By thecortexifan (@thecortexifan)
1.10 Safe
Walter:
“Think back 20 years – imagine yourself then, imagining yourself now – 20 year
into the future. In your wildest imagination, could you ever thing you’d be
here?”
If you had told me six years ago that I would be part
of a fandom, write episode reviews, go to events and award ceremonies with a
press pass and write about it, decorate my house “Fringe style”, cook weird
food from a TV show, and whatever else you want to through in there… I would
have laughed at you and said: “Never.” But…
My first encounter with Fringe was March 16th,
2009 when the Pilot aired in my country. Even before I saw it… I was hooked,
just from the promos. Faithfully every week, I watched the story evolve, the
characters grow and I couldn’t get enough. It was dubbed as well so I had no
clue what each person actually sounded like. I did not have internet, I did not
know anyone else who watched it, and I had no clue about fandoms, episode
reviews, and ratings.
1.11 Bound was the last episode I saw in my country
and then I moved to the US in June of 2009. By the time I arrived, Season 1 was
done already. I searched the internet and found FOX’s website where all the
episodes were streaming, to get ready for Season 2. I again faithfully watched
live and half way through Season 2, I started taping the episodes.
Having access to the internet, I searched for more
info on the show and found episode reviews, fandoms and got involved in
discussion groups and wow… this was a whole new and awesome world.
Then I started working and discovered lots of
“Fringies” there and we started talking about the episodes, what we saw,
thought, and delved into mythology and Walter’s craziness. Pretty soon my work
turned into Fringe Headquarter because that’s all we talked about. A new staff
member arrived, two days later I would ask if they watch Fringe, and if they
said no… I would convince them to. “I am Borg, you will be assimilated” became
my motto. One day… at the beginning of Season 3, a co-worker said that with all
the things that I see in the episodes, I should write reviews or something.
This was a scary thought because I’ve never done anything like this and didn’t
think I would be good. Well… I started for my Fringies at work (10 of them or
so). I would look at the episode on line, pause a lot, look at the details, and
take screen shots. I’m a visual person, not so much a deep thinker but there
was enough material in the episodes to fill pages of info and thus the
“Observiews” were born.
For a week after the episode aired, I would sit at my
computer and I would take the episodes apart, each review looking like this (in
this case 3.22 The Day We Died)
I would email it to my Fringies and they would read,
re-watch the episode and we just had fun talking about it.
When Season 4 started things changed online and I
wasn’t able to view the episodes in detail anymore. I had been a fan of
fringetelevision.com already and knew that fringefiles screen caps were posted.
I asked if I could use them for my reviews for work. The person running
fringetelevision.com became interested in what I did and I sent 4.01 Neither
Here Nor There to him and he liked what I did. Thus I started to post them to
the website (fringetelevision.com/search/label/Observiews).
It is still a scary thought that all of a sudden a few
thousand fans read my reviews and other articles I posted, meeting JasikaNicole and Seth Gabel in Denver, being able to go to the Saturn Awards in L.A.,
interviewing Lance Reddick, John Savage and listen to Anna Torv, winning for
the 4th time.
This has been an amazing experience that I will never
forget. And there most likely will be nothing that comes close. My quest to
meet the rest of the cast and to actually be able to talk with Anna is not
over.
The best part… meeting amazing people from all over
the world which I can call “friends” now because of this “show that could” and
4.02 Neither Here Nor There
Agent
Broyles: “...that left an indelible mark on all of our souls. An imprint that can
never be erased.
Meeting Jasika Nicole
Meeting Seth Gabel
Saturn Awards
Fringe on display at the Paley Center
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