JJ Abrams-related stories
Posted Nov 5th 2009 11:20PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Fringe
(S02E06) "Why is this case so important to you?" - Olivia to Agent Broyles
I said in
my preview earlier today that I hoped this episode of
Fringe wouldn't be a stand-alone creature feature. Unfortunately, that's exactly what it was. No William Bell. No Nina Sharp. No Pattern. No alternate universe. And no Observer. At least, not front and center. Did anyone see him?
Instead, we got a little diversion into the life of Phillip Broyles; how he got so involved in a case four years ago that it cost him his marriage and family. I feel for the guy, but I'm not that interested in his life. As for the Shadow, was this an
X-Files knock-off? You can tell me in the comments after the jump.
Continue reading Review: Fringe - Earthling
Posted Oct 16th 2009 3:52AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Fringe
(S02E05) "Whether you admit it or not, your life is something of a nightmare." - Bowling Alley Guy to Olivia
For a minute there, I thought maybe we were in a
True Blood crossover with the horned guy in the first few minutes of this episode. But no, it was the usual twisty-turny
Fringe-isms involving mind control, computer chips and dream states.
And it appears that something many of us assumed had happened to Peter actually did happen -- though with this show, you can never be sure until it all plays out. It wouldn't surprise me if it's something completely different from what I'm assuming it is. All this, and Mysterious Bowling Alley Guy after the jump ...
Continue reading Fringe: Dream Logic
Posted Oct 9th 2009 3:38AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Fringe
(S02E04) "Momentum can be deferred, but it must always be paid back in full. As I always said to Walter, physics is a bitch." - William Bell to Olivia, on the dangers of jumping universes
Cryonics, frozen heads, worm juice, mercury blood, shapeshifters, and Leonard Nimoy were all featured in this episode, and I loved it all.
Let's start with the worm juice. Olivia must have been seriously craving her William Bell memories to drink that awful stuff. And what a trooper that she was able to keep it down, too. I guess it must have worked. She got some of her memories back, along with some help from the bell -- both the bell they chimed during Rebecca's psychedelic adventure
and William Bell. Or Willem, as Olivia used to call him.
Is she right not to trust him? Could he have started the war? It's certainly possible, given his mysteriousness. He said for reasons she might understand later, he couldn't come back to this universe right now, possibly never. Why? What's he doing over there? Is he the one building the army? Is he being forced to? Will he and Walter face off eventually?
Continue reading Fringe: Momentum Deferred
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 4:27AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Fringe
(S02E03) "Get my portable chemistry set ... this means bodies!" - Walter to Astrid
This episode of
Fringe sort of went along without too many shocker moments -- until the last few minutes, that is. I wasn't all that surprised about the serum that turned people into human explosives, or even that it might be part of a top-secret military experiment. But I was wondering when our friend The Observer would turn up again in a big way and dump something spicy all over his plate of food.
Continue reading Fringe: Fractured
Posted Sep 25th 2009 4:50AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Fringe
(S02E02) "We're all victims of our own gene pool. Someone must have peed in yours." - Walter to Sheriff Golightly
Creature feature? Or relevant to the alternate universe storyline? Those were the questions running through my head as I watched this episode of
Fringe.
What I believe -- at the moment -- is that all of the creature features we had during season one are somehow relevant to the overall storyline. Since things are slightly different in the alternate universe, perhaps there are creatures there who've evolved or avoided extinction that have somehow made their way back to this universe. Of course, it appears that this episode's creature was created right here.
Read my
Fringe theories, and follow me after the jump for commentary on tonight's episode.
Continue reading Fringe: Night of Desirable Objects
Posted Sep 18th 2009 3:40AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Fringe
(S02E01) "I went somewhere." - Olivia to PeterI can hardly contain my giddiness that
Fringe is back, so ... yay! ...
Fringe is back! More mystery! More intrigue! More Walter Bishop! More Jean! More jump-out-of-your-seat moments!
It's been a long summer since we last left the crew with Olivia in another dimension, Walter visiting Peter's grave, and the mysterious William Bell played by the mysterious Leonard Nimoy. Follow me after the jump to explore how the season is shaping up so far ...
Continue reading Fringe: A New Day in the Old Town (season premiere)
Posted Apr 9th 2009 9:03AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free, Fringe
I liked that super expensive, two-hour-long
Fringe series premiere, but I found it hard to stay awake throughout the following episodes. My love for Pacey Witter aside, I haven't felt compelled to watch the series in a while, but this news might get me to tune in.
Star Trek's Mr. Spock himself,
Leonard Nimoy, will join the show as the mysterious William Bell, the founder of sci-tech creep house Massive Dynamic, in
Fringe's May 12 season finale.
Looks like Mr. Nimoy enjoyed his recent collaboration on the
Star Trek movie with
Fringe producers J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Orci recently talked about what viewers can expect from the character of William Bell when he finally appears on the show.
Continue reading More details about Leonard Nimoy's Fringe role
Posted Mar 4th 2009 3:36PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
Yesterday, Latino Review got our
nerd hearts aflutterin' with a report about some possible
Star Trek: The Next Generation cameos in J.J. Abram's upcoming
Trek film. It would be great to see Picard, Data or even Riker rubbing elbows with Spock in the new flick, but sadly
it's not happening says TrekMovie.com.
Here's how the confusion apparently started: There's currently an IDW
Star Trek movie prequel comic series out called
Star Trek: Countdown that mostly takes place in the
Next Generation era. That comic is billed as a direct prequel to Abrams' film and it features
TNG favorites like Picard and Data interacting with Bana's character, Nero, and Nimoy's Spock. Apparently, the new movie will start out with Spock and Nero living in the
TNG era and time traveling back to the era of Kirk, Scotty and young Spock. But, according to TrekMovie's sources, no
TNG cast members will show up in the film.
Continue reading No Next Generation cameos in Abrams' Star Trek movie?
Posted Jan 5th 2009 7:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Has anyone been watching William Shatner's talk show
Raw Nerve? I swore to myself that I would watch it when it premiered, but it's on The Biography Channel, and sometimes when we're talking about those channels that get up to 105 or 144 or 170 on your cable system, you forget that the show is on. Heck, I'm not even sure I even get The Biography Channel on my cable system since they started taking away and adding channels in my package last year. But if I do have it I'm going to check out tomorrow's episode for sure.
On the January 6 episode, Shatner is going to interview good friend and
Star Trek buddy Leonard Nimoy.
Continue reading Fascinating: Kirk to interview Spock tomorrow
Posted Dec 3rd 2008 6:06PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free, Fringe
Anyone who watched
last night's episode of
Fringe can see that all the pieces of the puzzle that is The Pattern are coming together. Dunham is starting to merge John Scott's memories with her own, right as the evil Nina Sharp at Massive Dynamic decided she needs them to help her nefarious plans. Dunham's actually starting to show some personality; the chemistry between her and Peter and between Peter and Walter is getting fun. And the ending to last night's episode set up a nice cliffhanger that will take us through the holidays.
It's starting to reach a lot of the potential that fans had for it, given its J.J. Abrams pedigree. So why am I not more engrossed with the show?
Continue reading Fringe is getting good... so why am I not paying more attention to it?
Posted Sep 11th 2008 3:41PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Reality-Free, Fringe
Maybe it's because of
Lost, but TV viewers seem to be interested in the secrets behind a show at an accelerated rate these days. For example, there has only been one episode of
Fringe so far but viewers are already wondering about the what the big secret is, what's going on with Blair Brown's robotic arm, who is going to play William Bell, why there's a cow in the lab, whether or not people can be reanimated on the show, and (most importantly) when
Heroes star and J.J. Abrams buddy Greg Grunberg is going to show up as a janitor or a corpse. Well,
TV Guide has some of the answers for you.
Yes, some
SPOILERS are ahead, so click with caution.
Continue reading You have some questions about Fringe, so here are some answers
Posted Aug 12th 2008 4:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free
JJ Abrams is a busy guy, and it looks like he's gearing up to produce one of his biggest films yet.
The
Lost co-creator/producer, currently directing the big screen
Star Trek flick, is going to produce
a disaster movie centering around an earthquake. This isn't a remake of the 70s
Irwin Allen film that starred Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, Ava Gardner, and Lorne Greene (playing Gardner's father, when he was only seven years older than she was) but a brand-spanking new adventure. It's way too early to talk about cast, but I bet Greg Grunberg will be in it. Abrams will produce the movie, but will he also direct?
Continue reading JJ Abrams goes from Lost and Star Trek to ... Earthquake?
Posted Aug 7th 2008 1:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Lost, Casting, Reality-Free
Don't worry, their names aren't Nikki and Paolo.
Michael Ausiello over at
Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive news about
two new characters that are coming to the Lost world. No word yet on whether these characters will be on the island or off of the island, but they sound intriguing.
One is a man in his late 30s/early 40s named Caesar, who is described as "dangerous, physical, and extremely intelligent" and that he's "as skillful at charming people as he is at killing them." Sounds like an assassin type, no? The other character is Ilanna, a female in her late 20s/early 30s who is described as European, intelligent, dangerous, and "used to getting her own way." Except for the European part, that sounds like a lot of the women I've dated.
Lost starts filming its new season in less than two weeks, so we'll have the answers soon enough. And by answers I mean "more questions." This is
Lost, after all.
Posted Jul 28th 2008 5:18PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free, Comic-Con, Fringe
By the time the
Fringe panel started, I wasn't the only one who was exhausted. This was one of the final television panels of the day, with the exception, I believe, of
MythBusters -- a panel I regret having to miss but, since I literally hadn't eaten anything but two Clif Bars all day, I had no choice. Otherwise you would have heard about the guy who passed out in Room 6B.
Since I'd already seen the
Fringe pilot, I considered not attending the panel. I think a lot of people felt the same way, as Ballroom 20 wasn't even full for it. I'm glad I did attend, however, because it was interesting to hear what people wanted to ask of J. J. Abrams.
Continue reading Fringe - Comic-Con Report
Posted Jul 18th 2008 4:26PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Since it's Star Trek Week here at TV Squad (the original series, that is), I thought I'd post the first official teaser poster ads for the movie that show what Chris Pine and Zachery Quinto look like as James. T. Kirk and Spock.
Now, it's wrong to judge a book by its cover, or in this case a movie from a teaser poster. But if we can judge the movie on the casting of one of the major parts and/or the makeup used on that actor, then this movie looks awesome. Quinto (Sylar on Heroes) is a terrific choice to play a younger Spock. I say "younger" and not "young" because Quinto is only a few years younger than Leonard Nimoy was when he debuted as Spock on NBC in the 60s. There's not a lot of info about the plot of the movie, only that it takes place before the original show and involves Starfleet, so I'm not sure exactly how young Kirk and Spock are supposed to be (plus we're talking about a half Vulcan here so getting into those details are probably pointless).
But what about the guy playing Kirk?
Continue reading Some new teaser posters for the Star Trek movie
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