Fringe Pilot By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Tuesdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “Pilot” Written by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci Directed by Alex Graves Fire can cook a meal—or burn. Knives can slice a tomato—or cut their makers. All of our tools have the potential to turn against us, and from our earliest days we remember this. The modern expression of this love/hate relationship with technology began with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It was not a whim that led her to subtitle her work “Prometheus Unbound”, after the demigod who was punished for stealing fire (technology)…
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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…