How is Fringe, Steve? I've never seen an episode, but the previews look pretty wild.
Andy
Andy, it's one of the best shows on network TV. I suffer from withdrawal whenever they take a break from new episodes. The show just seems to keep getting better.
It has a touch of X-FILES with an ongoing "end of the world as we know it" problem that they are investigating while other strange things pop up that need to be solved. In other words, it's best to grab the show from the first episode.
How is Fringe, Steve? I've never seen an episode, but the previews look pretty wild.
Andy
Andy, it's one of the best shows on network TV. I suffer from withdrawal whenever they take a break from new episodes. The show just seems to keep getting better.
It has a touch of X-FILES with an ongoing "end of the world as we know it" problem that they are investigating while other strange things pop up that need to be solved. In other words, it's best to grab the show from the first episode.
Hah not sure I need to answer now, but yes, it's an updated X Files, or a modern successor. Great stuff, really well done, and Anna Torv is... scrumptious
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I'm catching up on this season's episodes of FRINGE, and am enjoying it a lot. I didn't care much for Anna Torv at first -- she seemed to have the personality of a dead fish in those first couple of episodes -- but she's really growing on me. My favorite character since the first episode is Walter. He's just amazing....
READING: Just finished SPARE CHANGE by Robert B. Parker
Re Anna Torv, I had the added advantage of lusting after her previously in the excellently salacious British series Mistresses, where she plays a very hot lesbian in the process of getting married, who turns one of the 'mistresses' ... very hawt... so I already knew going in that she was a cracking actress...
***** Reading: Silver, by Steven Savile. I'm over the halfway hump and enjoying it quite a bit.
Watching: Nada
Listening: Among other things, Zappa's You Are What You Is. I hadn't heard this one in ages and I'd forgotten how much I love it. It's right there at the top of my favorite FZ records.
Reading: Lost Symbol - it's meh, so so, but and this is the big thing, it's the first book I've managed to get 100 pages into in... 4 or 5 months... so go DB.
Listening: David Gray, saw him live in Stockholm the other day, rocked the place out.
Watching: all five seasons of The Professionals... that's one for the Brits in the crowd. I suspect our boys Bodie and Doyle never made it across the pond. 80s crime show.
READING: Just started The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz. We'll see how it goes. Koontz doesn't do much for me these days, but a co-worker let me borrow this one, so I figure I'd better read it and get it back to her ASAP. It's okay so far. I'm also still working on F. Paul Wilson's Secret Histories, King's Under the Dome, and Christopher Ransom's The Birthing House, off and on.
WATCHING: South Park: Season 2 and Dexter: Season 4.
LISTENING: A bunch of different stuff, in a "mix" folder on my PC. The Scorpions' "Animal Magnetism" just faded out, and AC/DC's "Cold-Hearted Man' is startin' up. Awesome.
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