The Fringe cast members are gearing up for the fifth and final season of the show. Check out their awesome teasers here, and learn more about what will happen in season 5!
Anna Torv talks about the beautiful opportunity of getting to end the show properly. She also previews what will happen in 2036, and she also confirms that Peter, Walter, Astrid and Etta will indeed find Olivia. We’ll see the characters fighting cases, and trying to save the world.
Joshua Jackson looks oddly made up in his video, as though he’s been through an explosion! He talks about the season premiere, which takes place moments after the events of 4×19 “Letters of Transit” (the flash forward episode). “The Scooby gang is off to find Olivia, and also [because] Walter had hatched this plan that never came to fruition in 2013,” he teases, and he also talks about how Peter will become a more active player and we’ll get some callbacks to character points that were introduced in season 1. On Peter/Olivia, he reveals that while the pair led a normal life until the Observer takeover, the loss of Etta “split them up again – but not in a divorce sort of way, just Peter couldn’t let go of the idea that he might be able to find his daughter, and Olivia went back to work.” Finally, he talks about the Peter/Walter dynamic, and how Peter being a father gives him a new insight into what Walter has gone through, and what it meant for him to lose his child.
John Noble compares Fringe to a “great big book,” and now we get to wrap it up properly, with a lot of callback to earlier chapters in the story. He also talks about how “Letters of Transit” set the scene for the final season, and how popular the episode was. In 2036, “we are there, the whole team. But we are there in a world that has been taken over by the Observers.” So, he explains, the Fringe team become rebels. He also touches on the “tragic love affair” in season 3 of Peter, Olivia and Bolivia, which involved the birth of baby Henry. Now, in the new timeline, “What we know is that they had a child together, but we never really saw that come about in our episodes.” And now we meet 25-year-old Henrietta, but the other characters haven’t aged.
Newcomer Georgina Haig, who of course plays Etta, talks about joining such an established and well-loved show, joining the family at such a late stage. She describes Etta and her search for answers about her parents, and how that paralleled her coming into the show as an actress. She reveals that Etta is separated from her parents when she is three years old, and “Peter and Olivia end up having to amber themselves because they get into a dangerous situation,” while Etta goes on living her life with foster parents. She describes herself as a “war baby” who has grown up in a world where it’s survival of the fittest, and Etta’s sense of morality is much more black and white than Olivia’s is. That should make for some interesting character conflicts!
Finally, Jasika Nicole previews the characters’ season 5 journey, and how the 13 episodes has “just enough stories to tell” to get the show out on a high note. She also calls the season “bizarre.” She previews the future storyline, and how we’ll learn a lot more about the Observers, who have moved from being objective observers to active participants with a lot of power and corruption. We’ll get a lot of answers about who they are, and what they want from the humans – and most importantly, how the humans will take back the power from the Observers and ultimately save the world.
That’s definitely a lot of new information about what we can expect! Fringe returns this Friday with the season 5 premiere, “Transilience Thought Unifier-Model 11,” at 9/8c on Fox. The final season will contain only 13 episodes, so we’ll have to make each one count!
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