The show hasn’t exactly killed it in the ratings department since moving to Thursday nights this season, but execs at Fox have always liked the show and decided that, despite the middling numbers, it was worth bringing back for another year.

And thank the lord, because Fringe is shaping up to have one of the season’s more intriguing storylines as the producers peel away the layers of this multi-dimensional onion (slight spoilers in the next sentence for those who aren’t caught up). Fringe went into its midseason break with the episode called “Jacksonville,” in which Olivia was seeing things from the other dimension as shiny, like that guy in Twilight. Among those shining things was Peter Bishop, who is about to get a major bomb dropped on him when he discovers he’s actually Alterna-Peter.

The early renewal not only allows the story to continue into a third season, but also lets the writers and producers avoid doing one of those bull-honky season finales that also could serve as a series finale while they wait to learn to the fate of the show.

Fringe returns from its midseason break on Thursday, April 1.

Anyway, the pilot episode is pretty neat with the decaying-while-alive scene, that’s the one that got our attention. That’s exactly what the pilot should do, grab the viewer’s interest so they will watch the next episode.

For the pilot episode of Fringe, we got introduced to the main characters of the show – Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop and Dr. Walter Bishop. Among the three, I am only familiar with Joshua Jackson because I was a big fan of Dawson’s Creek.

Here’s the synopsis of the pilot episode of Fringe:

When all the passengers and crew on Flight 627 Hamburg-to-Boston die in a hideous manner, FBI agent Olivia Dunham investigates the event. While following up a lead, her partner and lover, John Scott, undergoes life-threatening chemical contamination. A desperate Olivia looks for help and finds Dr. Walter Bishop, who cannot help her because he has been institutionalized. The only way to even question him is with the help of his son Peter.

Olivia continues her investigations and goes to Nina Sharp, a manipulative executive. Olivia, Peter and Dr. Bishop begin to discover what really happened on Flight 627 and start to uncover a larger truth.

The first few scenes of the show, I thought that John Scott, Olivia’s lover was one of the main characters of the show. He died but I have a very big feeling that he’ll be back.. “Question him” is what Sharp said before the episode ended.

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Season 2, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/17/2009
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