Vote For Fringe in Hulu "Best In Show" Poll

The voting for Hulu's second annual Best in Show competition has begun! They are taking your votes to find out which show is the most incredible, era-defining series on television.

In this first round, Fringe is up against its Friday time-slot competition Supernatural.

Here is the match up, according to HitFix Senior Editor Alan Sepinwall, who gets a 5% vote (and picked Fringe!):

FRINGE - Critic's Choice!
The second "Fringe" stopped running away from its own identity as a weird science fiction drama with a complicated mythology, the show became much, much better. The war between the two parallel universes has added scope and depth and intrigue to the series, and getting to play a different version of Olivia has dramatically livened up Anna Torv's performance.

SUPERNATURAL
Not that Sam and Dean's rabid fans need any more encouragement to vote for it, but a deep run in this contest will give me yet another reason to feel guilty for never finding the time to get caught up on a series I've enjoyed on the handful of occasions when there wasn't a big time conflict. Muscle car + well-constructed arc storytelling is right up my alley usually.

While Fringe has a much bigger audience (nearly double), SN fans are very devoted, so the competition will be fierce. In this early stage, Fringe and Supernatural are neck and neck.

Also, there are 15 other shows that need your vote, like How I Met Your Mother, Dexter, and Mad Men. The voting for round one ends on March 6th!

* Thanks to Chris for sending this in!

'Subject 13'-A Review

"I think the children are the key."

When I first read the spoiler that the writers were going to give us a flashback and explore the Peter/Olivia relationship, I have to admit I was a little skeptical, but they delivered in a big way.

They also answered a few questions and made us come up with so many more, as is one of Pinkner's/Wyman's goals.

'Subject 13' is a riveting episode, and as usual, I believe there is a lot of foreshadowing in it regarding Season 4 and maybe even Season 5 (should we be so lucky).

This is an episode that gives us the history of the P/O dynamic, and informs us of what happened to both sets of Peter's parents, post-'Peter.' First, let me point out that executive producer, Jeff Pinkner, told us months ago that 'Peter' and this episode would be like bookends, giving us the information we needed regarding the before and after Walter Bishop's crazy act of abducting a child from one universe and taking him into another. It should come as no surprise to you that 'Peter' and 'Subject 13' were both written by Jeff Pinkner, Joel Wyman, and Akiva Goldsman, as one can certainly tell from the smoothness of both of these episodes.

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Fringe Easter Egg Roundup for "Subject 13"

Here are some recurring "Easter egg" screen shots from the Fringe episode Subject 13:

The Observer can be spotted walking in the Bishop Dynamics lobby, just as Walternate arrives.

Hidden Glyphs: If you want to count cartoon versions of the Fringe glyphs, then butterflies, seahorses and frogs can be found near the Jacksonville Family Daycare Center entrance. There are also some seahorses on the Bishop family's fridge.

Next Episode Clue: As we mentioned in the last Easter egg roundup, the episode "6B" contained an abundance of tulips, which were in fact references to "Subject 13". In this episode, a very special field of white tulips is the location that young Peter visits twice. Once driving in the car with his mother, and once when he finds Olivia. The White Tulip was also a very important symbol for Walter Bishop:

"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. I'm going to tell you something that I have never told another soul. Until I took my son from the other side, I had never believed in God. But it occurred to me... that my actions had betrayed him and that everything that had happened to me since was God punishing me. So now I'm looking for a sign of forgiveness. I've asked God for a sign of forgiveness. A specific one, a white tulip.". - Walter Bishop (to Alistair Peck)  in White Tulip.

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Optimism From E!Online Regarding Season 4

This just in from Kristin and the E! Online website!
Take a little breath fellow fans, and keep praying.


Dan in Pompton Plains, N.J.: What are your thoughts on Fringe? Canceled or renewed? It would be a crime if it gets axed. Almost as bad as John Noble not getting an Emmy nod for his role as Walter/Walternate.Inquired about Fringe's future for you, and insiders are pretty optimistic that Fringe will get another season. The show is said to be a personal fave of Fox boss Kevin Reilly, the DVR numbers are great, and oh yeah, in comparison to shows Lie To Me and Human Target, the series is a veritable critical darling. There are no guarantees in life or in television programming, but we feel pretty confident that season four of Fringe will happen. Yay!
Source:eonline.com

Fringe Now: Alternate Universe Articles - Tucker Auto

The Sprint "Fringe Now" page of the Fox website has a new "Alternate Universe Article", which shows a news article from the Red universe, on one of those ubiquitous Motorola XOOM type devices.

The article is titled "Tucker Auto - The company claims to have fixed past problems.":

Tucker Auto announces a new line of electric-fusion passenger cars. The company claims to have fixed past problems with catastrophic engine meltdowns, which led to high-profile lawsuits during 2006 and 2007. A company spokesman says the new vehicles demonstrate the firm's ongoing commitment to green innovation.

The Tucker Car Corporation in our universe folded in the 1940s, due to lawsuits and an SEC investigation. The Tucker '48 was a very futuristic car for its time, including features such as a "water-cooled aluminum block,  flat-6 rear engine, disc brakes, four-wheel independent suspension, fuel injection, the location of all instruments on the steering wheel, and a padded dashboard." An electric-fusion engine, however, was not an option.

Fringe Review: Subject 13

“Your imagination can take you anywhere you want to go.”

Episodes like “Subject 13” have a particular fragile beauty, like an original poem inserted into a novel. They create a sense of pause—which always makes us wonder what is coming, and how bad it is that we have to catch our breath first—and add emotional resonance even though they might not contribute too, too much to the overall plot or mythology.

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Watercooler:A Few Questions About Fringe's Flashback

Today's News: Our Take Watercooler: A Few Questions About Fringe's Flashback
Feb 28, 2011 12:31 PM ET
by Damian Holbrook

So Peter and Olivia met when they were kids. Bet that has some of you scratching your heads, huh?

Last Friday, Fox's sci-fi uber-coolness Fringe kicked back to 1985 — land of Walter's sideburns and cortexiphan treatments — to show us how young Olivia (called Olive by Dr. Bishop) star-crossed paths with new-to-this-'verse Peter just as she was tapping into her abilities to travel between worlds. Turns out both kids were in tough spots: He was all pissed that his "parents" were trying to sell him on the lie that he hadn't been snatched from another dimension, and she was desperate to avoid the abuse of her stepfather. Before you can say, "young love," the two youngin's are connecting on that kind of level that causes snow to start magically falling and, in Olivia's case, accidentally crossing over to the red universe and cluing Walternate into the possible location of his missing son.

It was awesome! And not just because a certain Watercooler writer also had that Battlestar Galactica boardgame young Petey was eyeing up in the toy store. The scene where Olive spilled the beans to the man she thought was her protector was a chilling mind-bender that only got cooler up multiple viewings. And once you'd figure out that she had indeed just met Walternate, the realization of what that meant (this was the germ of the idea that has inspired the man to devote his life to ending our universe) solved a huge piece of this puzzle.

However, there were a few questions that came out of the hour we'd like to pose to you...

- Was that betamax video of Olive mentally torching her classroom the same one we saw last season? Thought there was a bed in the background of the first one.

- If Walter's old lab assistant Carla died in a fire, who thinks it was one started by Olive?

- How come Peter didn't remember meeting Olivia? We know she blocked out the cortexiphan stuff from last season's "Jacksonville" episode.

- Do we think maybe Olivia has an untapped ability to turn things she imagines into a reality? That snow sort of just happened, you know?

- How come Walter never mentioned that these two met 26 years ago?

- How much do we love Orla Brady as Elizabeth Bishop?

Ok, Fringies, have at it. Who knows, maybe some of your theories will make it into our next chat with the producers.
Source:tvguide.com

(Note:Damian Holbrook is so 'Fringe' cool. It's no surprise he has that Battlestar Galactica game.)

Fringe 315 Reviews Roundup: "Subject 13"

Here are some reviews from around the web, in no particular order, for the Fringe episode "Subject 13":

• Entertainment Weekly: 'Fringe' recap: Olivia and Peter as children, Walter and Walternate as equals
• io9: Walter Bishop’s Day Care Center of Horrors
• LA Times: 'Fringe' recap: Inventing a Tulip
• AV Club: "Subject 13"
• Spoiler TV: Fringe 3x15: In Which Little Peter Wants to Go Home and Walternate Gets a Clue
• TV Squad: 'Fringe' Season 3, Episode 15 Recap
• TVOvermind: Fringe 3.15 "Subject 13" Recap
• TV Fanatic: Fringe Review: "Subject 13"
• BSC Review: Fringe: “Subject 13″ – review
• HitFlix: Recap: 'Fringe' - 'Subject 13'
• Cultural Learnings: Fringe – “Subject 13″
• The Faster Times: Fringe Recap (Season 3, Episode 15) “Subject 13”
• Polite Dissent: Fringe — Episode 15 (Season 3): “Subject 13
• Cordial Deconstruction: Deconstruction Review of Fringe, Episode 15 Season 3, Subject 13

Have any favorite reviews, or reviews we should add? Let us know in the comments. 

Akiva Goldsman Tells A 'Winter's Tale'

And speaking of the book 'Winter's Tale' in Dennis' post below, this may be why we saw it in 'Subject 13.'

I Googled 'Winter's Tale' and found this article.

Fringe's consulting producer(and writer) Akiva Goldsman will start directing the shooting of a movie form of 'Winter's Tale' in 2012.

Akiva Goldsman Tells A ‘Winter’s Tale'

To many, Akiva Goldsman is akin to a cinematic antichrist, for having written such screen duds as Lost in Space and Batman and Robin. To others however, he is an Oscar winning screenwriter (Best Adapted Screenplay for A Beautiful Mind) whose films, as a writer, have grossed an average of $122 million at the US box office. Factor in that he’s also a successful producer and you can see why Hollywood likes doing business with the man.

Goldsman is now set to expanding his resume even more by making his feature film directing debut with a big screen adaptation of Mark Helprin’s 1983 fantasy novel, Winter’s Tale.
Winter’s Tale (which Goldsman will also write) has a budget set at a substantial $75 million and it is due to start shooting in 2012, once the writer has finished working …

Source:geo436.com

Fringe Photo Gallery: "Subject 13" Screenshots

HD screenshots of Fringe episode Subject 13 are now available at FringeFiles.com.

These screen caps have all been randomly selected, so if there's something that might be missing, you can request a specific Fringe screenshot in the Fringe Easter Eggs section.

Promotional photos for Subject 13 are also available at FringeFiles.com.

Fringe Books: What Young Olivia Was Reading in "Subject 13"

The book that young Olivia is reading in "Subject 13" is called Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.

Wikipedia has some interesting things to say about the book:

The title Winter's Tale is a reference to the similarly named Shakespeare play. In that play, as in this book, a major character disappears for years, only to return after a long and unexplained absence, unharmed, transformed, and redeemed.[Peter?]
...
Winter's Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, markedly different than our own.[Alternate Universe?]
...
New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality.[Is this why it snowed in the tulip field?]

The most interesting part of the book is name of the main character Peter Lake!

FYI, the paperback edition has a different cover, but if you want the exact same book Olivia is reading, hardcover versions with the same cover are available in the Amazon used books section.

Win Tickets to see John Noble in Paris

The French Fringe website SerieFringe.com is having a contest to give away two tickets to the Sci-Fi Convention in Paris on April 16 and 17th.

One of the tickets is a "Premium Ticket" (135€ value), which includes meeting John noble, plus you'll get an autograph and photo taken with him.

The other "Weekend Ticket" (50€ value) only gets you access to the convention, but you can buy tickets to get an autograph or a photo for 20€ each .


Of course transportation is not included, unless you live in Paris, or are willing to travel there on your own dime, there's not much point in entering. But we know we have some French Fringe fans out there, so to them we say "bonne chance"!

FYI, the contest site is only in French (you can read the site in English through Google Translator here), but the Sci-Fi Convention website is available in French or English.