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Fringe: “Over There, Part One”

When Worlds Collide By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2009 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Thursdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “Over There, Part One” Written by J.H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner & Akiva Goldsman Directed by Akiva Goldsman “My son is going to be responsible for the end of the world.” —Walter Bishop Just when I was beginning to worry we would never hear anything about ZFT on this show again, it pops up in the next-to-last episode of the season. As used as I am to the utter disregard for continuity on most TV shows, the fact that the writers…

Game of Thrones: “Fire and Blood”

Hic Sunt Dracones “Fire and Blood” Game of Thrones HBO, Sundays, 9 PM Written by Daniel Benioff & D. B. Weiss Directed by Alan Taylor “Heads. Spikes. Walls.” — Tyrion Lannister As a metaphor for the entire series Game of Thrones, the dragons are perfect: they took their time getting here, they are not impressive, but they have enormous long-range potential. I guess that the drawn-out pace of this series was required to introduce audiences to an entire new fantasy world,  to set us up for the heavily complicated politics of medieval warfare, to present a very large cast of complicated characters.…