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Hello FringeFans!
This post is dedicated to all the other Fringe fanatics out there. This may also be a good post for people who haven't yet started watching Fringe and need a little reminder of its awesomeness! Maybe the pics and Quotes and Reviews can convince you to give it a try.
I will update this post with new videos, set photos, animations, new episode reviews etc. Feel free to add Quotes, Animations, news, pics, links or other Fringe related stuff :)
That being said I hope you enjoy this post and get your friends and family to watch Fringe too.
Personally i can honestly say that Fringe is my favourite new show this year. I guess I wouldn't be saying that if I hadn't watched episodes 1-16 all in a row. It must have been pretty hard for everybody who started watching Fringe from the beginning to keep track of the show since it had this huge breaks and went back on air for like 2 episodes just to get on a break again.
CONTENT
Fringe - The Story, Reviews, my personaly thoughts
Fringe - The Characters/The Cast
The Fringe Symbols
The Observer
The Episodes 1-10 / 11-17 / 18-20
Episode Stills
Photoshoots
Appearances
Behind the scenes
Videos
Links
Fanarts
With its paranormal occurrences, ever-autumn aesthetic, extraneous flashlight use at crime scenes, odd bursts of humor, and constant friction between faith and doubt, Fox's new sci-fi serial Fringe just might be a worthy successor - finally - to The X-Files.
FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Australian actress Anna Torv) is investigating something called the Pattern: a series of worldwide unexplainable phenomena, such as toxins that dissolve people's skin, or a battalion of insta-soldiers designed to grow from newborn to fighting age in three years. Joining Olivia - whose recently deceased lover was somehow linked to the Patternity- - is sarcastic young genius Peter Bishop (Dawson's Creek's Joshua Jackson). The reluctant Bishop has been recruited to watchdog his loopy, mad fringe-scientist dad, Walter (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's John Noble), who has spent the last 17 years in a mental hospital.
entertainment weekly
And as pilots go, this one is sensational, an artful, suspenseful mix of horror, science fiction, layered conspiracies and extended car chases. “Fringe” sets out to stretch the boundaries of conventional network series. So did “Lost” when it began in 2004, but that ABC show was unlike any other drama in recent memory: characters stranded on a tropical island seemingly stalked by unknown and perhaps paranormal forces.
The pilot is so packed with showy special effects and spiraling plot twists that it’s hard to tell whether subsequent episodes can live up to its premise. The paranormal can pall, but actually it’s not the fringe science that is hard to swallow - it’s the fringe bureaucracy. Viewers are asked to believe many implausible things, including state-of-the-art technological efficiency at Logan International Airport in Boston. The Department of Homeland Security allows a young F.B.I. agent to investigate a case almost single-handedly that involves weapons of mass destruction. She pursues bizarre leads and cuts through red tape, waving the Patriot Act with almost no supervision or backup.
Fortunately, the lead characters are more carefully drawn, and the casting displays imagination. Anna Torv, an Australian actress, plays Special Agent Olivia Dunham, a former investigator for the Marines now assigned to interagency liaison work. Ms. Torv is gorgeous, of course, but not in the usual television über-babe style. She has a delicate, changeable beauty, more like Cate Blanchett than Pamela Anderson. When a colleague tells Olivia after a harrowing day that she looks terrible, she at least looks a little pale, and her hair is messy.
After Olivia’s partner, and secret lover, John Scott (Mark Valley), is critically and, it should be said, hideously wounded by another unknown chemical compound, Olivia is highly motivated to find the culprit and a cure.
Her searches lead to Dr. Walter Bishop, played with finesse by John Noble (“The Lord of the Rings”). Bishop was once a brilliant, heretical research scientist and a leading expert on flesh-eating substances. Unfortunately, he has spent the last 17 years locked up in a mental hospital (messy lab mishap), and that drives Olivia to Bishop’s estranged son, Peter (Joshua Jackson, of “Dawson’s Creek”).
A brilliant ne’er-do-well, Peter has not spoken to his father in decades and has to be forced to cooperate. But quite soon Olivia, Peter and Dr. Bishop are in the scientist’s old basement lab at Harvard, racing to find an antidote that can save John’s life. (John is in an induced coma, covered in a translucent plastic film that makes him look like a life-size edition of the Visible Man anatomy dolls.)
The three have a pleasing, unusual chemistry. Bishop is nuts, and sometimes crazy like a fox. But Olivia trusts what is left of his scientific judgment and, with Peter’s reluctant help and frequent sarcastic asides, puts him to work on her behalf.
new york times
My personal thoughts:
I am enjoying it all. I love the characters and how each episode is build on a new mistery but still hides a clue for the whole story.
Then there is the father-son relationship between the Bishops and the undeniable chemistry between Olivia and Peter (i know it's nice to have a tv show that's not focused on a lovestory between the main characters but still i am a romantic person so i don't mind a few sparks between peter/olivia here and there...)
Walter can be very harsh but at the same time we can see the love he has for his son. The Bishops are both funny to watch. Peter on the one hand is very passionate, but scepitcal and naturally curious. Walter on the other hand is misterious and has a very dark past. We know now that he used humans including children for his researches, which is a really disturbing thought. For Walter there are no boundaries when it comes to science, but he seems to be realising his actions from the past and them being fundamentally wrong just in the lastest episodes. He has to struggle with that and I am already excited to find out more about his past. (Also i love his passion for food xD)
Olivia is like Peter very passionate, but definitely stronger (well at least psychically) than him ;) In "The inner Child" we saw her as a very concerned and caring woman, who seems to be strong but still very vulnerable. She also has a dark past and seems to be very conflicted...
random thought on JoshJackson/Peter:
Well I am a huge JJ Fan since DC ;D And i was thrilled reading the news that he was casted for a new tv show.
That said,
+ omg how long did i have to wait for josh jackson entering a scene with a hip hop song playing in the background. haha that was awesome!
+ Peter playing the piano! I play the piano myself and this was just a dream coming true!
+ Peter playing gee-gees with a little girl. how cute is that?!
random thoughts on Anna Torv:
I had my doupts in the beginning but i really like her now.
She kinda reminds me of an elf. she should have joined the lotr cast. Her pretty mouth, her astonishing eyes, the unique mouth plus her long blonde hair *sighs
reandom thoughts on Kirk Acevedo:
So first JJ joins the cast and then Kirk Acevedo? That guy is fantastic! I was such a fan of him in "The Black Donnellys! and he's kicking ass in fringe as well. soooo awesome!
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Fringe - The Characters/The Cast, The Fringe Symbols
The Episodes 1-10 / 11-17 / 18-20
Episode Stills, Photoshoots, Appearances, Behind the scenes, Videos, Links
First Update with new pics and videos
And for everyone who is interested: I've made some animations and icons and posted them over here:
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