Fringe is waarschijnlijk de meest coole science-fiction TV serie sinds jaren, alleen gaan er de laatste weken geruchten dat de show aan zijn laatste seizoen zou gaan beginnen. Nu had de website Fearnet.com een interview met de makers Jeff Pinkner en Joel Wyman. Deze vertellen ons wat meer over de toekomst van de serie.

Every year, Fringe teeters on that renewal bubble. Are you proceeding as if you'll be back another season?

Jeff: I will say every television show I've ever been on, short of Lost, which had such massive fan support, the majority of television shows don't know until deep into the season whether they will be on the next year. The network has always been incredibly transparent with us, so the "bubble story" that has been in the press every season has not been felt internally by us. Ever. Having said that, just as an operating principle, we design each season as a full and complex chapter of a bigger story. If any season were to be the last one, we're prepared to write an ending that feels satisfying. It might not be the original ending we had in mind, it might not be as far along as we'd like to take the story... We know there are outlets like graphic novels and webisodes to keep any story we're interested in going. It's just a reality of the television business that nobody ever has a guaranteed season beyond what they are on.

But you would prefer the studio gave you enough advance notice to wrap the series on your own terms?

Joel: Well, one of the things we've been doing inadvertently, and then more by design, is that the end of each season is the end of a chapter. That's what we really adore now and we always talk about completing it that way. Our plans probably won't change much, but we do have a great sense of how much our fans don't want to be let down. We have a couple of ideas that if the worst thing happens, we feel that if we were viewers, and the showrunners had offered us what we're thinking of, we would be satisfied. We care deeply about our fans and we don't want anyone to feel we never got the chance to tell the end of the story.