a mad scientist? Are you sure that isn't the first season because that sounds like a dozen or so episodes.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> You think "Fringe" could actually last a month? And wouldn't it go against Abrams' principals to actually resolve a storyline in episodic TV? Which would mean more of the same: endless plots and plot twists and red herrings, all never actually going anywhere.

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Fringe sounds all over the place.

JohnnyZito

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Fringe sounds less like the X-Files and more like that cop show with the Leprechaun.

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Cue the repetitiousness... I want new ideas!

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> I can only imagine what the Fringe pitch meeting was like:
JJ: It's like the X-files, but the two agents are doing IT!
Execubot One: Goood. It will play well in Peoria
Execubot Two: Why can't you add a cute kid to the cast?
Execubot Three: That's an original idea! We never thought of that before!

As for the Knight Rider. In best GOB voice: "Come ON! Michael, you call that a punch? Buster's tougher than that!"

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> @braak: suffering *from.

How the hell did I do that?

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Mike Tracer throws an elbow! Look at him go!

Fringe sounds like it's suffering my a pilot episode bloat-quest.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Full Spoilage For J.J. Abrams' X-Files Ripoff!]]> Thats the Mach 6 if you didnt notice. Something tells me a major plot point in this movie is a race thats less a rally like Speeds normal races and more a indie 500 type affair based on the trailer.

Falconfire

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