Prophet of Paradox Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “The Day We Died” Teleplay by Jeff Pinkner & J. H. Wyman Story by Akiva Goldsman & J. H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner Directed by Joe Chappelle “We can cheat the rules of time.” — Walter J. J. Abrams has a thing for time travel. It showed up first in his groundbreaking Lost, with its flashforwards and flash-sideways incidents. He elaborated on the theme in his reboot of the Star Trekfranchise, which involved a black hole opening a tunnel through time. Now we get the third-season finale ofFringe, in which the presence of…
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Fringe: “The Last Sam Weiss”
Entanglement Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “The Last Sam Weiss” Written by Monica Owusu-Breen & Alison Schapker Directed by Thomas Yatko “It’s not a Doomsday device, but it’s acting like one.” —Sam Weiss At this point, Fringe has abandoned all effort to do a case-of-the-week, and is frantically rushing toward a stunning (I hope) denouement. At the time this episode and the season finale were written, the producers probably did not know that the series would be picked up for another season, so it’s looking a lot like aseries finale. So even if it isn’t really the end of the show, it’s acting like…