'Fringe' star Joshua Jackson: 'Final season is a gift for fans'
Published Jul 18 2012, 16:44 BST | By Morgan Jeffery
Joshua Jackson has described the final season of Fringe as "a gift for the fans".The actor compared the fate of the Fox drama - which will wrap after 13 final episodes - to abruptly cancelled sci-fi shows like Firefly and Millennium.
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"It's a gift for us who make it, and it's a gift for the fans, hopefully, if we don't screw it up," Jackson told Collider. "It's the nice version of the story. It's the non-Firefly, non-Millennium version of the story, where everybody who has put in the time gets the chance to walk away."
However, the 34-year-old star admitted that "not everybody is going to like the ending".
"That's the way endings are," he suggested. "But everybody who has put in the time is going to have the opportunity to go with [the show] through its entire life cycle.
"It's just the opportunity for us to properly say goodbye to the people who have come on the journey with us. That's just beautiful."
Jackson's co-star John Noble recently hinted that a Fringe movie is "very possible down the line".
The show's final season premieres on September 28 on Fox in the US. It will air in the UK on Sky1.
> Fringe: Comic-Con 2012 - live blog
Watch a teaser trailer for the final season of Fringe below:
All thats been said is that day 2 of the future will continue from only the first episode of the final season but we don't know where or when the rest of Fringe goes onto thereafter. The 'cases' are the cogs of what make up Fringe and makes it work. Without them where t would the show get its stubstance? If there is time travel instead of universe jumping to heal the world this time I just think it would be a complete cop out and unoriginal. I want a Donny Darko style ending that makes you think over the whole show and not a pathetic LOST ending.
July 21st 2012 at 7:32pm
Thank you to Fox for letting the story have an end and Thank You to the Fringe team for giving us a story we care about seeing the ending.
July 20th 2012 at 2:59pm
As long as they don't all walk into a white light after meeting up in an alternative universe where they are all dead I'll be happy.
July 19th 2012 at 8:52pm
Hope they don't over do the future time next season. I would consider it a cop out if they jumped to showing mainly the future and didn't tie in current time plus make use of many of the otherwise pointless events/story lines in the current time. It will be a massive cop out if future Peter(&/or Olivia) can time travel back like an observer and correct the future. I will be happy if they deal with cases again with momentum and use them in a bifurcation ending (a Donnie Darko type ending where the viewer tries their best to fill in the gaps as to where they get to in the end). I just don't want another pathetic LOST ending considering the time invested in that and this.
July 18th 2012 at 11:09pm(+1 like)
The final season is all set in 2036, with some flashbacks to the present time.
I for one hope they don't deal with "cases" anymore and focus on the main stories, which I think they will.
July 19th 2012 at 2:03pm