For my final New York Comic Con event, I delved into the world of a TV series that sounds even more complicated than my beloved Lost: Fringe, a show that seems to have a fanbase as rabid and dedicated to tiny clues as The X-Files in its glory days. Having just premiered this season, Fringe has already established a pretty heavy mythology for itself, or at least enough to completely lose this newcomer during most of the Q&A sessions.
But luckily, I had a video camera to help me out in bringing you the highlights, and below are two clips from the panel featuring the lovely Joshua Jackson (who got by far the biggest applause of the assembled cast). I've also got a few details about the show to report, among all the laughter-- the cast seems to really like each other, and they were constantly cracking up along with the audience, which seemed all too thrilled to be in their presence. Below is the list of reveals you can expect in the series.... or jokes that were too silly not to repeat.
--Executive producer Jeff Pinkner says the icons that flash at the beginning and end of every commercial break are a code, and yes, they do mean something. The person who cracks the code will learn something that speaks to the larger mythology of the show, though Pinkner doesn't seem convinced that anyone will figure this out.
--There will be an upcoming episode with an upcoming element, according to Jasika Nicole. That doesn't seem to mean "musical episode," though Jasika wants us all to know that they've got a lot of pizzazz, and another good reaso for a musical episode: "We have a cow. I mean, it's kind of obvious."
-- Did you spot the ever-present, mysterious Observer on the sidelines at the Jets-Eagles game? He was there, all the while series star Josh Jackson was stuck up in the nosebleed section. But we came very close to being Observed somewhere else-- the Presidential Inauguration. Pinkner said Fox fought very, very hard to get the Observer on the platform in front of the Capitol building, but in the end, the traditions of democracy won out.
-- Speaking of the Observer, the mysterious bald dude played by Michael Cerveris won't be the only Observer for long. "The Observer is a single person, but there is more than one Observer," Pinkner revealed, adding that the cast has already met another one.
And below is your requisite dose of silliness, in which Josh Jackson talks about the grossest thing he's ever encountered on the show, and how he keeps track of the show's complex storylines. Enjoy!
