My first reaction on reading this was: Noooooooooo!
That was pretty much my second, third and fourth reaction, too. By SCI FI Wire reports that during a Glee-themed week of musical programming in May, there will be a musical episode of Fringe. According to the report the musical numbers will represent a hallucination by Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble).
"None of us ever thought that it was really going to happen," said musically trained co-star Jasika Nicole, who plays loyal FBI agent Astrid Farnsworth, in an interview on the show's set in Vancouver, Canada, last week. "It was just a joke. We were like, 'Oh, yeah, Fringe should be a musical.' Dancing and singing and goofing off and stuff. And then John says, 'So. you know, there's going to be a musical episode,' and I was like, 'Ha, ha, John,' and he was like, 'No, really, have you read the script?'"
I don't mind musicals, and if, on its own the shows producers had decided, "Hey, you know, I musical episode of Fringe would be funny," it wouldn't really bother me. I'd still think it was nuts, but that's different than having gimmickry crammed down your throats by the network Suits.
So Joss does it with Buffy (best show of a so so season IMHO) and Dr. Horrible and now everyone decides they have to do it? LOL I expect to be hearing from JBF.
That's so sad for Fringe because a move like that smells of desperation and while their ratings are fantastic, they're okay. Have they run out of steam already?
Looking forward to the big musical number with Gene the cow and the Observer back-up dancers, featuring musical pitches by the squid-like parasites.
it doesn't really smell of desperation on Fringe's part, it's more like Fox is making them do it as a dumb cross-show promotion crap.
I remember ABC's old TGIF lineup used to do stuff like this with Sabrina and Boy Meets World
it's more like Fox is making them do it as a dumb cross-show promotion crap.
That's my take.
I didn't think Glee needed any help or promotion. Are we having Bones the musical too? 24 done as a Busby Berkeley number? How about having something weird happen at a high school during their annual musical? Bones can have a murder centered around a band? I don't know but I do think this won't really 'help' Glee and will hurt Fringe.
Well, Buffy did it many years ago. So, why not Fringe?
Noooooo! I haaaate musicals!
Unless, apparently, they're over the top and gothy like Repo!
Ugh, I am definitely timeshifting this episode and fastforwarding though the singing bits. (Which is, sadly enough, how my brother watches Glee.)
How about House the Musical?
JUMP!
SPOILER:
I read that one of the main dudes will be telling he niece a story about the team (is it a team? I don't watch), and then the musicalness starts.
Sounds like a desperate attempt to increase the ratings by getting some of the Glee fans to tune in.
Hahaha! I may have to tune in to see how a procedural does musicals
Anyway I LOOOVE musicals and if every show is doing it, I can't wait to see ABC's dramas and CBS's comedies trying it on
My favorite musical episode so far was an episode of Ally McBeal – season 3 finale.
(Re: House the Musical):
*shudders* Such an episode would make me not watch House… if it wasn't for the fact that I had stopped watching House after Chase killed that dude. I'm not a Chase fan (or, well, a fan of any of the ducklings) and, well, it was pretty obvious that the next few episodes would be Chase and Cameron drama and, ew, lame.
I guess the volume-control on my remote will be used alot this episode.
Also since it's because of a Glee-themed week we have to endure musical episodes of House also? Scrubs already did the singing as symptom thing, and it sucked just like Once More With Feeling sucked
Take it easy folks – it's just a television show. Maybe it will be entertaining. I will take a look at Fringe any day over the snarky humor of the Office and that entire group of Thursday comedies. Yeah Fox is pushing a bit, but is that any worse than all of NBC's supersize shows and all networks trend of 1 minute over episodes that screw up DVR recording?
Oh god help us! I can [almost] buy Eureka doing a pair of musicl episodes, but Fringe?! Must remember to skip that particular episode on the DVR!
(Having the “rolling eyes” or “sick” smiley would be nice right about now.)
Yeah, but Michael J remember Buffy did a musical episode and that was a serious show.
Buffy did it because Joss WANTED to do it (obviously the guy likes musicals AND has a talent for it and Joss is directing an episode of Glee).
I view that as different than whatever stunt shenanigans FOX will pull for the Glee-themed week.
No offense to Joss, but I would say “special musical episodes” predated his creations. I know Xena had pulled some out earlier — and I find it hard to believe that Xena was the first either. I suppose part of it might depend on how you define “special musical episode.”
Regarding TGIF cross-overs, I will sheepishly admit that I used to watch TGIF when much younger and tuned in randomly as I grew older to see what was going on and how some shows were doing. While this theme idea seems to work poorly across Glee and Fringe, I would have to say that TGIF by that point was bad enough that the cross-overs did actually make the shows a touch more interesting — which isn't saying much.
Maybe its just me but surely the bigger story here is that Fox is trying to put together a week of musical themed shows and the fact that they want to do it in May suggests that they're planning it for May Sweeps (I'm assuming May sweeps is still a go this year).