Deja X Fringe Fox, Thursdays, 9/10 E/C “New Day in an Old Town” Written by JJ Abrams & Akiva Goldsman Directed by Akiva Goldsman “The old X designation, and your Fringe investigations, have been indulgences in the Federal budget for over half a century.” — Sen. Neil Schell Well, there it is at last, right out in front of God and everybody–an open admission that Fringe is the sequel to The X-Files. And in case we didn’t get the reference, Abrams and crew throw little hints our way from the opening onward. We open with the aftermath of a car wreck, where the…
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Fringe: “The Day We Died”
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…