Fringe: "The Day We Died" - Season finale 3/22 on FOX

[Jax]

It's being reported that Seth Gabel is being promoted to series regular for season four.

Not surprising

 

[Mistral]

It's being reported that Seth Gabel is being promoted to series regular for season four.

Sorry, who?

 

[Aragorn]

Not Charlie. The other guy -- Lincoln.

 

[Mr Light]

So I just saw the finale. What the hell was that? We spend an entire season building up this storyline... and the final episode is a alt-future what-if story with characters who don't exist? Extremely disappointing. I was really liking this season, but that finale was a complete let down.

And what's up with that cliffhanger? Peter doesn't exist anymore?

 

[BenRoethig]

It's being reported that Seth Gabel is being promoted to series regular for season four.

It would be interested to see the two radically different versions of Lincoln meet.

 

[P0sitr0nic]

Thats awesome news.

 

[JD]

I'm glad to here Gable will be around sticking around, I really like the Lincolns.

 

[label]

It's being reported that Seth Gabel is being promoted to series regular for season four.

Good. That's something that really should have happened this season. Lincoln (on the other side) was a great addition to the team.

 

[DarthPipes]

I'm glad. He's a good character in both universes and earned his status as a series regular.

 

[Nusent]

I really think the observers are the first peoples... also, it makes a little sense that they are the ones who manifested Peter the entire time in order to push the fringe people to their destiny. "He never existed" and "He served his purpose" supports this theory.

 

[Jax]

A NBC Pilot "Prime Suspect" has been picked up and I hear Kirk Acevedo aka Charlie is in the show so does that mean he won't appear in Season 4 or be killed off again early

 

[JD]

He could still pop up in the occaisional guest role here and there. I've been surprised how many people who have a regular role on one show have popped up on another, like Breakout Kings' Serinda Swan being on Hawaii Five 0 a few episodes back, and Nikita's Lyndsy Fonesca contining to play The Daughter on How I Met Your Mother.

 

[Mistral]

latest word:

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-fie...-h-wyman-discuss-the-fringe-finale-and-future

 

[startrekwatcher]

That interview reminds me of the interviews Lindelof and Cuse would give during LOST so I think Fringe is heading down the same road to disappointment.

There are two types of viewers: There are the viewers who are going to sit down and they're gonna watch a show because they're invested in the characters and then there's the person who's going to follow the mythology. Our fans, our hardcore fans, the ones who followed us over to Friday and have been with us, they let us know loud and clear, "We're not really interested in the monster-of-the-week format. We don't respond to that. We want just mythology."

Hello! The only viewers you have are the hardcore fans--just look at the horrible ratings and they are telling you they aren't interested in the monster of the week format yet you continue to give them that.

 

[spocksbrain]

I'm going to ask this question again sine no one replied.


My toughest part of the episode was Peter ceasing to exist. If so, what was the common ground that led to Walter and Walternate being at odds? And if there is now 2 joined rifts under Liberty Island-who do they think is responsible for creating them. Walter is brilliant enough to hypothesize that there must have been a person who no longer exists that played a part in the unfolding of events. He might even be able to realize it was some form of time traveler. Where they take it from there will be interesting to see.

ed.-Screenrant.com has some spoilers/answers if you want to read their brief article....

This is a very important point, but it goes much farther: it's not just that Walter and Walternate would no longer be at odds, but if Peter never existed: there would be no holes in the universes, there would be no operational machine (since it took Peter's blood via the baby's blood to start it up), there would be no cross-universe meeting (as at the end of the episode), the baby no longer exists, Walter would not be out of the insane asylum (or, perhaps, he never was insane in the first place, so now he's a totally different character), the Fringe division on our side would be totally different since Peter contributed to so many missions, even saving the lives of everyone on more than one occasion ... and so on and so forth. Unless the writers choose to completely defy logic, absolutely nothing that we've seen thus far or that existed at all would still be the same without Peter's existence.

 

[Jax]

Hello! The only viewers you have are the hardcore fans--just look at the horrible ratings and they are telling you they aren't interested in the monster of the week format yet you continue to give them that.

They know how lucky they were to get a 4th season, which still could be reduced by a few episodes. The 4th season is going to be it so I would expect a heavy mythology based season 4 to wrap up the show. If I remember from a post in the TV & Media stwatcher your not going to watch season 4 so no need to worry on the season 4 format

 

[Mr. Adventure]

A bit off-topic but I started playing Heavenly Sword on the PS3 and found the lead character voiced by Anna Torv. I found it kind of a funny little bonus now that Fringe has ended.

 

[startrekwatcher]

Hello! The only viewers you have are the hardcore fans--just look at the horrible ratings and they are telling you they aren't interested in the monster of the week format yet you continue to give them that.

They know how lucky they were to get a 4th season, which still could be reduced by a few episodes. The 4th season is going to be it so I would expect a heavy mythology based season 4 to wrap up the show. If I remember from a post in the TV & Media stwatcher your not going to watch season 4 so no need to worry on the season 4 format

That's right--no more Fringe for me--which is a good thing since there are so many new potentially interesting sff coming out in the fall--The River, Alcatraz etc. Besides I've been disappointed so often by poor endings to the mythology shows that I don't want to be screwed over again by Fringe.

 

[Checkmate]

See you next season.

 

[JD]

I'm going to ask this question again sine no one replied.


My toughest part of the episode was Peter ceasing to exist. If so, what was the common ground that led to Walter and Walternate being at odds? And if there is now 2 joined rifts under Liberty Island-who do they think is responsible for creating them. Walter is brilliant enough to hypothesize that there must have been a person who no longer exists that played a part in the unfolding of events. He might even be able to realize it was some form of time traveler. Where they take it from there will be interesting to see.

ed.-Screenrant.com has some spoilers/answers if you want to read their brief article....

This is a very important point, but it goes much farther: it's not just that Walter and Walternate would no longer be at odds, but if Peter never existed: there would be no holes in the universes, there would be no operational machine (since it took Peter's blood via the baby's blood to start it up), there would be no cross-universe meeting (as at the end of the episode), the baby no longer exists, Walter would not be out of the insane asylum (or, perhaps, he never was insane in the first place, so now he's a totally different character), the Fringe division on our side would be totally different since Peter contributed to so many missions, even saving the lives of everyone on more than one occasion ... and so on and so forth. Unless the writers choose to completely defy logic, absolutely nothing that we've seen thus far or that existed at all would still be the same without Peter's existence.

Yeah, but did he never exsisted or did he simply cease to exist? If he ceased to exist, then perhaps everything that he did still happened, and no one remembers it.