Am I required to keep him alive?

[sovay]

I just watched my first episode of Fringe (2008–2013). It is amazing how disorienting it is to be told a city is Boston when it is very plainly either Toronto or New York. Also, I think the show's Harvard University might be Yale. Can you do that without starting a small war?

(John Noble is awesome. All mad scientist buttons checked. Including the one where he looks good in a lab coat.)

I saw these cat portraits on Tumblr a few days ago, but I had no idea they were actual guard cats of the Hermitage Museum. I approve.

The baked Alaska this afternoon was an amazing sucess. I am very proud of my skills with folding egg whites. rushthatspeaks and tilivenn can be proud of their ice cream wrangling and attention to baking times. The weevils in the confectioner's sugar were a surprise no one was looking for, and so was the time out where we had to get more eggs because the kitchen was too hot and humid for the first attempt at meringue to peak at all, but the results in Earl Grey and cardamom ice cream were wholly worth it. The sponge cake base was fluffy, the ice cream was sliceable and cold, the meringue on top was crisp-brown with the delicious marshmallow taffiness of burnt sugar at the tips. Egg whites are exactly as effective an insulator as I was always told. We really have no excuse for not reverse-engineering a butter-pie now.

I wish my head did not hurt this much.

Comments

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soonest.

Fringe is an incredibly wonderful series but it takes most of the first season to get going, and then from there it's pretty awesome all the way through to the end and yet full of flaws and mistakes and continuity errors and some profoundly silly writing and bad acting but interwoven amongst all that nonsense is some of the most amazing television ever created, brilliant ideas and brilliant acting and great effects both special and aesthetic. Just jaw-dropping -- right alongside what the hell were they thinking. Worth it for all that's great, which is a ton. Can you imagine if they had allowed everything that wasn't working to stop them, thus depriving us of this show? I shudder to think of it! And take that as a lesson for me and for all of us, to be a little bit less perfectionist and a little bit more willing to wing it and risk failing big time.

[sovay]

I hope you feel better soonest.

Thank you.

but it takes most of the first season to get going, and then from there it's pretty awesome all the way through to the end and yet full of flaws and mistakes and continuity errors and some profoundly silly writing and bad acting but interwoven amongst all that nonsense is some of the most amazing television ever created, brilliant ideas and brilliant acting and great effects both special and aesthetic. Just jaw-dropping -- right alongside what the hell were they thinking.

That is kind of what I'd heard! I'm glad to know the balance in the end was worth it.

What did you like least and best?