Joshua Jackson explains why Fringe‘s rebooted timeline has to stick around, and the producers weigh in on the possibility of another reset, an Olivia/Lincoln relationship, and the “sensational” ending they have planned for the season.
While certain sections of the Fringe fanbase are dissatisfied with the new timeline, Joshua Jackson, whose character is currently stuck there, tells TV Guide he’s in no rush to get back to the old one:
“We’ve spent many, many, many, many episodes with this group of people so I’m not sure that it’s satisfying to just leave them. If we just pulled the rip cord on this new group of people and went to our old people, a significant amount of the audience would be like, ‘Well, why did I get so invested in these people?’ I don’t know how they’re going to resolve it and we haven’t got to that place in the story yet, but that seems, to me, like that’s going to be the crisis of the season.”
On the possibility of another timeline reset should Peter find a solution to his predicament, producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman tease:
Wyman: We don’t want to spoil anything, but as we always say on Fringe, nothing is really as it seems. There’s always a way to handle a problem that may escape normal logic. It may [clue you in] to the possibility of something that you don’t even know you didn’t know.
Pinkner: The show is not going to get more complex. We recognize that we are throwing a lot at our fans — who are brilliant and attentive viewers — to track and pay attention to. We have no intention to make it any more complicated. We’re not trying to let intellect overtake the emotion of the show.
Wyman: When we decided to do what we did last season, some people loved it, some people were like, “Oh my God, what does that mean?” But even after Jeff and I both said several times that Peter was still a huge part of the program, people were still like “Wait, is Peter coming back?” What we’re excited about is that our plan for where we are going with that is coming into effect now. I think people will have a moment of “Ohhhh…I get it.” It will become clear why we did what we did.
On the possibility of an Olivia/Lincoln relationship in the new timeline:
Wyman: That’s true. That was our intention. Don’t forget, Peter has his Olivia. So this Olivia is an incredible lure, but also a painful memory of what he’s lost. Lincoln and Olivia are both available, and there is a relationship there that could be possible…but you have to keep watching. We’re glad you picked up on that.
In disappointing yet unsurprising news, they also claim that “a lot of standalone cases” will populate the second-half of the season:
Pinkner: I think, without giving anything away — and again, sorry, sometimes we may hold things too close to the vest — there are absolutely a lot of standalone cases. Peter is the “Fringe event” of the moment, but the cases are not all about him. A lot of them are sort of the things we enjoy and do the best. Cases that touch on or refract the themes we’re exploring this season, populated by some of the coolest Fringe victims and bad guys and monsters we’ve done all season.
Pinkner reiterates that Season 4 is a “love letter” to the characters and show:
Season 4 is designed as a love letter to our characters and our show. The idea of having a different timeline? It’s the same world, it’s the same blend, it’s the same Earth as Seasons 1 through 3, it’s just a different timeline and one of the fun things for us is to look at how some familiar faces and cases may be different.
As for whether they’ll start killing off characters as the end of the season (possibly series) approaches:
Wyman: We said from the beginning that we are telling the story for a reason. Jeff and I believe that we’re telling the story as a metaphor for something we’re trying to say. So it’s not going to change. It didn’t change last year, or the year before when we we’re threatened with cancellation. I think you can attest more than anyone that people have been saying we were going to be canceled ever since they moved us from Tuesday nights. So we have never changed our plan. We want to tell a certain story, and the way we have devised this story is that the end of every season is the end of a chapter.
Pinkner: As for killing off characters, we have before. We killed off Charlie. We killed off Alt-Lincoln. It just so happens that they returned, as we promised they would. But we would never just to clear the decks. We have studiously tried to avoid “holy s–t” moments just because we needed a very special promotable episode. We start at the end of each season and build backwards to see what is going to earn that ending that we want.
Wyman further describes how this season’s finale could, if necessary, function as a series-ender:
We have a lot of great ideas for another season, but we don’t want to let down our fans. We don’t think this ending will let down our fans. In fact, we think it would be quite sensational and spectacular, and would leave everybody satiated.
Source: TV Guide
PERSON OF INTEREST Renewed For Season 2
TERRA NOVA: Season 2 Decision Delayed Until 2012
ONCE UPON A TIME: The Comprehensive Character Guide
BREAKING BAD: Bryan Cranston Confirms Season 5 Will Premiere In July
FRINGE OBSERVATIONS: 4.22 Brave New World: Part 2
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ONCE UPON A TIME OBSERVATIONS: 1.22 A Land Without Magic
ONCE UPON A TIME OBSERVATIONS: 1.21 An Apple Red As Blood
FRINGE OBSERVATIONS: 4.21 Brave New World: Part 1
ONCE UPON A TIME OBSERVATIONS: 1.20 The Stranger
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I think “love letter” should be retired as a turn of phrase. How about save the “love letter” talk till the end of the season. It is hard to watch Olivia have little to no social interaction or connection with any women, but we have to watch another romantic relationship with a co-worker be teased. This portrayal of a female lead is supposed to be a “love letter” to the character? Or these standalones. A necessary evil, sure, but the standalones this season have just not resonated with me.
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Actually I´m not invested in the Newtimeline and the New versions of our beloved characters to that lavel that I could feel sorry when we should leave this newtimeline behind very soon – I would be very happy about that – I miss OUR ORIGINAL Timeline and Walter-Peter father son beautiful relationship and Polivia soooooooo badly!!!!!!!!But it seems we are stuck in this new timeline:((( My only hope as producers said this possible Olivia/Lincoln relationship is not going to happen I think Peter realizes that there is no way back home because he is already home and only timeline is diffrent so he will try to win Walter and Olivia back!!!!!Hopefully!!!!Or and Walter and Olivia start to remember the original timeline and the two timelines merge somehow – at the moment I´m not so sure we are ever going to come back to Blueverse!!!Just a thought!
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I REALLY don’t like the idea of:
1. Never returning to the normal timeline
2. Olivia and Lincoln together (ugh. bleughk)
3. More standalone episodes.
Just no No NO.
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Wyman : “It may [clue you in] to the possibility of something that you don’t even know you didn’t know.”
Is that statement a double negative ? They cancel each other out, making it a positive. Is the answer right in front of us, and we just don’t realize it. What is Wyman trying to tell us ?
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As far as I’m concerned it is just some bull$#!+ mumbo-jumbo that he’s throwing out there to try to tease us, but it won’t live up to that type of hype, so disregard. He and Pinkner are obviously out of touch with us the fans, so he doesn’t even know what he thinks we know or don’t know. He thinks we are screaming for Nerd Lee and Olivia to hook up, with the universes falling down around them.
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This season seems to be the opposite of a “love letter” so far. We’ll see how the rest of the season goes, but it’s been incredibly annoying.
“We’ve spent many, many, many, many episodes with this group of people…”
I love you, Josh, but we’ve spent exactly 8 episodes with these incredibly tedious people. my question is not “Why did I invest in these [new] people”, but “Why did I invest in the old characters at all?”. Since I haven’t invested in the new characters the tiniest bit, guess what timeline I want to watch.
“Lincoln and Olivia are both available, and there is a relationship there that could be possible…but you have to keep watching.”
These producers are so into triangles! How original of them! Of course, I have to keep watching… NOT! I’ll just fastforward through their scenes. It’s fascinating seeing a supposedly professional female character lose it with every single partner.
If the whole point of this season is for Peter to win back this Olivia and this Walter, I don’t think they are doing a good job at making me want to watch that.
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Although I am enjoying the season so far, the truth is that I’m certainly longing for the old characters. They keep saying that all have a reason, that we will have pay-off. O.K. I still give them credit. But the said pay-off can better be good.
Making numbers, and if this interview of Josh is relatively new and for what he says, in what’s been shooting last past days – they should go by episode 14 – we are still in this timeline. So yes, we still have amber universe for awhile.
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I think their actually on episode 15 or 16 now
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You can’t really go by what Josh says because if you go back & watch all his interviews from the start of the show, the opposite has always happened. So, if you are going to follow anything, follow what he says in reverse. And one of the things I’m talking about is him saying at the beginning that him & Olivia would not get together because they were like brother & sister……WRONG!!!!
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And another thing…
I’d like to see some “love letters” to these characters: The Observers (more episodes like ‘August’ would be fantastic), Nina, Astrid, Broyles, even Brandon (what can I say, the little nerd grew on me). For me, this has nothing do with whether there is another season or not. It has evrything to do with treating characters that we were introduced to in Season 1 and have yet to get to know at all. However, there is infinite amounts of time to introduce the prospects of another relationship – cause Olivia and Lincoln are both available, not because they chemistry (they don’t).
We have seen several writers on the show create scripts that involve character development, world building, myth telling, forward moving stories. There is the aforementioned ‘August’, and last season’s ‘The Plateau’ as small examples. Every standalone doesn’t have to reek of obvious parallels. [ Monotone Ben Stein VoiceOver: See. This is the one that reminds you of how much Walter needs Peter. See it? Get it? Wiiiiiiiink.]
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Ok I’m gonna say it…
Either these guys don’t give a S#!+ about the fans, or they are that out of touch with what we are saying, and what we expect.
Who here really thinks we need more stand-alone crapisodes this season? Who here really wants to see any timeline’s blue Olivia and Nerd Lee hook up? Who here really thinks these are priorities in what will probably be the final chance to tell us just what the Fu*k is going on in these universes?
Conversely who here wants the observers to be explained? Who here wants to know where Peter was while he was traveling between timelines, and what he was doing? Who here wants an explanation for why these particular universes merged in this particular timeline since Peter wasn’t there to make that happen?
Who here misses the original characters with a passion?
If this season ends without showing us just what is happening in the REAL timeline, or at least making it irrelevant to the story as a whole in favor of the new one, by exposing it as dead, and gone or whatever. Then I call cop-out, and I will be pissed. They seriously need to realize it ain’t all peaches and cream, and just pull that series finale trigger.
I’ve never seen EPs be in such denial as these before in my life.
Sorry… Rant over.
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Either these guys don’t give a S#!+ about the fans, or…
I think it’s pretty clear they don’t.
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I’m with you (as many others, I expect…). So JJ thinks it would be a letdown for us fans to go back to our original timeline when we’ve invested many, many, many, many episodes (wtf??? 8 episodes!! or 15, when the time comes, whatever), but he apparently thinks it would be ok to never go back to the people we’ve grown to love for 3 years! How many “manys” would 3 years need…?? Many.
I’ve decided to try to make peace with the new timeline but only with the hope that this arc will lead us to our characters at some point. And what makes it all worse is the fact that key issues like the Observers, the BBM, the First People, etc, have been completely overlooked. It would have been easier to be ok with this timeline if they had delved into some mythology aspects in the first 7 episodes. They have a lot of explaining to do.
Anyway, I just hope it picks up in the remainder of the season.
And I too wonder if the showrunners really remain aware of what fans think. Critics are generally very positive (and I surely thank them for that because they support the show), but they don’t always reflect what fans think. And the ratings aren’t really supporting their optimism either.
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Agree with everything you’ve said here. So let me join the rant too!
You feel like throttling them when they burble out idiotic and delusional phrases like “a love letter to the show”. If by love letter they mean drop your pants and relieve yourself on characters painstakingly built over three years, then yes it’s a real love letter.
Josh Jackson: “a significant amount of the audience would be like, ‘Well, why did I get so invested in these people?” I did? No sorry I didn’t. And judging by the ratings Josh, neither did a a “significant amount of the audience”.
I like Josh, but it seems the showrunners aren’t the only delusional ones. Or maybe he’s just trying to be loyal?
As I’ve said on Seriable, the reset could have been awesome. It wasn’t. David Fury (whose writing is pretty awful, sorry to be harsh) says on his Twitter page that new fans were the mandated reason for the reset.
I never would have imagined I’d feel this hostile to a show I’ve loved so much.
Oh sweet lord. If that isn’t a death knell for the show, I don’t know what is. Frankly this show does not deserve another season if that’s how it’s going to be. That is a betrayal of the fans.
It’s almost as if Pinkner and Wyman deliberately trying to kill the show. Maybe they’re tired of it and want to move on? End the show with season 4 then – with some semblance of dignity – if it’s even possible, given their plans?
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“New fans” were the reason for the reset? Look where that strategy got them, a drop in ratings. You don’t reset a series for “new fans”. If someone is just tuning in and they want to be apart of the mythology of the show then they should buy, rent, or borrow the past seasons (and of course read Rocco’s archived reviews and observations).
I’d be curious to know who made that mandate. Was it the studio or network’s call? Regardless, as you said above, the last 8 episodes could have handled this reset a lot better.
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I actually see exactly where jackson is coming from, i dont think its neccessarily that he loves the new timeline (nowhere does he say that) he does however say that: ““We’ve spent many, many, many, many episodes with this group of people so I’m not sure that it’s satisfying to just leave them. If we just pulled the rip cord on this new group of people and went to our old people, a significant amount of the audience would be like, ‘Well, why did I get so invested in these people?”
I intepret that to mean that if we just leave the new timeline, every fan will ask, well what was the point in this season in general so far then? AND THAT IS JUST IT. Jackson is saying if they pull the plug now the first part of the season has absolutely no meaning! they say “love letter” over and over again to our ears bleed, but seriously what IS the point!? they say their “revisiting” this is the FOURTH season not the TENTH, a more appropriate description of this season is a regurgitation of previously known but now slightly different characters with added spice of a sexy and hot, full of sexual tension LEEHAM pairing, who dosent reach for the scatter cushion when their on screen together , one word: ELECTRIC!
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This season is almost wasting time for the sake of it so they get new episodes before they actually conclude the series, i cant believe we are going to have see olivia “come of age” again! we already had that, why couldnt we have her being awesome for a season? but NOOO
sorry rant over
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New fans? They did this season for the new fans? I see loyalty for them goes in one direction only.
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I still enjoy each and every episode that is put out- but with fear in my heart that this may be the last. If the show was definitely going to continue for 2 more seasons, then I wouldn’t care if they spent the entire Season 4 in this new timeline. However, if this is the last Season, I want to get back to the old timeline ASAP! I miss the old characters and don’t want to waste time getting used to these new characters…if this truly is the end.
Fringe is still the best show ever and I hope it’ll be around for Season 5.
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I couldn’t agree more.
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I’d also like to say what fans wyman and pinkner are always speaking about when they say “their so invested” and their “really enjoying this season”, “we have the fans trust” WHO HAVE YOU ASKED?
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Unlike most of the people commenting, I’ve LOVED this season and the new timeline. As much as I want to go back to the old timeline, to the characters from the two universes we’ve known and loved since season 1, I don’t want to just up and leave these characters in the amberverse. I’m just as invested in them as I am the old ones.
As for the Lincoln/Olivia romance, GO FOR IT! If this really is a new timeline like Peter thinks it is, then why shouldn’t they get together? There’s a ridiculous amount of chemistry, they’re clearly attracted to each other, they’re both single, so why not? And, if it turns out that this timeline really IS Peter’s home and Olivia starts to remember her old life, I think it’d be an interesting story to tell, seeing her come to terms with the differences in her lives.
I think a lot of people just need to calm down and trust the writers. They love these characters, they love this show, and, most of all, they know what they’re doing.
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Normally I would quite enjoy a little love triangle but…
I could care less about any romance right now due to 1: this being the final season more than likely, and there is still at least two more seasons of mythology they need to cram into 5-7 episodes that are still in production, and 2: there are crazy shapeshifters, two merged universes, one crazy half dead bald guy telling you you are gonna die, and a guy from nowhere telling you he is from some other timeline, and wants to get back home, top that off with Fringe division moles, and the ever problematic soft spots problem that the New Redverse perpetually has. Now do you see the reason why I’m so nervous? All this and they wanna play patty-cake with Lincoln and Liv, and don’t forget those ever popular stand-alone eps.
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“There’s a ridiculous amount of chemistry”
Are you serious?
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Im sorry i hope your being sarcastic.
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xD
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For me the threshold of distrust, building rapidly over this season, was finally crossed with this last episode. I no longer believe they “know what they’re doing”.
There were serious holes, utter implausibilities and inconsistencies in the ‘Back to Where You’ve Never Been’ storyline that were unforgivable. And this was the best episode of S4 so far! I can forgive a show for going in a direction I don’t like, but not sloppy writing.
Check out Roco’s review of this episode to see what I mean.
When showrunners make plot decisions that are clearly ratings-strategic rather than plot-logical, then you know you’re in big trouble. The reset will be rendered pointless if undone, or the last three seasons will be rendered pointless if the reset is not undone.
They’ve painted themselves into a corner, unless they’ve got a really clever denouement for the reset. That’s why I’ll continue to watch, hoping that they do.
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I wholeheartedly agree with what you’re saying. This goes back to what Rick was saying as well. They’ve clearly backed themselves into a corner concerning the two timelines, and with the looming threat of cancellation, plus the fact that they’re going to be doing a bunch of standalone episodes, I don’t see how they could possibly think that they could wrap up the relationship between the two timelines as well as the relations between both universes. Plus they intend to introduce another major enemy in episode 14-15! I know they say that they would finish the story in some other medium, but it’s just not the same as television episodes.
Look, we all love this show. That’s why we’re posting about it. But that doesn’t mean that you can just pretend that it’s getting good ratings (the fact that the ratings system is stupid is another issue). If I was writing a show, and I had a full season to do, and I knew that the ratings were slowly but surely decreasing, I’d discontinue anything that could limit the progression of the overarching plot. It seems like a realistic and beneficial way to react to please all the parties involved. It bugs me that they appear to be treating their writing as if they have 6 full seasons when it’s pretty clear they don’t. Some sense of urgency would go miles towards restoring my confidence.
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“Some sense of urgency would go miles towards restoring my confidence.”
Exactly.
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“If I was writing a show, and I had a full season to do, and I knew that the ratings were slowly but surely decreasing, I’d discontinue anything that could limit the progression of the overarching plot.”
Couldn’t have put it better myself. Rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic won’t save the ship.
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Sunken ocean liner jokes. Not appropriate right now.
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True, wasn’t thinking, sorry about that.
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I really _really_ hope we don’t waste the rest of the season on more ‘amberverse’. I’m really ready to get back to the ‘blueverse’ of the first three seasons!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/12/season-4-fringe-back-to-where-youve-never-been_n_1201422.html
“Jeff and I were actually shocked that people would think for a second that we would have one of those sequences where, poof, the character is gone and everything that you knew about our characters and everything that you learned didn’t really happen or is gone. We would be terribly frustrated if we came across that, being fans of television ourselves. So we would never in a million years do that. What we were really trying to do is have the audience really understand that all this stuff really did happen — “I’m with Peter and I’m in his shoes; I want him to be able to experience what he’s lost. I want to get back there and I want those relationships. I know that he belongs with Olivia. I want him back with Olivia — I don’t know how, but he’s got to find his way back.” That’s what we had always intended, so we were a bit shocked when people thought, “They just erased a couple of years of character history.” It’s not true. That’s not what our intention was, nor is it where we’re going.”
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That whole quote… It goes to show how out of touch with reality and the fanbase they are. Those things they are describing, that they are shocked that people would think for a second they would do… I don’t know, maybe people would think that, because that’s exactly, what they have done!
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“We killed off Alt-Lincoln.”
Shouldn’t that say Alt-Broyles?
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I think he is referring to the fact that Seth Gable was originally only supposed to be a one ep guest star and when he gets blown op by Susan, he was originally supposed to die. Which reminds me, I still want to know how the hell he knew Nick Lane!!!
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this makes me sad to think that the last episode of this season may be the series finale. Really sad
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Me too. And I don’t quite trust them when they say that it can work as a series finale because they said the same thing last year… I would NOT have been happy if TWWD had turned out to be the series finale!!!! Like they say, in every season finale they close a chapter and open a new one that they’ll follow up in the following season, so the only way we can get a proper ending is if they know in advance that they are writing the series finale, IMO.
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On a slightly different note. I’m glad to hear this:
“The show is not going to get more complex. We recognize that we are throwing a lot at our fans — who are brilliant and attentive viewers — to track and pay attention to. We have no intention to make it any more complicated. We’re not trying to let intellect overtake the emotion of the show.”
I’ve kept up pretty well with all the crazy stuff they’ve come up with (I’m looking at you time loops), but I’ve just about hit my complexity limit this season trying to understand the difference between alternate timelines and alternate universes, not to mention having 4 different versions of most of the characters.
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The Truth is I love this show and on the one hand this is a logical effect of cheating the rules of time:Peter made another choice and changed the history of our two universes into what we have now The Newtimeline. By making another choice while in the BBm Peter couldn´t have known that he might erase himsef from existence so what we have now is a Butterfly effect and I really understand why it is that way – Peter alone in the world that doesn´t recognise him even worse the people who were close to him and loved him don´t feel anything for him! The writers wanted us audiens to be with Peter and want to go back to the Bluetimeline – and yes we WANT this desperately!!! Yes we love Old characters all of them and their relationships!!!!All in all I hope we are going back sometime in season 4! for now I´m going to enjoy the ride with Fringe in the Newtimeline hoping someday we are back in the Bluetimeline and for season 5!!!! Fringe deserve this!!!!!
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I’ve got an idea – let’s all overreact at the same time! 3…2…
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Contrary to what may be the popular opinion here…I actually LIKE this season whereas I hated the last one. Let me state what I hated about the last season:
1) Peter and Olivia romance which was too rushed to me. Having the two main characters end up together…then what??? As much I as respect both actors, I never felt the chemistry between Peter and Olivia. Sure a smile…here and there but I don’t feel them to be complementary characters. But oh well…I’m the minority.
2) Horrible one-sided Walternate, who left his wife and eventually disowned the son he wanted to save.
3) Past flashbacks as children to reinforce the Peter and Olivia romance as if they were ‘meant to be’.
3) The loss of one-episode story lines focused on SCIENCE and PARANORMAL EVENTS and just stuck with the whole Peter/Olivia/Bolivia romance.
Let me make something clear, I got into Fringe because the concept of a parallel dimension was unique (for me at least). I also liked it when they introduced weird science. In many ways, it reminded me of the X-Files. While I am all in favor of shipping pairings, by the 3rd season of Fringe, it became just that. There was nothing else to tie you to the story other than if you are a shipper. If you liked weird science stuff…Fringe was no longer just for you. The authors took so many liberties to try to give the relationships on screen such a big emotional impact that they alienated some fans who don’t really wish to see something like that on a show that was supposed to focus more on the fantastic rather than the romantic.
I thought it was a BOLD move the reboot the universes and I liked that because it was risky. I was fine without having Peter there after all he was never really supposed to exist anyway. But when they brought him back, I was irritated, then they made it clear that the world isn’t the same one and everyone’s circumstances are not the same. I do not subscribe to the overly romantic concept of love crossing dimensions…if I wanted that in Fringe, I would have stuck with films that are in the same vein as Twilight. I liked it that while the new Olivia’s, while interested in Peter, do not really see him in a romantic light. I like it that Walternate, has some shred of humanity left in him. I like it that Walter, is rendered so vulnerable that he rejected the prospect of seeing his son.
I’m disappointed that fans are just all about the old story lines and old characters…pushing for the old Peter and Olivia banners (which I felt was executed prematurely and ended up ruining the show). If they really like Fringe, then perhaps they should give it a try rather than trying to keep track on what is different all the time.
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Jesus f*cking Christ people. Stop effing complaining.
Just go with the flow; have you all seriously not yet worked out that Fringe is nor your average show? It’s not going to keep with the same group of people for seasons and seasons like every other bloody show. It’s not going to have conventional relationships like every bloody other show. It’s not going to do romance like every bloody other show. It’s wacky, it’s out there, it sure as hell isn’t safe.
Go and watch every bloody other show, if you want.
I thought Fringe people were smart – obviously the f*ck not.
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For all the mumbo jumbo, in all the interviews I’ve read so far from the producers, they haven’t yet addressed my one major area of concern about this season.
That is is that it’s boring! Something I never thought I’d say about Fringe… and I’m not sure I feel passionate enough about anything I’ve seen so far to try and figure out why.
For the record, I was a fan since the first episode.
Ruby
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when did they kill off ANY lincoln?
anyway, I gotta say I like the way Wyman said we would figure out why they did what they did with Peter, I have always liked what he brings to the table the better of the two (for reasons such as: “We’re not trying to let intellect overtake the emotion of the show.” – Pinker, this interview…),
BUT,
the important stuff: I gotta say there are a few things that REALLY disturb me very deeply in the way they (and to a degree Bad Robot in general) look at the end of their show(s). Here’s what I mean:
If season 4 is the last and they use the ending they are planning on using then the fans will get AN ending (so they say) but then if they get a 5th, what will that season comprise of THE real ending or just random extra show? DO THEY REALLY NOT CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT THEIR ACTUAL ENDING/PURPOSE OF THE SHOW? If it were me I would be freaking out and going to the FOX execs offices every day trying to find out whether or not I’m going to be cancelled so I know whether I should put THE ACTUAL ONLY END of my TV show at the end of season 4 or if I;m going to get a chance to put in more of the in bewtween and save THE ending for later. If I put it at the end of season 4 and then they gave me another season, I would have to say, “sorry, I already told them the ending” because if I were to keep making the show after doing so it would be like someone giving a film director more $ abd saying “even though it already ended and the ring is destroyed, can you please just continue the story bout the ring anyway?” or to JK Rowling saying, hey, uh, can you just make another harry potter novel about their year after killing voldemort even thought you already gave the readers an epilogue?
youknow? or even something more pivotal where the end is the point and it would completely negate the whole story just so we cans ee them in action again despite one of them dying or something like that where it;s almost offensive to the viewer, like another star wars movie episode 7 with Dark Vader in it again and the emperor just because they;re the popular characters
I’m afraid that’s what is going to become of FRINGE, because how will they know when to use THE ending, and if they do use it, then what happens in the following seasons will just be random and thrown together and not really have purpose. Am I crazy or something? how is no one else bothered (especially them) that they may blunder the whole thing over $!!!???!!!? It’s driving me nuts that we;re never going to know if the season 4 ending is THE ending or AN ending and whether or not where the show does then eventually end after that (if there is an, after that) is the ending they intended or some consolation prize they cobbled together after the fact, and if there isn’t a 5th season, we’ll never know if we got to see THE True ending or if it got cut and we were left, after years of viewership to FOX, with just the consolation prize of one of many end-of-chapters MacGyvered into the ending (note the lower case).
It’s maddening (can’t you tell?..)
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*yes I do LOVE Star Wars and totally meant Darth Vader
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I have no problem with standalone-ish episodes because they are never truly totally standalone. They always seem to tie the theme of the baddie of the week in with something the characters are going through, etc.
What I absolutely DO NOT WANT is any Olivia Lincoln relationship at all. I would rather see Lincoln hook up Astrid. Can’t Astrid get some love?
As for an ending…I just really hope season 4 is not it.
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