Talk Back: FOX's "Fringe"

What is The Pattern?

If you watched the launch of FOX's new drama Fringe--from creators J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci--you might be asking yourself just that question.

Hopefully, you tuned in tonight to watch as Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) finds herself sucked into a world that she didn't know existed.... one that is comprised of the very limits of science itself: mutation, astral projection, reaninimation (heh), teleportation, and other phenomena yet discussed.

I've been talking about Fringe for nearly a year now, ever since I first read the pilot script last year and I gave the pilot episode a glowing advance review back in May. (At the time, I called it "eerie, gripping, and still haunting even after the final credits have rolled" and "spellbinding.")

Now that you've had the opportunity to watch the pilot episode for Fringe yourself, I am more than a little curious. What did you think of the opening installment? Were you sucked into the overarching mythology of The Pattern while digging the mystery-of-the week format? Did you love or loathe the on-screen chyrons announcing the location which seemed to be a part of the landscape itself? Did you fall for the chemistry between the series' leads? Did it seem at all reminiscent of The X-Files?

And most importantly: will you tune in again next week to see what happens to Olivia, Peter, and Walter Bishop?

Talk back here.