There’s only so many repeats of a programme that I can watch, no matter how much I may love a show. Yet Fringe is a show that I eagerly await. I almost wish I had come to the series late, just so I could have the pleasure of working my way through several series in three or four episode batches.

Tales from the Fringe may well fill that gap, especially now that the second season has finished. Rather than embarking on some ambitious storyline, interweaving the various plots of the TV series alongside whatever device the writer had created, Tales From The Fringe features short stories set in the Fringe continuity.

Which may or may not be the same continuity as Lost or Fast Forward, the debate rages on but personally I don’t really care and I doubt it is important, merely comforting window dressing asserting J. J. Abrams brand.  So what if the plane in the first episode was from the same company as the plane that crashed on the island of Lost? The only people that possibly affects are the fictional shareholders, not that it would be a stock I would recommend.

In fact, in the wake of so much recent crossover fiction, Blackest Night, Siege, I’ve about had my fill of large universe stories. (Remember that when I rave about The Thanos Imperative.) This series, in it’s nice stand alone world, with stand alone stories should tide us over until the Season Three Primer. Plenty enough to keep us going, and written by Justin Doble of Cloverfield (yes that Cloverfield, but not in a big way so I’m informed, more of a tea-boy way, but still, it’s gotta mean something.), it should help me forget that life without Fringe can be dull.  Maybe I should ration the two tales, because as we all know, a month is a very long time and certainly no a week. I could save the second tale until two weeks later, eeking out my Fringe fix.

Yeah right, like I have that willpower.  I mean, do you?