I know, this is a few months old, but the Observer on Fringe is so cool, especially as he’s pretty clearly based on the mostly-known-to-hardcore-UFO-theorists Men in Black urban legend. (Or maybe that’s just what they want you to believe.) Playing spot the Observer (who is conveniently on the scene of all the show’s weirdness, like a eyebrow-free Jessica Fletcher) is one of the show’s little pleasures.
In case you’ve missed him (and I certainly have in many episodes), please to enjoy:
True to the slasher genre, it’s off to a bit of a slow start, but it’s good enough for me to keep watching. The cast is better than expected, and the soundtrack is horror movie-perfect.
There’s a total of 13 episodes, ending in July. There’s also an accompanying series of webisodes, Harper’s Globe, about what’s happening to the intern at the island’s paper, the Globe, at the same time as the events of the TV series. Aspects of the TV and Web shows will apparently cross over occasionally. There’s even an iPhone app.
So it went better this morning at Hollyvale Elementary School, where I read to three classes. The sixth graders were again the least impressed — the school put out a selection of books that I think were just too young for them — but the two fourth grade classes I read to loved the two books I read, both by Robert Munsch, the Farrelly Brothers of children’s books: Pigs and Angela’s Airplane.
Pigs, which features on the loose pigs that, among other things, pee on both the title character’s father’s and principal’s feet, was the bigger hit, although there were girls in one classroom that really seemed to click with Angela’s Airplane.
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