Again for those that might have lived in a cavern over the past several years, I am writing about Fox's sf series Fringe. Staring Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham, Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop, John Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop and a cast that enjoyed many recurring as well as regular appearing characters. Check out the wikipedia here.
Fringe is a secret government project that investigates very odd and strange occurrences that don't make any sense. This in itself is a twisted plot device. At first they are attacks from possibly a parallel dimension, but there are other things going on that point to very strange individuals, from someplace even stranger!
What it comes down to is that in it's run, Fringe is and was a very smart program. Even when there were occurrences the science seemed so plausible even if it does fall under the general field covered by as Rucker calls bogocity generators (I just LOVE that term!)
Now a lot of shows did what Fringe did....but no where did they dare do it all at the same time. Not that Fringe didn't have plot arcs, because it did, but they were like Russian nesting dolls, one inside another.
Yes, it was a very smart program and one that I put off ending as long as I could. For those of you that would like to catch up on fringe you can find it on Hulu and Fox. If you haven't seen the last season or the last few programs, you own it to yourself.
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