Not content with introducing mainstream audiences to the concept of the multiverse last season, Fox’s Fringe is about to take its Parallel Earth storyline to the next level – and, in the process, one-up Lost‘s flashsideways narrative from that show’s final season.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello, star Jasika Nicole revealed that the show’s third season will alternate Earths in its initial episodes:
In the beginning of this season, what we’re doing is alternating episodes. So we’ve got one in the alternate universe and one in the present universe, so if you were to skip every other episode, you would only see the story happening in one universe… They’re going to do it for the first half of the season, but essentially what I think is happening is that they’ve got these two different stories that are running parallel lines, then they’re going to converge into one big story and everybody’s world is going to be turned upside down.
Considering that last season of Fringe left Olivia trapped on the alternate Earth while the alternate Olivia had taken her place on “our” Earth, I think the “one big story” may be fairly easy to guess… But alternate storyarcs for alternate episodes for half the season? Suddenly Lost looks weirdly unambitious.
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