Jared Christensen
Design, Music, & Sundries

You forgot a very important step between 1 and 2: Have Agent Broyles give an Unsolved Mysteries style recap of the events in step 1 to the X-Squad.

Spot-on analysis, Jared. This should become a regular feature, wherein you figure out the pattern of a TV show plot! Certainly it would make for a great blog. Would Lost be as easy?

As hilarious as this was, I still love Fringe. To the max.

You’ve discovered ‘The Pattern’! The game is up!

Haha Jared. Couldn’t agree more. That’s pretty much how it has been every episode.

So true. I’m watching it anyway of course. But, I am a girl and must see what becomes of Peter’s secret crush.

Most dramas seem to follow a similar pattern from week to week, particularly the “CSI” franchise.

Open on flashy scenes of Miami, girls in tiny bikinis climbing out of pools, etc. Someone dies. Fade in Horatio Caine, who surveys the scene, asks the CSI or coroner on duty for a quick briefing, then says something horribly punny. Roger Daltry screams us into the opening credits.

And so on.

Don’t forget Walter Bishop’s penchant for asking his son to pick up some kind of comfort food on his way back to the lab: “I’d like some cotton candy. Blue! Not the pink stuff!”

Fringe might be growing on me. Stay tuned as this exciting story develops.