New Kevin Corrigan Interview: "The Last Of Sam Weiss?"

Here's a new interview with Kevin Corrigan. A demon's twist rusts?

I Love An Apocalypse!: A Viewer's Guide to "The Day We Died"

A handful of tips for the erstwhile time-traveler:

1. Just think of it as a giant typewriter.

I’m a firm believer in FRINGE hiding important information in throwaway comments. What would Olivia actually be able to do with a giant typewriter? She’d write. So the question becomes: Is it possible that Olivia has been writing what has been happening? Or is about to? It’d be a nice meta sort of touch, equating Olivia with the writers of the show.

Just as long as it doesn’t end with Olivia waking up in the tank sometime during the first season…

2. What will the Apocalypse look like? The answer, to use a term generally understood, but the specifics of which you cannot imagine, and which this document will attempt to describe, is warfare.

My theory is that the two sides in this battle aren’t the universes, but two sides struggling to maintain/destroy a certain timeline. I don’t think they have very much hair.

3. If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him!

The only reality is the one you create yourself. Is this Olivia and her giant typewriter? Is someone else creating this reality?

4. Be a better man than your father.

A scientist finds that his world is doomed, so he sends his child off in a rocket (along with some red and blue swaddling, natch) headed towards a world with a yellow (!) sun which will grant him the powers to be its protector.

This is the story of Superman. Anyone think Henry Dunham is going for a ride?

5. Whither Fauxlivia?

It seems very odd to me that their Olivia has been left on the bench ever since we saw her in Walternate’s cell. Why haven’t we seen her and why is there no hint of her in the finale? There was something very mysterious and authoritative about her remark to Walternate “Oh, you don't know anything about me.” Do we?

6. Sleight of Hand:

Remember that nifty bit of distraction where we all thought that young Olivia was talking to our Walter but it was Walternate? Right now I wouldn’t trust that anyone or anywhere is what it appears to be. Is Walter Walter? Is this universe the one we think it is? Yes, we’re “15 years in the future,” but does that mean our future? Is it, in fact, the past? Watch for a similar twist at some point.

What if the team member fated to die doesn’t actually die but merely disappears? Perhaps after the time-deck is reshuffled, they become someone who simply was never born…

7. You know who used to like to draw pictures of Olivia?

David Robert Jones.

8. Possible Philip K. Dick endings:

The Nazis won World War II.

“The Empire Never Ended.” (Our reality is a “skin” covering a much more ancient reality.)

Someone’s a robot.

“It was the first Joe Chip money he had ever seen.” (Someone’s picture ends up on money. Seeing Walter Bishop on a coin or dollar bill might be a nice way to come full circle to the unusual bills we saw from Over There.)

9. Planet of the Apes:

There’s been so much concentration on the iconic figure of the Statue of Liberty this year that it wouldn’t surprise me to see the show pull a POTA ending by replacing the Statue with a figure of…someone we know.

10. For God so loved the world…

There’s certainly enough evidence to make Peter the Christos, the shaman, the walker between worlds. An early symbol for Christ is the Chi-Rho, made by superimposing the first two Greek letters in Christ:



It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see that this also works as a pretty good representation of Peter in The Machine.

11. There’s more than one guess

But this is one:

As Olivia believed she was the Olivia from the other side, Peter’s confrontation with the machine has now brought forth the latent personality of the Peter That Might Have Been. That’s who he is now, the Peter from Over There. The machine has sucked him into the Red Verse timeline that would have happened if Walter Bishop had never stolen him.

He fills the space he was always intended to fill, but which was taken by Lincoln Lee because there was no Peter Over There (Nature, as Spinoza told us, abhors a vacuum). The world is still falling apart because it wasn’t Walter Bishop’s trip to the Other Side that caused the problem in the first place.

In the end, we return to our side to find that our Peter has perished, the saviour of his home universe. As this sinks in, our universe winks out of existence. It is, in fact, The Day We Died.

It is 6:02.

On the Other (now only) Side, Peter and Olivia awaken as Olivia tells Peter how this is her favorite time of day, so full of promise and potential…

To be continued...

Philo Viewing Party For Fringe Season Finale

FringeTelevision has partnered up with Philo for the Fringe season finale live chat on Friday.

The live chat "viewing party" this week will take place in Philo's Fringe chat room, where you will be eligible to win prizes for your comments, including Fringe Season 2 Soundtracks and Fringe coffee mugs.

Prizes will be given out for best comment, spotting the observer, and guessing the glyph code. Full details are at PlayPhilo.com

FOX All Access: John Noble Discusses Season Finale

John Noble spoke with Fox All Access, in a two-part interview. In part one, John talks about the Fringe season finale, and why Walter = Walternate. In part two, he discusses about filming the season finale and what prop would he take from the Fringe set, followed by a strange "trip".

Fringe Commercial 322: "The Day We Died"

Here is the latest commercial for the Fringe season finale episode "The Day We Died", which airs Friday, May 6th on FOX.

Review of Fringe: 3.21 - The Last Sam Weiss

The Two Towers aka The Two Machines

Apologies for no review for the previous episode but business travel and the Easter Weekend made it too problematic for me to do one for, '6:02 AM EST.' You can check our FBI podcast for the episode - FBI 3.20 Podcast Review of 6:02 AM EST - to get our thoughts on it.

On the positive side of a delayed review, both ‘6:02’ and ‘The Last Sam Weiss’ can be analyzed together since they form one episode. Overall the last two episodes did not land among my top episodes of the season. Both episodes were somewhat uneven because there was a definite feeling of padding out things before we arrived at that final scene of Peter in a future timeline. ‘The Last Sam Weiss’ was the flabbier of the two episodes with the parallel Peter and Olivia/Sam storylines. These last two episodes could have been combined to make one awesome ninety minute episode.

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Fringe Sneak Peek and BTS of "The Day We Died"

Here is a not-too-spoilery sneak peek and behind the scenes look at the Fringe season finale "The Day We Died". Featuring interviews with Fringe season finale director Joe Chappelle, 1st Assisstant Director Brian Giddens, and Joshua Jackson, who reveals:

The big surprise will catch people completely off guard.

Fringe: "The Future Is Now" Video

Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Jasika Nicole, Anna Torv, and Lance Reddick talk about the Fringe season finale episode the "The Day We Died". They do explain a little about what happened to Peter at the end of "The Last Sam Weiss", so proceed with caution if your are trying to avoid any spoilers.

Riders On The Storm-A Review of 321

If anyone ever gave out awards for the most information packed into a Fringe episode,"The Last Sam Weiss" would win. This episode makes your head spin even more than last year's "Over There:Part 2" did. We're introduced to new revelations about Sam Wiess, Olivia, Peter, and *gulp* the future.

I could tell by about 5 minutes into the episode that this was not a Pinker/Wyman/Goldsman creation. It didn't have that smooth feel to it. As I pondered that thought, the "written by" credit appeared at 7:47, informing us "The Last Sam Weiss" was written by the female Fringe writing tag team of Owusu-Breen and Schapker. OK, I thought to myself. This is probably going to P/O hurt in some way...

I wouldn't do this in a review, but there is so much crammed into this chapter that I will list everything we've learned in "The Last Sam Weiss" below.

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Fringe 322 "The Day We Died" Canadian Promo

Here's the canadian promo for this friday's new episode of FRINGE.

Fringe Season 2 Soundtrack Now Available

The soundtrack for Fringe Season 2 is now available. The original television soundtrack features 29 tracks of music composed by Chris Tilton and Oscar winning composer Michael Giacchino.

Return to explore the boundaries of a mysterious mythology that holds millions of viewers in its hypnotic grasp. Season 2 of FRINGE contains worlds (and alternate worlds) of excitement complete with shape shifters, cryonic heads, belly-dwelling beasts and people who turn to ashes before our eyes. But the overarching narrative takes three clandestine FBI agents — Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop and Walter Bishop — through a mind-bending investigation of a parallel reality that threatens to destroy ours. The impossible is here in a series that offers “the most satisfying, coherent story arc of any science fiction-flavored primetime drama” (Mike Hale, The New York Times).

Composer Chris Tilton returns from Season 1 and delivers a mysterious, poignant and beautiful score.

Amazon CD: Fringe: Season 2 Soundtrack CD

Amazon Download: Fringe: Season 2 Soundtrack MP3 Download

iTunes: Fringe - Season 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Fringe Reviews Roundup: "The Last Sam Weiss"

Here are some reviews from around the web, in no particular order, for the Fringe episode "The Last Sam Weiss":

• FringeTelevision.com: The Last Sam Weiss - Let's Not Assume The Worst
• Entertainment Weekly: 'The Last Sam Weiss' and the first glimpse of the future of 'Fringe'
• io9: Walter and Olivia form a support group for broken people, on Fringe
• LA Times: ‘Fringe’ recap: God helps those who help themselves
• AV Club: Fringe "The Last Sam Weiss"
• Spoiler TV: Fringe 321 – In Which Walter Flies A Kite and Peter Gets A Flash
• Television Without Pity: The Shock of the Lightning
• TV.com: Fringe: Where Are We?
• TV Fanatic: Fringe Review: Be A Better Man Than Your Father
• Boom Tron: Fringe: “The Last Sam Weiss” – review
• HitFix: Walter and Astrid struggle to revive Peter, while a familiar figure aids Olivia
• Polite Dissent: Fringe — Episode 21 (Season 3): “The Last Sam Weiss”
• Cordial Deconstruction: Deconstruction Review of Fringe, Episode 21 Season 3, The Last Sam Weiss
• Examiner.com: 'Fringe' 'The Last Sam Weiss' Recap and Review
• BuzzFocus: ‘Fringe’ Episode 321 Review: Sam’s Full Agenda Still Shrouded
• DigitalSpy: Recap - 'Fringe': 'The Last Sam Weiss'
• IGN: Fringe: "The Last Sam Weiss" Review - Let's do the time warp again!
• Creative Loafing: "Fringe," Season 3, Episode 21
• TV Squad: 'Fringe' Season 3, Episode 21 Recap
• Crave Online: FRINGE 321 'The Last Sam Weiss'

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