I think maybe there's a confusion of terms here. Yes, current science is as it is and always will be clearly 'doesn't need saving'. No one's undermining that unless the world somehow forgets all that we understand and have achieved.

It certainly worked with the Iraq War.

I have to disagree with this argument. There is no proof of substance that the religious or the non-religious are any more or less restrained or virtuous when it comes to the greater good. Religion doesn't curb selfish or aggressive behavior anymore than non-religion does.

I guess that's kind of a larger question: Are pop culture heroes equal to religious figures when it comes to devotional fans? Is the fervor similar? And are the old icons being abandoned in exchange?

In the US, especially with regards to public education? It absolutely does.

It bears repeating that Fox's devotion to Fringe, a show that's been losing a fair amount of money, is really extraordinary, and a sign that Kevin Reilly or someone over there really does love the notion of a quirky show about weird science.

Please do your fellow io9ers a courtesy and bury your spoilers—about a final scene— in a reply to your original post.

Its rectory?

Pics or it didn't happen!

Holy crap! I did not put that together until you mentioned it. :-O

I would love to see a map of a Miltonian Hell done by Mignola.

Beep beep SMASH!

I have to agree with this concern. Advertising influence over reviews has far more power here than in the UK.

Obligatory nostalgia.

If Leno has anything to do with this show, I'd just as soon avoid it. The guy's about as funny as a cancer diagnosis.

Absolutely agree. I have no doubts whatsoever it was a better-safe-than-sorry precaution.

Context, especially in the case of this article and its headline, is key.

Totally. But there's a bit of blurring in Ella's statements. Mentions of a mushroom cloud and Geiger counters.

Just to emphasize... this was NOT an atomic explosion.

The last vid was only a little less bad. But man....