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Fringe - Season 5 - Observer-led Future?

28 May 2012

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Thanks to Laura for the heads up.

Fringe producers Jeff Pinkner and exec JH Wyman tease the final season of the fan favourite show in the new issue of SFX, and a here’s a little extract to whet your appetites:

Will the season look like the fascist Observer-led future of 2036 glimpsed in the season four episode “Letters Of Transit”?

“Yeah, I think it’s safe to say you will [see that],” says Wyman. “Part of our storytelling is about reveals and re-contextualizing what you think you know and what you’ve seen and putting it in a different mind frame for the viewer. It’s good to say that future is important to our storytelling but it’s not the be-all and end-all. The critical question is always why do we do flashbacks or flash-forwards and for us there is always a reason. Does ‘Letters Of Transit’ have further implications? It does. You need to understand what it is, or was, in order to fully grasp the thematic things we want to tell this year.”

Source: SFX Magazine
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18 comments:

  1. laura334128 May 2012 at 20:56

    I like how J.Wyman says "part of the storytelling" I learned he likes to keep things close to the vest,so i'll just have to wait....but shh i just can't wait!

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  2. Dor Fiderer28 May 2012 at 21:05

    I'm happy to read it. I love the idea to see something different from what we have seen in the previous seasons, and it will surely tie up the story. I Really hope the end will be well-connected to the stuff we have seen in LoT, and not encounter contradictions.

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  3. Supermak28 May 2012 at 22:08

    I guess what he is saying is that the future of LoT is imoprtant but not necessarily where the storyline is headed, i think that LoT is the future of season 4, but it may not be the future that is going to happen in season 5... but it's just a theory for now ^^

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  4. Honghey Wong29 May 2012 at 01:48

    new issue of SFX..i like that!

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  5. Cathy29 May 2012 at 03:17

    I just wanted to say that the observers creep the hell out of me.


    Ok. It is out there. I am feel uneasy watching the observers. This is going to be one creepy season.

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  6. Jenni Lou29 May 2012 at 04:31

    This is not unsurprising. Clearly, we should all realize that going into the final season LoT will have implications on what the story will look like. It seems safe to assume we will be revisiting it in some fashion.

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  7. Dan Kempner29 May 2012 at 05:05

    Flash-sideways! 2036 happens after they all died!

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  8. fringeobsessed29 May 2012 at 13:26

    SFX is an annoying publication. They rehash Fringe stuff that's already in print elsewhere and make you pay $9.95 US for it.
    Remember, these are the same people who said Fringe would not get renewed for a Season 3!

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  9. Linlighthouse29 May 2012 at 13:42

    So, our task, according to Wyman, is to understand the implications of Letters of Transit in order to grasp the themes of S5. Okay, I'll get to work on that.

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  10. Oceanaway29 May 2012 at 15:33

    Well, I've always thought that the scenes from the future we have seen are possibilities; what would happen if... So my guess is that S5 will be all about fighting this future with the viewers knowing what the stakes are

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  11. Afino29 May 2012 at 17:17

    The only thing that would annoy me about "it may not be the future that is going to happen" is that now it will be TWICE they have shown us an alternate future that wouldn't happen. I understand it is important to the storytelling, but the fan reaction to this future was extremely positive and I think the writers would be amiss to not use that as "the" future.

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  12. Chris Kelly29 May 2012 at 17:20

    Finally all caught up with this show! 4 seasons in a couple of months, love it!

    So will season 5 flash forward and back between 2036 and the present. Showing how Walter and the rest defeated the Observers both times and why he purposefully encased themselves in amber?

    I'm just looking forward to the last 13 episodes :D I can't wait!

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  13. Norman de Guzman30 May 2012 at 10:03

    Is this real the final season.are the writers run out of ideas.oh i wish this series will not stop.

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  14. Linlighthouse30 May 2012 at 13:49

    It's fun to watch it marathon style. I started watching when season 3 was just beginning and watched 1 and 2 super fast to catch up.

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  15. DarthLocke430 May 2012 at 16:10

    My comments from the Forum:

    "What it is, or was"...."See I keep wondering if September LATER came back and changed the future, because they went out of their way to make us finally aware that Observers have pasts, presents, and futures too...and that basically there is not just a capacity to lead and/or course correct humanity, but course correct themselves. (Comic -Bell made a new arm for Nina that was building itself in a 15-year time period. Bell had sent echoes to the future in order to lead Nina to her new arm...These things go along with Bell's season 4 nano tech ideas)It's possible that LOT was the upcoming future, but September (and maybe by extension that future's characters) are/have been trying to change it again (we can argue that September was responsible for both Peter's existence and also knowledge about the machine(s) --He gave Olivia the first half of the prophecy page, which sets up a chain reaction including the existence of Henry and then, allegedly his counter existence (at least as far as Peter is concerned right now). I feel more certain that we will be dealing with a mini loop to help course correct the Observers, that we might see the 2015 time period as the new branch off is unfolding, as the future is going to attempt to rewrite itself. (IMO this is what some LOST fans didn't realize about the 1970's --that we first got information about the past 1970's via vidoes, maps, character's testimonies, but when the characters go back they made a new branch off and create an alternate time lime with an alternate future, -and that is why there are some discrepancies..We didn't get to see the new future in the corporeal, but instead we saw a glimpse of it in the beginnings of the ethereal plane--the FS, So 815 wasn't going to crash in the up and coming 2004--Daniel Faraday had been fighting the crash for many time lines.)As far as William Bell and perhaps other time travelers are concerned, I have to think there is a war going on.I could def see them playing with time like this...If I would be right there should be discrepancies between what 2012-2015 versions are experiencing, in contrast to what the 2036-ers+ have said to have happened in 2015. -I am exceptionally curious how this all ties into the first 3 seasons, and what it will say about season 4. The one thing that comes to mind is that one way or another it seems there is always some way a past-future can be seen, in which a loop is made in order to avoid it's re-occurrence. How, ever I also think when these things happen, there could be "white tulips" that converge time periods in some way. Besides the fact I think Nina was once a Dunham relative, the way the child observer was found underground in a sudo prison makes me wonder if that idea represents a convergence of space after fighting for time displacement (like in "Welcome to Westfield"/"Jacksonville", buildings may fight for occupancy, but the result may be a convergence) Boy thinking about this another way...then we say the 2036's characters are "past-current" characters and the 2012-2015 characters are "current-future" characters....What I wonder is what will happen to them...will they have to kill themselves, or will that naturally happen, or will there be a convergence? Or will the 2012-ers dies off and then the 2036-ers go back, or will there just be two happy futures that exist @ 30 years apart??? 

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  16. Andrew MacLeod30 May 2012 at 20:11

    Nice. I'd love the last scene to be Walter on the Island in the 70's with the DI.

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  17. DarthLocke430 May 2012 at 20:33

    I think we still don't know for fact if any future (aka any time line) that ever existed actually cease to exist, just because you create an alternate time line. J.J. Abram's Star Trek (which is referenced in "The Road Not Taken"), proves the possibility co-existence (which goes with Stephen Hawking and Sir Roger Penrose theories on loops and/or conformal cycle cosmology).

    I think it's possible this future is semi-current, but they may have been working for a long time to change it, by changing the past and creating yet another branch off....it's unclear if the other past-future in The Day We Died, would have in fact been their future...because it's possible the machine is picking what ever future it deems fit for Peter to experience that will help him save the universe(s) and give the audience knowledge about what repeats and what changes from time line to line, but it's also possible that another Peter had also already chosen "balance" and that even the existence of the other 2026 becomes something repetitive and almost irrelevant,, because this is how the machine(s) would help Peter with what may be the bigger delema....a future that's weighing more constant on the time line(s)....w

    But like I wrote in my comments below, it's also unclear if the Observer problem gets taken care of and 2036 is trying to change 2012-2015 from reoccuring, if both time lines will just co-exist and have happy futures, or for some reason a convergence would have to take place????

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  18. Mutsie31 May 2012 at 06:35

    ...Interesting....
    Well
    Yeah

    It is!!!

    ♥

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