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What's this mysterious letter from Fringe's second season?
Fringe is on its way back from that alternate reality, and we've got a few cool tidbits to share with you as we get ready for the second season of Fox's ubercool sci-fi procedural.
For starters, Fox sent along this mysterious paper with its second-season premiere screener for the sci-fi series, which returns next Thursday at 9 p.m. Check out the close-up below for the message it contains. (Possible spoiler ahead!) What could it mean??
Executive producers J.J. Abrams, Jeff Pinkner, Joel Wyman and Akiva Goldsman, meanwhile, promise that the second season will build on the tantalizing promise of the first:
"As we said last year, Fringe is a procedural, but unlike most procedurals, it's driven by character. Last season we met Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Walter Bishop (John Noble) and Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) as well as the characters who support them while they tackle insane problems. And we discovered that at least some of the problems they face were put in motion by the work of Walter and his former lab mate, William Bell (guest star Leonard Nimoy), who in an alternate reality occupies an office in the (still standing) World Trade Center.This year, the problems of Olivia and the Bishops face will worsen and become more personal."
In other news, executive producer Roberto Orci told TVGuideMagazine.com to expect the Observer to have some company.
"You're gonna see more than one—this is an exclusive! You are going to see many Observers," Orci told the magazine about the new season's eighth episode. "[It's] going to tell you a lot about the Observers. You're going to find out their role in the world, what they're named after, and their connection to some of these characters."
Orci added: "One of the things we're doing, which we've been doing since season one, is that every four episodes or five episodes, if you've been watching the show and you're a fan, you're gonna get bigger answers than you ever got before. If you stay tuned to the fourth show, that eighth show, that 12th show, you will start to see a continuity that begins with the Observers."
Check back on SCI FI Wire for more Fringe news in the coming days, leading up to the season premiere and beyond.
By Uatu at 3:02 PM ON 09/11/09
Observers, eh? If I see one of those guys in a toga living on the Moon, I'm suing!!!
(and I got pull with the Living Tribunal...)
By Gabriel Angeles at 3:08 PM ON 09/11/09
lol @ Uatu ... but yeah i was thinking the same !!
By Gilveron at 5:00 PM ON 09/11/09
And I was expecting him to wear white-face, a silver-blue robe, and carry his brain around in a giant petrie dish.
By Gill Avila at 11:24 PM ON 09/11/09
Could be worse--they could've called him The Watcher. He'd get chased off the set by Buffy and Highlander fans.
By Matt25 at 9:26 AM ON 09/12/09
I wish they would have kept Kirk instead of replacing him with Meghan.
By John at 12:42 PM ON 09/12/09
I'm figuring the note refers to Olivia's meeting with Bell. There was the slight car crash prior. Maybe the sender of the message thought she had been killed in the accident thus preventing the meeting. However, the response is the opposite. Could an alter-Olivia been killed?
By xfiler93 at 4:58 PM ON 09/12/09
So far, pretty good show. I like to watch programs that have ADULTS. So sick of shows with teens that are so idiotic and non-realisitc formats. One reason I watch CSI etc. I want growup shows, not those that are barely above the bar of Barny the Dinosaur.
By Gringo at 5:59 PM ON 09/12/09
I know there is more that one Observer as I seen one with Glen Beck ,and they were watching Obama waiting for him to drop the ball again.
By spaceage whizkid at 2:25 AM ON 09/13/09
if he drops the ball, he can pick it up. Bush dropped it so often that basically it stayed down.
can't wait for the new season. yeah!
By farscape29 at 2:38 PM ON 09/14/09
If anyone was watching the Dallas/TB game yesterday, the Observer was in the luxury boxes. It was very subtle, but during the game they did an on-air reminder about Fringe and the announcers were babbling and the camera operator cut to the luxury boxes and the Observer was there watching the game.
By tati at 11:33 AM ON 09/15/09
Correction..he was OBSERVING the game :P
By skyscott at 4:36 PM ON 09/15/09
Looks like a list of episode titles to me.
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