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    2010-09-02
  1. Are you ready for this?

    Are you ready for this?

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    2010-09-02

  2. Top Ten: Season 2 #9

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    2010-09-02

  3. Top Ten: Season 2 #10

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    2010-09-01

  4. Science Fiction, Double Feature — Rewatch Chat Party Revisits the S2 Finale

    As we count down the 22 days left until Fringe returns for what promises to be another rollercoaster ride of a season, The Fringe Report would like to issue a challenge to faithful Fringies and Cortexi Fans. Double the danger — double the fun!

    At this Wednesday’s TFR Rewatch Chat Party, you’ll find the stakes have been raised. It’s time to step up our game to adequately appreciate the televisionary work in “Over There” parts 1 & 2. Fringies are in for a two-hour marathon. Fasten your seat belts, bring your tray table to its upright and locked position, and look over the safety brochure in case a viewer feels the need to make an emergency exit from the chat room. We just had extra ejector seats installed!

    It all starts at 8 PM EST (US) and should wrap up at 10 PM EST. Comments, theories, exclamations and heated debate will keep the chat log hopping. Point out the signs and symbols of Fringe. Catch subtle insinuations from Walternate, Bell and Nina, among others. Speculate on how S3 will launch a new assault on our Fringie imaginations. Where is alter Mr. Papaya?

    Just remember: it’s the Season 2 finale; a certain amount of turbulence is to be expected. Hang on tight and come along for a thrilling ride. Peter will be there, bacon sandwich in hand. Walternate and Elizinate fuss over their long lost son. The Fringe Division in the AU is a bad-ass bunch right out of Mission Impossible, X Men, and the Bourne films. Walter gets super drugs and KFC all in the same day. Olivia fights her alter self, for crying out loud! It just doesn’t get any better than this!

    Join us Wednesday night, Sept. 1 in the TFR chat room to watch, party, theorize and, in general, have a really fun time. Don’t forget to bring the chicken, red vines, root beer, bacon and your turntable so we can enjoy tunes from Violet Sedan Chair.

    After this, it’s all downhill to September 23 and the Season 3 opener. We’re gonna be fine.

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    2010-08-26

  5. Rewatch Notebook: Sam. In the billiard room. With mind control.

    Sam Weiss

    Thanks to the faithful Cortexi Fans who partied with us last night for “Olivia. In the Lab. With the revolver.” It was great to relive those classic Walter moments where he expounds upon such topics as nude skiing, making salt water taffy and tantric sex. Peter really did get all the “best jobs” with puss collection and latte delivery. But our Observer powers really kicked into high gear with the return of our own personal Jedi Master, Sam Weiss.

    Did he reveal any more clues this time around? Here are a few theories:

    Polivia/Lauren supports the hypothesis that Sam is a double agent shape shifter also appearing as the old typewriter shop man. Both of these characters 

    typewriter man

    appeared for the first time in the same episode. (“New Day in the Old Town?”) She sees a physical similarity between them. Typewriter man complained to shiftie Charlie that he’s been waiting for 6 years and he won’t wait forever. So maybe he’s a shifty who got left behind enemy lines and decided to work for “our side” as Sam Weiss? The old codger certainly appears taller and older than Sam Weiss appears.

    David Wu ran a Caesar shift on Sam’s name to reveal something like x-Bell. If the old threadbare “car accident death” story falls apart, could he be a shape shifted or disguised Bell from “over there”?

    Winters

    Another theory: Could Sam be a shiftie version of Issac Winters, the bespectacled man who visited Nick, Susan, Nancy and possibly James to activate their Cortexiphan abilities?

    Or, is Sam a real-live Yoda, practicing some kind of subtle mind control to help Olivia solve problems and discover her true abilities? 

    He certainly seems to be working in tandem with Nina and Broyles, who just love sending Olivia into situations designed to trigger those key emotions of fear and anger.

    Weiss Rx

    Some of us are still rooting for Sam to be Olivia’s sly, brilliant imaginary friend. Whether he sprang from her stressed, Cortexiphan-soaked brain or some post hypnotic suggestion from Nina, Sam seems to be on Team Olivia. And judging from her current predicament “over there,” our girl needs all the help she can get.

    — Lola; photos belong to Fox, courtesy of FringeFiles.com

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