Amazon Lists The Complete Fourth Season of Fringe on DVD & Blu-ray for Pre-Order

It's a great feeling when Amazon.com lists the previous season of Fringe available for pre-order!
According to Amazon, both the DVD and Blu-ray versions will be available on September 4th, 2012, which is 17 days before the Season 5 premiere date.
But tread cautiously, as last year fans were promised an earlier release like this only to have it show up just days before Season 4 began. Regardless, it's good news, and there's no time like the present to get ordered-up. The DVD set is priced at $41.99 and the Blu-Ray set at $48.99.

Pre-order your Fringe Season 4 DVD set here.
Pre-order your Fringe Season 4 Blu-ray set here.

SFX: 20 Things We Love About Fringe

Jayne Nelson of SFX explains why Fringe Division is the best in its league…

It’s the show that plays fast and loose with the laws of physics, the laws of gravity and just about every other scientific law there is. Professor Brian Cox [think Bill Nye] would not approve . But if you take off your lab coat, put your feet up on the sofa and forget scientific accuracy, Fringe is one of the most brilliantly-imagined fantasy dramas to come along in ages – it even has parallel universes to choose from!

Here is the list of 20 things SFX loves about Fringe:

1. It’s The New X-Files
2. Walter/Walternate
3. The Concept
4. There’s A Cow In It
5. Peter Bishop
6. Our First Glimpse Of The Twin Towers
7. Nina Sharp’s Hair
8. The Opening Credits
9. The Observers
10. Blink And You Miss ’Em Gags
11. Fauxlivia
12. It’s What's-her-name!
13. The Episode “Peter”
14. Lincoln Lee
15. Will They/Won’t They/They Did/Except Not Really
16. Alternate Broyles
17. Strange Deaths
18. Amber 31422
19. They Expect You To Keep Up
20. The Big Giant Words

Read the full article at SFX for complete breakdown.

Fringe: Fight the Future Intro with Breakdown

Fringe: Fight the Future Intro with Breakdown


 
This beautiful new video on Vimeo was linked on Twitter today.
Andrew Kramer, who created this video is responsible for the new title sequence in this past Friday's episode 419, "Letters Of Transit."

'Fringe': Josh Jackson and John Noble talk Season 5 and the Peter and Walter dynamic

'Fringe': Josh Jackson and John Noble talk Season 5 and the Peter and Walter dynamic
By Carina Adly MacKenzie

April 13, 2012 4:36 PM ET

"Fringe" fans are used to seeing the dynamic between our favorite characters shift suddenly and dramatically -- and while it's always fun to explore new versions of old friends, we've found ourselves missing that old banter between Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Walter (John Noble) this season.

"We had to fight to get the old dynamic back," Noble told Zap2it when we caught up with him at the opening of Warner Bros' Television Out Of The Box exhibit at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills. "As characters, and as people, because Josh and I love playing it."

Now that Peter knows he's been home this entire time and that Walter and Olivia are his Walter and Olivia, Jackson tells us that Peter will continue to grow more comfortable with his father. "So far as Peter's concerned, these are all his people now. All of the barriers between Peter and Walter should then be removed," Jackson says. "Even though Walter has to come out of his shell, still, a little bit, there's no reason for that father-son love to not be there. It's not the central portion of our story toward the end of the season, but he and I love doing it, and it's a good portion of the story."

"The payoff is really there at the end of the season," Noble says, promising a more familiar relationship between father and son. "You do see that again."

Speaking of fathers and sons -- Jackson promises that fans are about to see the fall-out from the revelation that Peter had a son. "You're about to find out," he teases, with a very sly look on his face. (Seriously, just watch the video below.) You won't want to miss tonight's new episode at 9 p.m. EST on FOX.

Fans are anxiously awaiting news as to whether "Fringe" will be returning after this year for Season 5. "There are a lot of warm and fuzzy feelings out there, between us and FOX," Noble says. "I know that the FOX executives love the show. It's just a matter of business, and it's very close, because we're an expensive show."

Read Carina's entire Zap2it post here.

Fringe Review: Everything in Its Right Place

“That’s the difference between us.”

In “Neither Here Nor There,” Olivia said, “I know what it’s like to have a hole in my life. It’s been there as long as I can remember.” That hole is now fixed, as Olivia has rediscovered herself and Peter along with it. But without that hole, Olivia can no longer connect with Lincoln Tyrone Lee. They don’t share the same language of loneliness anymore, and Olivia doesn’t even remember that she used to speak it.

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Fringe Review: Nothing As It Seems

“It is either a miracle, or an accident.”

The Fringe showrunners have said that this season is a love letter to the show, and this episode’s extended callback to Season One’s “The Transformation” didn’t just revamp an old story, but complicated it, and extended it. It also shows just how far this show has come in terms of both individual scenes and larger ideas: “The Transformation” was a weak episode of a show that was finding its footing. “Nothing As It Seems” is a strong episode that plays on many, if not all, of a mature show’s strengths, including a delightful willingness to mix humor and pathos.

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Fringe Review: Welcome to Westfield

“You folks lost?”
“Not that I’m aware of.”

This is an episode that could have gone either way: horribly disappointing or deeply satisfying. Standalones and trapped-in-a-town narratives can provide a welcome relief from an overarching mythology, or a frustrating sense that the writers are dragging their feet. Somehow, “Welcome to Westfield” didn’t have either of those results at all: the standalone elements were so evocative of so many other episodes, and the final surprise was so darn exciting that the relief I felt wasn’t at the break from the mythos, but at the sense that we are finally, finally getting somewhere.

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Fringe Review: “Forced Perspective”

“Do you believe in fate?”

Forced perspective manipulates a viewer’s perception to create a visual illusion. Fringe, however, likely isn’t referring to a tourist’s snapshot of her boyfriend holding up the leaning tower of Pisa. Rather, Fringe is referring to three specific ways of grappling with both the freak-of-the-week plot and the larger thematic issues of Season Four:

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Fringe Rewatch 402:One Night In October

Join us during the fall/winter break every Friday for our Fringe Winter Rewatch.

Episode 402, titled 'One Night In October' is my favorite Season 4 episode to date.
Ironically, it aired on 09/30/11. (It would have been cute if it had aired on one night in October.)

The Importance Of A Second Episode

Season 4 starts off with a look into the new timeline (milestanfield, I hope you don't mind if I borrow your abbreviation of the 'new timeline,' 'NTL,' and use it here) through the Blue Universe's Lincoln Lee's eyes.

I remember commenting on episode 102, 'The Same Old Story,' this past summer how important a second episode is to a new series. Well, the same goes for Season 4, which executive producers Pinkner and Wyman have mentioned in an interview is like a new series, especially for new fans just tuning in for the first time.

Just like 102, episode 402, 'One Night In October' has the monumentous task of giving us new, critical insight into our beloved characters, and propeling the storyline in a forward direction. And while it is obvious within the first few minutes that 402 was not written by the Pinkner/Abrams/Kurtzman/Orci team, I do give writers Alison Schapker and Monica Owusu-Breen praise for writing this brilliant episode, and I may finally forgive them for writing that depressing, garden, P/O scene in 'Marionette.'

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Fringe Episode Review - 4.07

Wallflower

The Need To Be Seen

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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

George Moore

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Timing is so important.  One can take all the proper steps for THE big date; be dressed to the nines, bring a big bouquet of roses, and a box of chocolates but if you show up at the wrong time all your preparatory work can go for naught.

How many refills is this?

Such is the fate of, ‘Wallflower.’  It came on the heels of the previous fantastic installment, ‘And Those We’ve Left Behind.’ Tough enough.  But then to become the unintentional Fall Finale, due to the pushing out of the airing schedule by one week because of baseball’s World Series, is truly a cruel twist of fate.

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