Fringe - Interview with Wyman & Pinkner

For a chunk of last season, you had Joshua Jackson in alternating episodes, and now with the finale, you’ve toled people that Peter Bishop has ceased to exist. What would you like to say to reassure his fans that they will be getting sufficient amounts of Joshua Jackson this season?
J.H. WYMAN: Peter Bishop is part of the DNA of the show. We’ve done some pretty crazy things in the past where people were like, “Well, wait a minute, why are they doing that? What’s going on?” Hopefully, in Season 4, people will trust us enough to realize that we are doing things for a reason. To have Fringe without Peter, in some way, shape or form is not really Fringe. So, while we can’t really comment on how, we can say that he’s part of the show. He’s part of the language of our show, and a very big part of it. There are two things that we want to get across without really ruining anything. Peter is part of the DNA, and he’ll always be that. Just because he doesn’t exist, doesn’t mean that the three years that we’ve all invested in and watched does not exist. It really did happen, and it’ll unfold itself for you to understand in what context I’m speaking of. People shouldn’t worry. We love Peter, and we know how much everybody loves Peter. We can’t imagine telling the series and the story without him.
JEFF PINKNER: Fans around the world stunningly put together this video piece Where is Peter Bishop?, on their own and totally outside of our purview, literally making signs and taking photographs of images around the world, like in the “Where is Peter Bishop?” campaign. It’s amazing, and a tribute to the entire cast and crew. The whole thing plays as a love letter to the show. What we would say is the show constantly tries to re-contextualize your perception of the story. We introduced Walter Bishop in Season 1, and by the time you got to Season 2, you realized that, in many ways, he’s the chief architect. Our most sympathetic character is the chief architect of all the trouble, in two universes. There’s a version of the narrative where he’s the biggest villain of the entire piece. So, the idea that Peter is gone, and ultimately he’s not permanently gone, is an opportunity to re-contextualize the story of everything we’ve seen again, which is something that we love to play with.

Will you have any returning faces, during the first half of this season?
PINKNER: The answer is yes, there will be returning faces. We hate to spoil things, but there will be characters that you’ll be delighted to see again, and some that you’ll be surprised to see again.
WYMAN: And some you may have seen before, that come back in a completely different context.

Source: Full interview @ Collider