the Global Itinerant

Is it me or is Fringe just an Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci & Co. update of the X-files? I mean the similarities are striking. Mulder and Dunham are both FBI agents¹ partnered with non-believers (read: Scully and Bishop) that slowly start to believe as the show goes on. Mulder and Dunham both are drawn to the work because a loved one was “taken” from them. Both are aided by a mysterious African-American men.² The backstory to both X-Files and Fringe revolve around a weird cabal that has deep connections all over the World. If I had money to waste I’d produce a X-Files/Fringe crossover movie … like the Aliens/Predator vehicles but much better. Now that would be a fine cinematic singularity.³

1. you’d think that the Fringe Division would know about the X-Files. No better way trade notes and experience [↩]
2. who both starred in successful TV series before getting their respective parts [↩]
3. Come to think of it, doesn’t Lost seems like an update of Lost in Space? Hmm? [↩]