The first episode of Fringe season two, an animated poster

Watched the premiere of "Fringe" season two, watched it inattentively, missed most of the Easter eggs, didn't catch where the references and hints at "The X-Files" were. And I didn't immediately get that the start of the episode happens at the same time as the end of the previous one, but in a different reality this time. I'll need to rewatch everything, and rewatch season one too, they've just started showing it on Noviy Kanal.

Too bad — turns out Kirk Acevedo was telling the truth on his MySpace after all: he had been fired from the series. A sad, unexpected ending to the episode. Even though they didn't kill him off abruptly or in the usual way, it'll be interesting to see his character in the upcoming episodes. In his place they added Meghan Markle to the regular cast as a young FBI agent who always believed in things beyond the realm of the possible. I hope the creators don't start repeating themselves too much, introducing a new character for whom everything fringe and Walter's behavior is novel, while the established characters already take for granted a shapeshifter soldier from another world, or someone making custard while cutting open a corpse. But now at least you can definitely say which of the characters is most like Fox Mulder.

Reading about the series, I stumbled on a wallpaper for season two, and immediately wanted to cut it up and make an animated poster. For season one they released a huge number of posters that were just begging to be made into gif animations, since they were all in the same color scheme and only the central object or character changed. And for season two they released just one poster, with 16 different objects hidden in it from the previous ones and from the series' mythology. There were no more posters, but they did release three wallpapers, differing only in the characters, and in the end this is the poster I got: