Lost and Fringe will merge

[Flight 815]

A friend of mine sent me the following theory by email:

...it's by the same guy that does Lost, and I think I read somewhere there were only 2 definite series of it.

Anyhow I was watching it the other night and I thought I wonder if it was a tie-up with Lost ?

Both end next year.
Both by the same author.
Both kind of about space / time travel and wierd stuff
( I'm about 2 weeks behind ( still watching what I've taped ) but there was an episode where the Doctor guy said he'd been working on time and space travel.)
Fringe has an 'Observer' and in Lost there is lots of observing in the Dharma stations.

Plus I think there was a 2000AD comic strip with Judge Dredd once where they ran this new comic strip about some mysterious guy for a couple of months, all the while the Judge redd strip was continuing,
Eventually it worked out that the Judge Dredd episodes had actually been the precursor to the other story.

If I'm right, remember where you heard it first !!

[Flight 815]

My own thoughts on this:

The first series of Fringe ended with an alternative reality.

Lost potentially created two realities, starting form the late 70s, with one reality where the incident occured and the other where the incident did not occur. This may have effected the entire world's reality and not just the island.

"Just saving the world brother," was Desmond's comment when he went to turn the fail safe key. Not just saving the island.

[Desi420]

A friend of mine sent me the following theory by email:

...it's by the same guy that does Lost, and I think I read somewhere there were only 2 definite series of it.

Anyhow I was watching it the other night and I thought I wonder if it was a tie-up with Lost ?

Both end next year.
Both by the same author.
Both kind of about space / time travel and wierd stuff
( I'm about 2 weeks behind ( still watching what I've taped ) but there was an episode where the Doctor guy said he'd been working on time and space travel.)
Fringe has an 'Observer' and in Lost there is lots of observing in the Dharma stations.

Plus I think there was a 2000AD comic strip with Judge Dredd once where they ran this new comic strip about some mysterious guy for a couple of months, all the while the Judge redd strip was continuing,
Eventually it worked out that the Judge Dredd episodes had actually been the precursor to the other story.

If I'm right, remember where you heard it first !!

I have the same theroy about flashforward. In lost season 3 the fanale they introduced the flashforward and when asked why the change in format someone had mentioned a show that was coming to ABC in place when lost ended. I don't know where I heard it or if there is any validity to it, but the way thy build up how the hatch effects the word when the numbers aren't entered in time. Now I don't think its a continuation, but I think lost is to flashforward as happy days is to mork and mindy. They are spin offs, but their own show at the sametime

[beachblinkette]

I have the same theroy about flashforward. In lost season 3 the fanale they introduced the flashforward and when asked why the change in format someone had mentioned a show that was coming to ABC in place when lost ended. I don't know where I heard it or if there is any validity to it, but the way thy build up how the hatch effects the word when the numbers aren't entered in time. Now I don't think its a continuation, but I think lost is to flashforward as happy days is to mork and mindy. They are spin offs, but their own show at the sametime

Good insight. Just look at the credits on FF. Many familiar names from the Lost series. I once did a comparison --just for my own benefit as to who was directing, producing and writing and so on on the various Lost episodes. There were many many writers involved. Lost has been a veritable sorcerer's apprenticeship for writers. FF Philosophy? If it ain't broke, don't fix it....?

[losttime]

So if they all have the same mysterious concept, which you all want to put as the "alternate world" theory, how does it make it for unique TV?

We will all know how everything is done because of these alternate worlds

[3d-aholic]

Well you need to actually have watched Fringe to meaningfully comment on it. J.J. Abrams did originally help with Lost but he left the team. I think what he took with him is the "alternative time" concept of Lost that hadn't really "played out" yet on Lost. I think it was probably his idea on Lost; maybe even, they didn't want to go with it. So I think he took it with him to Fringe to capitalize on it.

Fringe is NOT about alternative timelines. For the most part, each episode stands on its own. Its like X-files. Sure every 4th or 5th episodes of X-files dealt with UFO/Aliens and that was a constant underlying theme; however, there were more episodes on X-files that didn't deal with UFO's than there where. Same thing with Fringe. Fringe deals with paranormal, parapsychology, fringe science concepts and lots of other science fiction topics. The whole alternative universe thing is a year to year tie in. Only every 4th-5th episode or so they will deal with it more directly. However, the majority of the episodes do NOT deal with alternative timelines. For the most part, its an updated X-files with a special bureau of the FBI investigating "X-file" cases. And instead of UFO's, they have an end-of-the-world scenario playing out where our world and an alternative reality and coming together.

I don't believe the two series will merge. They are on different networks. Also, I do not think that Lost is only about TCC...its also about WHH depending on which philosopher you believe. Its about BOTH. Alternative worlds is only "one" of a series of ways to explain TCC. You can still have TCC without seeing it as an alternative worlds explanation. If you can make TCC work in your brain, that is, without an alternative worlds explanation.

[Flight 815]

In light of the opening episodes of season 6, it appears, rather than an alternative reality being portrayed, that there are two parallel universes in effect. And somehow there are connections between the two. Could the island have something to do with it?

I'm guessing that in one of the two universes we are being shown, 9/11 DID NOT OCCUR and the twin towers are still standing. We saw this alternative universe on Fringe. If this is true, then there is a possiblity that the two shows most certainly will merge.

It's possible that Abrams leaving at the end of season 2 was a ruse - this was alll planned and will be sprung upon us as a surprise. The fact that the two shows are on two different networks adds further to the ruse.