COLLIDER: FRINGE Showrunner J.H. Wyman Talks the Show’s Final Season, Character Arcs, Working Within a TV Budget and Giving Fans a Satisfying Conclusion
by Christina Radish
September 28th, 2012
The critically acclaimed and fan-favorite sci-fi drama series Fringe is back for a fifth and final 13-episode season. Promising to deliver a climactic and satisfying conclusion, things will pick up in 2036, when the Observers have become ruthless rulers who will reign supreme. Now, the Fringe team will make a final stand, bringing together all that they have witnessed, in order to battle and protect the world.
During this recent interview to promote the show’s return, showrunner/writer/executive producer J.H. Wyman talked about when they decided to set the final season in the future, where Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia’s (Anna Torv) journey will go and how Walter (John Noble) has changed now, how he’s learned to constrain his ideas with a TV show budget, his reticence in changing the show so dramatically for the final season, what has changed most from the original plan, the major challenges they faced in bringing everything to a satisfying conclusion, whether there was always an intention to make the Observers the bad guys, and what he will take away from his experience on Fringe...
(Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, John Noble and Jasika Nicole - Fringe Season Five Cast)
... Collider: You’ve talked a lot about Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia (Anna Torv) being a fractured fairytale in Season 5. What can you say about their journey, this season?
J.H. Wyman: "Well, no love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching. The harder the tale, the more worthy the pay-off. So, what I can say about this year is that, with everything that’s come in the four years before, I’m really trying to give the characters a specific odyssey this year that are singular odysseys for each character, but also relationship dynamic odysseys. Things are just growing and shifting and shaping, and Peter and Olivia are going to be part of that. Their relationship will shift and grow and evolve, but I think that it’s safe to say that we’ll be there, every step of the way. Everything will be logical. This year, I found great for telling authentic, real emotional stories. I’m treating the 13 episodes as a saga. You’ll get to track their emotional growth pattern and their relationship, very carefully. We really get in underneath the hood and investigate those relationships..."
Fringe season five airs Friday at 9/8C on FOX.
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