Reminder: Fringe Is On Tonight
You should watch. I’ll be watching. I’m also going to remind people where we left off, so consider this your SPOILER WARNING. When we last left Olivia Dunham, part of the FBI’s least equipped major task team, she was hanging out with Spock in the World Trade Center of a parallel universe. This was awesome. Also, it turns out that mad scientist Walter’s original son Peter died as a kid, and Walter stole parallel universe Peter some how. But the big problem is that supposedly the parallel universe is about to wage war on our reality.
Honestly, that seems like such an awesome idea that I just can’t believe we’re going to see it. I think the overarching Fringe story will have to be about avoiding that war, but man, I honestly wish I could see a story where parallel universe actually fight each other. That gives me an old-school Asimovian boner (meaning my penis had glasses and very large sideburns). Anyways, Fringe comes on at 9pm EST tonight.
P.S. — Oh, the fifth season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes on tonight at 10pm EST, too. I didn’t mention the DVD release on Tuesday because it’s not nerdy, and I probably shouldn’t mention it here. But I did because it’s the best comedy on TV by a long shot. Nyah.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.