I think that the Fringe pilot is an example of some of the worst TV-writing I have ever seen, but somehow it seemed like a good idea to watch more, and it honestly gets a little bit better over time. At the end of the day it is trash TV, and it is certainly no X-Files, but I do love me some Joshua Jackson and lots of ridiculous psudoscience-drug puzzles. It's what I watch when there is nothing good on basically...so sue me.
I will scope out the group-chat thing but in the end it might be more entertaining to have super long nerdy rants on the blog about various symbols, meanings, flashbacks, cryptic pictures, etc.