Folks On The Fringe

"Fans will immediately recognize that this is not exactly the Alt Universe logo. It's missing the Department of Defense bit at the bottom. That's because the Warner Brothers lawyers were afraid you'd be mistaken for an actual Alt Universe Fringe Division agent if you wore this. *eyebrow* We argued that if you were, you'd have to give them your ShowMe at the very least to prove who you were. They didn't buy it, so we had to yank the Department of Defense text, but we still love the look of this logo. And we love that it's officially supporting a show we love. Alt Universe Fringe Division logo in gold and red on a black, 100% cotton t-shirt. Alt Universe Fringe Division logo in gold and red on a black, babydoll (fitted) shirt. Underneath it reads, "Fringe: Imagine the Impossibilities." Also, this has a custom Fringe necktag instead of the standard ThinkGeek one." - c.a.j. from Bookmarklet

The Fringe Podcast has some Altverse Fringe stuff too: http://www.cafepress.com/fringep... - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

I didn't even remember this character in the animated epi of Fringe but the podcast I'm listening to mentioned the 'X' on the nanite was the same as Mr. X guy so I googled it. Dude. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Bookmarklet

Also, there's a rumor that Mr. X may be a young William Bell. \o/ - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

Very abrupt. No connection as far as I can see with prior or later episode(s). - Friar Ticket to Ride

Not sure how credible this is: "Fox is close to renewing Fringe for a fifth and final season, TVWise has learned. For the past couple of months, Fox has been having discussions with Warner Bros. Television about the future of the low rated series. Sources familiar with said discussions tell me that, while there are still a few points that need ironing out, a deal for a fifth and final season of 13 episodes is expected to be reached within the next few weeks." - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from Bookmarklet

I'm about 12 episodes behind on this season. Fringe went from being the show I was most excited to see each week to one that just didn't grab me anymore, but I'm sure I'll get back into it sooner or later, and I would love them to wrap everything up. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

I'm loving this season so far. The episode where we get backstory on the Observers (from September) is great. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Hello! Missed Fringe the last couple of weeks, but won't be watching this week's until late. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

INORITE? - holly #ravingfangirl

Bah humbug - Lnorigb from FFHound!

ha, I quoted the same thing in chat the other day :) - Michael W. May

:D It was awesome. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

Also, I cried at the end. :') - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

Yes, I cried when Olivia revealed Peter's drawing. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

He also wrote for 24 according to his wiki page. I should watch all these shows. As soon as I finish Doctor Who. :-) // Loved this episode, it helped show the audience what Walter has gone through AND the fact that Peter was alive in this new universe and that he died the same way because September did not intervene this time. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

List of differences stolen shamelessly from the TiVo Community forum discussion (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...): - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

I've enjoyed the first two episodes. I think Peter will be breaking through pretty soon. - Gunnyman™

"FOX's "Fringe" wrapped up its third season on Friday night with a brain-bending cliffhanger that left fans expressing themselves with excited combinations of exclamation points and question marks.    Many fans loved the apparent shift in the "Fringe" paradigm. Some fans were less enamored. But for all of them, there was one major question: What the heck is this going to mean moving forward?   On Monday, I got on the phone with "Fringe" showrunners Jeff Pinkner and and Joel Howard "J.H." Wyman to discuss "The Day We Died" and the way it will ripple into Season Four this fall.   It won't surprise "Fringe" fans to know that I got very few concrete answers about next season, but I think that Pinkner and Wyman definitely provided a lot of insight into their approach to the structure and mythology of their show." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"HitFix: How did you decide that this particular episode and place was where you wanted to end Season Three? The penultimate episode with the conclusion in the future also had a finale-esque feeling. JHW: This was the plan from the beginning. If we would have left Peter in the future, then the people who *did* enjoy this one would say, "Wow. I didn't like that." For us, it was something... more... - RAPatton

"One of the notable things about time-travel paradoxes is that there are several ways to attack the time-travel paradox and as long as you remain honest and consistent with the rules that you choose to follow, the rules that you choose to establish, you're good. So we'll be very clear with the rules that we are establishing and hopefully we will remain true to those. But people's... more... - RAPatton

"In Fringe’s Friday night season finale, the smartest sci-fi show on prime time dives into a crazed wormhole meltdown that pits heroes from the normal world against doppelgangers living in an alternate universe, where 9/11 never happened and dirigibles float above Manhattan. Centered on the parallel-universe adventures of FBI investigators Olivia Dunham (played by Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and his loopy genius of a father Walter Bishop (John Noble), Fringe boasts humor, gore, weird science and deep mythology." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I guess "wired" shouldn't be reviewing sci-fi/fantasy/adventure/drama series - Le Slip Anglais

"The A.V. Club: This season seems to have been structured all along to lead into a fourth season, even though your ratings haven’t been great, and there was no guarantee that you’d be renewed. If you hadn’t gotten picked up, would the third-season finale have served as an acceptable ending? Jeff Pinkner: Certainly not out of arrogance, but possibly out of willful blindness, we never for a moment entertained the idea that this would be the end. And so we built a season and a season finale—which we had already started to write before we got the pick-up—based on the premise that there would be a fourth season, and hopefully more after that. If it had turned out that this was the last-ever episode of the show, it would certainly not be a proper resolution. But you know, the best novels and movies still leave unanswered questions. If this had been the series finale, the episode would be emotionally satisfying and also deeply troubling, in a way that is kind of a cool ending. But the short answer is, we never changed the ending, nor did we ever really entertain the idea that there wouldn’t be another season." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Well, we talked early on about the idea of “soul magnets,” and it was no accident that Olivia drank tea in that scene in the second season when she was in Bell’s office. We didn’t know exactly when we would incorporate it. We also knew that Leonard was retiring, and that we wanted him still to be a part of the show. Without spoiling anything, that whole tangent will likely be a setup... more... - RAPatton

"In another universe, much like our own, last night's episode of Fringe probably served as the series finale, given how close the show came to cancellation. And in many ways, this would have been a fitting end to the series. "The Day We Died" was a great summation of Fringe at its absolute best as well as its absolute worst, and it felt like a series finale in many ways. After all, it resolved many, if not most, of the show's dangling plotlines, and served up some baffling answers. Most of all, it felt like a great summing up of the show's great enigma, Dr. Walter Bishop. Both of him." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I hope they don't pull a 'Dallas' move and have it all be a bad dream. - Janet:#TeamMonique

T-42 minutes and counting - RAPatton from iPhone

ZOMGWTFBBQ I am watching this again. - Jenny H from Android

"Everyone (over there) dies! At least, that's what we're led to believe after seeing this trailer for "The Day We Died," the season finale of Fringe (Friday at 9/8c on Fox). At the end of the last episode, Peter (Joshua Jackson) crash-landed 15 years into the future, a place where he's known as "Agent Bishop" and the Freedom Tower (dedicated in 2021) soars over the World Trade Center site. Walternate (John Noble) has somehow made his way "over here" and vows to seek vengeance for the destruction of his universe. Could he be the man behind the group that Peter dubs "the end-of-dayers," a terrorist faction attempting to rip holes in the fabric of the universe? Get a first glimpse at the finale here:" - RAPatton

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. this seems to be my only response to Fringe right now. :D - holly #ravingfangirl from Bookmarklet

inorite? - holly #ravingfangirl

Wow, I'm seeing crossovers here. A machine that can create or destroy. Broyles' eye. Anyone remember another show, based on a Room, from which came an eye that could create or destroy all life? - Le Slip Anglais

"Your Fringe character is in many ways emblematic of the show. Because it's a series about mysteries, and he's the most mysterious. A lot of it's a mystery even to me. [Laughs.] Can you talk a bit about that? Do the producers give you a little more info than the show gives us? Is there a plan for your character that they've shared with you, or do they prefer that you come to each episode as spontaneously as possible? It began with a very minimal plan. In fact when I first auditioned, they wrote an imaginary scene just to have something for people to audition with. Because they really hadn't written the episode he was going to appear in. And then, almost as soon as I was hired, within a week or so they called and said, "We want to do something different. We want to introduce the character really slowly, just in the background. So that he might not even be noticed for a long time until the fans catch on, and then we'll reveal him maybe in the thirteenth or fourteenth episode of the... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Can you say whether we'll learn a little bit more about September and the Observers in the season finale? Not too much about us. You get a couple of extra details, or maybe information about things that we suspected. But it doesn't focus too much or doesn't reveal a lot of new information about us. We're more in our kind of observing mode at this point. But it kind of has an implication that we're gonna have a lot to do next year, hopefully." - RAPatton

"Of course September has appeared at certain live events, like American Idol. Which always really pisses Josh Jackson off, because he's like, "How come I'm here working my butt off all the time and you get to go to NASCAR and NFC playoff games? How does that work?" [Laughs.] Could we see September at any other live events in the near future? I don't know of any. I think maybe they feel... more... - RAPatton

"WARNING: If you have yet to watch Friday’s Fringe, stop reading now. Everyone else, onward and downward… In the final moments of Friday’s intense, breakneck-paced episode, Peter climbed into the Doomsday Device and was transported 15 years into the future. Well, I can now confirm that, in next week’s season finale, among the folks Peter encounters in the year 2026 is the wide-eyed FBI agent played by — yep, you guessed it — Boardwalk Empire‘s Emily Meade. But that’s not the twist. This is the twist: Turns out said FBI agent is…" - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Last night's Fringe was full of unspeakably random plot twists, but also full of beautiful character moments — especially this one, where Walter tries to bond with Olivia over being non-neurotypical. I won't know for a while whether last night's episode really made sense, but this moment and a few others will stick in my mind regardless. Spoilers ahead!" - RAPatton

"But like I said, last night's episode was really all about the amazing character moments, and not so much about the seat-of-the-pants "we found another drawing" plotting. And Walter attempting to bond with Olivia over being broken — while apparently forgetting that it was mostly he who broke her in the first place — was absolutely priceless. But in that scene and some of the other... more... - RAPatton

"And then the show serves up a smorgasbord of clips from past episodes, which is usually television code for "this character is about to die." Which, all told, is a nice fake-out. Because Peter doesn't die, of course — unless the last moment of the episode is an even weirder afterlife experience than Lost gave us. Instead, he's zapped 15 years into the future, where everything is... more... - RAPatton

Okay. ;) - Jenny H from Android

""We're best friends," Noble says as they discuss the mind-bending Fox drama and the three-part season-ending story (Part 2 Friday, 9 ET/PT). Their mutual trust makes it easier for them to take the relationship between the Bishop boys, father Walter (Noble) and son Peter (Jackson) to some very dark places. "We wanted to make the relationship as real and bloody and wonderful as it is," Noble, 62, says. "To make it honest, not to knock the rough edges off it," Jackson, 32, says. "After you've gone through the ugly portions of the father-and-son relationship, then once you get to places of happiness and joy or any beauty, you've earned them." Their connection during a recent joint interview is apparent. A conversation with the Bishops at times turns into a conversation between the Bishops as Jackson and Noble play off each other's comments, compare notes on favorite episodes and address their answers to each other. The complicated Bishop relationship is a cornerstone of Fringe, which... more... - RAPatton

"In last week's Fringe, the first of the three-part finale arc, the universe started to come apart after Walternate turned on a doomsday machine. Peter may be the only hope of stopping the machine, but he becomes injured in his effort to do so. The story will "show the world what Armageddon is like," Noble says. Someone will die in next week's finale, Jackson teases: "We can tell you... more... - RAPatton

SOMEONE WILL DIE? IT WON'T MATTER? QUIT TOYING WITH MY EMOTIONS. - Jenny H from Android

"Wow. Fringe's war between universes turned bloody last night. Both Walters decided to make some major sacrifices, and both Olivias faced some tough choices. Fringe is once again an epic drama. Spoilers ahead... To be honest, I was starting to forget just how good Fringe can be when all the cylinders are firing on full. "6:02 AM EST" was fast-paced and full of insane twists – but also full of deep respect for the characters and their history. There were tons of little references to past episodes like "White Tulip" and "The Firefly," which helped cement our sense that the rapid decisions the characters were making had come from all the stuff they'd been through." - RAPatton

"But the real genius of the episode, not surprisingly, comes from John Noble, playing two anguished versions of Walter. Walternate quotes Oppenheimer and generally shows every sign of being racked with guilt for destroying an entire world, but he lives with his guilt with the same uptight, repressed attitude he greets every other emotion with. By contrast, Walter is operatic in his... more... - RAPatton

Ah, that's why they tested the baby's dna - RAPatton from iPhone

@Derrick. The Green Lantern commercial came on and my husband started saying the mantra about the ring. I was amazed. He is 60 and hadn't read Green Lantern since he was 10. He is stoked for the movie. - Janet:#TeamMonique

"When Fox made the gutsy call to renew "Fringe" for a fourth season, it came as a surprise to many. For one, the sci-fi drama – which has aired in three different time slots since its debut – has steadily dropped in the ratings. Last week’s partially animated hour, featuring an “appearance” by Leonard Nimoy, tied a series low in total viewers (3.6 million) and the key 18-49 demo (1.3). John Noble, who plays Walter and Walternate, has maintained a positive outlook. With an international following and a steady presence on the Internet, "Fringe" has overcome what many would deem near impossible. (Read THR's interview with executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman the day after "Fringe" was renewed.) Noble sat down with The Hollywood Reporter at a Starbucks coffee shop in Los Angeles to discuss the potential production challenges that may arise next season, why the show receives low ratings, how reality shows are similar to "Fringe" and the format he wants producers to incorporate on the show." - c.a.j. from Bookmarklet

Great. They're going to ruin it. For ratings. - Le Slip Anglais