Fringe s3e19 “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide”
Lance Reddick looked like he had a great time filming that episode. RIP
RIP Lance Reddick 💐
I’ve been meaning to check out Fringe for over a decade now.
The pilot was jaw dropping… in more than one definition of the words
Each season goes in very different directions. Totally worth it. Walter Bishop is one of the best characters of any sci-fi.
It’s on Hulu or otherwise.
“I thought you’d be fatter.”
Such a fuckin funny scene: Lance Reddick tripping balls is great!
It is literally my favorite show of all time. It is worth checking out.
Obligatory mention that Chekhov wasn’t even part of the cast when Space Seed aired. Must just be a student of history.
“I never forget a face.”
Possibly my least favorite thing about Wrath of Khan is how heavy handed they are with the Moby Dick references.
They’re looking around this incongruous crashed ship, the camera pans past a copy of Moby Dick just as Chekov reads the buckle of the seat belt he’s leaning on. And then Khan spends the rest of the movie unironically quoting Captain Ahab. An allegedly intelligent character compares himself to “guy who sinks his ship, kills his crew and himself over his obsession” and doesn’t see a problem with this.
I’m laughing at the ‘superior intellect.’
Reminds me of Her Story, the detect-em-up game from 2015 where you have to go through clips of several interviews of a murder suspect via keywords. More than once they call out their inspirations in classic literature by name and even have her sing a relevant folk song in its entirety. Apparently this woman whipped out an acoustic guitar and sang an entire folk song during a police interview about the murder of her husband.
If you’re working on a story, don’t do that. Allusion is one thing, grabbing the audience by the throat and shouting “BY THE WAY, THIS STORY IS LIKE KING LEAR. YOU KNOW, SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR? THE PLAY? THIS PART OF MY STORY IS LIKE KING LEAR. MAKE SURE YOU’VE READ IT.” is quite another.
Reminds me of MST3K on Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
R.I.P.
EDIT: obligatory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He6CO2osqnU
