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Showing posts with label fringe. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009

comic-con 2009 round-up


its pretty hard to decipher from the above picture, but ABC have confirmed the above as:
Faraday, Boone, Miles, Michael, Ana Lucia, Charlotte, Shannon, Desmond, Eko, Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Locke, Ben, Sayid, Libby, Sun, Jin, Claire, Hurley, Juliet, Charlie, Frank, Richard, Bernard and Rose
I am so fucking excited. Round up of Lost, Heroes, Fringe, Doctor Who and Torchwood's panels below...

LOST
Beginning with the best, the Lost panel was pretty revelatory.
In short (from DarkUfo):
1) Parallel with S1 and S6 - DL confirms many characters from season one!
CC: Says there is a way of discovery that they will have in play in S6
2) Faraday confirmed for S6!!
3) Will we see flashbacks to characters' childhood? CC says S6 will be different. CC won't describe what that point of difference is.
4) Richard Alpert's backstory is "involved"
5) DL: Juliet WILL be in final season.
6) Q: Is Man in Black's name "Esau?" Emerson: Might be too literal--but I like the way your mind works.
7) Food drop in S2 finale might be covered... DL: "Something we'll try to address."
8) We won't see much DHARMA in S6
9) Jacob has NOT appeared as another character on the show.
10) Dominic Monaghan appeared on the panel!!!!
Read Doc jensens write up here

The major talking point was of course the virtual confirmation that Charlie (and I suspect all the characters in the above poster) will be in Season 6. I am so excited to see how this is going to work and how major their roles will be. I think Season 6 is going to be epic beyond all proportions.
Emerson, Garcia and Holloway were all at the Panel, and from the clips I've seen, were all on top form. Emerson even read a fake script from Heroes and declared "what the fuck is this?". Legend.
Here is the death reel that preceded Monaghans appearnce:


Heroes

In comparison, the Heroes panel was pretty dull...
here is a promo for season 5, Redemption:

looks like they are going ti create some new mythology again with the stupid compass thing. Gurnberg and Qinto are far too good for this show! I hope Sylar breaks out of Nathans body early on so I dont have to watch Adrian Pasdar "act" for too long.

Fringe
What we learned:
  • Kirk Avecedo (Charlie Francis) will be on season 2 extensively
  • Leonard Nimoy will return in the premiere to play William Bell
  • Pinkner virtually admitted the original plan to make the show very accessible to all audiences was now out the window. :D
That's pretty much it!!

Doctor Who
  • John Simm will return as the master in the Christmas special(s)
  • Donna and Wilf will also return!
  • River Song will return next season, in some of Matt Smiths first few episodes.
  • New Waters of Mars preview clip! watch here


Torchwood

Nothing much, just general talks about CofE's excellent reviews/reaction both UK and USA. I reckon the fact they're even having a panel suggests there will be another season.

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Sunday, 31 May 2009

Fringe Season One Review


After a decent, albeit slightly haphazard, start, Fringe began to excel around the episode 10 mark, peaking in the fantastic "Ability" (ep14) and maintaining a very high standard right up to the season finale, "There's more than one of everything".

Fringe has quickly turned into one of my favourite shows on TV, and I'm relieved there is finally something that looks as though it can fill the huge gap in my TV schedule when Lost ends after next season. Fringe does brilliantly to combine individual interesting X-File like mysterious occurences each episode with overarching sci-fi lost-esque themes. The initial episodes were good, but it looked like it could be a down the line run of the mill cop drama with some sci-fi weird events going on. By the last few episodes it was clear this was nowhere near what this show is about. Like Lost, (although Abrams has little creative input into that show anymore) the show has already changed completely from where it started. While Lost took 26 episodes for a major game changer, Fringe introduced teleportation in episode 14 and the big mysterious powerful corporation (Massive Dynamic, to Fringe what Dharma is to Lost?) was introduced very early on. William Bell (sorry to keep comparing it to Lost but...Jacob?) took one season to appear...Jacob took 5. I wont spoil the final episode, but Fringe is firmly in the sci-fi territory now, the last scene was one of the best i've ever seen. Anna Torv, playing the main character Olivia Denham, deserves alot of credit, and has improved loads over the season.Joshua Jackson, John Noble and Lance Reddick were also brilliant.
If you've not seen it, use the long summer without new TV to start. Stream it on Fox if your in the US, or ninjavideo if not. DVD is out this autumn.

Season 2 has been confirmed. Aparently Kirk Acevedo has quit or been sacked. He plays Charlie Francis, a character that has been slightly underused...
Here is the trailer for season 2, beginning september 17th on Fox



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Sunday, 18 January 2009

fringe season 1 part 2 preview


Recap of the first part of the season, character briefs, sneak peeks and more...

For the first few episodes of JJ Abrams (Lost, Alias, Cloverfield) new TV series I was skeptical. It was a nice idea, and very interesting, but the events seemed to be almost isolated and the story appeared to lack direction. But eps 7-9 were stunning and the finale of part 1 was brilliant. It has great cast, and now with a full season scheduled I am expecting big things from Fringe.
Episode recaps:
Pilot: Read/watch
The Same Old Story: Read/Watch
The Ghost Network: Read/Watch
The Arrival: Read/Watch
Power Hungry: Read/Watch
The Cure: Read/Watch
In Which We Meet Mr. Jones: Read/Watch
The Equation: Read/Watch
The Dreamscape: Read/Watch
Safe: Read/Watch
I need a good reminder myself!
Characters:
Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv): The heroin of the show, an FBI agent assigned to investigate the mysterious Pattern.
Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson): Very intelligent son of Walter, owing money/ in trouble with shady characters from his past.
Walter Bishop (John Noble): Eccentric, slightly mad scientific researcher/mental patient heavily involved with Fringe science experimentation in the past.
Broyles (Lance Reddick): In charge of the special task force investigating the pattern. As with all of Reddicks characters, there is alot more to Broyles than meets the eyes.
John Scott: (Mark Valley): Introduced as a big hero, and lover of Olivia, only to be killed off in the pilot. He still pops up all over the place, and his mortality is most definately in question. Killing off the lead in ep1 is what Abrams reportedly wanted to do with Jack in Lost, oh and his consistent appearances as a Ghost/supernatural being are also reminiscent of numerous visions in Lost...
Nina Sharp (Blair Brown): Chief Operator of the mysterious, powerful and very involved with the pattern Massive Dynamic (Dharma anyone?).
The Observer (Michael Cerveris): Crazy mysterious, appears in every episode.
Other characters: Main/Recurring/Guest

Airdates:
111: Bound: January 20th
112: The No-Brainer: January 27th
113: The Transformation: TBA

Preview for "Bound"

Sneak peek #1

sneak peek #2

Check out these 2 great fansites:
Fringepedia
Fringetelevision

Fringe returns January 20th on Fox/unknown airdate on Sky1

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