Fringe Exclusive: Major Final-Season Time Jump Is Planned, Plus [Spoiler] Returns!
by Matt Webb Mitovich
In the Season 4 Fringe episode “Letters of Transit,” which was set in the year 2036, Peter says that he, Walter et al had been trapped in amber for some 20 years. So it would stand to reason that if the Fox drama’s final season jumps ahead in time, it would be either by a little… or a lot.
The answer, to hear John Noble tell it, is the latter.
“As far as I know, we’re just jumping ahead [to 2036],” Noble shared with TVLine at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Monday, where he was nominated for Supporting Actor in a Drama (the prize he took home a year ago).
While some Fringe fans my lament the decades’ worth of “lost” time, Noble allows that “there will be references” to the team’s pre-amber days, even using “found footage” to share monumental moments with viewers.
In the Evil Observers-ruled 2036, Noble reminds, “Walter, Olivia, Astrid and Peter are insurgents, so we know all the dirty tricks that have been played against us. We’ll be learning from the past.”
Read Matt's entire tvline.com post here.
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I hated 419 and the 2036 setting with the cliche observers, it might as well have been 1936.
ReplyDeleteAnd I do not believe for one sec that Anna Torv wants to play a mother of a 25 year old, who also takes her place.
They should have set season 5 in 2015/2016, with the original cast, and Olivia Dunham back central.
Finally doing something with her backstory.
Anna Torv is such an awesome actress , and only thanks to her Olivia is still a great character, but see what it could have been if they would have given her a storyline to talk about her past, mother father , not even a name, and her being abused as a child, by her stepfather but most of all by Walter and Bell.
But even in the finale 4.21 and 4.22 she did not get that, but once again Walter whining in st Claire.
I wanted to see Olivia confronting Bell and Walter, confronting Walter, talking with Nina about her childhood, about Jacksonville, instead she was a victim.
once abused by Bell and Walter, always abused.
They had such a great concept with Over There, wasted , great Over There characters, wasted.
From his tweets during 419 and Wondercon it seems that Pinkner is the one behind this concept, but has now jumped to let Wyman deal with it.
As much as I love watching Anna Torv, the only reason I stuck with season 4, I am not going to sit through a season where she will be sidelined completely.
November filming of Fringe ends, I am certain Anna Torv will get a new project soon, a great cable series where they do write for the female lead, like Homeland.
The End
"As much as I love watching Anna Torv, the only reason I stuck with season 4, I am not going to sit through a season where she will be sidelined completely."
ReplyDeleteIf only!
Homeland? Sorry to break this to you, but Anna Torv is no Claire Danes. Not even close. She's no "cable" material.
Not feeling the love for the final season. I think if this plays out the way described it will be a horrible disappointment to a lot of us fans. Going down the tubes like other series: 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Heroes now Fringe. They just can't seem to hold on to the magic.
ReplyDeleteFringe only hinted at having magic for a little while, but it never fulfilled its potential and whatever it had, it fizzled out quickly.
DeleteTo Matthew, I agree , it will be an anti climax, and I find it strange that they were so proud on the concept of 2 universes, it was introduced in season 1, and S2 Over There 1 and 2 are of the best episodes, and created this great new world , with great new characters.
ReplyDeleteAll the episodes set Over There or with Over There characters are great.
Now we get Observers evil, where we got to know them as caring and protecting through August and September.
To Ano 2:
Fringe needs Olivia Dunham central, Anna Torv is a fantastic actress who creates all these characters from nothing, she does not get the backstory and writing Noble and Jackson get.
All the episodes Anna Torv is central , are the classic great ones.
And cable material? what is that? Being on cable, network or a film has nothing to do with the acting,
Fringe is no CSI,
Noble is not going to do much after Fringe, he needs all the material in the world to play his one Walter, and Walter seems to be a lot like John Noble.
and Jackson can only do a Pacey, wich is basically just Jackson.
If Fringe would have been on HBO, Anna Torv would have had her Emmy last year.
This year she deserves to be nominated as well.
FYI. many critics agree.
Cable is just the place where the better writing goes, and shorter seasons, and where the awards seem to be given to, no matter what.
See the Mad men women, or others.
And yes Torv is in the same group as Danes and Enos, and I am certain that she will go that route.
Act.
She is not and she never will be. Had she been on cable, she wouldn't have been nominated, that's just an excuse. She simply didn't earn it.
DeleteAnna Torv is a fantastic actress, i wish her well (and yes i am a fan because i recognize skill and passion on her). I love the show and Peter's character, but i recognize for example, that joshua jackson is not a great actor.
ReplyDeleteThis final season i am sure will suck. Season 4 sucked because the writers/producers decided to take a U-turn to the plot they've been building up in season 3's final episode and couldn't live up to it. So here we are: on a final season of a show that has nothing to do with the imaginative and creative show i fell in love with... That just sucks and to be honest, the writing and options made on season 4 were far-fetched and amateurish...
If you didn't like last season then why are you going to watch it While I did like last season, I do agree that this season might actually suck and I can't believe the writers aren't listening to the fans saying they don't or didn't want a future set last season. I'm still going to watch to see how it plays out though, hopefully there will be something good and also because I still love this show and remain a faithful fan for the cast. :)
DeleteOn the contrary, Joshua Jackson is a great actor. He owned S4 in spite of having to work against some of the worst storytelling I've seen in a while. I never thought he brought so much to the table, because John Noble overshadows everything and everyone, until I had to suffer all those awful episodes without him.
DeleteThe writers have never been able to finish the stories they began, I think it's their lack of imagination. That's the reason for so many U-turns and resets. They are not good enough and that has been the biggest failure of the show.
I am so SICK of people always accusing josh of being a bad actor. Had he played 5 versions of his character would he be good enough for you? HUHHHH?
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