Fringe

David Stockhoff · 06 Apr 2012, 19:17 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:17:37 -0400
Subject: (urth) Fringe
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I always figured at least one of the writers, or Abrams himself, must 
have read BTNS. The mix of pulp mysteries with pulp SF, with multiple 
time leaps (if not loops), and the deliberate withholding of information 
is just too familiar.

I don't claim "influence," simply that Wolfe shows what can be done with 
narrative. It would remain to an Abrams to actually try to do it on 
network TV.

On 4/6/2012 2:49 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Man, what a lively LOST debate we have going on here. I wonder if Gene has watched the show.
>
> Is it not possible, however, that the purgatory thing still has legs and that Jack was their shepherd to the after life?
>
> I guess I don't like the myopic nature of It Was All a Dream, and want the window to have a wider opening than that.
>
> The Others, Dharma, Black Rock, Jacob, etc. lose a lot of weight when they simply become figments of a dying man's imagination. Unless that dying man is some seasoned mystery novelist, I guess.
>
> ...ryan
>

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