Fringe Sneak Peek 412 "Welcome To Westfield"

Here's the first sneak peek for next friday episode of FRINGE.

Fringe 412 Preview: "Welcome To Westfield"

Here is the preview from the end of "Making Angels" for the Fringe episode "Welcome To Westfield", which airs on FRIDAY, February 10th 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 "Making Angels"

The Glyphs code in the Fringe episode "Making Angels" spelled out EMPATH, which is a person who has "the capacity to recognize and, to some extent, share feelings (such as sadness or happiness) that are being experienced by another".

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

Fringe Episode 411: "Making Angels"

UNIVERSES COLLIDE

Our Astrid gets an unexpected visit from her Alternate, while Peter and Olivia track a killer using a toxin that has yet to be invented. Both universes collide in a case that pushes the boundaries of what is possible.

Happy Fringe Friday!

During tonight's episode, you can chat LIVE in the Fringe Chat Room, and help promote Fringe by tweeting about the episode using this week's hashmark #TakeTheLead. Also, don't forget to check-in to Fringe at GetGlue to get this week's Fringe sticker.

After the episode airs, continue the discussion here in the comments, and get more Fringe information at the:

• Episode page on Fringepedia
• Transcript on Fringepedia
• Screenshot gallery at FringeFiles
• Promotional photos at FringeFiles

Check back here soon for Observer sightings, Glyph codes, and other Fringe Easter Eggs.

How do you rate the Fringe episode "Making Angels"?

Fringe Sneak Peeks: "Making Angels"

Here are two more sneak peek scenes from tonight's Fringe episode "Making Angels".

Fringe Twitter and GetGlue Campaign for 411, "Making Angels"-TakeTheLead!

(thanks to @dalliel for the vid)

(Thanks to sujeto13 for the vid)
Fringe Twitter and GetGlue Campaign for 411, "Making Angels"-TakeTheLead!

Happy Fringe Friday everyone!

Last Friday's Fringe Twitter and GetGlue campaign was quite successful.
Fringe trended at #2 on the GetGlue.com site(more on GetGlue below), and the hash tag we all used, #ObserveItLive, trended worldwide within minutes and was #2 in Brazil.

Tonight is an Astrid-centric affair, and the Fringedom wants to try to get the hash tag #TakeTheLead to trend on Twitter starting at 8PM Eastern. Please note the start time to tweet is 1 hour LATER than last week, in an effort to increase our chances of trending. That's 1 hour before the new episode airs, and then again at 8PM Pacific time.

Why keep tweeting? Because we know that ratings isn't just about Nielsen boxes anymore. TV networks and their contractors pay attention to which TV shows are 'socially-active' and our show Fringe is very socially-active on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other venues.

Why continue this effort? Last Friday's event catapaulted Fringe in multiple social media platforms, and we need to keep Fringe visible in these platforms in the weeks ahead, especially with the ongoing FOX/Warner Brothers negotiaions for a Season 5.

Please consider joining in tonight at 8PM Eastern and 8PM Pacific to support your favorite show by signing into Twitter and using the #TakeTheLead hash tag.

If you are not familiar with Twitter, you can create an new account rather painlessly at http://www.twitter.com/.

For more information on this week's special Fringe Twitter event click here.

You can also adopt special icons for this event by clicking here.

Just a reminder. Please do not tweet with the #TakeTheLead hash tag until 8PM Eastern, to increase the likelihood of trending!
 And volume helps, so tweet slowly, and tweet often after the start time tonight!

Let's invade Twitter tonight, and make our hash tag and our show trend!




***ButWait! There's more!***

Another social network platform that needs our attention tonight is GetGlue.com.
If you are not familiar with getglue.com it is a very clever advertising site married to social networking.
GetGlue merges fans with their interests, and their interests' sponsors.

If you have a GetGlue account you can "check-in" to Fringe. The shows that get the most check-ins are highly visible to the networks and the show's sponsors.
It is recommended you start checking into GetGlue closer to the start time of Fringe to increase the chance of trending there.
You can also look up Fringe's sponsors on GetGlue, check-in to them, ie. Nissan Leaf, Sprint, etc., and thank them for supporting Fringe. Think it doesn't make a difference? Guess again.
Last week due to our GetClue check-ins, the Nissan Leaf was one of the most checked-in sponsors on the site.

Let’s make it a combined effort to not only check-in to the show, but to also check-in to the show’s advertisers and comment, “Thank You for your support of Fringe! @FringeOnFox”

If you don’t have a Getglue account, get one! You can post your check-ins to Twitter or Facebook.
The more activity, the better, as this may also get other Fringies involved in the GetGlue check-ins.

GetGlue also has convenient mobile phone aps for iphone, Android, and Blackberry.


So please, enjoy the new Astrid-Centric episode tonight, and support high visibility of your show by tweeting on Twitter with the special hash tag, and checking into Fringe at getglue.com and thanking at least 1 of tonight's many sponsors. Your efforts will not go unrewarded, and may help increase our chances of getting a Season 5.

Go FRINGE!

Beyond The Fringe Comic #4: Chapter A

DC Comics has released the seventh comic in the "Beyond The Fringe" direct-to-digital series.

Beyond The Fringe #4: Chapter A was written by Adam Gaines, is available now for $0.99 via Comixology.com.

Here is the official description:

Imagine If... Peter Was A Superhero

Billionaire playboy by day, costumed vigilante by night! With the help of the always-faithful Walter and Police Chief Commissioner Broyles - "The Pattern" takes on Fringe incidents throughout Boston City. When his arch-nemisis Mr. ZFT escapes from prison, steals a universe-crossing device, and kidnaps a young Olivia Dunham, will our Cortexiphan Crusader have finally met his match?

Order "Beyond The Fringe" here

Joshua Jackson: If "Fringe" Is Forced to End This Season, the Payoff Will Still Satisfy

Joshua Jackson: If "Fringe" Is Forced to End This Season, the Payoff Will Still Satisfy
By Scott Huver

Thursday, Feb 2, 2012
Updated 2:26 PM CSTView 

 With “Fringe’s” ratings leaving the show on the fringe of cancellation, Joshua Jackson says he’s confident the producers have a plan in place to satisfy the otherwise acclaimed sci-fi show’s faithful core audience if a forced finale comes this season.

Jackson, who plays timeline-lost Peter Bishop on Fox’s critically hailed cult favorite, tells PopcornBiz that as the more obtuse and enigmatic elements of “Fringe’s” ambitious but occasionally impenetrable Season Four are finally coming to light and putting higher stakes storylines into play. And while he’s hoping for more “Fringe” in the future, Jackson says he’s got every reason to believe that if low ratings bring the series to a close – as Fox executives have suggested in reluctant terms – the creative team will be able to execute the endgame they’ve always had in mind.

Season by season, “Fringe” has just got more ambitious, taken bigger risks, and they always do pay off within the context of the show. But ratings don’t always equal the creative successes. Are you guys at a point where maybe you’re starting to think about the ending of the show, so we can all have the satisfaction of getting there, before the ratings make us say goodbye?

The truth of the matter is, we already had that conversation last year. I think sort of we peaked ratings-wise, in Season Two – it was our most solid year. And I actually think creatively that was our most consistently solid year. But it wasn’t our most ambitious year – I would say Season Three was an extremely ambitious year, and a lot of people tuned out last year. So we were prepared that last year might’ve been the end. I’m not involved in those conversations, frankly, but I think [the producers] are prepared for it, if that was going to be the case, how they would implement that ending. And they’ve always said – and I believe them – that there is an ending to the show. I’m guessing you heard what [Fox programming president] Kevin Reilly said, and I don’t think you can be any more honest and upfront and still be a network executive. So if this is going to be the end of the show, if we are not making the money or they’re losing money on us, I just want to believe him when he says that he will give our guys enough time to implement whatever the end game is. Because as much as I don’t want to lose my job, at this point the thing that we have to do as a show, and as a network supporting the show, is satisfy the people who have so passionately stuck with us, and been so rabidly and passionately involved in our show. We cannot just go out in blink. It has to finish, whether it’s now, whether it’s next year, whether it’s five years from now, it just has to get to its end.

What can you say at this point about where the current season is heading?

This is the first time on ‘Fringe’ – and I’ve said this before tonight – where we’re this deep into the season and I have absolutely no clue where we’re going. Because there was sort of a natural place that the show had to go last year to satisfy the story that had been introduced. But there’s no necessary ending to the story we’ve introduced this year – It could go a bunch of different ways. So I have no clue.

Do you feel that in a way, even though you were absent in much of the beginning of the season, that this is gradually turning out to be Peter’s season?

Not really. I feel like the function of the Peter character, beyond who he as a man, is to reflect the other characters back – and this is a constantly changing thing, so this is my opinion today! – but it seems to be, getting two-thirds of the way into Season Four now, that what this season and last season really are, and I think ultimately what this show is about now, is a woman finding herself. I feel like this show is about Olivia Dunham coming to know herself. In Season One and Two I really thought it was about the family, right? This Bizarro family. But as we’ve gotten out of the family dynamic and definitely more into the romantic dynamic between Peter and Olivia…Last year the entire season was about us, as an audience, coming to understand what Olivia was, by seeing what she wasn’t – that whole Olivia/Bolivia dynamic. And this year I think, as an audience but also for her character, it’s her coming to know herself, in the grand sense, who the real Olivia Dunham is. So I think that that’s what this season and ultimately the whole show is about. So every prediction I’ve ever made on this show is wrong, so we’ll see.

How do you envision Peter now, overall?

Peter has been kind of a boy hero right from the very beginning. Peter is the one that gets brought into the world from the pilot on, but as that character, he’s the boy hero. He’s the thing that makes the machine go, but he’s not the central story of the show.

He’s like a living MacGuffin, in a way.

And we talk about that all the time. He was definitely the MacGuffin for the first two seasons. And then the last half of last season he was the MacGuffin as the battery of the machine, so definitely we’ve used him as that. But in his dynamics with other characters, what he seems to have always served, is in the ‘Fringe’ world that we’ve created, we don’t need to get to know Peter’s story, because it’s NOT Peter’s story. We need to get to know how people relate to Peter, and it sort of shows them back to themselves. In the beginning it was just Peter with Walter, right? We would never have been able to know Walter if he didn’t have Peter there to allow him that view inside. And I think that’s a lot of what Peter serves with the Olivia relationship as well: you get to see the human side of her, because of her relationship with Peter.

Read the entire NBCDFW.com article here.

FRINGE - Fans Ask: Impersonation

Ari Margolis tweeted this latest installment of the famous "Fans Ask" video series, earlier today.
Thanks, Ari!

Fringe FBI Podcast Season 4 Episode 10

Frea, Jan, Lou, & Maximus get together after each Fringe episode in this temporarily constructed shared reality known as a podcast to discuss the Fourth Season of Fringe.

'Forced Perspective'

 AKA
 

Nina The Ice Queen

Agenda:

1) Intros

2) Episode Easter Eggs  

3) Quick Thoughts 

4) RoundTable 

5) Ep Rating - out of 10 Genes

 

Intro Music: 'Lunatic Fringe' - Tom Cochrane

Exit Music: 'Cold As Ice' - Foreigner - in honor of Nina

Leave us feedback here or on Twitter:

Frea - @Frea_O

Jan - @happydayz3

Lou - @olddarth

Maximus - @mxpw999

Jan's Fringe Recaps can be found at NiceGirlsTV

FBI Inc Podcast graphics designed by Frea_O

On the run all the time? A commuter? Listen to our portable version
via iTunes - Alternate Reality Version.

Fringe Binge 2012

The Fringe Binge in December was such a success, it has returned in 2012.
Except this time, instead of watching 65 episodes, the total number of binge episodes will decide on which episodes Fringe fans vote for. See below and save the dates!


VOTE for the Fringe episodes you want to see during the FRINGE BINGE MINI MARATHON!


That’s right, by popular demand, FRINGE BINGE will return from Friday, March 2 through Sunday, March 4 - a worldwide simultaneous home rewatch of YOUR favorite episodes!

We had so much fun over the holidays watching all episodes of FRINGE, that we can’t wait to do it again! We’ve tentatively scheduled the next marathon event for the first spring hiatus weekend after February sweeps. This time, we’ll be re-watching viewer’s choice of episodes from Season 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The whole idea is to just have a simultaneous worldwide FRINGE-a-thon where we’re more or less watching the same episodes in the same order at the exact same moment across all time zones. During the marathon, we’ll also live tweet and check in on GetGlue too!

The Mini Marathon will start at 9 p.m. Eastern on Friday, March 2 and continue throughout the weekend nonstop until early Sunday evening. (As before, international schedules will be made available.)

What Fringe episodes do you want to re-watch? VOTE NOW!

FRINGE: Astrid-centric

Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Anna Torv, and Joshua Jackson discuss the upcoming Astrid-centric Fringe episode "Making Angles", which airs Friday, February 3rd at 9/8c on FOX. #WatchItLIVE