Psychic Shot In The Dark: Massive Dynamic

Fox has consulted again with Madame Reginah to ask her about what is going to happen with Massive Dynamic. This video is almost the same as Psychic Spoiler Alert videos released last month. There's also videos like this for Glee and Bones, so I think this is a way for Fox promoting this shows.

Fringe Symbol / Glyph T-Shirts

Just in time for Christmas, I've added some Fringe Symbol / Glyph t-shirts to the FringeTelevision store. They are available in men's and women's tees, hoodies, and organic tees. The original Massive Dynamic design is also still available.

To ensure delivery before Christmas, orders must be placed before December 18, Midnight EST.

Happy Holidays From Massive Dynamic

Massive Dynamic sent out the following holiday card:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
from the entire Massive Dynamic family!
We wish you and yours a joyful holiday season,
with peace, prosperity, and progress in the New Year.
We plan to make this one even better than the last.
MASSIVE DYNAMIC

There doesn't appear to be any hidden messages in the email, and there haven't been any major changes to MassiveDynamic.com, so it just looks like a little holiday spirit from William Bell, Nina Sharp, and everyone else over at Massive Dynamic!

If you're not on the Massive Dynamic mailing list, click here to sign up.

Massive Dynamic Shirts

Just in time for the Holidays, I've created some Massive Dynamic shirts. Show your support for everyone's favorite multi-national corporation specializing in secret bio-research and defense contracting (and for FringeTelevision).

As a bonus, Spreadshirt is having a sale until Friday: Receive 20% off when you buy 2 products
(USD$: BUYMORE8 / CAD$: CADBUYMORE8), or Receive 25% off when you buy 3 products
(USD$: BUYMORE9 / CAD$: CADBUYMORE9).

Hurry, before Nina Sharp and her goons shut the whole operation down!

Massive Dynamic Email

Massive Dynamic has begun sending out emails in response to filling out the Contact Us form on MassiveDynamic.com. The email, titled "Your Communication With Massive Dynamic," comes from massive@massivedynamic.com and legal@massivedynamic.com.

It's not much, but it just may be the start of something new. I think it is no coincidence that these emails are going out the day after Fringe got picked up for a full season. Bring on the ARG!

MassiveDynamic.com site now LIVE!

The FRINGE viral website for Massive Dynamic launched today. The site is HUGE, and reminds me of The Lost Experience's Hanso Foundation website - with lots of information and sections to check out.

The site is broken into five main sections: Aerospace & Transportation, Biological & Medical, Computing & Communications, Energy & Environment, and Life & Leisure.

There's sure to be more there than meets the eye, so check it out, and let us know what you find!

News Update: J.J. Abrams, Blair Brown & Remote Free TV

Advertising Age - 'Remote-Free TV' Debuts With Fox's 'Fringe':

Fox's gambit will let the method stand for an entire season's run of programs. A mock "Remote-Free TV" version of "Fringe" reviewed by Advertising Age doesn't break for an ad until the episode runs for 16 minutes. Only one ad appears. The next break comes at 32 minutes into the program, with two ads. A third break, at 39 minutes, contains two ads and a single promo for a Fox show. Breaks grow more frequent the longer the show goes on; presumably, viewers who have stuck with the plot this deep into the episode will want to stick around and see how the stories end. No ad break contains more than two commercials.

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Hollywood.com - Five Questions for 'Fringe' Creator JJ Abrams:

Hollywood.com: Can you shed some light on Blair Brown’s character [Nina Sharp]?

J.J. Abrams: In the shows that we’ve been working on since the pilot, too, the question of sort of, you know, is she to be trusted? Is she good or bad? She’s sort of the kind of like guru character. She is sort of this amazing font of information and I think that the fun about who she is and what she is obviously will reveal itself as the show goes on, but what I love is the ambiguity of her character, that you think from the beginning this Massive Dynamic company sort of looks like, oh, it’s the big bad conspiracy company, but you start to get a different taste of that as the thing goes on.

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News Update: JJ Is On The Phone. Which One? Both. Also, Mark Valley Part 1

Joshua Jackson and J.J. Abrams are on the phone with reporters, and Mark Valley, exclusively, and in 2 parts.

New York Post - J.J. Abrams Talks Big Business:

Despite the clear prevalence of a corporate conspiracy in the pilot of "Fringe," Abrams downplays it's role in the series over the long run.

"It's much more about the characters than a cliché look at corporate culture," he says, adding: "That said, I don't trust corporate culture at all."

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Reuters - JJ Abrams offers terrifying sci-fi on TV's "Fringe":

The terrifying thing, says J.J. Abrams, creator of the upcoming TV series "Fringe", is that those tomorrows are now within reach.

"The show is coming out a time when every week we read or see some kind of potentially horrifying scientific breakthrough ... We are at a time where science is out of control," Abrams told reporters in a conference call on Thursday.

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The Mayor of Television - Beyond the "Fringe":

Romance may be in the air for Peter and Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), the FBI agent drawn into a world of scientific horrors. There's chemistry between the two in the pilot, which airs Tuesday, but, as Jackson drolly noted, "It would be ... awkward to hit on a woman while her boyfriend's dying right in front of her."

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BuddyTV - Exclusive Interview: Mark Valley, from 'Fringe' - Part 1:

When you first read that pilot script, what was your reaction?

Mark Valley: I was compelled. It was very engaging. I just couldn't put it down. And I had read other scripts for television shows about science fiction things, you know, some of the usual suspects there which makes for, you know, kind of a mediocre read. But this one, for some reason, the way it delved into the characters [John Scott], the unique aspect of the cases they're investigating, the way the characters interacted - I couldn't put it down, I had to find out what was going on. It was one of those things. It was a real page turner. I said “Well, if I like it, then other people are going like it.” Also it was the only job that was offered to me at that particular time. I'm not going to go on about all these wonderful things that drew me to the pilot - the fact that I was unemployed was the most contributing factor...

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Fringe Preview Comic: Massive Dynamic Ad

A FRINGE Preview comic was given out at Comic-con, containing a Massive Dynamic ad, profiles of the characters in Fringe, and a prequel to the six-part comic series that goes on sale August 27th.

I have scanned in the entire 16-page comic, and will post the various sections. Here is the Massive Dynamic ad from the inside-front cover. The Massive Dynamic slogan reads "What Do We Do? What Don't We Do.", with a boy flying a toy plane, under a Massive Dynamic jet (Flight 627?) leaving contrails (chemtrails?) in the sky.


The copy at the bottom of the ad reads: [This is an advertis]ment for the Massive Dynamic Corporation. The image and text do not reflect the views of the Billboard rental company or its Affiliates. For more information regarding Massive Dynamic or Billboard rental policy please contact our head office.

The billboard can be seen briefly in the pilot, as Olivia, Peter, and Walter are leaving St. Claire's hospital.

Massive Dynamics: Updating Our Website. Updating Your Life.

The suspected Fringe related domain MassiveDynamic.com--previously under construction--has gone live with a rotating Massive Dynamics logo and the message/slogan: "Updating Our Website. Updating Your Life."

Clicking on the rotating logo plays a short bit of music that might be described as Massive Dynamics' instrumental jingle?



Also, Apopheniac79 in Unfiction asks an interesting question:

...can anyone make our what is being reflected in the logo? It looks as if though it is reflecting a room or something of that sort, not just some generic reflection pattern.

Thanks to reader tallone for the tip, and Fringepedia.net for the MD Logo.

Of Fringe ARG's, Bad Robot, Experiences & Expectations and Massive Dynamics

In a nutshell, Massive Dynamics may or may not be the bad guys. Formerly Prometheus Corp. according to early script reviewers, Massive Dynamics is a multi-billion dollar high-tech company that exists in the Fringe universe. Massive Dynamics was founded by Dr. William Bell (former partner of Dr. Walter Bishop).

Massive Dynamics' slogan is:

What do we do? . . . What don't we do.

Reviewers of the leaked pilot (without getting too specific) paint Massive Dynamics as a manufacturer of modern miracles, a shadowy, mysterious, all-powerful corporation and secretive defense contractor with hidden agendas, connections to "the pattern", etc.

What makes Massive Dynamics of special interest to online fans of Fringe is Bad Robot's track record of using fictional business entities--The Hanso Foundation and Tagurato Corp. for example--as vehicles to blur the line between reality and the fictions of the Lost and Cloverfield universes. Although often referred to as Alternate Reality Games, or ARGs, what Bad Robot has done with the web doesn't quite meet the definition of ARG since they've yet to award anyone a prize. Instead, Bad Robot has treated the internet as a bridge between universes by casting the internet, our internet, to play itself in these fictional alternate realities.

Is there an ARExperience planned for Fringe? Will JJ Abrams & Co. (and FOX) surprise the fans a full fledged ARG? Has the Fringe universe already hatched a website or video or posting just waiting to be found? It's anyone's guess, but Abrams fans experienced in the art of finding online portals to Bad Robot's television and movie productions will tell you that Massive Dynamics is a good place to start looking.