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,…
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Fringe: “The Plateau”
Miscalculation By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2010 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Thursdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “The Plateau” Written by Alison Schapke & Monica Owusu-Breen Directed by Brad Anderson “I’m still a scientist, Brandon. I just have a much larger laboratory.” —Walternate In 1958, Daniel Keyes published the first version of his ground-breaking story about intelligence enhancement, “Flowers for Algernon”. The short story won a Hugo for best short story in 1960, was adapted into a novel that shared the 1966 Nebula for best novel. Finally in 1968, the story was turned into the movie Charly, which won actor Cliff…