Fringe Is The New Lost, And Here’s Why

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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No, it’s not. The caliber of acting and stories is nowhere near Lost’s.

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Rorschach

I’d put John noble this last season (especially second half, when the show got nutty good) against anyone on lost’s six year run. I say this as a huge lost fan. But if fringe can keep up the amazing work of the second half of season two, The Next Lost, in terms of ambition and quality (never in popularity or watercooler presence), is not a bad comparison.
telecarlitos

I disagree, only cuz I lost interest in “Lost” a bit on the later seasons. Im a big fan fan of JJ and Im loving Fringe! Sure, its not superb on every aspect but I dig it a lot. Its right up my alley, connects w/ me more than Lost did. It entertains me and makes me ponder art and juices my creative thinking. I do love how both series gave a mass audience a dose of sci-fi in a chocolate covered pill! Awesome hat trick to the writers, creators and all involved. Keep it rolling! Just glad both series, and the many other good ones actually exist. Could keep writing but, this is just the internet so, laters!
Rorschach

Sci fi in a chocolate covered pill, I like that. That’s a really fun way to describe the similarities. Season 5 of Lost said “F*** you, it’s Time Travel now.” Similarly, Fringe said “F*** you, it’s alternate dimensions.” And they aren’t just dabbling, apparently. I just love when a show on broadcast tv does things like that. Be bold!

I hope very much that they go into the fact that alt-characters aren’t necessarily bad. Walternate seems like a bad dude, but the rest of them seem like people trying to do the right thing. Anna Torv (?) is going to have a chance to do some really special things next year. I think she’ll nail it