Fringe Producers On Why Lincoln Lee Is Part Of Fringe Family

Before all the kerfuffle about Fringe being on thin-ice, EW grabbed an interview with EPs Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman.

Here’s what the duo had to say concerning Friday’s returning episode and beyond:

On the first seven episodes of this season and their role in laying the foundation for the overarching story:

Pinkner: “The first seven episode were an opening act and were laying the track for an overture to what’s going to happen for the rest of the season. We’ve seen now what Nina is doing to Olivia and [the] shapeshifters many times. In this next episode and going beyond, A) we’ll find out who’s behind the shapeshifters – it could be Walternate and B) we’ll really start to delve in to the challenges that our characters are going to face in both universes.”

Olivia and Peter ride again in Fringe

On Lincoln Lee’s continued integration into the weird little family unit:

Pinkner: “It will be more of the same [going forward]. There are now two of them, and he’s now part of the team. He’s not being pushed out of the team by Peter’s presence. He continues to serve a very valuable role. Operating under all of this from the beginning is [the fact] that all of these characters, who don’t belong anywhere, have all formed this family within Fringe division. And Lincoln, on their side, stated that he’s never felt like he belonged, and he’s found people he’s connected with. The show has always been a complicated, complex family drama masquerading as a science-fiction procedural show. And Lincoln’s now part of the family.”

The producers also seem excited by the prospect of “dimensionalizing” Nina Sharp, who has, on the whole, lost some of that initial luster. Wyman promises both the character and Massive Dynamic will regrow their ‘teeth’, while Pinkner hints that the “surprises will keep coming” now that we know she’s been secretly dosing Olivia with Cortexiphan.

In the interview they also mention putting obstacles in Olivia and Peter’s path to make it all the more squee-worthy (before their inevitable reunion). However, the new-fangled timeline that some fans have a hard time swallowing? “For now, we’re going to stick to where we are. But it’s going to lead to other things,” Wyman notes.

Source: EW

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