Fox’s much anticipated show Fringe debuted last night. J.J. Abrams’s name as one of the creator’s of the show have led to many comparison’s to Abrams’s other show “Lost”. Where Lost started with the survivors of a plane crash, Fringe starts with all the passenger’s and crew of a plane dying but the plane itself surviving.

The show is probably a closer match to X-Files since the main characters are FBI and other government agents dealing with strange situations related to “fringe” science. I found the characters of Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) and Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) to be intriguing enough to tune in again, but this show is not Lost and maybe not X-Files.

After the first minute of Lost I knew it was something different and that I was hooked. After one episode of Fringe I am not at the same place yet. It is certainly darker and more gross based on the pilot. As a fan of the arcane, so able to deal with complex plots, I find the science and plot of Fringe to be less believable. There was a virus that would either kill instantly or take a number of days depending on what would work better with the plot.

So my take so far on Fringe is that the show’s title is prophetic. I am not sure this will become a main stream hit.