Fringe Vs XFiles

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I know it may be a little premature to rate Fringe but I think the show is really showing potential.

SPOILERS!

Fringe for me at the first two episodes were really bland. The third episode caught my attention and then when I watched the fourth episode I was glued to the TV. The show is really showing how awesome it's going to get.

XFiles has always been a favorite for me, the whole story line was fantastic. I mostly liked the shows pertaining to aliens though. With the recent move that just came out I feel as if it wasn't very xfiles like. It was just a search for a person with the help of a psychic.

I'll be voting for Fringe because I think it has the potential to beat XFiles.

[Sandman]

X-Files because I recently watched the whole thing and those final 2 seasons are highly under-rated.

[Goronmon]

X-Files, no contest.

Unfortunately for Fringe, I think the actress who plays the FBI agent just isn't very good. I almost cringe whenever she tries to deliver a line with any emotional charge to it. Plus, the solutions to the episodes just seem too easy everytime.

[dotbomb]

I tried Fringe for 2 weeks and gave up. Already too much other great TV to watch.

[astranoir]

I think this is an unfair comparison. In fact, it seems like Fringe is trying to make a point to not be like the X-Files, so I wish there were a third category in the poll: "incomparable."

[TheKeck]

Is it bad that I haven't even seen Fringe, but voted anyway? :o

[Shadowstorm]

X Files, but I agree that this show has some serious potential.

[Nameless]

Is it bad that I haven't even seen Fringe, but voted anyway? :o

Seeing as I have just done the same thing... No?

[Mot Wakorb]

X-Files always seemed too slow for me... I've liked what I've seen so far in Fringe, even if it's completely junk science, it's still entertaining.

[Church42]

Not Junk Science Mot, its Fringe Science.

[Felonous]

Why would you insult X-Files by comparing Fringe to it? Seriously, why? X-files was some of the best TV that the Fox network has ever put out, while I doubt Fringe will even make it out of season 1. I can't even begin to imagine this show making a 9 season run like the X-files did.

[KidCactus]

I voted X-files, but I'm starting to like Fringe too, more than I expected. Episode four was really good! I like the whole idea with a background story connecting the separate episodes, much like the whole alien thing connecting the X-files episodes.

[rein]

I am starting to like Fringe and the more evil they make Walter the more I am going to like it but to be honest it's hard to compare the two at this time. We have 9 seasons and 2 movies vs 3 episodes. Fringe has not had the time reveal all of the components of the main plot or to develop the characters in a way that they are endearing to us like Mulder and Scully had become.

Like Sandman, I have been revisiting the X-Files and I have to say it is one of the best series to have ever been on television. I'm not sure Fringe will ever be able to equal or surpass what the X-Files was able to accomplish but few shows will.

[icronic]

I really like Fringe so far, but like it's been said, comparing 3 episodes of it to an entire 9 seasons of X-Files isn't exactly fair. Try comparing the first 3 episodes of X-Files to Fringe and then see what kind of results we'll get.

I do really like the fact that the characters and the writing are a little bit off the wall. I've been re-watching the X-Files lately and there are times where it almost seems a little too dry. Still even with that said, generally the last few times I watched X-Files, I popped in the DVD intending to watch one, and end up watching 4 instead.

[Karak]

I am not even a large fan of X-Files but Fringe(in my opinion only) sucks horribly. Wooden acting, horrible plots, insane endings just to wrap things up, time warps so that characters can go anywhere in a single day...and Fringe Science that hasn't advanced since some old fucker was put in a mental pen.
Just horrid.
That being said I have watched all 4 episodes because there is nothing else...

[jeffbax]

I thought Fringe was one of the worst/least intelligent shows I've ever seen. X-Files was awesome however.

[PlusOne]

X-Files for me. The first episode of Fringe held my attention, but I was disappointed by the second. I guess my gnat-like attention span might have something to do with it, but I probably won't watch it again.

I did like Walter, though.

[cppcrusader]

Definitely X-Files. Chris Carter seemed to be a whole lot better at the overarching conspiracy things than Abrams. Plus the episodes actually wrapped up in a satisfying manner, unlike the dues ex machina heavy last minute wrap ups in Fringe.

[Goronmon]

...unlike the dues ex machina heavy last minute wrap ups in Fringe.I actually find that the answers come much earlier in the show. A problem occurs and Walter just happens to have been involved in exactly that problem prior to being committed. That's pretty much how each episode has been "solved" so far.