I like Fringe- its really starting to grow on me. At first I wasn't that interested in Olivia, but she is a nice, cool and calm foil to the more wacky and emotional antics of Walter and the others. I think Walter is a hoot- I don't even care when they go for the easy laughs with him, because he IS so funny! I like it when Astrid gets more to do, as well. And I really enjoy the relationship developing between Walter and his son- it is a lot more interesting than just watching a predictable tv romance unfold. We're sticking with Fringe for now...

It also incurs my wrath because for every stupid f@#king show like "Fringe" that gets extended because people like it,

Wow....I thought that's what TV was supposed to do, entertain me. So you're saying if I like it that's a bad thing. How about this...you don't like it. Go watch something else. Stop trying to ruin it for the rest of us. I like the show just the way it is. Warts and all. Nothing in life is perfect. I HATE Batalstar Gonzo. It sucks eggs. So to me it's a LOUSY show. I'll take Fringe any day.

I have this feeling the sister knows more than she's saying. Perhaps the sister is involved some how.

For those who complain about people who watch the show and complain, realize that if the show was truly terrible, they probably wouldn't watch. But when the show is almost good but the plot is sloppy, it frustrates them. Hell after The Wire (imo probably one of the most well thought non-sloppy shows ever made), I was disappointed to see Lance Reddick play such a seemingly flat character. And even if he turned out to be a bad guy, that adds complexity but not depth. And all the characters, perhaps with exception to Walter, are under developed.

I really preferred it when Olivia was getting snippets of insights from John Scott's memories to help her along with her investigations. It gave her a sort of superpower (like science is Walter's). Now that they've (too pattedly) wrapped that story line, I am really feeling unsatisfied. I think they just took the easy way out because the actor was leaving. It could have been a good thing to keep Olivia's mistrust of her own self alive for the show, so we have an internal battle the character is always fighting.

I was fully on board with the whole episode 200% until they started going the route of wrapping up Scott, then it fell flat a bit for me. And even when Astrid tells Olivia to trust her self because she is a pretty good judge of character, I thought that was a big leap 'cuz she was after all sleeping with a guy that was lying to her (irrespective of if he was good or bad). John Scott was Olivia's "crutch." What are they going to replace him with? Her sister and the kid? I have to say, I was scared for Emma when she almost got liquified, but I don't really care about them, or Olivia's side story involving them (maybe I will soon?).

I really want them to keep moving on Peter's storyline though. They keep revealing little snippets of his childhood, and little glimpses into his dark world as an adult, but I am not getting a picture that seems to be coming together at all.

Why do people watch this show and write comments on it's review if they hate it so much. Just stop watching... I like this show as does my family. I hope it does get picked up for a second season it's by far better then all the reality crap on.

I'm with you Tom, but I have a kernel of hope for this show still. It's like the show is run by grown ups but the writers are kids. Two things stuck out badly for me this week: (1) Not that I'm complaining but what happened to pain-in-Olivia's-@ss Sanford Harris ?! It was as if he was never on the show! (2) the Dawson's Creek romantic ending made me physically ill, gahd I hope that was a one-time fail.

And yes, I want to see Nina, Massive Dynamics, The Pattern, and Mr Jones EVERY freakin' week, otherwise it's the same ol' X-Files formula where they do three standalone monster eps to every one of the alien conspiracy thread. It will kill - KILL - the series if they write it like the X-Files. I WANT to Believe (oops, bad choice of words?!)

I really enjoyed this week's episode of "Altered States: The Series."

I wonder what they will be ripping off next week. Other than the X-Files.

My best guess is that they wrote John (Mark Valley) off the show and brought his storyline to a tidy ending so quickly because the writers, knowing what a complete pile of crap they are putting forward each week, never believed in a million years that this show would be picked up for a full season, and they knew (or thought) that they had to tell a complete story because they weren't going to get a chance to continue with this material. Just an educated guess.

My only hope now is that a full season was a blip, and they won't pick up a second season of this drivel, or I guess we can always pray for another writer's strike.

At first when I saw the guy on the plane transform it reminded me of wear-wolf Sonic, but then when the plane crashed on the ground and the body was shown it looked a lot the special infected tank from Left 4 Dead.

Funny that Mark Valley and Anna Torv just got married in real life.

What is going on with Airplanes these days, Hollywood must really believe we are over September 11th. Two plane incidents on Fringe, 24 has two planes collide in mid air, and Heroes is going all Lost with a plane crash. geesh