Yes, let's have EVERYTHING in the movies and on TV be about caped crusaders with psychological complexes.

Yes, let's have EVERYTHING in the movies and on TV be about caped crusaders with psychological complexes.

The season finale of Fringe this year was completely in the can before the Season 5 renewal was announced.  Filming ended on April 10, all props were packed up for the end of the season, and the renewal was announced on April 26 (and believe me it was not a sure thing and went down to the wire). No alternative scenes…

What mysteries does Fringe really have left to explain, though?  (Except the William Bell and Observer stuff?)  I don't care about a "proper" ending for the show - I'd like to believe that Walter, Peter, Olivia and however many kids they wind up having, just run around all universes forever investigating weird shit,…

Maybe writing Fringe's creative obituary is… a bit of an overreaction?

Olivia hadn't drunk any of her wine (you can see it untouched on the table) so yeah, I think she's totally pregnant (and probably suspects it).

Fringe's season finales are always sort of like this, though.  They've always got a bit of a slapped-together, rushed, hugely expository feel, like they don't mesh well with the rest of the season.  Even "Over There," as good an episode as it was, featured the Observer showing up out of nowhere and clumsily dumping a…

It actually makes perfect sense for there to be "good" scientist Observers and "bad" political Observers - if September is a heroic Observer, it makes sense that he would be the scientific Observer who most stood for learning and curiosity (as evidenced by his curiosity getting the better of him when he interrupted…

I think the writers have done a pretty fair job of maintaining a semblance of continuity (more or less) across a complex storyline that flirts with timey-wimeyness.  There's nothing unexplained about this episode that can't be plausibly filled in later, including why the Observers have gotten so nasty (we already know…

Chris Tilton has been solely responsible for Fringe's music since the latter part of Season 1.

Actually, it was racist towards humans, and disturbingly so, since it was being addressed to Broyles, a black man.  (and I think the racial-racist undertones were intentional)

This episode is a perfect 19th episode because it is bizarrely stand-alone.  It is not going to be resolved by the end of the season, the showrunners never intended it to be resolved by the end of the season, it is a tantalizing teaser of what Season 5 might deal with… IF they get a Season 5, which is by no means…

"Meana" is what she is called by the actors on set.  (Like "Bolivia," that's the "official" name…)

Maybe we should just love the ones we're with.  :-)

The Fringe universe, where these emotional stories are staged, reminds me a lot of Star Trek universe: in order to believe what's happening - to GROK it, shall we say - you have to accept that certain things are possible which are not believed to be possible.  For Star Trek, everything hung on the existence of the…