I typed up a whole long post about why you're wrong on this, but instead here's the TL:DR version:

Hmm, I'll have to go back and check it out- must have missed the intro traffic cam shot!

The flashback to young Elias' "trip to the woods" was just a traditional flashback, not the machine's doing. Note that there were no 'swooshy sounds' & 'digital overlay' machine effects, simply a standard dissolve (iirc - it may have just been a cut).

Well, in the alt-universe Fringe Division is located on Liberty Island within the DOD offices. And the map they were looking at was only showing Manhattan, as far as I could tell. A thin excuse perhaps, but it's all I've got.

Hooray for another Victorian Hugos entry! I created an account here a while ago just to post my appreciation for these (though I never got 'round to actually posting after some problems getting my account set up).

Agreed! It really is straight up SciFi, too: no "supernatural" elements, no fantastically preposterous pseudo-science, no 'superhuman' people (or mutants) loitering about. Sure, it can get a tiny bit sappy at times (I blame Spielberg's "gotta have a family in danger" influence for that), but it's pretty compelling…

Just posted before reading your comment. Yeah, it was sometimes pretty embarrassing being a SciFi reader in the Seventies. :)

All i can say about this (as someone who lived through them) is "Hey, it was the Seventies. Some stuff happened. Most of us aren't exactly proud of it."

It says you have excellent taste in olde flash memes.

I've seen video of this place, it's very atmospheric. And Centralia actually did inspire the Silent Hill movie adaption. :D Info here: [www.imdb.com]

This one should be captioned "Get out of here, Stalker!"

McQuarrie always gives great commentary. His contributions in "Way of the Gun" are insightful and often pretty damn funny. :)

True, but I doubt that many people have read it lately which is why I mentioned it. It has the reputation of being sort of the Ulysses of SF literature.

Ooh, ooh! I got one! How about Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney? It was ahead of its time, and very good at illustrating a world gone sideways after an unnamed cataclysmic event that reads suspiciously like a collision of multiverses (before they were a popular trope). Really blew my mind as a young reader. [en.wikipedia.…

Try this (hopefully the comment code won't eat the link): [www.nbc.com]

I'm cautiously optimistic. I hadn't paid much attention to this but the preview seems smartly written and well executed. Plus, Yay B.D. Wong! For some reason I always like him in any show he's in.

I say go ahead. This doesn't spoil anything, unless you don't want to know the premise of the show (which you already know if you've read the article paragraph above :D).

I enjoyed the original show quite a lot but I really hope they don't do the 'nuclear explosion moon traveling' bit, and come up with something more plausible to replace it (happy to read that "plausible" is a concern for them!). It seemed kind of silly even when I was a teenage scifi geek watching the original, and I…

...if only to learn the details of what weapon everyone's carrying and the type of ammo it's loaded with.

I don't recall the exact details but Dale and Shane were together when Shane drew a bead on Rick with his rifle and held it for a few seconds, and Dale saw him do it. From then on Dale hasn't trusted Shane and expects the worst from him.