Fox renews sci-fi drama ‘Fringe‘

Despite lower ratings since its move to Thursdays — understanding, given its going up against the likes of CSI and Grey’s Anatomy — Fringe has been renewed by Fox for a third season.

It’s an unexpectedly early announcement, one that seems to be a vote of confidence from the network in the series co-created by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias). Even though it’s experienced a dip in ratings, Fringe has performed well relative to other Fox programming in that time slot (granted, not necessarily hard to do).

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OMG I’ve heard a lot about Fringe, but I didn’t realize JJ Abrams was attached to it. I must check it out. Knowing he is a co-creator make it a must see for me.

Are you a Fringe fan? What do you like about the show? And are you pleased that it’s been renewed for a third season?

With my luck, I will get really into it and then it will be canceled. Murphy’s Law.

A Cylon becomes an alien resistance leader in V

Battlestar Galactica’s Michael Trucco is going from Cylon to lizard alien on ABC’s V, taking on the role of the mysterious resistance leader named John May, according to TVGuide.com.

“John May Lives” has been a battle cry of sorts against the Visitors in the series so far, but we’ve seen neither hide nor hair (nor alien reptilian skin) of May so far.

According to the four episodes we saw of V last fall, May is the founder and leader of the Fifth Column, the group of Vs who are against their peoples’ plans for Earth and the human race. Ryan (Morris Chestnut), a sleeper V who has been on Earth since before the Visitors arrived, once was involved in the resistance. Now he and Earthlings Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) are attempting to resurrect the Fifth Column.

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Which “On The Bubble” TV Show Will You Campaign For?

We’re coming up on the most heartbreaking time of year for television lovers: Cancellation season. Rumors and speculation are swirling, and the deadpool is filling up. Which show will you go all-out and mail shit to network execs for?

Heroes
Caprica
Fringe
FlashForward
V
Chuck
Better Off Ted
Supernatural
Smallville

Vote here on io9.

I lost interest in V a while back. Are you still watching it? If so, are you enjoying the remake?

I’m not sure which series I would save. I like Smallville but it may have run it’s course. And Heroes has sucked for a while. I used to love Heroes.

Which show would you save and why?

This ‘Winter Finale’ episode started off in a Manhattan office where a man was gently walking with his coffee. A co-worker asked him if it was ‘real’ (strange already, I mean New York without coffee? It would probably implode!). The two experience a small quake and the lights flicker. The female informs him that she is from California so she is used to these ‘miniquakes’. She leaves him alone with his building plans when a larger quake erupts and the ceiling falls in. He awakes (after appearing to pass out) to find a large beam in his shoulder and looking down sees extra arms and legs attached to his body.

Olivia, Broyles, Peter, and Walter arrive in New York at the scene of the tremors. They look at the building and it appears that it broke and then was put back together. They learn that there are no survivors in the building and go to investigate. All of the dead bodies are mismatched and deformed. Walter has a theory that there was a quantum tectonic event that caused the molecules in everything at the scene to split apart then reassamble, causing the mismatching. FBI agents find the man from the beginning who is still alive. They ask him questions about what happened. He explained about the tremors which causes the FBI agents to pause because they did not hear of any tremors in NYC in the news. Walter has a theory and asks the man a series of questions that he answers correctly except for when asked what buldings were attached during 9/11, the man answeres the Pentagon and the White House. The man dies and a movement from his torso urges Walter to take a closer look. Under his shirt is another head of the man. Walter explains that they are standing in two buildings, one from each dimension.

Outside the crime scene building Olivia discovers that this event is exactly what William Bell described when she was in the other dimension. Newton was behind this incident and they had proof in a surveillance camera that has him and his crew posed as a work crew two hours before the incident. Back at the lab, Astrid and Walter are working on the double man body. Astrid cannot take working on the body so Walter has her look in his personal things to find objects that don’t belong. She finds Nixon’s face on a silver dollar and a figure of a double decker car. Walter realizes what will happen next. He calls Olivia and Peter back to explain that he and William tried experiments sending objects to the other universe and someone with the equal mass was sent back. He tells them that when something comes from the other universe there is an energy that is given to it and that energy will show right before an equal object is sent to the alternate one. He tells Olivia that she will be able to see this energy because she has seen it before.

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This episode was what I’ve been anticipating since last season finale. The alternate universe was finally explained and the “war of the worlds” has begun to see which universe will survive. And we now have some movement in the Peter and Olivia relationship! And also the confirmation that Peter is not from this universe! I also enjoyed seeing more of the experimentation that took place on Olive and the other children in Jacksonville, and how Walter is now experiencing the consequences of his actions.

The preview for the rest of the season (starting April 1st) showed more on how Walter brought Peter from the alternate universe to their own. So stick around for more Fringe Recaps & Reviews in April!

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This week’s episode started off at a wedding. Right before the ceremony we were being shown the wedding through the camera man’s viewer. We saw the bride talking to her future mother-in-law and the groom with his bachelor buddies. The groom was shown to be using an inhaler under the misapprehension that he was nervous. This was the first clue to all Fringe-viewers that something was going to happen. We went back into main hall where the ceremony was to take place. The grandmother of the groom was sitting in her chair and she noticed a man in the back of the room and she started walking toward him, pointing and repeating, “It is him”. She goes down along with half of the room appearing to suffocate.

Peter arrives on the scene with Walter in the driver’s seat, and after a crash landing they stroll to the crime scene talking about Walter’s wedding. Walter wonders aloud if ’she’ will call her ‘Dad’. Peter asks who and Walter says, ‘Agent Dunham’. Peter laughs this off (a little too enthusiastically if I do say so). The trio investigates the crime scene and Walter remarks that these people appeared to suffocate in a room full of air. Also, Olivia states that the grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the victims were direct blood decedents of her. Peter reasons that maybe those victims ate or drank something that could have caused this.

Olivia and Peter hear something in another room and open the door to find the groom gasping for breath holding his inhaler. He sadly suffocates as well.

Back in the lab, Walter is performing an autopsy and discovers blue blood coming from the victim, indicating that he was suffocated from the inside out because of something bonding with the hemoglobin in the blood .

At the scene, Olivia questions the daughter in-law of the grandmother and tells her that the grandmother was freaking out over a strange man before the incident. Olivia asks the woman to identify the man on the wedding video. Peter also determines that one of the supposed ‘lavender’ candles was ‘cinnamon’ and they may have found out how the toxin was delivered.

Walter recognizes the method behind the killings and narrows it down to Nazi research, only killing a select group of people, using the wedding as an experiment. He tells Olivia that this will happen again.

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This was a really cool episode. I was enthralled by the idea of this toxin only targeting certain groups. It was scary and fascinating at the same time. I also wondered what other things Walter was hiding in regards to Nazi experiments and why the killer in the photo looked exactly like the present killer. This could have indicated that he resembled his father greatly, or this man came from that dimension or this man was an ‘Observer’ type himself. We shall see! Tune in next week!!

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This episode began with a courier walking into an office building. He jumped into the elevator with another man going to the same floor. As thy were leaving the cournier noticed the older man had a bloody nose and he didn’t look so hot. The man collapsed on the floor and the courier did CPR, after a few tries he said the man was dead. The ‘dead’ man’s veins were all visible and he emitted a bloody mist from his mouth into the office air.Olivia and Peter were the first on the scene to investigate this strange occurrence. They were questioning the witnesses when they noticed the courier man was missing. As Walter, Astrid, and Broyles approached the outside door they saw the courier trying to exit the building. Peter saw that the man had a bloody nose and he held the door shut. The courier’s veins protruded like the previous case and he collapsed, emitting the bloody mist from his mouth. Everyone inside the building was quarantined, including Olivia and Peter. The CDC arrived on scene to investigate. Walter barged into the CDC tent, got arrested, and had to be bailed out by Broyles so that he could get to his lab to start investigating the possible virus.

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I really enjoyed this episode. It was more tense than other ones because the beloved Peter was involved and a lot of the resolutions came down to the last minutes in the episode. I also appreciated the fact that now someone else knows that Peter had died once before which ties into the ‘other universe’ theory of the show.

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This episode got us back on track with Season Two! In the beginning we came across a police officer patrolling the streets when he sees a young child wandering late at night. He picks up the kid and drives him to the police station. On the way, he looks back at the kid and sees that the child has transformed into some mutated monster. At the police station, the other cops discuss the child as if they have heard of people like him before. All of a sudden, two other deformed men come in, kill the police officers, and take the child home. The Fringe team come to investigate the case because of the way the child looks. They are interested to find that in the files at the police department have been other cases in the past with these deformed people. When Olivia, Peter, and Walter leave for the day they are run off the road and into a ditch, a deformed man shoots at them. Peter ends up shooting the man, and he flees. While searching for him, Walter finds a rare, but beautiful butterfly which he takes home to Astrid, but they also find a dead man who they believe previously shot at them. Back at the lab, the butterfly seems to transform into a moth and the man transforms back to his deformed self. Walter recalls that he might have been a part of a military experiment called ‘Project Elephant’ which used electromagnetic pulses to disrupt the optic nerve so that soldiers could be invisible in combat. These pulses had a side effect that made the children of the test subjects deformed. Walter determined that the ‘hum’ of Edina (the town in which the deformed people lived) were the same pulses that made the people look normal to anyone who came into town. Walter and Astrid found the source of the pulses and turned it off, making all the townspeople appear as they really are. Agent Broyles comes to Edina and Walter begs him to not expose their secret because they are innocent people who are just trying to live normal lives. Agent Broyles agrees and the people of Edina are left alone (after Olivia eliminates the offending parties who killed the cops in the beginning).

This was a great kick off of the continuation of Season Two. We did not go forward in any time travel instances, but this episode showed the healing that Walter is overcoming since his kidnapping. In the beginning of the episode it was stated that getting back to work can cure many things, and that is what Walter did. It was also sad to see how bad Walter felt in being a part of this experiment and seeing what harm it caused these people. This was also a great episode for Astrid, she saw more action then other episodes when she is stuck in the lab. Fringe is back!! And always leaving me wanting more, check back next week for another new review!!

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