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So, the last episode we had sort've stagnated slightly (although we got plenty of great character moments) but it wasn't until we got to see Peter's tracking of Windmark to get a feel for what's coming up soon...I have this feeling that things are about to get... ugly... And by that I mean, Fringe is about to do what it does best: make us emotional wrecks while simultaneously wiping our minds of what we know is real and possible...
Today's topic: What do you think season 5 would be about if say, we were in an alternate universe where Fringe would go on to have 8 seasons, and would not have had to skip to the bitter end in a quickened season 5 time jump?
Let us know your thoughts below in the comments! HAPPY FRINGE FRIDAY, FOLKS!
(Updated November 15, 2012)
THE HUMAN KIND
It's been a long 3-week pseudo hiatus, hasn't it? It's almost like we're preparing ourselves for...THE END of FRINGE. Reading tweets sent by the cast like John Noble and Jasika Nicole about the final episode script and filming, it's just a pretty humbling event that is on the way...So enjoy yourselves tonight Fringe fans!
It's been a long 3-week pseudo hiatus, hasn't it? It's almost like we're preparing ourselves for...THE END of FRINGE. Reading tweets sent by the cast like John Noble and Jasika Nicole about the final episode script and filming, it's just a pretty humbling event that is on the way...So enjoy yourselves tonight Fringe fans!
So, the last episode we had sort've stagnated slightly (although we got plenty of great character moments) but it wasn't until we got to see Peter's tracking of Windmark to get a feel for what's coming up soon...I have this feeling that things are about to get... ugly... And by that I mean, Fringe is about to do what it does best: make us emotional wrecks while simultaneously wiping our minds of what we know is real and possible...
Today's topic: What do you think season 5 would be about if say, we were in an alternate universe where Fringe would go on to have 8 seasons, and would not have had to skip to the bitter end in a quickened season 5 time jump?
Let us know your thoughts below in the comments! HAPPY FRINGE FRIDAY, FOLKS!
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Who's ready to get this Fringe Friday underway! Time to break out the licorice and slush-os! FRINGE FRIDAY'S SPOTIFY PLAYLIST!
I've crafted a spotify playlist for all you FRINGE fans out there who will be pining away for the new episode all day! From selected tracks related to promoting FRINGE to the score of FRINGE itself, some hand-picked tracks that keep with the mood, these tracks have been loaded into this playlist for your entertainment! So, while you're at work, keep your excitement level at a peak with these tracks!
(Updated November 15, 2012)
(FEATURING: Pink Floyd, Violet Sedan Chair, Rolling Stones, The xx, Moby, and many more!)
Sorry it's so late again, but I just got off work :P
ReplyDeleteNot a problem.
ReplyDeleteI think in the ALT universe season 4 would not have happened as it did. Instead of all the bogus shapeshifter crap, and William Bell turning the universe into a world full of freak Dr. Moreau hybrid beings mess. I figure that season 4 would mainly have deal with what the comics had Peter doing whilst in the machine, then leading to the timeline rewrite.
ReplyDeleteThen season 5 would deal with the new timeline but it would again not involve human shapeshifters and ending the universe to bring about a new version of the universe full of manamals . It would however likely have Belly doing something sinister (probably having to do with the Observers). It would also have Peter trying to acclimate to this timeline as season 4 did, and up until the end of the season he would believe it to be his timeline rewritten as he does now. The season 5 cliffhanger would be September telling Walter that Belly is planning on taking over the world with the Observers. Peter would then realize that he needs to save this timeline to go back to his.
Season 6 would be about the purge of 2015. We'd see Etta get taken and what happened between Olivia and Peter, we'd see all the stuff being alluded to in retrospect this (our 5th) season, and the season would end with the team ambering itself.
Season 7 would begin with the episode Letters of Transit, and would basically be a lot like this (our 5th) season. It would end with Peter and Walter,and Olivia defeating the Observers., the cliff hanger would be that Peter was still in the machine this whole time since season 3's ending.
Season 8 would find Peter choosing balance again, but without choosing to take himself out of the equation like he actually did in the comics after season 3, but rather bridging and repairing the universes with him still there. He would have pre-knowledge about the Observers, and would then prevent them from actually ever taking over, and he would live happily ever after with is Olivia and their Etta, while knowing he could visit his son on the other side any time he wants to.
IDK. This was written as a stream of thought.
I slightly disagree. I think season 4, though very poorly written in parts, played out as was intended. Jones would still have been working for Bell, but they both would've been working against the Observers. The "Noah's Ark" thing wouldn't have been about apotheosis, but about protecting life from the Observer invasion.
ReplyDeleteSeason 5 would've been about the lead up to the Observer invasion, and defeating the remnants of the ZFT cult. We probably would've seen the Observers' home base, and possibly the "King Observer" that I speculated about way back when; and HOPEFULLY, the prime timeline that September messed up in 1985. The Observers would be fighting something of a civil war, with rogue agents like John Mosley.
Season 6 would be like you said, but it would be split into two halves: the first half about 2015 and the Purge, and the other half about 2036 (like what's happening now). It would end with reopening the Bridge Room and bringing the Redverse back. Jones might be killed off here.
A shortened final season 7 would be about the final battle between the two Fringe teams, and the Observers. Play it out like Terminator, with the Fringies as guerrilla freedom fighters. Kill off Broyles, Nina, and possibly Walter. I imagine it would all loop back to Reiden Lake somehow, maybe Walter hits the reboot button.
Peter would get in the BBM and destroy all these corrupted and violent timelines and universes, and make what I used to call the "perfectly just universe" (like Winter's Tale). Everything and everyone would truly be in their right place; and Bell, the Observers, Jones, ZFT, the shapeshifters, evil Walternate, would ALL be erased from existence. The happiest possible ending.
I like that too.
ReplyDeleteI always felt that Nina (as there is a name pattern with Ella, Etta, and Eddy) was meant to somehow more directly relate to both red and blue Olivias (or the Dunhams in some way), as she invokes a good balance of both of them (not to mention the shared snow globe references). And there are times where I felt like Peter could have once been a clone in an original time line that might have existed before a possible mitosis of that universes that seemingly has spawned several iterations. So there's a part of me that always wondered if Walter, Belly, and Nina were the aged original counterparts of Peter, Lincoln, and Olivia, that some how created a weird time-convergence...
ReplyDeleteAnother idea I had was an alternate universe where everyone's counter part was the opposite sex...Oliver, Petra, Walina, Astro, and Nino all resided, but lived in some kind of post doomsday world.
I think it might also have been neat to have either gone into an alternate time line of the past with a version of young Robert Bishop, or even further back....or go really far into the future.
Or maybe various different offspringe of Olivia and Peter's from different time lines, come to be time and reality traveling Fringe agents tracking criminals traveling with various tech in a temporal war.
It might also have been neat to see how Henry Bishop would have been a threat...or to see a time line where there counterparts aren't exactly identical, but close looking...
I think there are a lot of things they could have done...
Happy Fringe Friday Gang!
ReplyDeleteThat last part (2 paragraphs) is exactly what I always wanted to happen! -But I'm not sure if it will anymore...
ReplyDeleteI think s4 still doesn't make a great deal of sense, and I'm not really going to judge it till I see what the final result of everything is, but as of right now, it doesn't really explain the importance of it's ending...
ReplyDeleteAnd I love your Winter's Tale ending! -I think it could happen! :D
The idea has been bouncing around since Subject 9, and the fact that it still holds up as a reasonable conclusion here in the middle of season 5 is encouraging.
ReplyDeleteAt this point, it's the only possible way for everyone to have a happy ending. I don't trust Wyman, but I don't think he's stupid enough to write a tragic ending; not after all the shit that's happened throughout the series.