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Sep. 14th, 2011 09:39 pmWell, at least Fringe is creative about their monsters of the week. This episode's monster? A combination of venomous lizard, a bat, and a wasp. I kid you not.
And it's larva are parasitic. Lovely. They are clever with the monster though - we never really see it, just what it does, and the maggoty larva.
This is where the Fringe writers jump ahead of a couple of other television horror writers in the evolutionary scale of horror writers, he's figured out the less is more rule, and we do not show the audience the entire monster bit, we let their brains fill in the blanks. Far scarier. It is. Also less silly. Never really show the monster, unless you have amazing special effects. We show the audience the emotional character bits, so you know, they can care about the characters. Oh wait, we did see it...just in darkness, and bits of it.
Could do without the monsters of the week. Unlike Buffy and/or Angel, these monsters are actually scary and if I think too much about them, enough to give me the hebee-geebies. Because they are all man-made creations. And incredibly gross. So you sort have to get past that crap to get to the juicy part of the story.
And no, haven't seen Ringer yet, it's taped, along with the season premiere of Parenthood, and the finale of The Closer.
And it's larva are parasitic. Lovely. They are clever with the monster though - we never really see it, just what it does, and the maggoty larva.
This is where the Fringe writers jump ahead of a couple of other television horror writers in the evolutionary scale of horror writers, he's figured out the less is more rule, and we do not show the audience the entire monster bit, we let their brains fill in the blanks. Far scarier. It is. Also less silly. Never really show the monster, unless you have amazing special effects. We show the audience the emotional character bits, so you know, they can care about the characters. Oh wait, we did see it...just in darkness, and bits of it.
Could do without the monsters of the week. Unlike Buffy and/or Angel, these monsters are actually scary and if I think too much about them, enough to give me the hebee-geebies. Because they are all man-made creations. And incredibly gross. So you sort have to get past that crap to get to the juicy part of the story.
And no, haven't seen Ringer yet, it's taped, along with the season premiere of Parenthood, and the finale of The Closer.