My cover of the upcoming Fall season for science fiction and fantasy fans continues.
Fringe is one of my favorite shows all categories. It is something of a modern Archive X with a great following even if one could be happier with the ratings. It will be back this Fall after a game changing season finale this Spring. Peter Bishop connected the two universes with the machine then he ceased to exist so this season starts with Peter gone. Much has Changed is Fox theme for this new season.
I doubt Peter is gone forever especially after his appearance at Comic-Con but we might have to wait and see. But one can speculate a bit about it. Rumors that he would come back as someone else has been denied and he has a contract for this season. The question is rather when he is coming back.
The new situation can be interesting. We have two Olivia, Two Fringe teams and a lot of interesting technology not to forget the animosity between the two Walters. Will there be joint missions? or will they raise a new iron curtain between the two realms? A popular speculation is that Peter will become an Observer. I am interesting how people’s lives has changed without Peter. Olivia could be a totally different person and Walter never kidnapped Peter from the other universe so why did he go there? Interesting questions …
One thing we can be sure of is that the fringe events have not been stopped by the merger or there wouldn’t be a show.
The first episode will be called A Sort of HomecomingNeither Here Nor There but rumor has it that Peter won’t be in it.
The manly Human Target show is back with shocking result. The world is going under! Two, I say Two stunning females are allowed to join the casts as full members of the team. One even claims to be the new boss. That can’t be good!
It is, good that is. The humor is there, Chance recklessness and utter abandonment of all pre planning is there, Winston’s and Guerero is there…
The one liners are there …
And Long legs stepping out of a chopper like she owns the world is there, so is Miss Winston-gave-me-another-chance professional thief is there.
There are the usual shenanigans with assassination attempts and an elaborate plot to lift a few billion dollars from the poor long legged widow.
It is good to have some reliable uncomplicated fun to watch again.
The opening episode was great but I am not sure they should have changed the office windows like they did. Chance should have a say in that at least.
Fringe has a good start on the season and way to go the way this show has of reinventing itself every season. That is a talented group of writers.
Olivia is on the other side where Walternate is trying to convince her she is their Olivia by injecting her with a memory transfer from B-Olivia. They want to use her ability to move between the universes.
Olivia makes a run for it and escapes but the memory transfer slowly takes over turning her into what they believe is B-Olivia. I am not convinced she isn’t playing a role to be given freedom. Outside she teams up with a taxi driver I think I recognize from Total Recall? I have to check IMDB later. The guy connects with Olivia and I think he will be back.
Next episode will be in our universe but the next after that will be on the other side, it is going to be torture to have to wait on resolution two weeks after each episode up until the big revelation already promised in the fall finale.
I had great fun watching this episode but it was also very emotional with her trapped, possibility after possibility closed for her to return and then meeting her mother that in our universe died when she was a little kid.
I wonder how it will go on the boyfriend side. Our Peter here and Frank(?) over there. We will find out about Peter and the other Olivia next week. I heard rumors that they will go a bit steamy on us, but that might not be next week.
The other side has daily flights to the moon! We are doing something wrong here! The totalitarian big brother surveillance is a bit harder than here. You have to swipe your card to travel.
Walternate has a plan. Why is he using Olivia? please speculate in comments.
Season 3 of Fringe
premieres Thursday,
September 23 on Fox
This is the best SciFi show on television at the moment. The cast has a wonderful chemistry. Especially Walter and Astrid. I am so looking forward to this new season.
This article contains spoilers, don’t continue reading unless you want to know.
A little Fringe science is never a bad thing. I am a big fan of this show. At the end of season two the fringe team returned to their original universe. But they don’t know they have the wrong Olivia with them. Here is what I have been able to find out.
The first half of the new season will be every other episode in the alternative universe starting with the imprisoned Olivia in the premiere named Olivia. Spoiler fairies also told me that it will take until the mid season finale before B-Olivia will be unmasked. I am all psyched about having another Fringe team to get to know now every other episode. The stories will be told from the point of view of respective universe.
One of the drawbacks of this is that Peter will only be in every other episode, at least up to the mid-season finale.
New this season is Amy Madigan in the pivotal role of Olivia’s mother. And in episode 2 a powerful female government agent becomes and adversary to the Fringe team for 3-4 episodes.
I will keep this updated up to the premiere with what we know.
The spoiler faeries tell that Walernate will continue to manipulate Peter. By using B-Olivia who will seduce him …
Speculations
I wonder where the new season is going to take us. First half of the season is undercover B-Olivia and every other episode in another universe. The logical progression should be intensifying and maybe defusing the brewing conflict between the two universes. B-Olivia should learn that there are no sinister plans against her universe. But will Walternate believe her? I would love it if they start to see traces of a third party stirring up trouble between the two universes (if there are two why not many). Maybe that is for later, if ever. I think I read somewhere that the writers would keep it to these two for now. What do you think will be the big problem this season? Beside getting Olivia back.
New this season
The intro will have a red tone for the Altverse episodes and the ordinary blue tone when the episode takes place in the original fringe universe.
Olivia’s mother played by Amy Madigan will appear in roughly four episodes beginning with the season premiere when mother and daughter reunite in the alterna-verse. Casting describes her as “lovely and together”. She loves her daughter very much and is even more devoted since she lost her other daughter in childbirth.
As foreshadowed by the chalkboard anagram in Walternate’s lab in the season finale, Sam Weiss (Kevin Corrigan) will make an appearance or two (or more) in season 3.
Thomas Jerome Newton (Sebastian Roche) will also return for an appearance or two.
The two Olivias will be very different. Altivia was not experimented on as a child; she has not been betrayed like Olivia. How will Olivia react when she finds out about B-Olivia’s childhood? (I assume that is what the mother will be doing)
The two Walters will meet if the writers get to decide.
Episode 3.01 – Olivia
Takes place in the Altervese. From what is looks like, Olivia is going to escape her imprisonment in the season premiere.
Fringe has tapped Wire alum Andre Royo (a.k.a. Bubbles!) to guest star in the show’s third season premiere. Royo will play Henry, a soulful taxi driver that is unexpectedly forced into a tense situation with Olivia (Anna Torv).
Episode 3.02 – The Box
Back in the original Fringe universe
The story alternates to the Fringe Team ‘over here’ where they investigate a mystifying case that people are discovered in a trance-like state that ultimately leads to their death. The unlikely suspect: a mysterious box. As Peter and Walter collaborate to study its properties, alternate Olivia presses on and turns up the heat on an unsuspecting Peter. Meanwhile, key information about the future is revealed when Walter and Nina meet at Massive Dynamic for the reading of the last will and testament of William Bell.
[POWERFUL FEMALE GOVERNMENT AGENT] -35-55. Becomes an adversary to our Fringe team. Possible 3-4 episodes out of the first 9. Starts episode 302 . Submit all ethnicities. PLEASE ALSO SUBMIT NAME ACTORS.
Episode 3.03 -The Plateau
Alterverse episode featuring the Alt team including agent Charlie Francis.
Episode 3.04
Original world episode probably involving a hospital and ER.
According to Ausiello Files Human Target has been renewed for a second season with an order of 13 episodes.
I am happy since Human Target is a favorite show. Chance and co will be back!
Christopher Chance is the adrenaline-crazy bodyguard lead of Human Target, played by Mark Walley. I have fond memories of Mark from Boston Legal, there he was a kick ass lawyer who liked to get physical, I also liked him in Fringe season one as Olivia’s dead colleague-traitor-fiancée. Chance is an action junkie with curious powers. He appears to be able to pull almost any skill or knowledge out of his mind at any time he have the need too. One of the hooks on the show is Chances mysterious pasts. We get to know bits every other episode. Especially the season finale.
Guerro is played by Jackie Earle Haley. He is new to me. He plays a shady kick-ass information broker with awesome hacker skills and underground contacts of everlasting quantity. He is also very protective of Chase, he would and have killed to protect Chase’s secrets. But he also have secrets himself that he would do almost anything to protect. He is an interesting character, but he don’t get so much time in each episode. I would like to see more of him.
Winston played by Chi McBride. He seems to land grumpy roles all the time, he was grumpy in Boston Public and in Pushing Daisies. Here he is … grumpy. He is the guy who tries to keep some semblance of sanity in their business.
Winston and Guerro run the back research Chance needs. While Chance does the action parts as long as it is thrilling enough.
This is very much a show that caters to men, with the action and explosions and the recurring gorgeous damsels in distress that without failure falls for Chance’s James Bondish allure in the end.
It is a solid action series that keeps on growing on you, and there is a path open for more greatness, lets see if they take it. Some multi episode arcs, more of Chance’s secrets, more Guerro, keep the Damsels in Distress coming and you have me sold on next season too.
Premiere: Friday, September 23 Order: 22 episodes
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