Fringe Scenemaker 120: There's More Than One Of Everything

Scenemaker is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fringe. This episode shows the making of the crashing truck scene from the Fringe episode There's More Than One Of Everything.

You can watch previous episode's scenemaker videos here.

UPDATE: Here is the YouTube version for those outside of the US!

Fringebusters 120: Science of There's More Than One Of Everything

For each episode of Fringe, Popular Mechanics asks experts to analyzes the science of Fringe, and separate the science fact from the science fiction.

For "The Road Not Taken," PM brings in Michio Kaku, physicist and author of Physics of the Impossible, to discuss Alternate Reality theory. According to Kaku:

There are numerous theories in physic that pertain to the existence of parallel universes—and Fringe is combining two of these theories. The first, called the "Many Worlds Theory," is widely accepted by theoretical physicists. "The universe splits every time a decision is made," Kaku explains. "One tiny quantum event could separate us from another reality." In "M-theory," on the other hand, our universe is an expanding membrane, sort of like a bubble—and there could be other bubbles out there. "These other universes, these bubbles, most of them are probably dead universes, so we don't have to worry about them,"

PM: Fringe Season Finale Flirts With Theoretical Physics

You can read other "Fringebusters" posts here.

HijiNKS Ensue: A Severe Case Of Scullyosis

Joel Watson's HijiNKS Ensue webcomic takes on Peter's skepticism, and coins a new term "Scullyosis". LOL

* Thanks to Paul D for sending this in!

Walter's Lab Notes: There's More Than One Of Everything

Walter's Lab Notes from There's More Than One Of Everything include the missing ZFT chapter of ethics, and a drawing from a young Peter Bishop, depicting some sort of experiment with William "Belly" Bell, and what looks a cow...?

Walter's notes explain the presence of the blueprints in previous Lab Notes - together they form a golden spiral, and at the center something is hidden - a hole in the universe?

Also in the notes:

• The first quote "all mankind is of one author..." is from English poet John Donne's Meditation XVII, where the famous quote "No man is an island" comes from
  
• The second quote is from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, a "roman à clef" about mental illness
• The third quote is from The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe.
• S. S. Kresge refers to Sebastian Spering Kresge, a philanthropist best know for founding KMart. Kresge has many buildings named after him, including the Kresge building at Harvard, where Walter's Lab is located is in its basement.
• The final quote "No, 'tis not so deep as a well.." one of the final lines of Mercurtio from Act 3, Scene 1 of Romeo And Juliet.
  

All of Walter's Lab Notes from Season 1 can now also be found at FringeFiles.com

Fringe Episode Review: Season 1 Finale

Wow. What a way to end Fringe's sensational first season. In the tradition of the best television finales, There's More Than One Of Everything wrapped up a few mysteries, but asked twice as many questions. Major praise to Fringe vets Brad Anderson, Akiva Goldsman, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner, and JH Wyman for crafting a real thriller, as well as the entire cast and crew (that poor, New York crew...) for a stellar first season. When's the last time a series was this promising after a single season?

"Jones always felt that he was special..."
I doubt I'm the only fan who will sorely miss Jared Harris' delightfully villainous David Robert Jones next season, but at least he went out with a bang. The finale revealed that Jones was one of Massive Dynamic's first employees, that he looked up to Bell as a kind of father figure, and that his wreckless bioterrorism has been an attempt to prove his worthiness to Bell.

Of course, this tells us more about William Bell than it does about Jones. Up until last week, we'd been led to believe Dr. Bell was the Big Bad in charge of ZFT, but now it looks like Jones took things into his own hands. Walter and Nina might be right about Bell's benevolence, despite the mountainous evidence to the contrary.

"I lost something very precious to me..."

Well we can finally put the clone theories to bed. Turns out the Peter we know isn't from our world. Peter Prime died in 1985, so Walter crossed over to steal a different Peter from the AR (alternate reality). The obvious question: is AR-Walter searching for his own Peter? Could that be the doppelganger we saw in St. Claire's?

Also, how did Peter die? Walter's often referred to Peter's childhood sickness, so I suppose we can assume that did it, but was his sickness a result of something Walter did? Or a result of Peter's specialness?

"William Bell is not in this world."
How mind-blowing was this? Nina's lines weren't the most tactful, but the concept is killer. The narrative possibilities in upcoming seasons are...endless! According to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics (which Walter describes in The Road Not Taken), there isn't just one alternate reality, but an infinite number of them, based on every single causal possibility in space-time.

Which makes you wonder. What's so special about the AR Bell's hanging out in? Is it even the same one Olivia was glimpsing last week? I doubt it. And most importantly, is it the reality that the ZFT manifesto warns against? Our enemy in a trans-reality war?

I don't think so, but let's hear your theories in the comments. After all, the date on Bell's New York Post was May 12, 2009, and the ZFT manifesto warns against a reality "who's history is slightly advanced from our own.: My guess is that Bell's using this particular AR to accomplish something that will help us in the coming war against a different AR: the AR of the Observers.

Stray Thoughts

• Best Walterism of the Night: Wait...there weren't really any good ones this week!
• I absolutely loved Mr. Jones in this ep. He looked like a Batman supervillain.
• Given Walter's amnesia in this ep and others, is it possible someone deliberately tried to erase parts of his memory? Or do we chalk it all up to madness?
• Charlie's hat was great, as was his dogged pragmatism during all this alternate-reality talk.
• Nondescript black vans are always a bad omen, kids.
• Poor Boston. May 12th, and it's still the dead of winter! I know, I know...they shot this months ago.
• Anna was really beautiful this ep. Not that she isn't every week!
• President Kennedy's alive! Along with Len Bias! Yet the stock market is closed, and the White House was apparently destroyed. Are we to assume that Flight 93 hit its target in Bell's AR, but the planes headed for the WTC didn't? Could the Pattern experiments we saw on airplaines this season have been trial runs for preventing the Twin Towers' destruction in Bell's AR? I'm really stretching now...
• I could feel JJ cringing at the expositionary dialogue in this ep to catch up new viewers! A necessary evil.
• Give Michael Giacchino an Emmy for this score.
• Leonard Nimoy sure looked happy!

Adam Morgan is a writer for the page and screen in Chicago, who blogs pseudo-daily at Mount Helicon.

Jeff Pinkner: Alternate Realities On Fringe

Fox's Official Fringe website has a new video featuring Fringe Showrunner Jeff Pinkner explaining the Alternate Realities as seen in "There's More Than One Of Everything"

Fringe HD Screenshots for There's More Than One Of Everything

High-Definitions screenshots for Fringe: There's More Than One Of Everything are now available at FringeFiles.com

And if there's a screenshot you want to see that is not in the gallery, let us know in the Request A Screencap Thread.

An Evening With Alex Kurtzman & Robert Orci

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will join the Writers Guild Foundation in Los Angeles for a special evening honoring their work on Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30 pm. Kurtzman & Orci will talk about their careers and the projects that made them famous, and will take Q & A from the audience.

Tickets are available for $20, with discounts available for students and WGA members.

Visit the Writers Guild Foundation for complete details.

Fringe Promo Photos 120: There's More Than One Of Everything

Here are the promotional photos for Fringe episode 120 There's More Than One of Everything (for those that avoid the Fringe Spoilers section.)
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Fringe Episode 120: There's More Than One of Everything

Setting the stage for the dramatic and revealing first season finale are a sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David Robert Jones (guest star Jared Harris) and the inexplicable disappearance of Walter. Find out more about the mysterious events surrounding our trio when questions are answered, observations made, loyalties are tested and the elusive William Bell (guest star Nimoy) is finally introduced in the "There's More Than One of Everything" season finale episode of FRINGE.

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Don't forget to keep an eye out for The Observer and other Fringe Easter Eggs.

LIVE Fringe Chat Tonight: Finale!

Happy Fringeday! It's time for another LIVE Fringe chat from 9:00 PM to 12:00 PM ET, if you want to talk with other Fringe fans during or after the show. We'll try to get there a little early if anyone has questions they want answered.

To join the chat, visit the Fringe chat room, enter your name or a nickname, and join the fun! (please don't use the default mib_xxxxx nickname!)

I will be there (as AdamMorgan) along with our fearless leader (as FringeTelevision). And as always, you never know who else might join us...

Fringe Programming Note

Tonight's episode of Fringe is scheduled to start at 9:04 PM. The end time is still 10:00 PM, but remember this is all subject to change is American idol goes over (again...)