Thursday, December 02, 2010

If Fringe is cancelled I still want my ending

I’ve been thinking for years that TV shows owe it to fans to properly wind up a story, and I don’t really care how they do it. John Milch could have sent me an e-mail explaining what was going to come next in Deadwood and John from Cincinnati. A radio play would be nice too. Comic book, any medium, really.

Fringe, one of only two shows I make sure to watch every week, will be moved to Fox’s death slot next month, so it doesn’t look real good for a fourth season. Pity too, because Walter is one of the most unique characters I’ve seen on any kind of screen for a long while—a brilliant crazy scientist in his sixties who still loves recreational drugs.

In the case of Fringe they already have a comic book series made mostly to explicate character backstories, so they really should use it to tell us anything at all they have in mind about the future storyline, whether or not they make an attempt to wind up the story in the spring.

Speaking of story, with whatever amount of time they have left, I think something more must be said about Walter’s ownership of Massive Dynamic. He’s one of the wealthiest, most powerful people in the world now, yet he carries on pretty much as he always has. Let’s see some wild spendthrift behavior by Walter. I’m talking islands and towns, space shuttles and zoos.