Amy and I got the first-season DVDs for Fringe for Christmas and we’ve been working our way through all the episodes.
Like Mad Men (which we’re also watching on DVD), Fringe is a show where we can watch the opening credits every episode — they’re short, they’re entertaining, and we like the theme music. They also aren’t made up of clips from other episodes.
In our opinion, that’s one of the marks of a quality show.
One of the other things I’ve appreciated about Fringe on DVD is that is has glyphs that appear when the commercial breaks would have been, when it was broadcast. Frankly, I’m glad to not have to fast-forward or mute the TV during actual commercials, but the breaks do provide an important dramatic structure to many shows, and I’m glad that Fringe had a way to preserve that.
Now I find out that the glyphs are actually a code! Cool!
There’s plenty of work being done online to crack the code (it’s not hard, but it’s not obvious). Here’s a cheat sheet:
Note that each glyph has a mirror image, and there are several possibilities for the location of the glowing yellow dot that accompanies it. Not every letter in the alphabet has been used yet.
Cool!
(Thanks to Mike at Atomic Robot)
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2 comments
Matt Goerzen says:
18 January 2010 at 11:20 am (UTC -5)
This one I have followed since it began. Quite a good show actually, and the producers have done the odd homage to the X-Files. Look closely. There’s at least two episodes where this has happened.
But, since I urged you to watch the show, have I been proven correct? Have you two become Fringe fans?
Grant Hamilton says:
18 January 2010 at 12:46 pm (UTC -5)
I think it’s safe to say we’ve become fans, yup!