Fringe is the fourth Television program co-created by J. J. Abrams(Felicity, Alias TV Series, Lost TV Series) and also his fourth collaboration with co-creators Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman Alias TV Series, Mission Impossible , Star Trek (film). It is produced by Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. The plot deals with a Research scientist named Walter Bishop (who Orci describes as "Frankenstein mixed with Albert Einstein"),
his son, and a female FBI class agent who brings them back together. The show is described as a cross between The X-Files, Altered States, and The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series). Like Abrams' previous TV shows, it will have an overarching mythology.
The first experiment that could never happen comes in here where Olivia is given a matrix looking neck device, Lsd and Ketamine inside a isolation tank (Altered States) where she plans too sync with John's brain wave patterns so she can travel and meet him while he is in a comatose state.
Here Olivia begins her journey venturing too several areas and memories then finds John in the desert on a checkerboard floor-
And the main antagonist in the series is Massive Dynamic MM (2k). Waltor Bishop and Massive's founder William Bell worked in a lab together before Bishop was institutionalized and Bell founded his company.
Here is Massive Dynamics security system with a Zodiac circle and various Outro pictures ending the show leading to the final logo of Massive Dynamics which is highly reminiscent to the N64 logo as 64 is tied into the I-Ching and 64 Codons on DNA.
Wow what a show. It's probably supposed to remind people of the Matrix, with the black guy's voice sounding like Morpheus (Chick: "I want to go back to before." Black dude: "You cant" (In the Matrix Morpheus adds: "But would you really want to?")), and the "Massive Dynamic" logo and catch phrase "your world is our world" meaning "we made you world" adding to the Matrix feel of it. I wish I had seen it now... so much for swearing off of television! (At least until Battlestar comes back on :)
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Lots of symbolism, but quite light on substance I thought. Some good science, but presented so sensationally that few would believe the 'real' parts. But hey, it's just the pilot, maybe it will get better. BTW, brain synch works, tank would help, but I doubt the LSD and ketamine would be useful in the situation presented. And notice how little time the whole thing takes, and she's not disoriented afterwards. Kind of divorces the 'spiritual' aspect from the 'science' aspect. But what else could one expect from TV? Guess I'm asking for too much, since I killed mine more than five years ago...and have never been happier. ;)