October 2nd, 2008Fringe’s Farnsworth
Fringe, or, as we’ve been calling it, The Pacey/Denethor Comedy Hour, has found a place in our regular DVR rotation. I know that some of you lost interest after the first couple of episodes, but here’s at least one good reason to tune back in. Special Agent Astrid Farnsworth is played by out actor Jasika Nicole. [Via DoorQ]
She had me at “Farnsworth”. Maybe it has nothing to do with Philo (or Hubert J., for that matter), but you can’t toss a name like that around in sci fi TV without raising a few eyebrows.
I really hope they don’t redshirt her, but if the writers decide a recurring character needs to be killed off, she’s the most likely candidate. The sparsity of Astrid information on the official site doesn’t allay my fears.
This would be a shame not only because we like to see out actors in our sci fi, but also because Astrid plays an important but underappreciated role in the quirky TV genre: she’s the only character who (so far) acts like a real person and not a caricature. What with Walter Bishop whipping up bathtub LSD and John Scott coming back from the dead, we need a character we can identify with. [Apologies to any of our tripped-out zombie readers.]
On second thought, Astrid did participate in the Chinese take-out movie party with Walter and the cow.
And, Mr. Abrams, we promise to forgive you for only posthumously outing Boone and Mr. Friendly if you don’t kill off Special Agent Farnsworth. OK, we’ll settle for undead as long as it’s still a speaking role.
Fringe is dark next week, so we’re taking the opportunity [read: creating an excuse] to start recapping the episodes (as we do with Heroes). In case you need to catch up before then, those nice people at Hulu have made the episodes embeddable:
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
The official Torchwood site purposely didn’t have much on Ianto either, but later it did, and also, people totally loved him so the writers decided not to kill him. Therefore, everyone needs to blog about about awesome Astrid is so we can keep her.
(I really didn’t care for the 2nd episode of Fringe, but every other one has been quite enjoyable.)
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I’m liking Fringe but not loving it; however, Astrid is starting to win me over. She’s in fierce competition with Kirk Acevedo and if those two start getting more lines and screentime, I may actually watch this show on Tuesdays instead of Sundays when I’m bored and avoiding calculus problem sets.