FRINGE: Producers Dish Peter’s Otherworldly Quest & Olivia’s Observer Shocker

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Tonight, Fringe takes intrepid viewers back to where they’ve never been. Exec producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman lay the yellow brick road in preview of the episode. Find out what they had to say.

TV Line grabbed a line with the producers to preview tonight’s return..

On whether they were tempted to alter the edit on tonight’s episode, given that it was originally supposed to air as the midseason finale, before the baseball playoffs intervened:

JP: Actually, no. We know that baseball is mutable – it either goes to six games or it doesn’t – and we’re mindful of that. Given that, we built Episode 7 to function with what we felt was its own pretty awesome cliffhanger, the reveal of Nina and what she’s doing to Olivia. And [Episodes] 8 and 9 were designed as a two-parter which we knew could either frustrate people but hold them over the break, or else play in back-to-back weeks.
JW: Most of the episodes going forward now have a hooky pull at the end.

The teasers and previews make it clear that Peter travels to the other side in search of Walternate’s help to get him back to ‘where he belongs’. Word is, the Silver Fox has..changed:

JW: It’s interesting, because it’s changed…. Walternate doesn’t have the same bitterness. He’s sort of allowed to feel a little more, so he’s a very different version of what we’ve seen.

On the role that Peter’s mother, Elizabeth, plays in all of this:

JP: One of the things that we’ve always found so fascinating about the alt universe is the relationship that Walternate has with Peter’s mother, and not only is Orla [Brady] a spectacular actress, but we pride ourselves on the fact that our show is a series of strong woman — from Olivia to Astrid to Nina to Elizabeth. And clearly, in the alt universe, as Joel alluded, Elizabeth enabled Walternate to heal after the loss of their child. So yes, she unexpectedly provides Peter with the help that he had been looking for – and hopefully in a way that’s both emotionally satisfying and unexpected.
JW: The fact that there was a better relationship between her and her husband impacted [Walternate].

On the return of an old Big Bad in newly refracted light:

JP: The episodes up until now have sort of laid the groundwork for the introduction of our big bad of the season, and we’re incredibly fortunate to work with one of our favorite actors again, someone who has had a presence on the show before. But as with many things this season, we’re presenting a fractal of the world we visited before, so our bad guy is someone we’ve met before but because Peter didn’t exist in this world, we meet him in a different context. He hasn’t gone through the same consequences as when we met him before.

On Olivia’s curious meeting with September, the Observer who got involved:

JW: We can say that the meeting between Olivia and the Observer will definitely alter the course of what you’re going to see and what is to come.

The producers further state that they know what the season finale will be and that it can serve as a series-ender should the Ratings Dragon set fire to Fringeland. They also reiterate their desire to hold firm on the new timeline, believing that fans who don’t like it may come around to the idea as Peter’s journey is explored further – they make the comparison with the alternate universe when it was first introduced.

Source: TV Line

Fringe continues Friday 13 at 9/8c

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