Fate Is A Tricky Thing

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 16^th, 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 4^th 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

http://www.fringetelevision.com/search/label/Denver%20Comic%20Con

Meeting Seth Gabel

http://www.fringetelevision.com/search/label/Denver%20Starfest

Saturn Awards

http://www.fringetelevision.com/search/label/Saturn%20Awards

Fringe on display at the Paley Center

http://www.fringetelevision.com/search/label/Paley%20Center%20for%20Media

Fringe Events going on right now

By Danna Aissa (@DannaAissa)

Hi Fringies!

I noticed last weekend that there are a few Fringe events going on this month! Let's take a look:

A Fringe contest on FACEBOOK
By www.facebook.com/Fringe.event

Are you creative? so send your Fringe creations (photomontage, picture with a sentence, etc) to 'I'm a Fringe Event' Facebook page. There will be just one winner (the one with more 'Likes') and the prize is a Fringe Calendar 2015 and a mug.

Oh! And hurry up! Just until Saturday 27th!!

The Fringe Gift Exchange

By fringe-exchange.dreamwidth.org/
The Fringe Gift Exchange is open to fanfic, podfic, fanart, and fanvids; on the fic side, anything goes— all they ask for is a minimum word count of 750, that kinks are tagged, and warnings included. 
Signups end on October 1! Go to their website for more info.

A #FringePhotoChallenge on INSTAGRAM

By www.instagram.com/fringescenes

You can post anything you want (pictures, drawings, text, your own creations...) with the hashtag #FringePhotoChallenge. You can start whenever you want and there's no time limitation.

A #FringeMovie Campaign on TWITTER and FACEBOOK

By facebook.com/FringeMovie

Spread the word!!

A #SeptemberTheObserver Fringe Event on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM or FACEBOOK

By allfringeblog.blogspot.com

But you already knew this one ;p

Have fun Fringies!! :D

Prophetic Scenes (Part IV)

By Danna Aissa (@DannaAissa)

During my last Fringe rewatch I took note of some scenes that give us clues to what will happen further on. Some of them are so big that you can't believe they're revealing that information at that point, and some of them are simply little anecdotes. I thought it would be fun to put them together here.

That's the first time we hear this quote:

And this one reminds me of 'Marionette'

More scenes next Tuesday!

#SeptemberTheObserver Event - Summary of the Third Week

By Danna Aissa (@DannaAissa)

Hi Fringies!

These are the pics you posted during the third week of the #SeptemberTheObserver event.

You also posted some music: http://instagram.com/p/tI2qChghHn/?modal=true

Come on fringies! Keep posting your pics! We only have one week left!

Thanks to:

@dannaaissa @edwenn @jardin_secreto1 @marieme27 @mixer4400fringe @noor_452 @popculturenexus @runpaceyrun & @shivvers23 from Twitter.

@living.at.reiden.lake from Instagram. 

Our Fringe Time In Vancouver In 2012

By Marielle van Veen (@mariellevveen)

Let me start by saying that I haven't been a Fringe Fan since it started. To be perfectly honest, I came across Fringe by accident in the summer of 2012. We binge watched the four seasons and were soooo bummed to have to wait for season 5, but also that it was already known there would only be a season 5.

Me and my boyfriend were in Vancouver for two weeks in september and october 2012. We knew Fringe was filming there, but we had no idea how to come across filmsets.

With the help of Twitter we found a location on Jervis street. We went there the night before and already saw that parking wasn't allowed in certain areas.

Since this filming location was only a 2 minute walk from our hotel, we were there around 9 in the morning. They were still busy setting up. We walked along the street and just waited. We felt a bit uneasy, because we have never seen such a big operation filming a tv show. Maybe it's because we're Dutch and obviously not used to big productions like this!

Out of nowhere, Joshua Jackson and John Noble were walking towards us, happily chatting. They stopped to get some coffee, looked at us and the two huge cameras (I felt so awkward!!) and continued their conversation. It was just too early and I was too shy to already ask for a photo, so I just let them do their thing.

We walked back to the set and a police man came over to ask us who we were. As soon as he discovered that we're just plain old tourists and not paparazzi, he was very friendly and told us about a great spot to see the filming where we could also take pictures.

They were filming the scene where Peter, Olivia, Walter & Astrid are exiting the pocket universe building and where Peter eventually gets shot.

The view was awesome! We could see everything very clear! And wow there are a lot of people involved!

When they were finished with that scene, they started with entering the building where the pocket universe is. There were also doubles for Peter, Olivia and Astrid.

We were able to see this being filmed from different angles. It was so awesome! 

After this scene was shot, Joshua Jackson got into a car and drove off.

We had to change accomodation that day, so we had to get our stuff and move. It was soooo far away from the centre, and because we would miss more Fringe being filmed it sucked even more.

At the end of the afternoon we headed back to the set, hoping to be able to see someone. Only John was there. He was filming shots that were used as material of the tapes before ambering himself.

I saw someone handing him things to sign, so I just didn't think and walked over. He was very friendly and took the time, even though he wasn't done filming! (We thought he was, we just got back)

He did the last scene and about ten minutes later they were done for the day! Sooo lucky to have been there just in time!

Jon Cassar also came to talk to us and also asked who we were, he recognised us from earlier, I believe it had a lot to do with my boyfriend's camera.

We also saw some scenes from S05E07 being filmed in the Olympic Village. There already was a group of people. We didn't stay very long, but Blair Brown was there. I love it how they put all these extra stuff in the shot. Like a train from the future, that isn't really there. Sometimes it's really hard to see where they filmed, I believe.

There was also something shot in a parking garage. I'm not really sure when that was anymore. We couldn't see anything, I believe we only saw John Noble briefly.

We rented a bike for a day. We took the whole seawall (of course) but we then headed to Kitsilano taking the Burrard Bridge. Along the water all the way to West Point Grey to the Harvard building. We loved it! It was really far, but it was totally worth it!

And of course, during our stay in Vancouver, we wanted to rent a car to go to Whister. We knew there was going to be Fringe filming, but decided that it probably wasn't gonna work to get a picture with Joshua Jackson, since we hadn't seen him anymore.. When we got back to the hotel, Twitter was full of pictures from people with Joshua Jackson from filming that day :( I believe it were shots from when he's turning into an observer? I was really bummed!

In 2013 we went to Vancouver again and we took the tour at the Orpheum. This was really great, even without the Fringe connection. So if you are there in July or August, this is totally worth it! 

All in all, we had a wonderful experience. Apart from Fringe, which will be always connected to Vancouver in our minds, we have fallen in love with Vancouver!

Can't wait to be there again (next week already!!) and look up some other filming locations.

Pics by: M. Elsenbroek

Every Action Causes Ripples

By Ellen (@fringecomix)

Every action causes ripples… consequences both obvious and unforeseen.

After months of fevered work modeled on the white tulip schematic that Walter had left behind, Peter’s machine was discovered by Olivia, who confronted him when Fringe Division surveillance had noticed unusual power fluctuations in the warehouse housing his makeshift lab. She was even more upset to discover that Peter had been bringing Etta to his clandestine work sessions all along.

When Broyles sent a Fringe Division containment team into the lab – against Olivia’s wishes – Etta heard them coming. Knowing she was in big trouble, she thought they were coming for her. The machine seemed like a safe place to hide.

She didn’t know that no one should ever touch the petals – especially not Henrietta Bishop.

This painting (click for full size version) is part of an ongoing monthly series of speculative art. It was inspired by Fringe 365 Project entry #148 and is part of the Fringe Forward series.