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Post by genpop40 on Sept 9, 2008 16:37:26 GMT -5
Tonight's the night Fringe airs it's pilot episode...and as far as I can tell they are just calling it Pilot...so creative. Discuss the episode here.
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Post by genpop40 on Sept 9, 2008 16:45:11 GMT -5
This pilot is 1 hr and 35 minutes long...what a random length....lol.
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Post by {~}:Wendy:{~} on Sept 10, 2008 10:03:12 GMT -5
Did anyone watch this?? How was it?? Should I give it a shot?
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Post by genpop40 on Sept 10, 2008 10:55:46 GMT -5
I LOVED it!!!!!!!!!! It's a complete combination of X-files and Lost. It even has the same Lost music and camera work. Of course, like PB, there is a lot of set-up to do with the pilot so it was probably slower paced than it will be in the future. Really a good show, though!! I definitely think you should give it a shot.
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Post by Bryce on Sept 10, 2008 11:10:38 GMT -5
I have it DVred and I am DYING to watch it! now even more!
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Post by Denisa on Sept 10, 2008 11:34:41 GMT -5
This pilot is 1 hr and 35 minutes long...what a random length....lol. 1 hr and 35 minutes??
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Sept 10, 2008 15:42:13 GMT -5
I LOVED it!!!!!!!!!! It's a complete combination of X-files and Lost. It even has the same Lost music and camera work. Of course, like PB, there is a lot of set-up to do with the pilot so it was probably slower paced than it will be in the future. Really a good show, though!! I definitely think you should give it a shot. OMG I LOVED IT TOO!!!!!!!! lol I noticed it has the same kind of music as Lost and I was almost sick watching the first part lmao it was so much better then I expected I think you should definately give it a shot.
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Post by Denisa on Sept 13, 2008 2:09:41 GMT -5
i still haven't seen the whole episode just the first 20 minutes! it wasn't that great though! im gonna finish it as soon as i can
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Sept 13, 2008 18:54:47 GMT -5
^^
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Post by Denisa on Sept 14, 2008 3:33:21 GMT -5
yeah... im waiting the next episode
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Sept 15, 2008 16:23:36 GMT -5
^^ YEAH!!!! Im so glad you like it better now dee lol
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Post by Denisa on Sept 15, 2008 16:33:08 GMT -5
well a lil better! if the second season doesn't surprise me than im gonna quit watching it lol
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Post by Bryce on Sept 15, 2008 19:17:58 GMT -5
This pilot is 1 hr and 35 minutes long...what a random length....lol. 1 hr and 35 minutes?? It came out that funky time because they had such few episodes in between. I assume that if they had the normal amount of commercials it would have been a bit longer..
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Post by Bryce on Sept 15, 2008 19:21:28 GMT -5
I official LOVED this episode.. It has taken me a while to watch the episode but it was way worth it! I never watched X-files but I was always a huge Pacey and JJ Abrams fan( Cough *alias* cough) so It didn't surprise me when I saw how kick ass the show turned out to be ..It has the same shock elements as Alias did at the beginning and I honestly think Joshua look way hotter now than he did when he was on Dawson's Creek .. hope everyone like the show!
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Post by Bryce on Sept 15, 2008 19:34:27 GMT -5
Warming do not watch if you haven't seen itFringe Burning Questions Answered!Fringe executive producer Roberto Orci (he of Transformers fame) gave me the official word on some of your burning questions about Tuesday's premiere episode. His answers were at times enlightening, at times frustrating, and, frankly, mostly kind of weird, all apropos for a show that sprung from the odd, fertile mind of J.J. Abrams. — Mickey O'Connor What's up with those symbols (leaf, frog, etc.) that appear before commercial breaks? Are they some kind of puzzle that we're supposed to "figure out"? Well, not exactly. "They are all things that look natural, but have more to them; they've been altered," says Orci. For now, he advises only that you note the order in which they appear on the series. For the record, so far we've only seen the leaf, which was floating around inside the Massive Dynamic handprint scanner in the final scene.
Why was Walter Bishop institutionalized in the first place? Sure, he's eccentric, but most of the time he seems perfectly lucid. "He's certainly not cured of his ailments," Orci warns. "There will always be two steps forward, one step back [with Walter]." He said that viewers should be asking themselves: Was Walter's therapy in his best interest? How will being away from that therapy affect him? "If he seems lucid, it's just a fake comfort zone to put the audience in," he says.
Why do they have a cow in the lab? I know they said something about similar DNA, but why not a monkey or rats like they usually have in a lab? "The question is, who is the cow really working for?" Orci jokes. He echoes what Peter Bishop says in the script: A cow is an ethical test subject, and its blood was used to synthesize the concoctions that saved Agent Scott's life. It probably doesn't hurt that walking a cow through the hallowed halls of Harvard makes for better TV than, say, a cage of rats.
Who is going to play Dr. William Bell? And when will we meet him? J.J. said it'll be before the end of Season 1. "Even the actor who is going to play William Bell doesn't know that they're William Bell yet," he says, choosing his words very carefully and cryptically avoiding a gender-specific pronoun. (Note: He didn't say they haven't found the actor who will play Dr. Bell, although I suppose that could also be true.) Nevertheless, I press on. Has the actor been contracted for an unspecified role? "Not necessarily." Are they just overconfident that the actor will accept? "I think it's even more cryptic than that." Have we already met William Bell? "No." Um, OK, huh...? "It's a closely guarded secret," he says. Yeah, no kidding! My snap-judgment guess: Dr. Bell is now a cyborg.
When is Greg Grunberg going to show up? He's not scheduled to appear yet, but never say never. Of course, Abrams' reputed good luck charm (he played the doomed pilot who gets eaten by the monster in Lost) has a full-time gig over on NBC's Heroes, so Orci jokes that he'll appear on Fringe "as soon as they kill him off."
Any chance the show's cool title cards ("Essex County, Massachusetts," etc.) were created by the same people who did the opening credits of David Fincher's Panic Room? They look similar. Nope. As he did with Lost, Abrams designed the titles himself, which were then rendered by visual effects supervisor Kevin Blank, a longtime Abrams associate.
Will there be flashbacks to a) Walter's research days or b) Peter's unsavory past? While Orci says that flashbacks are "not part of the DNA of what we've constructed," he allows that there might be episodes that deal with the Bishops' backstories anecdotally, but they will be contained, not a series of flashbacks over time.
What did they use to make Mark Valley's skin look so gross and translucent? Like those long-suffering Sports Illustrated models who have their swimsuits painted on, Valley endured some time in the chair as the effects of his mystery illness were essentially (temporarily) tattooed on his skin. "We wanted to be able to see the actor breathing," says Orci.
While we're on the subject, Mark is a cast regular, despite his last scene ending with him on a gurney with a sheet drawn over his face. Is he dead, alive, or does it even matter? Orci answers my question with a question. "Does [Agent Scott] live on merely in Olivia's mind, solely as a memory, or something else?" While Nina Sharp's final words — "Question him" — might indicate that Scott will be reanimated in some way, Orci says not so fast, Frankenstein. "She may have some technology to read his brain — while it's still fresh."
Do planes really land themselves at Logan Airport? Apparently, planes can land themselves! According to Orci, the technology has existed since World War II, but isn't often used in commercial aviation.
I don't understand the twins' suicide mission... why would they want to kill everyone on board? "Who says they're twins?" asks Orci of the two identical men, which makes my head explode. "Are they clones?" I ask. "I didn't say that!" he responds helpfully except not really at all. Clones? Oy, I need to lie down.
How did they film that scene with Blair Brown's cool robot arm? Does it have any unusual features or abilities? Brown wore a "green screen" sleeve; the arm's Lucite casing and its intricate guts were rendered with CGI. Nevertheless, Orci assures me that there's nothing more to the quixotic Nina Sharp's iArm (it looks like Apple designed it, right?) than a standard medical prosthesis.
Is the Massive Dynamic headquarters a real building? Both the interior and the exterior looked way CGI to me. Here's a tricky answer. In the early preview version of the pilot that I watched, MD's HQ looked an awful lot like the spiky forms of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto (see photo here). Orci says that since production has moved to New York City, Massive Dynamic has been recast, and will be played by a young, up-and-coming actor named World Trade Center 7 (photo here). He did say that the building's futuristic interior graphics and animation were their addition for the TV show. Hey, guess what? Massive Dynamic has a Web site! Let the conspiracy theories begin!
How often will Lance Reddick appear, and has his casting on Fringe changed his role on Lost at all? Reddick is in every episode, says Orci, but will still have time to hop over to Hawaii to shoot his appearances on Lost. "We have a good relationship with those Lost people," he deadpans, about Abrams' other series. He goes on to say that Reddick's casting on Fringe was done with full knowledge of his Lost obligations.
Will Olivia Dunham ever crack a smile? "Not if we can help it," snarks Orci. "As you know, we like to make women cry," an apparent reference to Jennifer Garner's teary Sydney Bristow on Alias. Source Here
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Post by Denisa on Sept 16, 2008 5:42:17 GMT -5
1 hr and 35 minutes?? It came out that funky time because they had such few episodes in between. I assume that if they had the normal amount of commercials it would have been a bit longer.. that mean each episode will have 1 hr and 35 mins
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Sept 16, 2008 14:44:53 GMT -5
^^ Thats such a random time lol ;D
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Post by Denisa on Sept 16, 2008 16:01:20 GMT -5
its too much for a tv show!
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Post by *~ Caz ~* on Sept 16, 2008 17:35:16 GMT -5
Definately. But the first episode was ok i really enjoyed it but it could get to much.
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Post by Bryce on Sept 16, 2008 18:39:17 GMT -5
no each episode from now on will be only one hour episodes... I really do think it was just a way to get people hooked onto the show..
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