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Fringe: “Amber 31422”

Schrödinger’s People By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2010 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Thursdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “Amber 31422” Written by Josh Singer & Ethan Gross Directed by David Straiton “Just because we look alike doesn’t mean we have anything in common.” —Joshua Rose (as Matthew Rose) In Manhatan, in the Red universe, two men work frantically to free a third, who is trapped in quarantine amber. He is cut out and revives; the man reviving looks exactly like him. A doppelganger from the other side? A clone? No, something far simpler: a twin brother. More to the point,…

Fringe: “Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?”

True Natures By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2010 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Thursdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?” Written by David Wilcox & Matthew Pitts Directed by Ken Fink “This is just a station along the way. It’s what we do. It’s who we are.” —Thomas Jerome Newton I love this story now just as much as I did the first time I saw it, as the classic SF movie Blade Runner. Both stories take their tale from Philip K. Dick’s Nebula-award winning novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In both stories, the essential question is,…