Goldberg Variations Fringe Fox Network, Thursdays, 9 PM “The Firefly” Written by J. H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner Directed by Charles Beeson “It doesn’t make sense. Why would the Observer do all this?” — Walter Back in the twentieth century, cartoonist Rube Goldberg became famous for inventing amazingly elaborate machines to perform trivial tasks. His name became synonymous with any overcomplicated scheme to accomplish something that otherwise would be absurdly simple; his legacy includes the board game Mouse Trap and an episode of The X-Files incorporating a wondrously convoluted toy. I have a suspicion Walter Bishop probably loved Rube Goldberg. Yet the Fringe character who most…
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Fringe: “Marionette”
Frankenstein Fringe “Marionette” Thursdays, Fox, 9/10PM Written by Monica Owusa-Breen and Alison Schapker Directed by Joe Chappelle “By the glimmer of a half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive moment agitated its limbs.” —Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley Since its first publication in 1818, Frankenstein has been the template and cautionary tale for most resurrection fantasies in English literature. The story of the doctor driven by ego and self-delusion to disturb the dead, to seek to resurrect that which is gone forever, tugs at all our deepest fears of death and oblivion.…