Fox held the final Fringe media conference call today, and Joshua Jackson had a lot to say about the fanbase of the show and the legacy the show has left behind.

Fringe comes to an end tonight after five seasons of creepy scientific experiments and the division, collision, and separation of two whole universes. With the two hour season finale airing at 8PM EST, Joshua Jackson said that he’s really satisfied with the ending and feels like he has a lot of thanks to give to the fans for being so supportive.

What are you going to miss the most?

Well, the thing you end up missing the most actually is not what gets put on screen. The hardest thing to walk away from is the camaraderie of the company, both cast and crew. Creatively, I think the show came to a natural and satisfying ending, and I hope that people will be satisfied with the way we put the story to bed tonight. I feel like without having the story stretch out for too long or get cut off in an aborting way, I’m really satisfied with it and I hope the fans will be too.

What is Peter’s role going to be for the plan to work?

Well the first of the two hours really deals with Olivia’s story almost exclusively. It gives us, in a very Fringe-y way, an insight into where she has been over the course of the season. So nobody really other than Olivia has much role in that story. But in the finale, as much as Walter has been called into the sacrifice and the gang in general has insight into Donald and Walter’s plan, I feel like it’s spread pretty evenly across all the players and they all have a piece in the story.

Ultimately Peter’s role is to be the dutiful son and husband and father, and that plays itself in a very specific way. I don’t want to tell you what that is, obviously, but everyone really has a role in the finale.

Were you a part of the conversations regarding season 5 and what it would grow to be?

I was incredibly involved throughout the show with what season 5 would be. Wymann was incredibly open with all the actors about what the characters’ final arcs would be. He gave all of us the signposts of what the season would be, and it gave us the opportunity to plot out how we should play our characters this season.

How did you feel about the Observer Peter arc?

I was never concerned about doing an alternate version of Peter, but it was more important to me to find an honest and satisfying story and conclusion to the Bishop family. Neither Wymann or myself were interested of having another season of Peter/Olivia will-they-won’t-they. It was interesting for them to still be a unit and a couple but deeply damaged by the loss of their child, and Peter repeated the mistakes that Walter made. Walter’s version of it was there was no place too far for him to go to get his child back, and in our story the most outrageous thing Peter could do was become the enemy to destroy them. It felt like a very natural road for him.

What do you see in the future? Do you think it’ll be like ‘Firefly’ or ‘Arrested Development,’ in the way that they never got critically acclaimed but the fan following behind it was so huge. Do you see a movie in the future?

This is a topic that I can talk about for hours because I find it so fascinating. I feel like Fringe and its afterlife is a test case for the new way TV works. Firefly and Star Trek, part of what made that audience passionate was scarcity. It was hard for the fans to find them and talk about them.

Fringe, in an odd way, started its after-life while it was on air. The community of the show is currently strong and vibrant, and I think that the show will live on in that community. And how that manifests itself, I don’t know. I think perhaps there’ll be a movie, I know there will be a lot of fanfiction, maybe there’ll even be some sort of filmed addendum to the show. But I feel like the afterlife of Fringe is a test case for how modern culture will live on after they go off the air.

What would you like to see happen if you wrote Peter’s ending?

I think that the proper ending for the Peter we’ve known all five years actually happens tonight. I love the ending. It makes really good sense, and it closes his story in a way that’s intertwined with all the characters in the story but also specifically with Walter, Olivia, and Etta. I think it’s a proper ending to the person and story we’ve been watching for the past five years. I feel that way truthfully for all of the big three character arcs, Peter/Olivia, Walter/Peter. The beauty is that Wymann allows the space for people to live on with the characters should they desire to.

Closing comments?

To everyone who’s come on this journey for five years of the show, we collectively as a group of cast, crew, and writers, are so thankful for all the support that we’ve been given by the fans and the passion they felt for the show. We hope we finish the series on a positive note to everyone who’s watched for the past five years and that it’s satisfying to the people who’ve given us so much over the past five years.

He’s clearly very satisfied with the way the story ended and we can’t wait to see it ourselves! Don’t forget the finale airs tonight on FOX at 9PM.