Observers Are Here Blog for fans of J.J. Abrams’ show Fringe

The official release date has been announced by Warner Home Video as September 8, 2009.  You can pre-order your DVD boxset by clicking on the Amazon ad on the right hand side of the screen, underneath the poll box or the Amazon widget underneath the Archives box.

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Featuring a collectible lenticular slipcase, and packed with nearly 6 hours of special features, including featurettes, production diaries, producer and writer commentaries, deleted scenes, gag reel, Blu-Ray exclusive content and much more, this is one release that fans definitely won’t want to miss this fall.
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DVD Special Features Include:
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- Evolution: The Genesis of Fringe featurette - The creators of the show discuss how the series unfolded and the qualities that make it so unique
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- Behind the Real Science of Fringe featurette - From teleportation to re-animation, Fringe incorporates recent discoveries in science. Consulting experts and scientists who are the authorities in their field address the areas of science which are the inspiration for the show.
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Every week Fox released a “Scenemaker” video.  It takes a look behind the camera and talks with cast and crew.  Here is a roundup of those videos for “Fringe” - Season 1.  I was unable to find a few of them.  If anyone knows a link for the missing ones (that will play in Canada), please let me know.

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‘Scenemaker’ 1 - “Pilot”

‘Scenemaker’ 2 - “Same Old Story”

‘Scenemaker’ 3 - “The Ghost Network”

‘Scenemaker’ 4 - “The Arrival”

‘Scenemaker’ 5 - “Power Hungry”

‘Scenemaker’ 6 - “The Cure”

‘Scenemaker’ 7 - “In Which We Meet Mr. Jones” - United States only

‘Scenemaker’ 8 - “The Equation” - United States only

‘Scenemaker’ 9 - “The Dreamscape”

‘Scenemaker’ 10 - “Safe”

‘Scenemaker’ 11 - “Bound”

‘Scenemaker’ 12 - “The No-Brainer”

‘Scenemaker’ 13 - “The Transformation”

‘Scenemaker’ 14 - “Ability”

‘Scenemaker’ 15 - “Inner Child”

‘Scenemaker’ 16 - “Unleashed”

‘Scenemaker’ 17 - “Bad Dreams” - United States only

‘Scenemaker’ 18 - “Midnight”

‘Scenemaker’ 19 - “The Road Not Taken”

‘Scenemaker’ 20 - “There’s More Than One Of Everything”

O.K. everyone, it’s almost time to start our “Fringe” marathon.

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Monday, June 1, 2009, I will be starting with “Looking back at 101 - Pilot”.

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I will be continuing the marathon with one “Looking back” post about every five days right up to a few days before the new season starts, so brush the dust off of your TV and start rewatching your episodes.

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Here are the articles that Popular Mechanics released on the episodes from Season 1 of “Fringe”.

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Episode 1 - “Pilot”

Episode 2 - “Same Old Story”

Episode 3 - “The Ghost Network”

Episode 4 - “The Arrival”

Episode 5 - “Power Hungry”

Episode 6 - “The Cure”

Episode 7 - “In Which We Meet Mr. Jones”

Episode 8 - “The Equation”

Episode 9 - “The Dreamscape”

Episode 10 - “Safe”

Episode 11 - “Bound”

Episode 12 - “The No-Brainer”

Episode 13 - “The Transformation”

Episode 14 - “Ability”

Episode 15 - “Inner Child”

Episode 16 - “Unleashed”

Episode 17 - “Bad Dreams”

Episode 18 - “Midnight”

Episode 19 - “The Road Not Taken”

Episode 20 - “There’s More Than One Of Everything”

Here is part 2 of the timeline.  You can view Part 1 (1900-1969) here.

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Here is the music from the first season of Fringe.  Please let me know if you can add anything, or if any of this information is incorrect.

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101 - “Pilot”:

(Hollywood and Vines - Michael Giacchino ??) is this the same music as from the ‘Lost’ soundtrack?

102 - “The Same Old Story”:

Skin Head - The Glass Helmets
Young Men Dead - The Black Angels

103 - “The Ghost Network”:

Smoke From a Distant Fire - Sanford and Townsend
Someone to Watch Over Me - George Gershwin

104 - “The Arrival”:

Crazy - Willy Nelson
King of the Road - Johnny Russell

105 - “Power Hungry”:

Can’t Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon

107 - “In Which We Meet Mr. Jones”:

Let It Be Me - Ray LaMontagne
Thank You Too - My Morning Jacket

109 - “The Dreamscape”:

Evergreen - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

110 - “Safe”:

Sequestered In Memphis - Hold Steady, The
Sister Lost Soul - Alejandro Escovedo

111 - “Bound”:

Just Like Heaven - The Watson Twins (Cure cover)
Piece by Piece - Katie Melua

112 - “The No-Brainer”:

Single Ladies - Beyoncé
Spaceman - Killers, The
Insight - Fort Knox Five
Bandits - Midlake

113 - “The Transformation”:

Oxygen - Colbie Calliat

115 - “Inner Child”:

Love and Happiness - Al Green
You Fall To Pieces - The Shore

116 - “Unleashed”:

No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand
Trashcan - Delta Spirit
Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes (sung by the actor)

117 - “Bad Dreams”:

Starstruck - Lady GaGa
Via Veneto - Lou Monte

118 - “Midnight”:

Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus
Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
Discipline - Nine Inch Nails
Burning Up - Ladytron
Once You Say - Nitzer Ebb
Closer To You - Daniel Ash
Candy Darling - Daniel Ash

119 - “The Road Not Taken”:

Traveling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson

Here is the first part of the timeline that I have been working on.  I will be posting it in sections.  1900-1969, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2007, and 2008-2009.  If anyone has found something that I have missed or a mistake, please let me know.

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I have changed the Fringe Spoilers page to a Summer Hiatus page.  This is where I have outlined my plans for the website over the summer.  Check it out and leave any thought or ideas that you might have.  I will keep the page updated with links to all of the new posts so nobody misses anything.

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When reviewing some of the comments, I came across one by pr3sidentspence…

“What’s up with the braille anyway?

I doubt is was used to be some easy to break code.

One of the recent glyph codes was VISION. I wonder if someone in the show will be blinded?”

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I agreed with this observation.  Why braille?  Did they think nobody would crack that?  Maybe for the viral/ARG that they ran last summer, no problem.  But now they have started a new viral/ARG and they are still using the braille.  It’s signifigant, it has to be.  But why?

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Then I remembered something from Episode 120.  Something about the picture of Peter with his Mom and Walter.

Family Portrait

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I had wanted to write something about Peter’s coin, but truth was, I didn’t have any good theories and I hadn’t done any research yet.  Then I got an email from Di - she was reading my mind, me thinks.  She has done the research and I am intrigued with the connections she made, so I have decided to let her take this one.  By her own words, this might be more coincidence than theory, but I like it anyways.

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The coin is an out of use ‘Walking Liberty’ 50c coin used in the US from 1916 to 1946/7. It’s considered the best designed coin so far, and was designed by a German sculptor named A.A. Weinman, born in 1870 who arrived at the US at age 10 [in 1880]. More German references perhaps? That’d been brought up before. Also, the context behind the coin, as I found it on the coin resource site, makes references to Woodrow Wilson, who won re-election on 1916 with his campaign with the slogan ‘He kept us out of war!’, but within a few months, the war broke out anyways.

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Walking Liberty

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