Devolution Fringe NBC, Tuesdays, 9/10 E/C “The Transformation” Written by J. R. Orci & Zack Whedon Directed by Brad Anderson I know it indicates some kind of defect in my character, but there was a tiny part of me that found the crash of an airliner in the opening segment of “The Transformation” very satisfying. A passenger desperately pleads for help from indifferent airline attendants, is ignored when he warns them that he’s about to become something terrible. He locks himself in the bathroom in a futile attempt to contain his transformation, only to burst from it a few minutes…
Posts Tagged‘fringe’
Fringe: “Safe”
Memories… Fringe NBC, Tuesdays, 9/10 E/C “Safe” Written by David H. Goodman & Jason Cahill Directed by Michael Zinberg Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder. — Peter Bishop Now this is science fiction! I was absolutely thrilled by this week’s episode, which starts out with bank robbers using a machine we saw two episodes ago to walk through the walls of a bank. Supposedly, the device vibrates the molecules of the solid wall and steel vaulting in such a way that the human body can pass through it–but only during a brief window before the wall re-solidifies. One unfortunate robber…