Fringe

Not too long ago I attended an event at the Paley Center that featured almost the entire cast from Fox's Sci Fi FRINGE TV show. We were shown an episode of the series, followed by a discussion panel, questions and answer session and treated to a little bit of an autograph and photo op at the end. The entire cast was very entertaining and quite funny, especially Joshua Jackson whom is quite well known for his sense of humor both on and off set.





For those of you who do not follow the show, it is about an FBI agent Olivia Dunham who has been paired with a very eccentric and possibly insane scientist Walter Bishop and his some equally brilliant if not somewhat directionless son. Peter Bishop. As they investigate unexplained phenomena, and what is referred to as fringe science. real mad scientist sort of stuff, illegal experiments, psychic phenomena and much more.




One of the things about the show that I have latched onto is the whole alternate universe thing. As several of the main characters are aware of an alternate reality and a few of them have even freely traveled there. In fact Doctor Walter Bishop even went so far as to kidnap his deceased son from the alternate reality, just so he would continue to have a son in his reality. Something that has some very intriguing storyline aspects that has not really been dealt with as of yet. We just know for the time being that in Universe A Peter Bishop died at a very young age of a typical child hood illness ( measles of something to that effect), and that his father Walters traveled to another alternate Universe/reality to get his son back. So far no one other than Walter knows his son is not actually his original son, so some characters are starting to suspect something.