The Hollywood Reporter says Sebastian Roche will play a recurring villain on Fox’s hit drama Fringe. Roche’s character is a soldier from the alternate dimension where William Bell has apparently trapped himself.
The storyline has settled down a bit as viewers now understand that all the bizarre scientific experiments covered or hinted at in first season episodes were developed to prepare a defense against an invasion from an alternate reality. Now the writers will have to shift their focus from setting up the landscape to fleshing out the characters and convincing the audience that the story is something worth caring about.
J.J. Abrams is the talent behind Fringe but his involvement with the show seems to be diminishing. Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, John Noble, and Lance Reddick lead an ensemble cast that includes a cow.
Twin Peaks was never this bizarre. I hope Fringe lasts more than two seasons.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog posting to share the following video with you. IT DOES SPOIL THE SHOW so if you don’t want to know what happens in the 2nd season premier, DO NOT WATCH IT.
Fringe stars Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Anna Torv, and Lance Reddick. Fringe airs on Fox Broadcasting each Thursday at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (and Pacific).
Fringe made the colver of EW as we get ready for the second season. The article quotes Joshua Jackson (Peter Bishop on the show) as saying: “I hope they don’t put us (Peter and Olivia, played by Anna Torv) together. That would be so conventional. What’s interesting about this show is that in many ways, Olivia has the masculine role, and the two guys are the women. She carries the gun, they sit around and talk. I think that’s pretty cool.”
Hm. I wonder if those words will come back to haunt him. Years down the road, things you say and do that seem cool at the time have a way of making you look dated and wussy. I laughed pretty hard when reading that AOL retrospective on the 111 wussiest songs of all time. Yeah, I liked a lot of them and, yeah, they are pretty wussy.
You have to remember the future before it happens when you’re in the entertainment business, or so it seems to me.
Anyway, Anna Torv looks pretty hot on that cover — completely out of character for agent Olivia Dunham, who is supposed to be a no-nonsense Federal agent (not that they cannot look sexy — it’s just not the image of the character they built up in the first season).
The accompanying video covers the cover shoot (can I say that? Well, I did).
Fringe’s season second hits the airwaves on Thursday, September 17, 2009. Please join us in our Fringe Forum Discussion at SF-Fandom.
