(urth) Fringe

[Larry Miller]

I dont understand why people take the conclusion as the whole series
being a dream.  Everything that happened in  the show happened to the
characters.  The flash sideways was a glimpse into the afterlife which
took on the form of an alternate timeline.  What suggestion is there
that it was a dream?

On 4/6/12, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Jeff Wilson: ...but they said in the first season that the resolution
>>would not be "it was all a dream" and again later.
>
> I'm interested in whether that information was volunteered or elicited
> as a response to a question by in interviewer. Either way I could go so far
> as to say that was a lie or at least misleading (which is what I expect was
> the intention). The final 60 seconds of the six year series duplicates the
> very
> first 60 seconds and we end with a POV going into the main character's eye.
> Not
> the most subtle way to suggest it was "all a dream". Also the show spent
> years
> peppering us with allusions to Wizard of Oz and Mulholland Dr. and The
> Occurence
> At Owl Creek Bridge and similar fictional dream depictions.
>
> Personally, I could understand them wanting to mislead us on this issue
> and leaving it vague. "It was all a dream" is an easy way to shrug off
> the entire series, even if that's what it was. I think the human
> subconscious
> is an underexplored area in the arts (considering that 1/3 of our lives are
> spent dreaming) and such explorations are often unfairly dismissed.
>
>>>Why keep "Samuel" unamed? For this reason I hesitate to
>>>completely discard "Esau".
>
>>They said it was because it was more interesting to keep him unnamed.
>
> Which is a way of saying nothing. They could have left lots of characters
> unnamed. Why is it more interesting to not name THAT one? The writers might
> not
> be at Gene Wolfe's level, but like him they understand the power of not
> revealing
> the name of an important character, like the old boatman or Seawrack. It is
> a clearly presented puzzle to an actively thinking audience member and if we
> are
> given the means to figure it out, we are invited to do so.
>
> I should mention that my suspicion that Jacob and his brother are meant to
> symbolize
> the eternal fraternal conflict between Judaism and Islam is bolstered by the
> significant amount of time the cast spends in that Church Of All Faiths in
> the finale.
> There isn't much else in the 6 year history of the show which would explain
> that
> religious emphasis. 		 	   		
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