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A couple of weeks back, I insisted that Sydney Bristow of “Alias” and Olivia Dunham of “Fringe” must be one and the same. I won’t say that Friday night’s episode of “Fringe” provided hardcore proof, but I caught a serious case of déjà vu about halfway through the episode.
I had a pretty strange reaction when I first heard that FOX planned to move “Fringe” to Friday nights in January. I could’ve cursed a blue streak at my television, but instead I basically bypassed four of the five Kübler-Ross stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining and depression — and headed right to acceptance. That didn’t really make sense: Why was I so ready to let go of one of my favorite shows so quickly? Then I saw the name of the first Friday episode and thought wearily, “Oh yeah. That’s why. They’ve done this before. And now they’re twisting the knife.”
Last night, as I was still trying to make heads or tails of the “Lost” season premiere, I sat down to watch the latest installment of another J.J. Abrams creation, the sophomore Fox hit “Fringe.” The series deals with a variety of strange phenomena, but none stranger than the idea of an alternate universe identical to our own — one in which the Twin Towers remain standing, but the White House lies in ruins after Sept. 11. In last night’s episode, the two worlds nearly collided, with deadly results.
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