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Just re-watching last night’s episode of Fringe, since my cable went on the fritz halfway through. Good episode, at least on par with last season’s stuff, and it seems like the ‘mythology’ or broader story arc of the show is shaping up in a very interesting way. Noticed something really interesting though: when Lance Reddick is trying to justify the Fringe division to his superiors later in the show, they (the superiors) mention the “old X designation,” and it seems that the actor who reads this line was also a ’shadowy committee’ member in the X-files! Also a TV earlier on in the episode shows the X-files… so the show seems to have gone beyond just borrowing the X-files schtick, suggesting that the story has some continuity with the earlier series! But at the same time, it’s a TV show in the Fringe universe? Wacky.