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"Earlier this week, we treated you to some brand new images from the season premiere of Fringe, and now we present a Q&amp;amp;A with the show&amp;#039;s executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman. We chatted about the sci-fi drama&amp;#039;s new two-universe format and found out what&amp;#039;s in store for Olivia, Walter and Peter third time around. Why did you decide to change the format of the show in the third season? Jeff: &amp;quot;What we\u2019re really excited about, certainly as this season gets underway, is we have left our heroine on the other side, in the alternate universe. We thought that the best way to really thoroughly tell these stories was to dive into them wholeheartedly. So an entire episode will take place over there with the alternate Fringe team and then another episode will take place over here. Rather than trying to tell an episode that takes place in both universes simultaneously within the same episode, we really wanted to thoroughly explore a Fringe case over there and the journey that our heroine is on.&amp;quot; J.H.: &amp;quot;Yes, we just loved the idea and it became apparent to us that we felt that the fans would really appreciate a mythology in two places. We\u2019re really excited to see what fans say about that because we believe in it 100% and we think it\u2019ll be a really great journey.&amp;quot; Are you worried that viewers could find the switching format confusing? Jeff: &amp;quot;We sincerely hold ourselves up very strictly to the confusion barometer. To us, our show is very much like a family drama masquerading as a science fiction show. We want it to be a story that a broader audience can understand and appreciate because we think the things that we\u2019re talking about are universal and have great appeal.&amp;quot; J.H.: &amp;quot;The more accessible the show is, the better it is, and we realised early on that science fiction becomes good when it&amp;#039;s about universal truths, morality and what it&amp;#039;s like to be a human.&amp;quot; Will we see less standalone episodes in the third season? Jeff: &amp;quot;There will absolutely be a story in each episode with a beginning, middle and end. There will be cases. Our team is charged with solving cases, which we love. Those stories reflect on the themes that the characters are going through. We\u2019re not suddenly changing the storytelling of the show. It\u2019s expanded and now we have two universes and all the things we\u2019ve talked about but we\u2019re going to be exploring cases on this side and that side.&amp;quot; J.H.: &amp;quot;We realise there was this sense of frustration from our core viewers [who] want to see the mythology. But it\u2019s very important to constantly try to attract more viewers and to try and not make the show alienating if you haven\u2019t watched season one and two.&amp;quot; Will the third season explore Peter&amp;#039;s connection to the doomsday machine? Jeff: &amp;quot;We will explore it, we will learn more about it and we\u2019re really interested in how that\u2019s going to affect Peter as a person.&amp;quot; J.H.: &amp;quot;Last year [was] the season of secrets, and Peter did not understand the secret. Everybody else knew and he didn\u2019t know. He had this huge revelation at the end of the last season that gave us a lot of gasoline for this third season.&amp;quot; Is there any chance that Leonard Nimoy could return as William Bell? Jeff: &amp;quot;Well, William Bell has died on the other side. We like to say on Fringe that nothing is final [but] Leonard Nimoy has retired from acting. If Leonard chooses to come back there is a story in place that we would love to tell but in his absence, William Bell is a big part of this world and in the world of Fringe death is not the end.&amp;quot; J.H.: &amp;quot;I definitely think it\u2019s fair to say that you have not experienced the last of William Bell.&amp;quot; How will Walter and Peter&amp;#039;s relationship change this season? Jeff: &amp;quot;What becomes a challenge is how to get John [Noble] and Josh [Jackson] to play something that we haven\u2019t seen before and that got us thinking. When things break down in a relationship they\u2019re not easily put back together. People have very strange feelings when they\u2019re trying to reconcile. There\u2019s so many difficult, ugly things in a true father/son relationship that once we started looking at that realistically we realised that we had a lot to play with. Walter will get to the point where he realises that he has to go through insanity to get to the place he needs to be. So we can promise there\u2019s going to be some really nice drama between them.&amp;quot; What can you tell us about the characters from the alternate universe? Jeff: &amp;quot;Lincoln Lee, played by Seth Gabel, is just delightful. We\u2019re so thrilled to have Kirk Acevedo (Charlie) back. Lance Reddick is playing two versions of Broyles. It\u2019s a unique situation where we have actors creating different characterisations of characters that they\u2019ve already created. Walternate is so different from Walter but so understandable. His son was taken and it changed his worldview. So Olivia will absolutely spend time interacting with all of them and that\u2019s going to change her worldview as well.&amp;quot; Fringe returns to Fox this Thursday at 9/8c. Are you a Fringe fan? Excited about the third season? Leave your thoughts below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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