Fringe Thread

[Donut]

I can't figure out if there's something else in there too..

Batman

Duh

 

[SuperSoldier985]

Impossible

Duh

 

[Donut]

Impossible

Duh

Nothing is impossible

 

[The Sage]

I really liked last night's episode. So great to have Peter back. And the subplot was good, reminded me of the White Tulip episode on 2nd episode. I wonder if he really will return to his original timeline

 

[Prison Mike]

So the universe we've been watching is a different one from the original? I believed it was ours to begin with but just with no Peter. I guess it would make sense if it a different one altogether.

 

[Marvin]

I was laughing at all the possible things that could have been written in that book.

What's the best way to get this lonely guy to loose interest lol.

 

[Kaleb]

One thing that bugged me about last nights episode,since when did Peter have a background in quantum Physics?,I got a little confused when he was writing on the boards.

 

[DIRECTOR]

Lol

Another LOST reference in last nights episode

"Constants and Variables"....... Daniel Faraday anyone?

Is Peter turning into an Observer, because he just demonstrated time jumps.

 

[Prison Mike]

I really felt bad for Peter in this episode when he finally realized that he doesn't belong in that world.

 

[Kaleb]

I really felt bad for Peter in this episode when he finally realized that he doesn't belong in that world.

Same here,for someone who doesn't think highly of Joshua Jacksons acting,I thought he was really good in this episode.

 

[Prison Mike]

For some reason, I always think about that Funny or Die video he did where he stated he only does Fringe to fund his Dawson Creek fan fiction.

 

[Still Wynning]

One thing that bugged me about last nights episode,since when did Peter have a background in quantum Physics?,I got a little confused when he was writing on the boards.

I think Peter's always been somewhat of a scientific mind. It's just that he doesn't really show if off too much. I remember reading somewhere that he has an IQ of 190, so that would explain his sudden genius.

Is Peter turning into an Observer, because he just demonstrated time jumps.

I think you're onto something there. Though, didn't Olivia experience a little Deja Vu in the last episode?

If that's the case, why are Peter and Olivia the only ones aware of experiencing these time-related incidents, and not anyone else?

 

[Donut]

TPTB did say they would be introducing a third reality. This season might be that third reality

 

[Donut]

That might have been one of the worst fall finales of all time

 

[Prison Mike]

I wouldn't call it "worst" but nothing major really happened aside from Olivia/Lincoln. The preview of the episodes coming up in January look fantastic, though.

 

[Donut]

I wouldn't call it "worst" but nothing major really happened aside from Olivia/Lincoln. The preview of the episodes coming up in January look fantastic, though.

When the best part of any type of finale is the preview for what is to come. Then that show needs new writers

 

[Sawyer]

I have a feeling that that wasn't originally supposed to be the fall finale. Either way, it wasn't the "worst" anything and the show definitely doesn't need new writers.

 

[carrrnuttt]

I have a feeling that that wasn't originally supposed to be the fall finale.

Don't forget, we're short an episode because of god-forsaken baseball.

 

[Kaleb]

Lol

Another LOST reference in last nights episode

"Constants and Variables"....... Daniel Faraday anyone?

Is Peter turning into an Observer, because he just demonstrated time jumps.

I was thinking this very thing a while back, but what if the Observer (we know of) is indeed Peter ( I will explain later on)

 

[Sawyer]

Don't forget, we're short an episode because of god-forsaken baseball.

Yeah, but they could've simply rearranged their schedule and put on the next episode the week after Thanksgiving.

 

[carrrnuttt]

Yeah, but they could've simply rearranged their schedule and put on the next episode the week after Thanksgiving.

They didn't. And that's not Fringe's fault, for those complaining about the fall "finale."

 

[uforock]

it's another sports event get in the way (college basketball this time)

 

[Prison Mike]

I think sports trump Fringe in viewership

 

[elgaz]

I'm a little confused as to how this could be a third reality.

We had the original Fringe reality.

Then the alt-world.

But wasn't it the original reality Peter disappeared from at the end of last season? That implies this is still the original reality, just with a slightly different chain of time because of Peter's absence.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.tvline.com/2011/11/fringe-season-4-final-season-ratings/

Is Fringe In Its Final Season? Studio Boss Surveys the Far-Out Series' Future

Peter Bishop might want to think about not existing again, because the ratings for Fringe are getting kinda scary — and not in a cool translucent skin, third-arm-sticking-out-of-my-collided-selves’-chest kind of way. And yet another Peter — Warner Bros. TV president Peter Roth — says it’s too early for fans of the far-out series to freak out.
During its first season, when it aired on Tuesdays (sometimes leading out of a little show called American Idol), Fringe averaged 10 million total viewers and was known to score a 4.0 rating, if not higher, with the coveted 18-49 crowd. But in the show’s third year, Fox relocated the sci-fier from Thursdays to Fridays, and, well, we all know how that goes. The Season 4 opener this September drew 3.5 million viewers and a 1.5 rating, and at last count, heading into its winter hiatus, Fringe fell below the 3-million viewer threshold for the first time, while matching its all-time low rating of 1.1 (set a week earlier).

Still, Roth, whose Warner Bros. TV produces Fringe, tells TVLine, “It’s too soon to tell” if fans should brace for this being the final season.

Rather, Roth is holding out hope that one of the “x” factors that kept Fringe Division’s doors open last spring at renewal time comes into play again — that being the Friday night drama’s unparalleled increases through Live+7 DVR playback. This season-to-date, Fringe is averaging a 54-percent bump in the demo once everyone’s DVRs are cleared, and a 50-percent gain in total audience (a surge only edged out by Chuck, which happens to be another WBTV property.)

“This is a show on Friday nights that audiences love to DVR, and as such we shoot up anywhere from 40 to 63 percent, when you calculate the Live+7,” Roth points out. “Hopefully that will be good enough for us to continue.”

However, Fringe‘s laudable Live+7 performance — which by the way is of not much consequence to advertisers whose commercials are being fast-forwarded during playback — was but one of the reasons it eked out a Season 4 pick-up last May. There was also the matter of WBTV reportedly reducing the licensing fee for the show, and the fact that come decision time Fox had other underperforming hour-longs (Human Target, Lie to Me, The Good Guys) to eye for the chopping block. But next time around, unless the Bones spin-off The Finder or Kiefer Sutherland’s Touch open very soft at midseason, only an extremely sweet deal from WBTV might keep Fox’s scythe from swinging Fringe’s way.

As Robert Seidman, co-founder of TVByTheNumbers.com, explains, “Last year Warner Bros.’ wheeling and dealing to get Fringe to 88 episodes for stripped syndication was surely a much bigger factor than DVR viewing or that Fox had a Friday scripted show (The Good Guys) that performed much worse, so there’ll be a higher degree of difficulty for a fifth-season renewal.”

Even the temptation to order a 13-episode fifth and final season for Fringe — if only to get the show past the 100-episode mark — might not be enticing enough for either party. As Seidman notes, “Serialized shows don’t do well in syndication.”

That said, Seidman (who last season was bearish on the show’s renewal prospects, only to be proven wrong) must allow, “It is Fringe, so anything is possible, even in this universe” — especially should the show scare up a ratings bump when it comes back Jan. 13 with the arrival/return of a very big baddie. “But for the fans’ sake, if this is to be the final season, I hope the producers are given enough lead-time to wrap things up nicely.”

Don't you ****ing think about it, FOX.