Originally Posted by guy44

Well, I gotta say, the effects were excellent.

The show? Meh, so far anyways. The lead actress can barely, you know, act. That Dawson's Creek guy is also not such a fine actor. And much of the dialogue was bad in that zone in-between enjoyably campy and downright miserable. There were just waaaaay too many coincidences (main character's lover is also a major part of some as-yet unknown conspiracy, and she happens to be assigned to cover the one case, with the one particular motivation, to uncover said conspiracy? Okay...).

That being said, A) The cow was actually pretty funny, and B) The actor playing the crazy scientist, the one whose name I forget but was in LoTR, is really good.

Also, one thing this show should have made clear is that it exists in a sort of parallel universe to ours, where technology is perhaps a little more advanced. The producers of La Femme Nikita (the TV show, not the movie) described the universe in which the show takes place as like ours, but just different enough to allow them to do some fun stuff. I think Fringe is going in the same direction, but they didn't establish that until the lady took off her fake skin to reveal the cybernetic arm underneath. We'll see though - its only been one (albeit long) episode.