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Welcome to our first Fringe recap.

In case you’re new here: I’m not big on plot synopses, so this is more about general thoughts on the episode and characters than a re-cap of what happened. There will be a brief rundown and plot spoilers, though, so go watch it first.

For the rest of you, click through and let us know in the comments what you thought of the episode and of the show so far.

[☠ Standard Spoiler Warning Here ☠]

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We started out this week just recapping some shows, you know, like we do. But thanks to Heroes and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we ended up talking about when and what you can forgive in serial sci fi writing. Watch it here!

Stuff We Watch:

• Heroes: “One of Us, One of Them” and “I Am Become Death”
• The Sarah Connor Chronicles: “Allison from Palmdale” and “Goodbye to All That”
• True Blood: “Escape from Dragon House”
• Fringe
• The Sarah Silverman Program: “High, It’s Sarah” and “Mongolian Beef”

Stuff We Play:

• Mega Man 9
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Reviews:

• Pathology
• In the Closet from DoorQ.com
  

All this and the return of the Aquaman Conundrum! (patent pending)

This Saturday was National Coming Out Day, though that’s an odd name for an increasingly international observance.

We’ve both been out since the Carter administration, so in lieu of coming out (again), we’re celebrating with this list of our favorite out actors in sci fi and horror. And just think, not too long ago we would have had trouble coming up with a list half this size!

As usual, pick your favorites and tell us in the comments who we might have overlooked.

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Hey, readers!

We’re upstate at Kate Pierson’s Lazy Meadow Motel (and trailer park), so we didn’t get to post about yesterday’s episode. Here’s a quick list of what you’ll find over there.

• Rock Band 2 Party!
• Stuff We Watch (Heroes, Sanctuary, Fringe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, True Blood)
• Stuff We Don’t Watch (Smallville, Supernatural, No Heroics, Knight Rider, Spaceballs: The Animated Series)
• Review (Tori Spelling’s Cthulhu)
• 13 Favorite Rock Cameos in Sci Fi/Horror/Fantasy

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: