Lost vs. Fringe (The Scope)

Well "Fringe" finally hit its stride last night, and left us wanting. So now, in the natural evolution of the current SciFi-Drama, enter the "Lost" comparisons. I will begin with a post I made on this subject and expand upon it.

In its current form it is not better then Lost, however it has the potential to be. The main difference between the two is the limited scope of Lost vs. the Unlimited scope of Fringe. Lost will always focus on the island and 815, and it has enough there to complete its whole run without retracing its steps at some point. Fringe is limitless in scope, right now it is constrained to the FBI and the core team, but as this expands as we are seeing it, there is no telling where it can go. That being said, Fringe has much more room to work with and grow as a series and as a part of Abram's 'Verse.

Another element that both Lost and Fringe haven't even begun to scratch the surface of is quantum mechanics and parallel universes. Once this door is fully opened we could have a Sliders on our hands, but only better. Fringe has a lot of room to go even before it hits the maturity of Lost circa season 3.

Simply put, the Island of "Lost" is an anomaly while "Fringe" is a pattern. The nature of a pattern is that it will reproduce it self endlessly while an anomaly is an isolated, random, instance. Therefore, the inherent potential for "Fringe" and its universe (I know chances are it is the same as the Lost universe) is limitless, even greater then "Lost"

It looks like this TV decade for SciFi is coming into its own.