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…
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Fringe: “The Arrival”
Boundaries By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Tuesdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “The Arrival” Written by J.J. Abrams and Jeff Pinkner Directed by Paul A. Edwards Fringe strays a bit into X-Files and Lost territory this week, with a story that really has no resolution other than “the McGuffin got away.” However, it enlarges some of the relationship stories that make it just as compelling, so I can’t complain much. A bald man with no eyebrows sits at a cafe, observing the construction across the street and ordering outrageous food (eleven slices of jalapeño on a plate, to accompany raw…