Fringe

Caught the new Fox series "Fringe", which is being rerun as I type this. Pretty decent thus far but I have to ask... who wrote this thing? What's with all the "Sweetie" and "Darling" and "Honey" and whatever other misogynistic nicknames being thrown in the protagonist, Olivia Dunham's, direction? Who talks like that anymore? I mean, outside of the fevered minds of Gloria Steinem and the screenwriters of practically every Lifetime original movie, of course. I am, of course, concerned that this looks like it's going to be another anti-corporation hatchet job. All that said, Dr. Bishop's lines are hysterical. From the "I thought you'd be fatter" to the bit about "the only thing better would be a human. Unless you need milk, then you really need a cow". Hysterical. They come, seemingly, out of left field, but when he explains, they make total sense. He's probably not so much insane as supersane. If "Excellent! Let's make some LSD." doesn't have t-shirt written all over it, I don't know what does.