Round-up: Observers Are Where? Noble is Here. Torv is There

Seen any Observers recently? I tried creating my own ‘pattern event’ in the hope that one would appear, but my Tabasco sauce ruse didn’t work. Darn it!

Back in the real world, we have more from “Observer Week“, an interview with John Noble, and Anna Torv’s appearance on a talk show.

Here’s a look at the scene-maker for tomorrow night’s episode (watch at your own discretion, may contain spoilers):

[video: fringerus]

Meanwhile, there have been several more sightings of the Observers. They are everywhere.

Those crafty Observers. Like hawks, they watch. Only they’re bald, like eagles. Kinda.

John Noble talks about what it’s like to work on Fringe and play Walter Bishop:

Elbow-deep into an autopsy, he might direct his lab assistant to fire up a Bunsen burner and start preparing some custard.
Then he giggles and, in his Brahmin-seasoned accent, says in wonderment, “It’s funny: I love custard… but I hate flan!”
Meanwhile, it falls to Bishop to voice a lot of complex scientific exposition (plus loopy-sounding theories) to keep the story moving along.

A cinch, insists the actor.

“I certainly have no trouble articulating those concepts when I’m performing a scene,” Noble says. “A lot of the science that we delve into is not new to me — it’s fascinated me for a very long time. So it’s not like ‘Oh, my god, what are we talking about?’”
But what he didn’t know so much about was starring in a network TV series — during the first season, anyway.
“Ignorance is bliss,” says Noble. “What I thought was, basically: I love the show, and I love going out and playing my character.
“The technical demands of television are far more subtle than they are on stage, and I love that,” he goes on. “And the pace of television doesn’t worry me. You know that saying: Your first instinct is your best instinct. In television it HAS to be, because that’s the only one you’re gonna get. So you say, ‘Oh, well, here goes!’ But that suits my personality.”

He says he’s not even thrown by getting scripts at the last minute, or by having scant idea what the kaleidoscopic Bishop may disclose about himself in the future.

“I think we established him quite early,” says Noble. “I would be extremely surprised, and disappointed, and possibly a little bit vocal if there was a major character shift. The character won’t change, the circumstances will.”

You can read the entire interview here.

Anna Torv stopped by the Jimmy Fallon Show (UPDATE: click video to watch):

[video: fringerus]

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