So… Fringe Is Still Cool
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?Sorry for the lackluster article title, but I’m still reeling from today’s FFF. Anyways, it turns out that Walter is going to meet his favorite musician on the show’s January 21st episode, which is cool because he’ll be played by Christopher Lloyd. I like that very much, enough that I hope he sticks around for a while (although I don’t know why he would). But the even cooler thing is that Fringe being Fringe, they’ve actually released a record from Lloyd’s fictional band, Violet Sedan Chair, into various vinyl records stores in the real world.
The album is called “Seven Suns,” and by all accounts has been available for a few months now without most people figuring it out. Furthermore, io9 says “each copy of the record is unique, containing its own set of clues and
spoilers about the show hidden in the lyrics and liner notes, and
possibly elsewhere.” I doubt most of us will ever see a copy, but that’s still damn cool for Fringe to do.
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