Fringe Season 5 Soundtrack Available On iTunes

While the release of the Fringe Season 5 Soundtrack CD (do people still buy CDs?) is still over a week away (June 25), the entire album is available for download on iTunes for $9.99. The 24 tracks can also be purchased individually for 99¢ each.

Official Description:

FRINGE — the supernatural sci-fi crime drama from J.J. Abrams — is back for its fifth and final spellbinding season. The year is 2036. The Observers have become ruthless rulers, limiting free will and speech, and are slowly poisoning Earth’s atmosphere so that only their own kind can survive. All is not lost, however. A series of videotapes, preserved in amber, hold detailed plans for overthrowing the Observers and restoring the planet and its people. The Fringe team will undertake the most important mission of all time: retrieve the tapes, follow their clues, decipher the code, and prepare for the battle to save humanity. Join Fringe scientist Walter Bishop, FBI agent Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop, and Olivia and Peter’s now-grown daughter, Henrietta, for 13 episodes filled with struggles, surprises and sacrifices in this explosive and emotional final season.

Composer Chris Tilton hangs on to the FRINGE musical reins for the series’ epic finale and delivers some of his finest and most dramatic scoring yet.

Win Fringe Season 5 on Blu-ray!

To celebrate the release of Fringe: The Complete Fifth And Final Season on DVD and Blu-ray, Warner Bros. is having a sweepstakes, giving away a Lenovo Yoga 11 tablet/computer and 15 copies of Fringe Season 5 on Blu-ray.

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Fringe Season 5 Now Available on Blu-ray and DVD

"The Complete Fifth And Final Season of Fringe" is now avaiable!

The DVD version is currently priced at $22.99 (list price $39.98) and the Blu-ray version is $27.99 (list price $49.99)!

Also, if you join Amazon Prime, you can watch Fringe Season 1, 2, 3, and 4 for FREE using Amazon Instant Video, plus you get:

• FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items
• No minimum order size
• Unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows with Prime Instant Videos
• A Kindle book to borrow for free each month from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library

Best Buy is also matching Amazon's prices today for both the Blu-ray and DVD.

The extras on the Blu-ray version include:

• Audio Commentary: Executive producer J.H. Wyman and editor Jon Dudkowski deliver a serviceable overview of "Black Blotter" and the series' run, touching on bits and pieces of the rest of the season as well. Unfortunately, The Complete Fifth and Final Season is somewhere in the neighborhood of twelve commentaries too short. It would have been far more exciting to have at least one commentary per episode and to hear from more of the cast and crew.
• A Farewell to Fringe (HD, 21 minutes): Series creator/executive producer J.J. Abrams, executive producer J.H. Wyman, co-executive producer David Fury, and actors John Noble, Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole and Lance Reddick reminisce about the series' early days, five season run, and dramatic conclusion, intercut with behind-the-scenes footage, archive interviews, clips from the show and a look at the filming of the finale.
• Season 5 Comic-Con Panel (HD, 29 minutes): TV Guide's Damian Holbrook hosts a Q&A session with Wyman, Noble, Torv, Jackson, Nicole and Reddick at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con. Stories, laughs and even a few tears ensue.
• Dissected Files (HD, 2 minutes): Two trivial deleted scenes: "Walter's Brain" and "Observer in the Closet."
• Gag Reel (HD, 2 minutes): Standard outtake fare.
• Finale Script (HD)

Fringe Observiews 5.13 An Enemy Of Fate

Welcome to the Observiews for Season 5 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews, if that makes sense.
Screen caps from this episode are taken from fringefiles.com. Dialog is from fringepedia.net.

All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

2.17 White Tulip
WALTER: "I, too, attempted the unimaginable, and I succeeded. I crossed into another universe, and took a son that wasn't mine. And since then, not a day has passed without me feeling the burden of that act. You don't know how things will be changed by your actions, but they will. It's not our place to adjust the universe.  And you will never be able to look at her again without knowing that, just like every time I look at my son. I have traveled through madness to figure this out."

3.22 The Day We Died
WALTER: "Truly, if I could go back in time and change things, I would. I would give anything to be able to go back and make different choices."

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Fringe Observiews 5.12 Liberty

Welcome to the Observiews for Season 5 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews, if that makes sense.
Screen caps from this episode are taken from fringefiles.com. Dialog is from fringepedia.net.

All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

4.22 Brave New World Part 2
WALTER: "Due to the intense energy utilization, Cortexiphan levels in the body should be almost negligible. Meaning that she won't be able to run around setting things on fire or doing superhuman things. The treatments did leave a biological signature, so I suppose some abilities could one day emerge."

Oh yeah!

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Pre-order Fringe Season 5

"The Complete Fifth And Final Season of Fringe" is now avaiable for Pre-order on Amazon.com for the release date is May 7, 2013.

The DVD version is currently priced at $27.99 (list price $39.98) and the Blu-ray version is $34.99 (list price $49.99) - but with Amazon's "Pre-order Price Guarantee", if the Amazon.com price decreases between your order time and the end of the day of the release date, you'll receive the lowest price automatically, , and you don't get charged until it ships!

Either edition will qualify for free shipping, and Amazon generally ships DVDs and Blu-rays early, so you can get them on the release date.

Also, if you join Amazon Prime, you can watch Fringe Season 1, 2, 3, and 4 for FREE using Amazon Instant Video, plus you get:

• FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items
• No minimum order size
• Unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows with Prime Instant Videos
• A Kindle book to borrow for free each month from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library

FRiNGEcasting podcast for ep 512 and 513 Series Finale

FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan podcast: 

Listen here for episode #115 of the FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan podcast! Wayne and Dan discuss the FRiNGE Series Finale 512 and 513 "Liberty" and "Enemy of Fate", and share a ton of excellent listener feedback from the FRiNGEcasting listener community.

Listener feedback voicemail: Call (904) 469-7469 or use the voicemail button at FRiNGEcastingPodcast.com

If your business or website needs voice-overs, I'd love the opportunity to work with you! Details at MediaVoiceOvers.com.

Fringe Observiews 5.11 The Boy Must Live

Welcome to the Observiews for Season 5 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews, if that makes sense.
Screen caps from this episode are taken from fringefiles.com. Dialog is from fringepedia.net.

All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

5.01 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11

CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "Ah, you're trying to think of music. You miss music."
WALTER: "There's not a lot of it here."
CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "We tolerate it. But it's merely tones, rhythms, and harmonic vibrations I don't understand."
WALTER: "Mostly it amazes me. Music helps you shift perspective, to see things differently if you need to."
CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "See things? Like hope?"
WALTER: "Yeah. Very much like that."
CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "But there is no hope... for you."

For one, Captain Windmark, I think you are underestimating the Bishops and two, this scene entails a theme that was present in the current episode. 

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Fringe Review: An Enemy of Fate

“Because it’s cool.”

I suppose there could be a group of people who found this finale unsatisfying. And I can’t fault them for that, since they likely take issue with it for the same reason I found Season Four troubling. But I hope that most—even all—people felt as I did: that this show ended well, ended with dignity, and it did so with more optimism than I expected, and more beauty than I’d hoped.

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Fringe Review: Liberty

“Sacrifice is hard, son. But you’re no stranger to it.”

If we imagine a plot as the movement of individual scenes and chapters from A to Z, “Liberty” is entirely unnecessary in the larger scheme—a letter our alphabet doesn’t need, like “ll.” A brief tangent, brought about by Michael’s unexplained exit from the monorail: by the end of this episode, the situation has more or less returned to what it was at the end of the previous episode. More or less.

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Fringe Series Finale: "Liberty" & "An Enemy Of Fate"

Happy Final Fringe Friday!

THE THRILLING WORLDS OF “FRINGE” COME TO A MIND-BLOWING END ON THE TWO-HOUR SERIES FINALE
The acclaimed series that has explored the human condition through the prism of parallel universes, unexplainable phenomena and unimaginable threats, reaches a milestone 100th episode and comes to an epic and climatic conclusion. First, the Fringe team engages a desperate plan as Olivia embarks on a dangerous and otherworldly journey into the unknown. Then, Peter, Olivia, Walter, Astrid and Broyles face off against the Observers in one final and extraordinary battle for the fate of mankind.

Don't forget tonight's 2-hour event starts ONE HOUR EARLY at 8/7c!

During tonight's episodes, help promote Fringe by tweeting about the episode using this week's hashmark #KeepLookingUp (Wait until 7pm, and don't use any other #hashtags! - plus please add the word Fringe (without a #) into your tweet.)

While you are on Twitter, keep your eye out for live tweeting by:

• Fringe editor Ari Margolis (@jonxproductions)
• Fringe executive producer Joel Wyman (@jwfringe) 
• Plus other fringe cast and crew???

Also, don't forget to check OUT our LIVE Fringe Chat Room, and check-IN to Fringe at GetGlue to get this week's Fringe sticker.

After the episode airs, continue the discussion here in the comments, and get more Fringe information at the:

• "Liberty" episode page on Fringepedia / Transcript
• "Liberty" screenshot gallery at FringeFiles
• "Liberty" promotional photos at FringeFiles
• "An Enemy Of Fate" episode page on Fringepedia / Transcript
• "An Enemy Of Fate" screenshot gallery at FringeFiles
• "An Enemy Of Fate" promotional photos at FringeFiles

Check back here soon for Observer sightings, Glyph codes, and other Fringe Easter Eggs.

How do you rate the Fringe episode "Liberty"?

How do you rate the Fringe episode "An Enemy Of Fate"?

Fringe Noble Intentions: "The Boy Must Live"

John Noble discusses Walter's relationship with Peter and September in the Fringe episode "The Boy Must Live" for the latest episode of Noble Intentions.

FRiNGEcasting podcast for ep 511 The Boy Must Live

FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan podcast: 

Listen here for episode #114 of the FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan podcast! Wayne and Dan give their reactions and theories for FRiNGE 511 "The Boy Must Live", and share some excellent listener feedback from the FRiNGEcasting listener community.

Listener feedback voicemail: Call (904) 469-7469 or use the voicemail button at FRiNGEcastingPodcast.com

If your business or website needs voice-overs, I'd love the opportunity to work with you! Details at MediaVoiceOvers.com.

Fringe Review: The Boy Must Live

“I’m optimistic.”

I’m not sure what to say about this, the antepenultimate episode of Fringe. (If I’m reading the Internet correctly, next week will be two episodes aired back-to-back rather than one long episode.) I am past the point of wanting to evaluate the show—to point out its strengths and weaknesses, to quibble or to praise. I’m a fan of Fringe, and I doubt that will change in the next seven days.

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Fringe 512/513 Preview: "Liberty" & "An Enemy Of Fate"

Here is the preview from the end of "The Boy Must Live" for the Fringe 2-part SERIES FINALE episode "Liberty" & "An Enemy Of Fate", which airs ONE HOUR EARLY on FRIDAY, January 18th at 8:00PM on FOX.

Screenshots from this preview can be viewed at FringeFiles.com.

Fringe Review/Analysis 5.11: The Boy Must Live - Preparing to Let Go

Rich in answers, this episode is truly the mythology follower's dream. Another winner written by Graham Roland (Five -Twenty - Ten)http this season, HERE is where the climax of Wyman’s love letter to the fans starts to culminate for those with patience. Walter’s plan, its implications, its meaning to the show and characters, and connection to the past, are all discussed. It also brings us the most touching scene between Walter and Peter in the entire series. Yet, given what we learn in this part of the story, surely there is more to come.

The Plan… Exposed?

So, I think that I enjoyed watching Peter laser amber just a bit too much. Loved the safety goggles, but boy, did he jump at the headlights going by the lab… Even more so when he thought someone was in the lab with him. The funny thing is Walter just stood there –didn’t flinch—then the two trade excuses for being up. Aw, the life of fugitives.

After having a good laugh at Walter’s insistence of going skinny dipping in the old tank—and poor Olivia’s not-so-amused-reaction reminiscent of a scene we’ve seen before—it doesn’t take long for the team to obtain the information they need and for the action to get rolling. Why did it amuse me that Donald lives under a bridge? Maybe it is because bridges have always been important in the show—the most prevalent being the one in The Man from the Other Side and the bridge between universes. They even appear in the small set details such as pictures hanging on a wall. Fringe has also been big on using rainbows which are kind considered as a type of bridge in some mythologies, and they symbolize hope, forgiveness and promise. I am sure that we will see some kind of rainbow before the end of the series.

Windmark’s journey into the future literally took my breath away for a moment and gave me a smile – “Oh, cool.” Though I was expecting the Cobra, er.. I mean Observer commander to be someone really amazing, and maybe someone we’ve seen before…  Darn. I found it funny that the fugitives were of no consequence to him, but Windmark was about to pop a cork.

“It should not exist."

 "But someone ensured its survival. Because they thought it was important.”

Wow. If we go back to August, that particular Observer fell in love with a woman he had watched since she was a little girl, altering her destiny. The “insignificant” was made significant.

Peter was brought back from his state of non-existence due to the people who cared for him not letting go him.

We’ve wondered why the Observers just didn’t go back and stop Walter from being born or something, but here, we have learned that they just can’t change stuff willy-nilly

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We also now know why there are no female Observers. Women have the reputation for being too emotional, for one thing. Plus, who needs a hormonal womb on two legs when you can grow people to specification in a tank, like the decanting room in Huxley’s Brave New World? Complete with its own Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning? Ew…

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Fringe Glyph Code 511: "The Boy Must Live"

The Glyphs code in the Fringe episode "The Boy Must Live" spelled out GRACE, like how the Observer boy will be their saving grace.

For more information on the Fringe Glyphs, check out Fringepedia's Glyph / Symbols page, which has all the previous glyphs and codes.

Fringe Episode 511: "The Boy Must Live"

Happy Penultimate Fringe Friday!

TIME TO SAVE THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT
As time dramatically ticks down toward the end of this acclaimed series, Peter, Olivia and Walter stop at nothing to save the universe from Observer rule. Walter enters the infamous deprivation tank in an attempt to uncover a key piece of information about the mysterious figure, Donald. Meanwhile, Captain Windmark sets out on a revealing mission of his own as long-standing questions are answered.

During tonight's episode, help promote Fringe by tweeting about the episode using this week's hashmark #NeverLetGo (Wait until 8pm, and don't use any other #hashtags! - plus please add the word Fringe (without a #) into your tweet.)

While you are on Twitter, keep your eye out for live tweeting by:

• Fringe editor Ari Margolis (@jonxproductions)
• Fringe executive producer Joel Wyman (@jwfringe) 
• Plus other fringe cast and crew???

Also, don't forget to check OUT our LIVE Fringe Chat Room, and check-IN to Fringe at GetGlue to get this week's Fringe sticker.

After the episode airs, continue the discussion here in the comments, and get more Fringe information at the:

• Episode page on Fringepedia
• Transcript on Fringepedia
• Screenshot gallery at FringeFiles
• Promotional photos at FringeFiles

Check back here soon for Observer sightings, Glyph codes, and other Fringe Easter Eggs.

How do you rate the Fringe episode "The Boy Must Live"?

FRiNGEcasting podcast for ep 510 Anomaly XB-6783746

FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan podcast: 

Listen here for episode #113 of the FRiNGEcasting With Wayne And Dan podcast! Wayne and Dan give their reactions and theories for FRiNGE 510 "Anomaly XB-6783746", and share some excellent listener feedback from the FRiNGEcasting listener community.

Listener feedback voicemail: Call (904) 469-7469 or use the voicemail button at FRiNGEcastingPodcast.com

If your business or website needs voice-overs, I'd love the opportunity to work with you! Details at MediaVoiceOvers.com.

Fringe Observiews 5.10 Anomaly XB-6783746

Welcome to the Observiews for Season 5 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews, if that makes sense.
Screen caps from this episode are taken from fringefiles.com. Dialog is from fringepedia.net.

All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

2.17 White Tulip 
ALISTAIR PECK: "Those people aren't dead, Miss. Not permanently."
OLIVIA: "Of course they're dead."
ALISTAIR PECK: "But they soon won't be. Although, others soon will be, I'm afraid."

... Or I have to believe that no one (with a few exceptions) is really dead on Fringe. I'll explain in a bit.

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