Fringe: a promising show

I've just Watched the first three episodes of Fringe today and I must say it hooked me. It has some flaws, of course, but in the overall it stands as a promising show. It has an excellent mystery in the form of "The Pattern", a big intrigue (FBI + Megacorporation + latin-speaking conspiracy), high and weird tech and interesting characters with acceptable reasons to be together.

So far Fringe has been a mix of X-Files, Millennium and Planetary, but much more didactic and maybe too worried about both the failures of Chris Carter's series and its "cousin", Lost. It seems the first season will be only about the conspiracy behind the Pattern, with no subplots: a direct consequence of the events in the series' pilot, which is quite acceptable.

The good thing is that the show stated its SFnal elements right away with a shocking exposure of cybernetics, but grounded in the "now". Also, the hard SF aesthetics, themes and tech are mixed with "pseudo-scientific" theories like telepathy and astral projection to name a few.

It's still too early to say if the show is here to stay or not, but the fact is that I'm looking forward to the next episodes.

UPDATE: There's an interesting article here about Fringe. I must say that I agree 100% with it. (Via SF Signal)