While we have to wait until April 15 for the next new episode of Fringe, at least we know that the four episodes airing will all lead up to the season and not the series finale.
And as we look toward the season finale, producer Jeff Pinkner says that the finale will bring season three “full circle.”
If you don’t want to know anything of what’s to come, turn back now!
He told IGN that ‘The Day We Died’ will link back to the season’s early episodes, which saw Olivia (Anna Torv) replaced by her doppelganger Fauxlivia.
“Very much, the season was designed as a chapter and it will play out that way,” he claimed. “And the very end of the season hopefully will make you sort of revisit and look at everything that’s happened all year through a fresh pair of glasses.”
Pinkner also revealed that the script for the finale had not been altered following the news of the show’s renewal.
“Not a word [has changed],” he insisted. “But to be fair, we wrote the episode, perhaps foolishly, assuming that we would be on for season four. We never for one second entertained that [the season finale] would be the end of the series.”
The showrunner added that he would “certainly hope” to be given notice when the time does come for Fringe to end.
“The studio and the network know that we have an ending [in mind] and that for a long time we have been building towards [that] ending,” he said. “So we anticipate getting to tell the story in the way and the manner that we want to.”
Not much of a spoiler…
Nice though, that they’re writing with that kind of confidence.