A Brief return statement and all things JJ star trekkery
Yeah, once I saw that name in the credits of the latest episode of FRINGE, I knew what the sneaky bastards were up to. And it all clicked into place too, after the Clint Howard-tastic guest spot in the previous episode where Clint, who had been a child actor, just like brother Ron, and had actually been in an episode of the original 1960's tv show STAR TREK, plays a lunatic conspiracy theorist who explains to FBI agents that he knows a fugitive Romulan from the future is going to attack and mess up the timeline (the plot of JJ Abrams new STAR TREK movie reboot. Terribly amusing and very clever squared, indeed, but the kicker was in Howard's parting shot where he claims to be the son of Sarek, which Joshua Jackson, clearly relishing the delicious in-jokery of the line says , 'But...that would make you Spock!' to which Howard solemnly agrees.
Of course this brings us back to the name in the credits of episode 20 where we finally get to see the legendary William Bell, founder of Massive Dynamics and old buddy of Dr. Walter Bishop. And, yes, who else could it be but the one and only Leonard Nimoy himself! Not content with some wonderful cameo screen-time in the aforementioned STAR TREK movie, Nimoy now gets to return to tv in a role tailor made for a veteran actor of his status and allure. The scene at the end of this episode is pure Abrams and suits Nimoy down to the ground with his William Bell emerging out of shadow and into a reality, even if it's not our own reality, which the reverse zoom end shot beautifully shows.
Damn the cliff-hangers anyway!!
Of course this brings us back to the name in the credits of episode 20 where we finally get to see the legendary William Bell, founder of Massive Dynamics and old buddy of Dr. Walter Bishop. And, yes, who else could it be but the one and only Leonard Nimoy himself! Not content with some wonderful cameo screen-time in the aforementioned STAR TREK movie, Nimoy now gets to return to tv in a role tailor made for a veteran actor of his status and allure. The scene at the end of this episode is pure Abrams and suits Nimoy down to the ground with his William Bell emerging out of shadow and into a reality, even if it's not our own reality, which the reverse zoom end shot beautifully shows.
Damn the cliff-hangers anyway!!