JJ. Abrams has reflected on the journey of Fringe on the eve of the show’s final two hours.
via Hitfix:
Question: Are you happy with the way “Fringe” is ending?
J.J. Abrams: Very much so. Obviously it’s a bittersweet thing, but the fact that we’ve gotten this far is so crazy to me, that the network allowed the show to survive as long as it did, I don’t know when that’s happened before, really… The thing that’s so crazy is that every other network would be like, “No…” And we got to 100 episodes. The story got to end in a way that I think was appropriate for the story, the series. So I’m sad to see it go, but I can’t believe we got here.
HitFix: And when you started with that pilot, how much of where we ended up do you think you had in your mind?
J.J. Abrams: We knew alternate universes. We knew The Observers. We knew, even when Walter first sees Peter at the institution and he checks his eyes, we knew what was going on and why. But what we didn’t know was sort of… Everything. We didn’t know how crazy and wild and big it would go. We didn’t, of course, know the jump forward in the fifth season. We didn’t know some of the details of the Cortexiphan stuff with Olivia, but we knew that there was something she had gone through. You always have the best idea at the time and you think, “That’s kinda where we’re gonna go” and the closer you get to doing it, the better idea comes up and you go, “Oh my God, what about that?” So it’s always a leap of faith a little bit.
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What’s the whole thing about Walter checking Peter’s eyes?
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I was wondering that too. I have to assume it was a discarded plot point. Maybe they were planning on Peter degrading from the cross over, or something. Who knows?
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I remember watching something about this in the Season 2 DVD Special Features. It had to do with Walter checking on Peter as he was making sure he was okay since he nearly died as a child.
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That makes sense, normally I would disregard it as, like Rick said, an unused plot line but it was just a specifically planned action that it makes sense for Walter to check on him.
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In A Short Story About Love, didn’t Walter examine Peter’s eye.
The result was an address planted on a black dot in his eye…. 228 1/2 Morrow St, September’s residence and the beacon that helped September find his way back.
This could be why Walter checked his eyes. He was looking for a message.
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Just saw your post over there. That’s what I thought at first too but it makes no sense. Checking to see if Peter’s eyes are okay (they were possibly dilated due to the disease) makes the most sense.
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Both episodes “Peter” and “Inner child” are numbered as episodes 15. The baby observer had originally blu eyes but then they became brown. What if the whole scene with walter checking Peter’s eyes had something to do with that?
We never knew why walter wanted to check Peter’s eyes in the first place and let’s remember that “moment” has been showed again in episode 5×10 when michael showed walter some moments of the old timeline and most of them were from “Peter” and “Inner Child”. What if that scene at St.Claire was a clue that link Peter to the baby observer??
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Wish JJ Abrams and Blair Brown got to write episodes this season like they wanted to.
I’m disappointed at the lack of screentime for Nina and Broyles, very clear that they’ve had a reduced role because of budget.
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jj never wanted to write an episode again, he was asked to direct one.
but I don’t care that he didn’t do it, he has nothing to do with fringe anymore and is overhyped anyway…
but yeah, too bad that blair didn’t direct one.
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Sorry, yes, direct episodes for both was what I meant.
I do get annoyed when Abrams is asked about Fringe nowadays though. I doubt he’s anywhere near involved anymore as he was at the very beginning.
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yeah, I always get so mad when people (not on FringeBloggers) still think that abrams is the mastermind behind the whole show, when in reality, he’s just the money guy…
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The only involvement JJ has had with Fringe since the first several episodes of the 1st season is that he goes to his mailbox, and opens an envelope that contains a check, then he takes that check to the bank, deposits it, and smiles. Oh and then he sometimes answers question in interviews like this one.
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The only thing that bothers me, is that JJ promised to direct a S5 episode.
He didn’t. No excuses for that.
But: what a great groundbreaking tv-series we’ve got!
From a X-Files type Monster-Of-The-Week show to a journey of alternate timelines, the “what if’s”, family and relationships, hope and faith.
A series with a fanbase that was determined to go and stay the full ride, defeated Nielsen ratings and did all sorts of things that are unique in television history (the Observer popping up in all sorts of tv-series and commericals, for one). Even the intro was changed many times.
Creativewise, Fringe is in my all-time Top 3. Storywise, aswel. It brought fans from all over together and reruns will let the fanbase grow.
It’s up to us to keep Fringe alive: ‘Fringewareness’ would be a great term. This show will be hard to beat creativewise. Ratingswise, i don’t think no future show will ever beat Nielsen like Fringe did.
Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman did some excellent work for Fringe, just like the cast, crew and staff.
Fringe was “the little show that could”. And it did. Boy, it did!
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Well said, sir!!
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