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Fringe vs The X-Files vs Reality

by Roco on May 15, 2009 · 2 comments

Now I want you to open wide and say "AAHHHHH"

Our friends at TV.com have a nice article on the freaky science of “Fringe” and how it relates to the real world, and the world of one of its predecessors — “The X-Files”. Here’s an excerpt below:

Science-y thing: Walking Through Solid Matter

Episode: “Safe”
Air date: December 2, 2008
Definition: The ability to pass through solid objects by disassembling and reassembling one’s atomic structure (or electromagnetic forces) or the atomic structure of something else. In layman terms, holy s*** he’s walking through walls!
Fringe reality: Bank robbers used the technique to rob banks by using a special device that messed with the walls’ molecular structure. While the walls were all bendy, one just passes through. However, walk through when the wall was solidifying, and one ends up like the guy in the picture–a real wallflower.
Reality: Absolutely zero. Well, maybe Calista Flockhart can.
The X-Files did it: In the season six episode “Trevor,” a man–who possesses the ability to walk through walls and other solid objects through throwing off the balance of their electromagnetism–kills others (and seriously invades their personal space) by walking through them. Ick!

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Joshua Jackson: ‘Anything is Possible’ on the Fringe

by Roco on February 10, 2009 · 0 comments

Joshua JacksonMTV grabbed a moment with Joshua Jackson at last weekend’s NY Comic Con and spoke to him about his attraction to working on “Fringe”.

“I was a huge ‘X-Files’ fan,” Jackson told MTV News at New York Comic-Con. ” ‘X-Files’ is like my show par excellence. In a perfect world, our show would become that show for the next generation. And I actually think we’ve come pretty damn close to that level of quality. We’re getting close.”

“There is an unending amount of things that Peter is capable of doing,” he said. “[J.J.] takes the story and he immediately tells the audience anything is possible. You wanted to jump the shark, well that already happened before the pilot. It’s already gone; forget about it. Anything you think is possible is. … We had a crazy porcupine monster last week. Everybody does it these days.”

Jackson said he hopes that in some way “Fringe” mimics the “X-Files” formula of blending character development with a weekly mystery. “The thing that I loved about ‘X-Files’ is that every Friday night, I would get two or three things that were important about the characters,” he said. “The story was always cool and engaging.”

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