Stupid Science By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Tuesdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “The Cure” Written by Felicia D. Henderson & Brad Caleb Kane Directed by Bill Eagles This is beyond “fringe science”, even beyond “lunatic fringe science”. Tuesday night’s episode was so non-scientific that it qualifies as outright fable. “The Cure” is supposed to be about a cure for a rare disease which is exploited by shadowy, unscrupulous figures (to what end, no one ever explains). But there are two things wrong with this idea: the “weapon” that so frightens everyone in this story…
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Fringe: “Power Hungry”
Lightning Dolt, Redux By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Tuesdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “Power Hungry” Written by Jason Cahill & Julian Cho Directed by Christopher Misiano If this episode of Fringe started looking very familiar last night, it’s not your imagination. We start out with a young man who appears to have the freakish power to control electricity, who lives an unfulfilled, boring life in a dead end job, who has trouble with authority figures like his boss, and lives with a slovenly, overbearing, uncaring mother who spends her life in front of the television. This…