Vote For Olivia in 2010 Character Competition, Round 3

SpoilerTV is running TV character polls, pitting your favorite TV characters against each other in their "2010 Character Cup Competition".

In this third round, Fringe's Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is up against Clark Kent (aka Superman) from Smallville.

Head to over to SpoilerTV to vote now!

Fringe Photo Gallery: The Plateau

HD screenshots of Fringe episode The Plateau are now available at FringeFiles.com.

These screen caps have all been hand selected to increase quality and reduce duplicates, but if there's something that might be missing, you can request a specific Fringe screenshot in the Fringe Easter Eggs section.

Promotional photos for The Plateau are also available at FringeFiles.com.

Review Of Episode 3.03 'The Plateau'

Let me start by simply stating that I think this is the best episode of Season 3 so far. Why? The dualism, the chain reactions, and the casting.

Plateau scenario 1: Walternate, the 'Other Side's Secretary of the Department of Defense, observes our Liv functioning on her first day at work as FauxLiv. He seems pleased, and assures a not-so-confident AltBroyles that soon our Liv will "reach a plateau and her new identity will become fixed." But Walternate did not count on any unknown variables.

Plateau scenario 2: Milo Stanfield was mentally retarded. His loving sister, Maddie, signed him up for an experimental drug study run by the Ivon Medical Group, a subsidiary of her work, Gregston Electric. In a true miracle, after only one treatment with a new neurotopic(a smart drug) Milo's IQ soared. After five treatments, Milo was thinking in terms of probabilities that even savants like Alternate Agent Astrid Farnsworth found unthinkable(ever see the movie 'Rainman'?). But the medical experts conducting Milo's study did not count on any unknown variables.

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Fringe & Bones Commercial for Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?

A new commercial for Fringe and Bones, featuring scenes from the Fringe episode Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?

Head over to the FringeTelevision YouTube channel (and click the "pop out" button) to watch it in full-sized HD.

Fringe Review: The Plateau

“Well, that wasn’t supposed to happen.”

I was not initially impressed by this episode. Don’t get me wrong—it was quite strong, and I still enjoy learning about Over There, about the Fringe Division, about the relationships between Faux/Olivia, Alterna-Francis, and Lincoln Lee. But at first blush this felt like a stand-alone, and Fringe can be so much better than that when it wants to be. So I let it simmer for a while, and then I realized that this isn’t a stand-alone at all: it is a compelling thematic and psychological step in the progression towards…whatever it is we’re progressing towards.

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Conference Call Interview With Anna Torv

Anna Torv Conference Call, Part 1

FringeTelevision had a chance recently to join the FOX conference call with Anna Torv. They were filming on-location, working on a hostage situation at a train station. She commented that there were a lot of cop cars and it was plenty noisy. She only had a few minutes before a knock on the door interrupted her call and she was brought back to the set to continue filming.

The first question Anna was asked about the acting challenges of playing two different characters---that are potentially the same character. She commented about the personal conflicts the characters have and will be faced with even more so when they get home.

The interview continued with a joke about how Anna must like having a great amount of job security in playing two Olivia’s.

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Saturday Night Fringe Encores & Baseball Hiatus *UPDATED*

For the next 6 weeks, Fox will showing encore episodes of Fringe (i.e. repeats) on Saturdays at 11:00PM (10:00 Central). "Saturday Night Fringe" will kick off with "Over There, Part 1".

In the regular Fringe time slot, we only have one new episode left before baseball takes over FOX (NLCS and World Series). If the NLCS ends in 4 games or less, there will be an encore of "Peter" on 10/21.

UPDATE: If the World Series wraps up in less than 7 games, we WILL have a new episode on 11/4 (titled "Amber 31422"), otherwise new Fringe episodes will resume on 11/11.

Fringe Noble Intentions: The Plateau

John Noble (Walter Bishop) discusses the Fringe season 3 episode The Plateau

Fringe Reviews Roundup 303: The Plateau

Here are a roundup of reviews for the Fringe episode The Plateau.

• TV Overmind: Fringe 3.03 “The Plateau” Review
• MTV: 'Fringe' Recap: Episode 3.03, 'The Plateau'
• Entertainment Weekly: 'Fringe' recap: 'Real is just a matter of perception'
• LA Times: 'Fringe' recap: That wasn’t supposed to happen
• Salon.com: "Fringe" recap: A break in the Pattern?
• TV Squad: 'Fringe' Season 3, Episode 3 Recap
• TV Without Pity: I've Seen the Future, Brother, and It Is Murder
• Movieline: The Mad Science of Fringe: Olivia vs. Rainman
• Give Me My Remote: FRINGE: ‘Real is just a matter of perception’
• AV Club: Fringe: The Plateau
• i09: Fringe just keeps getting better and better
• Den Of Geek: Fringe season 3 episode 3 review: The Plateau

New This Week

• Polite Dissent: Fringe — Episode 3 (Season 3): “The Plateau” 
• Spoiler TV: Fringe - Episode 3.03 - The Plateau - Recap
• SF Scope: Miscalculation—Fringe's "The Plateau" 
• Pink Raygun: Fringe: The Plateau

See any reviews we need to add? Leave a link in the comments.

Fringe Now: Typewritten Messages

A new section was unlocked on the Sprint Fringe Now website. The new section "Typewritten Messages" requires you to enter the glyph codes seen during the episode "The Plateau".

After entering the correct unlock code, BREACH, a video is shown titled 'They're Awake - Get sleeper intel from the Other Side.'



The 'Typewritten Message' this week is SLEEPER CELLS ARE ACTIVATED.

BTW, after analyzing the morse code on the site, the two remaining sections should be 'Animated Graphic Novels' and 'Fringe Webisodes'.

Fringe Preview 304: Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?

Preview for the Fringe episode "Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?", which airs October 14th on FOX.

Head over to the FringeTelevision YouTube channel (and click the "pop out" button) to watch it in full-sized HD.

Screenshots of the video are available at FringeFiles.com

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in The Plateau

The Observer can be spotted in the Fringe episode The Plateau, standing on the bridge near Milo Stanfield, right before Olivia notices him for the first time.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.