{"id":5772,"date":"2011-07-30T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/30\/fringe-query\/"},"modified":"2011-07-30T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T10:38:22","slug":"fringe-query","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/30\/fringe-query\/","title":{"rendered":"Fringe Query"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be talking to someone about treatments of parallel worlds in popular media next week, and as the only going mass media concern with a parallel-worlds plot seems to be the show <cite>Fringe<\/cite>, it would be helpful for me to be able to talk sensibly about it. Thus, two questions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1) Where is the best place to look for an explanation of the show&#8217;s mythology, particularly in the parallel worlds area?<\/p>\n<p>2) Can you suggest a smallish (ideally single digits) number of episodes to watch to get the idea of how this plays out in the show?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am aware that, the Internet being what it is, there will be dozens of fan sites and the like just a quick Google away. I have also been around the Internet long enough to know that 90% of these will be utter crap, which is why I&#8217;m asking here for suggestions from people who already know something about the subject, and can pre-filter material for me.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be talking to someone about treatments of parallel worlds in popular media next week, and as the only going mass media concern with a parallel-worlds plot seems to be the show Fringe, it would be helpful for me to be able to talk sensibly about it. Thus, two questions: 1) Where is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/30\/fringe-query\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fringe Query<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}