Fox's Sci-fi drama Fringe is coming to an end. This we've known for at least a year, since Fox representatives were never shy of trashing the show publicly.
At one point, the show was going to be 'hard canceled'; you know, ripped away from our screens without a warning - or a plot resolution.
But something caused the suits to relent, just enough to allow the series to wrap up in a way that would be satisfactory to its diehard fans. Or so it was hoped.
Just this week It was revealed the very next episode to be aired would be the series' last; a two-hour wind-up of all the mystery contained in those years of episodes gone by. Apparently the whole season was too much to ask, or perhaps Fox has some other ailing show to place on the Friday night deathwatch, and can't wait for the space.
In any event, the scene has been set for a 'Lost'- like fiasco that will leave nobody happy except the bean counters. Expect the writers, confronted with such a task of compression, to resort to narrative, rapid scene shifting, flashbacks, and every other cliche they can use to 'get 'er done. I suspect it will all have been a dream, or whatever passes for such in a universe of ever-shifting realities.
Walter, Peter, Astrid, the whole Fringe division (of both universes), and most of all Olivia, don't deserve such a fate.
At one point, the show was going to be 'hard canceled'; you know, ripped away from our screens without a warning - or a plot resolution.
But something caused the suits to relent, just enough to allow the series to wrap up in a way that would be satisfactory to its diehard fans. Or so it was hoped.
Just this week It was revealed the very next episode to be aired would be the series' last; a two-hour wind-up of all the mystery contained in those years of episodes gone by. Apparently the whole season was too much to ask, or perhaps Fox has some other ailing show to place on the Friday night deathwatch, and can't wait for the space.
In any event, the scene has been set for a 'Lost'- like fiasco that will leave nobody happy except the bean counters. Expect the writers, confronted with such a task of compression, to resort to narrative, rapid scene shifting, flashbacks, and every other cliche they can use to 'get 'er done. I suspect it will all have been a dream, or whatever passes for such in a universe of ever-shifting realities.
Walter, Peter, Astrid, the whole Fringe division (of both universes), and most of all Olivia, don't deserve such a fate.
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