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Fringe Bridge
By Dave on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 12:10pm
Did anyone else catch the new show "Fringe" on Fox the other night?
It's set in the Boston area.
Last night they used some whiz-bang new technology to see the last thing that a murder victim saw before she died.
The technician recognized the image as a bridge, a particular bridge that was familar to her because she "used to live in Dighton" (pronounced 'ditton') "It's in Stoughton, in the warehouse district"...
Behold, the "Sargent Bridge In Stoughton" :
Maybe it's near Town Spa.
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I wonder where this bridge
I wonder where this bridge really is.
Williamsburg Bridge
Looks like the Williamsburg Bridge in NY.
That's it!
It looks as though they used this exact image - even the clouds are the same.
NYC?
I dunno, but to me, it looks like the Williamsburg Bridge
That's what I asked!
That's what I asked! Thanks for the follow up. Can't wait for the show to pretend they're on the T.
Geez, it's only fair to outsource bridge pictures...
...cause Boston's got absolutely no iconic, unique or easily identifiable bridges at all. New or old.
None whatsoever.
Signed,
The producers of the show who have never been to Boston
I can't even think of a
I can't even think of a bridge in Stoughton.
What, not even near the
What, not even near the warehouse district?
hee hee hee
we found that hysterically amusing when they said it. the warehouse district. pfth. sure.
Not just the producers --
Not just the producers -- apparently no one remotely connected to the show has ever been in the general vicinity of boston.. or has looked at a map of the greater boston area.
I dont know what these
I dont know what these people are thinking taking NY bridges and tossing them in Boston like that. I bet that bridge has gotten fair play in other shows as well, it would be interesting to find out.
http://fringewiki.fox.com/thread/1872838/Why+pick+... This is on their website
Replacement for the Longfellow?
Hmmm ... any surplus spans in good shape are welcome to move here! They may have used this instead of the Longfellow because the Longfellow is in shockingly bad visual shape.
Didn't the intro or other clips used in the TV series "St. Elsewhere" have a shot of the Red Line coming over the Charles?
No..
The shot in the opening of St. Elsewhere was of the old elevated Orange Line making its way down Washington Street between Blackstone and Franklin Squares in the South End.
St. Elsewhere
Actually used the old Orange Line:
Longfellow still looks fine from far enough away
and the TV show probably doesn't need it for anything other than an establishing shot.
I missed it. I usually
I missed it. I usually don't watch Fox mostly because its a propaganda network for the RNC.
I have my exceptions, like the Simpsons, NFL, MLB but I didn't see the show you're talking about.
The Zakim bridge is pretty distinctive though. Could they have used that?
Funny.
Apparently you don't realize that Fox News and Fox are different stations. All the other networks are just Socialist propaganda networks anyways. Its refreshing that at least one of them slants the other way.
Socialism
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Its the direction the democrats want to take this country in
Obviously embellished. Nonetheless, Obama wants to redistribute wealth from those evil icky corporations to us plebes and I think that is a bad idea. Someone made the exaggeration that the local Fox Affiliate was somehow an outlet for the RNC, can't I exaggerate to? Is that right only reserved for liberals?
let's not turn every thread here into a political discussion,ok?
This one is about television. Let's keep it that way.
So you prefer ...
Taxpayer funded bail-outs of corporations?
The government supposedly bailing out AIG for megabucks and now "owning" it is okay, but the citizens who are paying for that bailout having access to health care when they need it is bad for America?
Conservatives suck and should die
So should liberals. And moderates.
Does that about sum it all up?
Yes, you get it.
I consider myself a moderate. Just that stupid comment that brought politics into this because the show was on Fox irked me. If no one said anything contrary, I would feel like that echoed my views...which it doesn't thats all. Thanks Anonymous for bringing politics in this discussion. Sorry Adam for going along with it.
to another thread?
I don't want to change the course of the thread. I just had something to say about Fox and FoxNews. I'd be happy to move the discussion about Fox and FoxNews propaganda networks to another thread. Do you like that idea Adam or no?
No, I don't
I realize people in Boston care about things beyond 128. I'm one of them, believe it or not. But I'd rather keep the focus of a site about Boston stay on Boston; there are plenty of other places to discuss non-Boston issues.
Nothing wrong with occasional diversions. You had something to say about Fox and FoxNews, so you said it. Fine. But now you keep on saying it (and I, stupidly, keep on replying).
www.blogspot.com and www.wordpress.com both offer free blogs, where you'd be free to go on and on and on about Fox.
your blog, your choice
Very well, your blog, your choice. Starting a new thread for a side discussion is a good way to unload a peripheral issue. Um, FoxNews does broadcast in the Boston area.
Die? Maybe they could commit
Die?
Maybe they could commit suicide by jumping off that big bridge in Stoughton.
No.
I prefer letting them die their own death, thank you.
Fox and MLB
I wish you hadn't reminded me of this. Assuming the Sox get into the playoffs this year (a fairly safe bet by now), we're all going to have to put up with Fox's sorry excuse for sports broadcasting once again.
When does this contract end, so that post-season baseball can go back to being on a real TV network?
I'm curious
Which Fox Sports guys/gals do you like/dislike? Why?
www. ShutUp TimMcCarver .com
http://www.ShutUpTimMcCarver.com/ .
(but any extended discussion of that should probably get its own thread, too)
nice!
We need a "Shut up Dan Dierdorf" dot com too.
Stupid Dierdorf. He ruins football for me.
McCarver and Dierdorf make
McCarver and Dierdorf make my list too. Mussberger anyone?
Not The Announcers...
... so much as the stupid sound effects FOX throws into every broadcast. It's one thing to have a bunch of swooshes and dings and crashes on a football telecast. Football is full of many violent and distracting noises to begin with, so if you want to cut through the clutter, MAYBE I can understand. But, baseball? It is not helped by video game noises.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Also, the commercial breaks
In both 2004 and 2007, I got the distinct impression that Fox was unable to sell enough commercial spots to real paying advertisers. The 2004 playoffs were marred by incessant promos for Fox's own prime-time network shows (remember 'Skin'?). In 2007, it was Dane Cook and "There only one October!" every ten minutes.
Get used to it
This is what we're headed for.
time shifting
I think so too. They have to have ads up during the program because with dvr's you can skip through commercials.
I record what i want to watch and start watching later. A 30 minute program is 20 mins of tv watching when you can skip through commercials.
Ruphert Murdoch is a smart
Ruphert Murdoch is a smart man and goes where the money is. He is a conservative so his general inclination is towards making things that are conservative oriented but I gurantee you that if Fox News wasnt profitable as a right wing 24 hour news station he would have shifted gears a long time ago. Fox News is the highest watched cable news network and its primtetime hours kill MSNBC and CNN, it seems to me like he made the right economic choice.
On the other side you have the Fox Affiliates and Fox TV (and movies and all else as well) where things are a little different. A great deal of the Fox shows on TV are liberal in scope like the Simpsons and Family Guy. Fox did pick up and run , for longer then I think anyone ever expected, King of the Hill which has a more conservative spin on life, but it lives in the pre-primetime hours and has neverreally had the spot light. The X Files, Married with Children, reality show after reality show each 10 times worse then the last, and a host of other shows that dont focus on any conservative values what so ever can be found on Fox. Granted Fox also has 24, but they have Prison Break as well. The key is they all make MONEY for Ruphert which is all that matters.
Also I believe that The Day After Tomorrow was also Fox production as well.
A small request
Let's not derail this into a discussion of how John McCain harvests the organs of toddlers when they sleep or something, 'kay?
reasonable request
I don't see anyone going off on the hyperbole,
...harvests the organs of toddlers... cept maybe... I'm with you on keeping the discussion civil and reasonable.
Fox News and Fox are different stations and they are owned by the same corporate owner. I prefer to not support their business but it's not a hard and fast rule for me. For example, I won't to stop watching new Simpson's episodes.
FoxNews propaganda was pretty extreme from 2002 to 2006, for example calling American people against the war friends of the terrorists, bad mouthing the French because they didn't want to invade Iraq, repeating the Kerry Swift boating lies like they were fact, lying about Cheney, Scooter and Rove's attacks on a covert CIA agent (which is treason.) It's still pretty bad. Watch this from FoxNews last Sunday video 3 mins.
Just. Stop.
Enough. I get the point. I think everybody else does, too. You. Don't. Like. Fox.
As for the harvested toddler organs, I guess I should stop assuming most people watch the Colbert Report. Never mind.
But no reply necessary to tell me that you agree but that Fox sucks. We get it.
Adam, I probably should have
Adam, I probably should have put paragraph 2 and 3 in a separate comment so you didn't assume I was directing those points solely at you. I was responding to comments from anon-y-mous and directing them to whomever might be interested. I never imagined bringing up Fox and FoxNews would be such an inflammatory topic. I don't need to talk about it. I'm not sure if what you're saying is that FoxNews is off the table at Uhub. Are you? Earlier, below, I suggested we move any discussion of FoxNews to another thread so Dave's thread on the TV show, bridges, landmarks, photoshopping etc. doesn't get derailed. Did you see that?
lol
It wasn't fox news that was inflammatory, it was politics in general. You can't inject politics into an entirely unpolitical discussion and expect it to turn out well.
amen
I happen to really enjoy the fox tv programming. House is one of the greatest shows ever, and I'm totally digging the Sarah Connor chronicles... The Simpsons? Hello?
i was enjoying this discussion about bridges and buildings being slapped into other city skylines and then feh. politics. whatever.
can't we just get through a day without that? I'd like to know who we can complain to to get the authenticity of the city properly represented for the TV Show... producers, developers, writers... keeping things on topic a little.
suggestions?
and i always thought it was pronounced "DIE-ton" for Dighton... correct me if i'm wrong and "Ditton" is the right way.
I'm glad you like those Fox
I'm glad you like those Fox shows. I probably would too. I just try to limit my Fox viewing, that's all.
Yes, it's Die-tn
Which I know from a college roommate who came from Totten, which is not far from Fa' Reeva.
aaah
my parents live in ware-im now, after living on LawngEyeland for several thousand years. Cities south of Boston (and towards Fa'reeva) are becoming more a part of my life these days...
thanks for the edumacation.
Right back atcha, New York
Neal Gaffey took a close look at an AT&T Wireless poster in a New York subway stop and noticed something familiar about the buildings:
Those are actually Photoshopped versions of our very own Harbor Towers (you can even see the Custom House off to the right). Unfortunately, back in Boston, he notices that our equivalent AT&T ads use Baltimore to fill in for Boston.
Is that the Custom House on
Is that the Custom House on the right hand side?
Of course!
They moved it to New York just for the shoot. Don't you remember the day we woke up and the Pru was mysteriously gone and then we found out some rich sheiks had moved it to Dubai?
Where is that Island ....
You know, the one in the Financial Times ad where some lunatic with an antigravity ray put all the stolen landmark buildings from around the world?
Funny, but that haze says they dragged along some PM2.5 problems from the cities they were taken from.
That pic was somewhere too
Swirly, I saw that picture too last weekend when I was in New York before I took the photo of AT&T ad above. I don't remember where I saw it, but I think it was in another ad, I think for a financial services company. My friend Neil (who I was visiting) and I stopped and looked at it and I looked for Boston buildings, but couldn't find any. The AT&T one only stood out to me because I had seen the same campaign in Boston.
Financial Times
This picture is from an ad for Financial Times - a news magazine for people who work in or are otherwise involved with the financial sector.
I'm trying to think if I've seen it in Boston. I know that I have seen it in NYC and Vancouver, and friends tell me that they have seen it in Europe and parts of Asia (especially airports).
The water line of the waterfront seems kind of Boston to me.
Financial Times is a London daily
and I've occasionally seen it left behind on Red Line trains. The color of its newsprint is quite distinctive.
Salmony color right?
Salmony color right?
yep
Warehouse District...
I totally didn't see that it was one of the "Read more about" tags. I'm laughing my head off. perhaps we can write a lot more about Stoughton's Warehouse District.
Could we stage some Shakespeare there?
Would anyone catch any horrible airborne disease from The Pattern if we go hang out there? I would hate for my flesh to slide off my body. That would ruin my weekend.
the Stoughton Warehouse District
Depending on whether you want new, (Campanelli Park off Rte. 27) or old, (behind the Square, road heading to Cobb's Corner/Easton), there are two of them actually. Either one has empty space that would be great for Shakepeare. God knows, Stoughton could use the culture.
Boston knowledge
They also placed a mad scientist who CLONED people at Boston College, while interviewing him in a building that would have been turned down by MIT as too avant garde. Catholic school, Collegiate Gothic buildings, yikes!
It's not pronounced
It's not pronounced "ditton", it's pronounced "die-ton".
Uh-
Bridge
The show shoots at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
i know that bridge, its right
i know that bridge, its right by "alex's" strip joint