09-24-2010, 12:00 AM
Fringe & Inception
Wow I just saw the season opener of Fringe and it is dealing with the inception theme. In Fringe there are two parallel universes where the same people inhabit both universes, parallel versions of each other. The universes though mostly similar have evolved slightly differently. One of the main characters from “our” version of reality had years ago travelled to the “other” universe years previously. Complications arose (too complicated to expound here if your not familiar with the show) complications that had a destabilizing effect on the other universe. The other universe saw this “trespassing” as an ultimately hostile threat as they did not know how to travel between universes. The other universe is portrayed as slightly dark and very paranoid at least in its power structures and their knowledge of this other/our universe.
Years later a team from “our” universe travels to the other universe. The national security adviser of the other universe has a plan to deal with the situation. He captures one of the team and then lets the team from our universe escape back to our version of reality however one of the team is one of his agents from “their” reality a female FBI agent. The team from our universe does not know they have an embedded agent amongst them working for the other side.
The captured agent is subjected to all kinds of special drug treatments and very subtle therapy aimed at convincing her she is actually the person from that “other” side. The season opener focuses on the insidious inception aimed at stabilizing certain memories, of the agent sent to “our” side, within the captured agent (now over there). The show ends with therapy apparently successful and the captured agent now believing she just suffered a temporary psychotic break that she has now recovered from. Some of the people she is interacting with are in the know and some family members are not and they too believe it is actually her. The end result is the NSA head guy now has two embedded agents in both realities. Considering what we have been discussing watching how the inception takes hold is particularly eerie.
Wow I just saw the season opener of Fringe and it is dealing with the inception theme. In Fringe there are two parallel universes where the same people inhabit both universes, parallel versions of each other. The universes though mostly similar have evolved slightly differently. One of the main characters from “our” version of reality had years ago travelled to the “other” universe years previously. Complications arose (too complicated to expound here if your not familiar with the show) complications that had a destabilizing effect on the other universe. The other universe saw this “trespassing” as an ultimately hostile threat as they did not know how to travel between universes. The other universe is portrayed as slightly dark and very paranoid at least in its power structures and their knowledge of this other/our universe.
Years later a team from “our” universe travels to the other universe. The national security adviser of the other universe has a plan to deal with the situation. He captures one of the team and then lets the team from our universe escape back to our version of reality however one of the team is one of his agents from “their” reality a female FBI agent. The team from our universe does not know they have an embedded agent amongst them working for the other side.
The captured agent is subjected to all kinds of special drug treatments and very subtle therapy aimed at convincing her she is actually the person from that “other” side. The season opener focuses on the insidious inception aimed at stabilizing certain memories, of the agent sent to “our” side, within the captured agent (now over there). The show ends with therapy apparently successful and the captured agent now believing she just suffered a temporary psychotic break that she has now recovered from. Some of the people she is interacting with are in the know and some family members are not and they too believe it is actually her. The end result is the NSA head guy now has two embedded agents in both realities. Considering what we have been discussing watching how the inception takes hold is particularly eerie.