Fringe aims to be less serialized than Lost

The Associated Press is running a story about Fringe and its relation to J.J. Abrams's other series, notably Lost.

If you've seen the preview, you know the pilot episode kicks off with a disaster on a plane. And it's two hours long and cost $10 million to produce. And the title even uses a similar font. And it's got Abaddon in it.

Beyond that, though, it seems to kick into X-Files mode more than anything, with a team investigating mysterious phenomenon each week that's usually related to a much larger mystery.

As for Alias similarities, well, I never watched that show. But Abrams has some things to say about it:

J.J. Abrams, one of the show's co-creators, recalled watching an "Alias" episode late in that show's run.
"I watched a few minutes and I was so confused," said Abrams, who also created the ABC series. "It was impenetrable. I was like, 'I know I should understand this. I read the (script) - who the (expletive) is that guy?' "

Abrams doesn't want "Fringe," which is one of the most hotly anticipated dramas of the fall, to be like that. Abrams called it "an experiment for us," and added that the plan was to create a show with "an ultimate story that's being told, but also a show that you don't have to watch Episodes 1, 2 and 3 to tune in to Episode 4." [...]

The "Fringe" creators do intend to revisit the show's ongoing "mythology," much of which concerns a mysterious technology company called Massive Dynamic, but "in such a fashion that you can drop in" and not have seen every episode of the show, [showrunner Jeff] Pinkner said.

Again, check out the full article here.

They're screening the entire pilot at Comic-Con's "preview night" tomorrow night, so I was hoping to make it, but my flight into San Diego arrives too late. Never fear though; I'll be at the Lost panels over the weekend and, unlike the past month or so, will actually be able to report back some real news.

TAGS: Comiccon, Fringe, Serialization
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