Fringe showrunner Joel Wyman has spoken about the series finale of the show, and the structure of the final season. We also get a new promotional image!
Speaking to TV Line, Wyman talks about the schedule for the fifth and final season, saying that it’ll have, “Two little breaks. Four [episodes], and then two… and the rest is a[n uninterrupted] run-on.”
This puts the finale of the 13-episode season somewhere in mid-January. While it will only be a single episode, Wyman says that episodes 11, 12 and 13, are like a three-parter.”
Really though, Wyman envisions the entire final season, “as a 13-hour feature film type of thing, like a saga, because I feel that’s the best way to tell the end.”
A new promotional image from season 5 has also been released, showing Peter and Astrid with the grown-up Etta:
Wyman won’t say, but he does offer that, “If she got ambered, if she’s the same age, if she’s not…. You’ll have to wait and see. [But] you’ve got to figure that ambering yourself is kind of a cool thing!”
If you missed it, some great promos have been released teasing the final season. We’ve seen one featuring Peter, Olivia and Etta, one in which Walter is tortured by the Observers, and in the most recent promo, an Observer introduces an ominous process called the “Cerebral Scan Protocol.”
The final season of Fringe premieres on September 28 at 9/8c on Fox! It’ll primarily take place in 2036, but through flashbacks we will learn what exactly happened to split up Etta from Peter and Olivia, and how Walter, Peter, Astrid and William Bell ended up in the amber.
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