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SHOOT: At the POlivia House in Burnaby for FRINGE’s Final Scenes – Updated

On a sunny but freezing Friday afternoon last December, Fringe took a break from studio to film a coda to season five’s opening scenes of Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia (Anna Torv) out for a family picnic with their daughter Etta (Abagayle Hardwick) in 2015. A family picnic that was interrupted by Observageddon, the Observer invasion from the future, and the abduction of little Etta.

RELATED: Fringe family picnic in Stanley Park

This is what POlivia fought to get back to. If time was to be reset, then there must be a different outcome to this idyllic family picnic. One where the Observers never come and our family goes home to their POlivia house and happy life.

But how to film this in December? Very quickly of course. Especially with Joshua Jackson dressed in the same grey t-shirt and beige shorts, Anna Torv in the same long blue shirt and jeans and young Abagayle Hardwick in the same flowered dress as the Stanley Park shoot last summer. In the new coda, the Bishops leave the park together and drive back to their POlivia house Read More »SHOOT: At the POlivia House in Burnaby for FRINGE’s Final Scenes – Updated

SHOOT: Lance Reddick’s Broyles Under the Cambie Bridge for FRINGE 5×13 An Enemy of Fate

After being rumbled as “The Dove” after leaking where “the boy” was being detained, Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick) is tracked around Manhattan by Observers and their Loyalist soldier minions. Almost captured in a tunnel, Broyles escapes only to be caught here at the False Creek Energy Centre under the Cambie Bridge. An Observer stands on his gun hand. Next up is his interrogation by Captain Windmark.

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SHOOT: Anna Torv as Fauxlivia & Rowan Longworth as “The Boy” in Coal Harbour for FRINGE 5×12 Liberty

Olivia (Anna Torv) has crossed over to the alternate universe in 2036, using a mega-dose of cortexiphan, to ask an aged Fauxlivia (also Anna Torv) for her help in the plan to rescue “the boy” from a heavily-guarded Observer detention camp on Liberty Island in our universe. Crossing back and forth between universes on the Island, Olivia succeeds in retrieving Michael before dissection and the Liv dopplegangers bring him back on a launch to Battery Park, actually Coal Harbour in downtown Vancouver, where the rest of the Fringe team waits in the blueverse.

SHOOT: Seth Gabel & Anna Torv as aged & married Lincoln Lee & Fauxlivia for FRINGE 5×12 Liberty

This is the scene of the redverse’s aged Fauxlivia (Anna Torv) out for dinner with her similarly-aged husband Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel) in 2036 when she gets a call from Fringe Division headquarters that Olivia (also Anna Torv) has crossed over to see her. Unfortunately, not everything that was filmed in the restaurant on Hamilton Street shows up on screeen. For example, Fauxlivia and Lincoln Lee’s grownup son has been edited out of the restaurant footage but we see him in a family portrait on Fauxlivia’s desk at Fringe Division HQ.  Still, I’m glad that the  cheeky alternate universe news footage of Chelsea Clinton leading in the presidential polls survived. As Entertainment Weekly’s TV critic Ken Tucker tweeted during the live broadcast tonight: I vote for Chelsea Clinton for President. #KeepLookingUp .

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THANK YOU FRINGENUITY — You Made a Difference

“Fringe is a story about love strong enough to break the world, and strong enough to heal it.”

That’s the quote inside the Thank You cards given by the Frinegnity team to Fringe cast, crew and others who made a difference to their show. And we should be thanking them. After all, when Fringe was in danger of not being renewed for this fifth and final season, it was Fringenuity who organized thousands of fans around the world to fight for it through Friday night Twitter and Get Glue campaigns. And it worked. On this final Fringe Friday, let’s pay tribute to them. They made an incalculable difference: Annie, @birdandbear; Aimee, @aimeeinchains; Kelly, @fringeship; Emma @dalliel; Cheri @cheribot, and Tas, @tribeoftyrones plus special ops Nikolai, @nikolai3d  and Sarah, @sarahproost, and  the operatives on location in Vancouver who picked up the Thank You packages and distributed them, getting hugs from crew: Lyn, @runpaceyrun and Michelle.

The Fringe coin inside the Thank You card.

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SHOOT: Walter’s Window into Another World at Coal Harbour for FRINGE 5×12 Liberty – Updated

In the epic Fringe trailer for this Friday’s two-hour series finale, we catch a glimpse of Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble)’s cracked Window into Another World circa 1985 (cracked because Walter threw something at it after he saw Observer September interrupt Walternate’s discovery of a cure for his son Peter). Everything is coming full circle in Fringe’s fifth and final season. Walter must have hauled out the window from wherever he’d stored it in his ambered Harvard lab circa 2036 so that the team can have a look at Liberty Island in the parallel universe.

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I suspect this will be an early scene of the attempt to infiltrate Liberty Island [to rescue the boy Michael from the detention camp] in the second-to-last episode called Liberty. Peter (Joshua Jackson), Olivia (Anna Torv), Astrid (Jasika Nicole) and Walter arrive in the dark van from last Friday’s episode and park it on the Manhattan shore [at Battery Park] — actually the seawall in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour in front of dozens of Fringe fans. In between takes, you can see good friends Jasika Nicole and Anna Torv crack up laughing.

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SHOOT: Anna Torv as Olivia at Fringe Division HQ (Vancouver Public Library) for FRINGE 5×12 Liberty

FOX’s Fringe series finale promo clearly shows the scene of Olivia (Anna Torv) getting an unfriendly welcome at the alterate universe’s Fringe Division Headquarters, aka the Vancouver Public Library, circa 2036.

Anna Torv must have felt like she was doing live theatre or being thrown to the lions late last November while performing this scene in front of hundreds of spectators with cameras — from fans of the show to others walking by who’d stopped to gawk like the rest of us.

 

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