OK, so we are spending far too much time watching Fringe and I am sooooo enjoying it, it has captivated me the way Robert Heinlein did when I was in my teens, A Stranger in a Strange Land probably my favourite, I was really caught with the whole thing. The premise of the Fair Witness influenced the way I thought about the subjectivity of the how we record account for and retell things, I think in a good way because we all see things from our own perspective but at least if you can recognise that fact then it goes some way to mitigating against our bias. The Fair Witness of course only reports exactly what is there, what is seen or heard, there is no judgement, no speculation no interpretation.
Back from digression, so given how tied up I am in Fringe I was somewhat bemused to find the comedy interlude towards the end of series 2, when we were treated to a musical, 1940’s detective story episode! So many other series have done this type of thing, including Buffy, that I was frankly disappointed that a serious science show should resort to such frivolity. Shows our universe up in a bad light, you wouldn’t get Walternate singing I’ll bet.
For a while there I really thought I was back in the Holodeck of the Enterprise!!!
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