Here it is, the final Fringe Friday. I will mourn the passing of this incredible, brave, heartbreaking show. And I will celebrate it for all these reasons. It never got the audience numbers it deserved, but it certainly got fans who gave everything they could. Normally I can keep on and on about Fringe, but this is a time to rest.
"The fight is done. War is won. Lift your hands towards the sun."
Please use the hashtag #KeepLookingUp an hour before the first of the final two episodes airs. "Liberty" will start at 8PM EST followed by "An Enemy of Fate." The second hashtag is being kept a secret by Fox. Watch it live and find out what it will be.
A few of my tweets from last week...
It's almost that time again! The
Fringe Twitter event is this Friday. Time to change your icon. Time to participate in getting the show to trend with the hashtag #FarFromNormal. Time to tell the cast and crew how much you appreciate all their hard work over the years...if you haven't a thousand times already.
Have no idea what you want to say? Here are a few examples. Normally I try to incorporate the hashtag into a sentence, but that just didn't happen last week.
Bonus Video //
I was exercising the other day, drawing Oblivion and listening to music on Pandora. This song came on and immediately brought flashbacks of Peter and Olivia. I would love if someone made a POlivia video with this song.
Since today is the last day of filming for our beloved Fringe, I thought it appropriate to mention the Twitter event now instead of waiting until the last minute, which is what I usually end up doing. I'm supposed to be working right now. But so what? Fringe is more important. Use the hashtag #FreeYourMind on Twitter this Friday at 8PM EST during "Black Blotter."
There are only a few episodes left. The last two are airing on January 18, 2013, the day a collective fandom breaks down and you hear a high-pitched wailing around the world. Yeah, we love Fringe. If you don't get it then you've never seen it. Or you were too impatient to stick around for a few episodes to see that it would become a beautiful experiment in weirdness anchored to reality by relationships that feel real, loveable characters you want to protect, incredibly soulful writing, and effortless acting of the highest skill. But that's all just words. Watch the pilot, just one episode, and see if there's not something there. Make it to "Snakehead" in Season 2 and I'll give you a cookie, because if you were just going along with it until then, you will suddenly realize the talent of John Noble and completely fall in love with the show. At least, that's when I did.
Update: And here's one of the reasons we love this show so much, showrunner Joel Wyman.
As an example, here are a few tweets from the previous event. Pointless now because I'm updating the day after the show aired. I just don't want to lose them. You can only go so far back when you search.
Be sure to follow these wonderful people of Fringe on Twitter.
We are approaching the seventh episode of the final season of Fringe already, "Five-Twenty-Ten." This is such a hard time, but take solace in the knowledge that we are a vocal community that did not let our little show that could go down without a fight. And, boy, what a fight. There's been a lot of love and loss in Fringe, none more affecting than in the last few weeks, which is saying a lot. I will miss this show terribly, and I know I will continue to adore it no matter how it ends, because I trust that Joel Wyman will get us to where it was always meant to go.
I'm using this icon for the Fringenuity Twitter event.
Here are some of my tweets from last week's event for inspiration.
The title of this may a bit of a spoiler to some, but only those who haven't reached last year's "Letters of Transit" yet, in which case they shouldn't be reading new posts.
Fringe is a brilliant show that somehow always tops itself. If you don't watch it yet or if you're perpetually behind, go away, get caught up from the pilot, and then come back here. Do NOT skip any episodes. Besides missing story, you will be missing some of the best performances ever to be seen on television.
So, yeah, a spoiler follows.
I found this video through TVLine, so go visit them.
I can't wait to see the consequences of the Observer tech in Peter. That was the perfect way to go, paralleling Walter's mistakes, motivated by devastation. We'll get to see some Observers go down, but will Peter ultimately lose himself? I don't think so. Walter and Olivia will get through, but will it be too late to save them all? Most definitely...though, I hope not.
I was always fully invested in the show, but I'm kind of new to the concept of a fan community. Throughout all my obsessions, there was just one site that actually lived up to what a fan community could be, and that was DowneyUnlimited. Then I found other Fringies on Twitter last year, which led to Fringenuity. It's been a lot of fun, and I recently started making my own icons for the show. This is only my third and the other two featured Resistance, the knife inspired by Fringe.
Oh, and one more thing. The Fringenuity Ambergrams, Coins, and Cards for the cast, crew, and guest stars are done! Check them out.
Well, it's finally almost time again for Fringe. They weren't on last week and, in truth, I wish they had more time off so the end wouldn't be so near. They're coming back with what I've read is a tear-jerker in "The Bullet That Saved the World."
As has been the usual since sometime late last winter or maybe early spring, I am going to be tweeting with a Fringenuity hashtag. The one for Friday, October 26 is #TurningPoint. Normally I participate in only the tweeting, lately scheduling them beforehand to not get distracted during the show. For this episode I actually made an icon instead of downloading one, because I didn't want to change from my current: a Fringe-inspired knife. All I had to do was add some words.
Here are a few of my previous tweets to serve as examples.
