to the writers of Fringe

Your show is cute (if still not as clever as you think it is) and fun and I liked the s1 finale twist*, but just so you know (because gnine's head is exploding as if from radiation), Boston to New York City is at minimum, a 4 hour drive. And Pennsylvania is even further than New York.

Look, I know the states of New England are small compared to California. But Massachusetts is actually bigger than a single city, and takes more than 15 minutes to drive through. Maps.google is your friend! (and those maps are to scale. The size that things appear on your screen? The actual states are a teensy bit bigger. Just so you know.)

The brother points out that X-files established the existence of Secret FBI Tunnels, by which you can get anywhere directly, no traffic or speed limits. It helps, of course, that all FBI agents are given Bugatti Veyrons as their company cars.

(This is putting aside all the little wrong Massachusetts details, such as Worcester has no buildings over 25 stories, and there are no redwoods anywhere in the Northeast. And there's been no characters speaking with Boston accents, and yes, in real life people actually do pahk their cahs in Hahvahd Yahd. But that's just standard TV-nitpicking; it's always fun when a show is set in one's home turf.)

(Of course, around the time of the giant cold virus, the brother posited that the writers are actively trolling us - perhaps in a cunning effort to generate buzz, knowing that nothing gets geeks talking online like blatant violation of basic science; perhaps merely because they get off on driving fans nuts - but it has to be deliberate; we can't see how anyone who could correctly use the word epidemiologist wouldn't know that viruses aren't cells?)

* Really, in spite of this, I actually am enjoying the show! Have now seen a couple eps into s2, and oh, Walter...you didn't happen to have instigated an inter-dimensional war, did you? Stealing a son from another universe is never a good idea. And you are going to have to tell Peter sometime, and I do wonder how that conversation is going to go down. I liked that twist, and didn't see it coming until the finale itself, for all that it had laid the groundwork eps before, all those childhood anecdotes that ended with Peter going, "I don't remember that," and Walter answering, "I do."

We also are enjyoing playing 'Where's Baldo?' and the cute nod to the FBI's 'old X classification'. (Also, the Futurama connection - Philip Broyles? as in, broiling? which is like frying? Like Philip J. Fry? XD)