I think some of it for me was simply that I really liked s1-2 of SPN, and wanted more of it, rather than what we got. While as early Fringe I wasn't so enamored of; its mythology was much more interesting than its brain-torturing monster-of-the-weeks, so I was happy to see that pursued. And I also think Fringe gets away with it because they changed so much. SPN had 2 or 3 seasons that were pretty solidly episodic and then it changed gear to the apocalypse, while as Fringe shifted every season (from monster-of-the-week, to the more arced war with the other side, to criss-crossing what-universe-are-we-in-this-week, to Amberverse, to post-apocalypse) - Fringe's shifts felt more natural, because they were part of the nature of the show.
Also they did epic better than SPN. But then every show I've ever seen has done epic better (SPN's focus was SO tight on just the Winchesters that it never was possible to really care for their world, whatever happened to it; while as Fringe made you care about the fates of two universes, by having people you cared about in both.)
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Date: 2013-01-21 10:55 am (UTC)Also they did epic better than SPN. But then every show I've ever seen has done epic better (SPN's focus was SO tight on just the Winchesters that it never was possible to really care for their world, whatever happened to it; while as Fringe made you care about the fates of two universes, by having people you cared about in both.)