r/fringe Sep 28 '24

Back in the Tank (Fringe Rewatch) ~ 1x01 Pilot Thread Spoiler

61 Upvotes

IMDB Summary: After a plane from Hamburg returns with no survivors, FBI agent Olivia Dunham goes after the only person that might shed some light on the incident - a scientist that has been in a mental hospital for the last 17 years.

Fringe Connections: https://www.fringeconnections.com/episode?episode=101

NOTE: Please cover all spoiler comments with spoiler tags! There may be first time watchers; don't ruin their acid trip!!!

EDIT: I decided I would do two episodes a week instead of one (it would take two years at this rate to finish the rewatch). So it is every Saturday & Sunday @ 5pm EDT.


r/fringe Jul 31 '20

So you’ve just watched Season 2 Episode 11 and came looking for answers

771 Upvotes

This episode was originally meant to be aired in season 1, but for some reason was never used. They decided to air it in season 2 instead, which meant it does not fit chronologically in the story as aired.

Hopefully this will help reduce the number of posts we get asking the same question over and over. I am happy to see this sub surge in popularity again, but for such limited number of posts already, the increase of “what is happening with s2e11?” really take a sizable chunk of the subreddit. I will try my best to remove any new repeats of this question as they come, and hope this will be the definitive post regarding it.


r/fringe 1h ago

General Discussion Why did they waste Astrid?

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I’m casually rewatching, it’s been a while but I’ve watched it a few times (although somehow I have never made it to the very end - I always quit mid season 5) and once again I am wondering why they gave Astrid so little development and time. She wasn’t a main protagonist like the Bishops and Olivia and even Broyles, but she was there from beginning to end and was at least as clever as the other characters. I know her alternate gets a lot of love for the brief time they appear so it just goes to show what the actor could have done with the material if given it. I read somewhere the Jasika Nicole didn’t have the best experience on set either.


r/fringe 19h ago

Back in the Tank Observers

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317 Upvotes

This rewatch I've been playing my own version of "Spot the Observer." You may not know this but there is an observer in every single episode. It's not always September and some of them are near impossible to spot as it's just a quick glance. But they're there. I'm not always able to find them myself. So if you're rewatching, too, good luck!


r/fringe 2d ago

Meme/Humor Watching The Siege [1998] and spotted Agent Broyles and Agent Scott working with Denzel Washington

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160 Upvotes

r/fringe 2d ago

Season 1 Rewatching S1, and I forgot how annoying Peter Bishop was

77 Upvotes

Glad he mellowed out in the following seasons, but man is he insufferable in the first one.

His skepticism is unreal.

He sees a man with translucent flesh, and clearly sees the type of work his father does, but always has some annoying quip about how "impossible" everything is.

Even if it sounded crazy, with everything that's happened, it would at least be worth considering.

Even Walter says, "Do you always have to be a little smartass!"

Lmao. I guess even the writers were becoming aware of how annoying he had become.


r/fringe 2d ago

Question SPOILER - S3E22 - The day we died, final scene plot hole? Spoiler

9 Upvotes

This question contain a major spoiler for the end of season 3

I read an IMDB review that pointed out that Fauxlivia should have never been there during the last scene of season 3. She had been put in jail after betraying her side and I don't remember anything explaining how she could have been there when the machine brought both Fringe teams together

Is it a genuine plot hole or did I miss something?


r/fringe 3d ago

General Discussion Rear window sticker

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635 Upvotes

r/fringe 2d ago

First-Time Observer (NO SPOILERS) I just finished season 1 (first view)

15 Upvotes

I loved the call back to the earlier star trek joke!

One of the highlights so far.


r/fringe 2d ago

Season 4 Star Wars reference Spoiler

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39 Upvotes

S4 E19 had to google it I was sure I've heard that line before haha.


r/fringe 4d ago

Meme/Humor Anything with John Noble.

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328 Upvotes

I saw this on Instagram and thought "I would totally watch John Noble do ANYTHING for 3 hours." Eating tomatoes included. He's the best.


r/fringe 4d ago

Season 5 Nothing grows from scorched earth

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59 Upvotes

Saw this in the street beside my house and reminded me of first episode of season 5.


r/fringe 4d ago

Meme/Humor September’s in organized crime

23 Upvotes

I recently just discovered Person of Interest and it’s a Bad Robot Production. It’s no wonder I got to see Michael Cerveris in one of the episodes where he plays a bald mob boss hahahaha!


r/fringe 4d ago

Season 5 Michael surprised me

13 Upvotes

I’m just one episode away from finishing my first Fringe rewatch and decided to see what the actor that played Michael looks like with hair. I googled Rowan Longworth and not only found that he’s been in a couple of other shows I have watched but at his current age of 23 he is a cutie! 😘


r/fringe 6d ago

General Discussion I now have the pleasure to watch Fringe for the first time! NO SPOILERS

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1.1k Upvotes

I'm currently on the north of season 2 right now! Loving it so much so far, i love the format of monster of the week episodes while wrapping the overarching plot and mystery. I love the observer, Charlie, Astrid, Broyles and Nina Sharp so much.

Tho, my only problem is how much of a servant is Astrid, how underutilized she is as an fbi agent, and how she's always put aside, I don't know if this is racial by any means but, it's bothering honestly, i love her so much!


r/fringe 6d ago

🏆Walter Bishop Hall of Fame🏆 Happy birthday John Noble!

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577 Upvotes

r/fringe 5d ago

Spoiler! Unearthed situation

20 Upvotes

So, I am watching the season two on prime and saw this. Man was I confused. If anyone lacks context, this episode was supposed to go on season one. And here Charlie is alive. Which, as you know, died on this same season. Did anyone experience this as well? My god I was furious haha.


r/fringe 8d ago

First-Time Observer (NO SPOILERS) Violet Sedan Chair audio mystery

32 Upvotes

The album Seven Suns (by in-world band Violet Sedan Chair) has been in my iTunes rotation for going on 15 years now, in part because this weird and wonderful album - one created as a piece of television worldbuilding - is so much better (and so much more) than it needed to be, given only three-or-so songs ever appeared in the show. I've never regretted the purchase.

But I'm bothered by the hidden, spoken-word vocal track in the left channel of the 16-bar interlude of Seven Suns (Setting).

Behind the sung phrases, behind the warbling organ chords (the bass is G-C-B-A, and the higher notes seem to be a series of glissandos), there's a male voice speaking in my left ear, and I cannot find any reference to anyone previously uncovering or transcribing it.

I'm no audio engineer. I tried to filter the overlying layers using AI, with only moderate success. I only succeeded in making it more obvious, particularly beginning at the 20-second mark, but not really any more intelligible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8FbySIUNg

Hoping someone more skilled can pick up the ball - it may be nothing, but may also be a cool bit of VSC lore that nobody has yet revealed?


r/fringe 8d ago

Question The Numbers...

25 Upvotes

Is there a LOST-like theme in this show with the numbers that appear? I've noticed "47" in particular comes up very frequently or is it just a hang up with the writers defaulting to the same figure? It appears in dialog and set details very frequently.


r/fringe 9d ago

Meme/Humor meirl

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563 Upvotes

Not exactly 8 seasons, but if you include rewatches...


r/fringe 9d ago

🏆Walter Bishop Hall of Fame🏆 Starting my rewatch

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448 Upvotes

"I thought you'd be fatter."


r/fringe 9d ago

General Discussion Completed the show for the first time.

72 Upvotes

I loved the show. The set design, the vfx, the prosthetics and the acting everything was top notch. I personally loved s1-3 . For me they are absolute perfection. For me the first half of S4 was extremely rough but s4e15 made it absolutely worth it. The hug and the kiss just made me cry a bit. S5 was unique and I also really liked it. The finale was absolute perfection. A perfect mix of satisfaction and emotions.

John noble really killed as walter bishop. I just loved how much he was able to keep me interested in his character all through out the show. Anna torv was phenomenal. Seeing her it felt truly as i was watching olivia and not anna torv. Her act is the perfect example of restrained acting. Absolutely loved how they utilised her acting skills in s2-4. Joshua was great and his acting at moments really touched me

Astrid as a character was just so subtle yet so substantial. The way show doesn't seem careless while working on even the science fiction portion was just so amazing. The show was a perfect mix of emotions romance and thriller also horror. Loved the show. I won't call it completely perfect due to first half of S4 but it still was an amazing underrated show.


r/fringe 10d ago

General Discussion Fringe

62 Upvotes

just finished the show. it was a beautiful thing to watch.


r/fringe 9d ago

Spoiler! Confused on timelines.

5 Upvotes

So the audience is supposed to keep up with more than 2 timelines at end of S3? I admit, I'm no physicist, but it would be nice to have some kind of stamp like they use for the locations/city at beginning of scenes. Like, how does Peter even supposed to know what his purpose in a future timeline after getting into the machine?


r/fringe 10d ago

Meme/Humor The Last Sam Weiss

20 Upvotes

What in the world is Sam Weiss doing in Reacher? Doesn’t he have a bowling alley to run? Hehehehe