I've seen all kinds of up and down reviews on here so clearly not everyone likes it or didn't give it a good chance.
I suggest watching the entire show before making a decision. My own thoughts are it's quite a decent show, though the beginning of season 4 I was a bit bored, but wanted to give it a chance and later in the season I was getting interested and can't wait for the final series which, unlike supernatural, they are going to put this to rest at season 5.
I got sucked into it quite easily by being a lover of sci-fi and the paranormal. Plus I love the ideas of an alternate universe and seeing how people changed in the other world where Fring Division is a popular and well known military unit where in our reality it is a undercover FBI unit. You see the dopplegangers of the other reality and how they have a completely different personality due to possible things that may have happened in the past. The "path not taken" if you will.
Plus the man known as Willian Bell is hinted at most of the season and when he appears, it's Leonard Nimoy (Spock from Star Trek's original series) so it's awesome to geek out at scenes he appears in. John Noble's character, Dr Walter Bishop is a man with mental problems, caused by having pieces of his brain taken out and trapped in a institution for years. The character evolves over the series with the presence of his son, Peter who puts up with his father's Eccentricities but also as the show goes on their bond grows stronger and Walter becomes more relaxed in public environments.
The science I enjoy too. I'm no expert so I'm not certain on how accurate some of the science is, but at the same time I'm willing to have a suspension of disbelief as it's not like they don't bother to explain these things. Best to just watch and enjoy it. Afterall, this is escapism and doesn't need to be grounded in reality.
I suggest watching the entire show before making a decision. My own thoughts are it's quite a decent show, though the beginning of season 4 I was a bit bored, but wanted to give it a chance and later in the season I was getting interested and can't wait for the final series which, unlike supernatural, they are going to put this to rest at season 5.
I got sucked into it quite easily by being a lover of sci-fi and the paranormal. Plus I love the ideas of an alternate universe and seeing how people changed in the other world where Fring Division is a popular and well known military unit where in our reality it is a undercover FBI unit. You see the dopplegangers of the other reality and how they have a completely different personality due to possible things that may have happened in the past. The "path not taken" if you will.
Plus the man known as Willian Bell is hinted at most of the season and when he appears, it's Leonard Nimoy (Spock from Star Trek's original series) so it's awesome to geek out at scenes he appears in. John Noble's character, Dr Walter Bishop is a man with mental problems, caused by having pieces of his brain taken out and trapped in a institution for years. The character evolves over the series with the presence of his son, Peter who puts up with his father's Eccentricities but also as the show goes on their bond grows stronger and Walter becomes more relaxed in public environments.
The science I enjoy too. I'm no expert so I'm not certain on how accurate some of the science is, but at the same time I'm willing to have a suspension of disbelief as it's not like they don't bother to explain these things. Best to just watch and enjoy it. Afterall, this is escapism and doesn't need to be grounded in reality.