Anna Torv Talks 'Fringe' Ratings, Peter's Return

This is a new video from the Associated Press on YouTube, in which Anna Torv talks about Peter's return, and her thoughts on the Nielsen ratings.

Fringe Sneak Peek 405 "Novation"

Here's the first sneak peek for episode 405 Novation. On air Friday Oct. 28.

5 Things to Know Now That Peter Has Returned

Today's News: Our Take Fringe Scoop: 5 Things to Know Now That Peter Has Returned
Oct 14, 2011 11:26 PM ET
by Natalie Abrams

[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Friday's episode of Fringe.]

Fringe's Peter has returned!

After Olivia (Anna Torv) and Walter (John Noble) both realized they were having visions of the same strange man, they set out to discover his identity. Considering that Peter (Joshua Jackson) took the form of a bright blue blob of energy -- a side effect of trying to cross into the timeline -- he found them first. After observing The Energy Blob absorbing all things metal, they mistakenly assumed that it was actually a rogue cortexiphan patient Olivia had previously encountered who had the ability to project himself . Although they hunted down the subject in question, turns out he wasn't responsible for The Blob, but could destroy it.

Fortunately, realizing it was literally the man of her dreams, Olivia stopped the patient in time, though he still seemingly provided enough juice for Peter to reappear in corporeal form at Reiden Lake, the site of over-there Peter's death when he was a boy.

So, Peter is back — but no one remembers him, as showcased when Olivia said, "Who are you?" Who is he indeed? Since this is the convoluted world of Fringe, we need to get acquainted with this new Peter, so we've compiled the five things to know about him and the reality he's facing now that he's returned:

1. Peter 2.0 is definitely an upgrade: Peter is technically the same man we've come to know and love, but he isn't the man we first met. "Because the guy that we met in the beginning of Fringe had no desire to be there, and slowly but surely got warped into this, as John and I described it, fanboy," Jackson previously told us. "In the course of doing that, he kind of went from being the impetuous teenager of the show to kind of sulking in the corner, to actually being a man. And the guy who would come back to the show after having sacrificed himself for the love of his family is a different man. I think he's grown up a lot. I think a different guy comes back than the guy that left."

2. There will be trust issues: They may not know him, but Peter still retains all of his memories of them, which will cause the Fringe Division to put him on lockdown. "When he shows up claiming all these things and knowing all these things, it's really freaky," Lance Reddick says. "Broyles' attitude is that it's possible what he's saying is true, but the last place I'm going to do is to believe him... at least at first. It has to reach a point where there's so much validity to the information that he has and the way that he helps, that over time, he's given more and more trust and more and more freedom to operate, work and help."

Read the entire TV Guide article here.

New Interviews with John Noble & Anna Torv

Here are two new interviews, one with John Noble and the other with Anna Torv.

Fringe Season 4 Arrives In Amazon Instant Video

Fringe Season 4 episodes are now available to purchase on iTunes!

HD episodes are $2.99 each ($2.84 with a TV Pass) and SD episodes are $1.99 each ($1.89 with a TV Pass).

Fringe Season 4 episodes are also available on iTunes for about the same price.

Fringe Season 4 Episode 4 Review - 'Subject 9'

Effect before Cause

The story telling thrust of the season narrative could be palpably felt shifting into the next gear in, 'Subject 9.' Gone are the hand holding moments from the previous episodes for new viewers.

The net result?

A most excellent episode filled with several WOW(Wonderful Olivia & Walter) moments as Walter is driven to prove his worth by stepping out of the lab for the first time in three years.  This subplot was designed for character moments; all journey versus destination, its true intent never about being a source of story tension. Olivia's decision going for or against Walter was never in question.

A WOW Moment - Walter Teaching Olivia How To Properly Drink A Root Beer Float

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'Fringe' report:The beauty of the new season's storytelling, and what it means for the future

Oct 14, 2011
11:10 PM ET

'Fringe' report: The beauty of the new season's storytelling, and what it means for the future
by Ken Tucker

The frequently heart-breaking, beautifully romantic yet action-packed season of Fringe continues, with the series moving along on great swells of emotion, as though trying to reach the peaks of the Mozart that Walter was listening to in “One Night in October.” This week, the hour titled “Subject 9″ returned to the series’ most potent, everlasting element of its mythology: the Cortexiphan experiments conducted more than two decades ago on “37 innocent children,” including Olivia (“Olive”) Dunham. Oh, and in part because we saw the writing credits — showrunners Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman plus Akiva Goldsman — we knew we probably were in for some fundamental shifts in the season’s main plot line, the search for Peter Bishop, and we sure got ‘em.
I’m going to leave the close reading of “Subject 9″ to Jeff Jensen and his recap. (Have fun, comrade, with double-gloved Nina!) Here, I’d like to write more broadly about this episode and the season thus far. The apparitions of Peter that both Walter and Olivia had been experiencing this week manifested themselves as a blue charge of amorphous energy. Walter has a theory that it relates to astral projection, which reminds him of experiments he did with William Bell 25 years ago during the Cortexiphan trials. In this Fringe universe, Olivia recalls having set fire to the Florida building but seems less psychically damaged by what she went through — unlike Cameron James, subject number nine in the trials, whose life has been cursed. When anxious, he “sends metal flying,” he tells Olivia and Walter when they visit him, and he’s bitter and depressed about the lonely life he’s led.

That’s just one level of the story-telling. An equally important one is the follow-up on last week’s psychiatric evaluation of Walter. Discovering that St. Claire’s Hospital is seeking Olivia’s opinion as to whether Walter should be re-admitted for further evaluation, Walter is moved to leave his lab for the first time in three years. This placed him in the midst of the action and face-to-face with Cameron James, and the old guilt stole over the older man. He’s still not without guile — he tries to mollify Olivia’s questions about her youth by assuring her, “You were always the strongest; you were always the favorite.” But we are also told that Olivia ran away from Bishop and Bell’s house of pharmaceutical horrors. This is an Olivia who’s suppressed a great deal. With immense yet discreet skill, “Subject 9″ returned us to Fringe’s richest subjects: Children lost (both literally and psychologically), children loved too little and too much.

Read Ken Tucker's entire Entertainment Weekly article here.

Fringe Easter Egg: Next Episode Clue 404

Every episode of Fringe contains a hidden clue that foreshadows something in the next episode. In  Fringe #403 "Alone In The World", Walter has a book on his shelf titled "Astral Projectiond and Other Psychic Phenomenon".

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Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "Subject 9"

The Observer can be spotted in the Fringe episode "Subject 9" standing on the shore of Reiden Lake, where Peter appears out of thin air, and into the water.

Fringe Tweet-Along Tonight With Pinkner & Wyman

Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner (@JeffPinkner) and Joel Wyman (@JWFringe) will be tweeting during the west-coast airing of Fringe "Subject 9", starting at 9:00 PM PT / 12:00 AM ET.

Fringe 405 Preview: Novation

Here is the preview from the end of "Subject 9" for the Fringe episode "Novation", which airs IN TWO WEEKS on FRIDAY, October 28th at 9:00PM on FOX.

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

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

Fringe Easter Eggs: Glyph Code in "Subject 9"

The Glyphs code in the Fringe episode Subject 9 spelled out RESET.

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