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The imagination of J.J. Abrams seems to be inexhaustible.
The mastermind of hit TV series “Lost” and “Alias” has prepared yet another
mind twisting show, due to premiere on Fox, Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Tomorrow is said to become today in “Fringe,” as it mainly
focuses on the idea of eerie science and its radical effects, which tend to
distort the line between now and then, us and them and the achievable and
impossible.
“The show is coming out a time when every week we read or
see some kind of potentially horrifying scientific breakthrough ... We are at a
time where science is out of control,” J.J. Abrams told reporters in a
conference call on Thursday, according to Reuters.
The pilot episode of the upcoming sci-fi drama opens in the
clouds, literally speaking, as it takes viewers aboard a Boston-bound jetliner
that unexpectedly faces a powerful blast.
After you figure out that the jet nonetheless lands
undamaged at Logan
Airport, you’ll breathe a
sigh of relief. However, I warn you that relief will not last long. It will be
gruesome to find out that all of the aircraft’s passengers have died because
some kind of supernatural phenomenon turned their flesh into goo.
It’s time for FBI special agent Olivia Dunham (Australian actress
Anna Torv) to enter the stage, together with Walter Bishop (John Noble), a grumpy
elderly genius who has spent the past two decades of his life in an asylum and
the only one who can encourage him into helping the FBI is his estranged son,
Peter (“Dawson’s Creek’s” Joshua Jackson).
In spite of the fact that puzzling sci-fi occurrences in
“Fringe” may seem rather far-fetched and mind-boggling, J.J. Abrams assures us
nothing is too implausible or unbelievable in the upcoming series, as the
simple “fiction” description might lead us to believe.
“A lot of the stuff that we’re talking about is at least
within the realm of possibility, although we’re pushing it,” Abrams said. “The
stuff we’re talking about now is not so much sci-fi as it is sci. The stuff that
you never in a million years thought would actually be possible is happening
every day,” he added, according to The New York Daily News.
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