Lost vs. Fringe: Eerie Similarities
Evangeline Lilly by Art Streiber/ABC, Anna Torv by Michael Lavine/Fox
J.J. Abrams stresses the differences between
Lost and his brand-new
Fringe, but he's not the only thing the two shows have in common. Here are a few similarities we've noticed - and these don't even include tortured relationships with dad, scary corporations, and nice-looking casts:
Plane disasters:
Lost's Flight 815 crashes.
Fringe's plane lands after the passengers turn to gelatin. Which is worse? Tough call.
Misplaced animals:
Lost has a polar bear on a tropical island.
Fringe has a cow in a lab. Weirdly, the polar bear feels less out-of-place than the cow.
Lance Reddick: On
Lost he plays a mystery man with inside knowledge about Flight 815. On
Fringe he's a mystery man with inside knowledge about Agent Olivia Dunham. Not a mystery: whether he was awesome on
The Wire.
The living dead:
Lost has flashbacks and ghosts (possibly including
Reddick's Matthew Abbadon).
Fringe has
Clones? Zombies? Stay tuned.
An institution: Hurley's just gotten out of one on
Lost; Walter Bishop is sprung from one on
Fringe.
We're cool with the similarities so far, but if anyone around Bishop starts chanting 4-8-15-16-23-42 we're outta here. -
Tim Molloy
Use our Online Video Guide to make your own comparisons between
Lost and
Fringe.
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