By the Numbers By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2010 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Thursdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “6955 kHz” Written by Robert Chiapetta & Glen Whitman Directed by Joe Chappelle “Fine, if you end up breaking the universe, this time it’s on your head.” —Walter (to Peter) Aaand there we go, right off the rails. Over the past three years, Fringe has carefully built up a mythos and a premise rooted in plausibility. The science behind the alternate-universe theory, behind Cortexiphan, behind the “war of the worlds” between Walter and Walternate is out there, for sure. It’s fringe science at…
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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,…