Fringe Series Finale Trailer and Poster Plus J.J. Abrams On the End

The end is nigh for Fringe. The two-hour series finale is four days away and fans are simultaneously heartbroken to see the five-year run for the show come to a close, and filled with anticipation for what promises to be a legitimately epic conclusion. If the poster is anything to go by, it looks as if the Observers will be permanently silenced.

This season has felt like a postscript to the wrap-up of the series-long central storylines at the end of Season 4. We are in a whole new time-period with a focus on a new, engaging, season-long antagonist in the form of the invading Observers. Peter and Olivia are together and fighting desperately to undo the damage done to their world, and reunite with their child. And "the boy who is important," is not who we thought he was.

You can find the both the trailer (which is so amazing that I almost can't go on) and poster for the finale below.

We had the opportunity to briefly speak with Fringe co-creator J.J. Abrams at last week's TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour where we asked him for his take on the final, final conclusion for these characters.

"What I love about what Joel (Wyman) has done, he directed the finale as well, is that there is a wild and kind of wonderful end that is incredibly emotional. Which also has an inevitability to it. And I think that the ambition of the show has always been to be freaky and twisted and weird, and also deeply emotional. And while of course not every episode hits all of those buttons, I think enough of them did that makes it something that I'm insanely proud to be a part of. And I think the finale does that on all cylinders, which is exciting and bittersweet."

As to the, indeed, bittersweet nature of the end, he said, "It's a show that got to play out as it should have, I think. Which is a very rare thing. Especially for a show that had sort of mid-range ratings, for the network to keep the show on is a testament to their wonderful commitment to a show that they actually loved, not that was showing them numbers. I will never forget that. That's a very rare thing."

Abrams has said previously that if he'd pitched Fringe as a "time-travel, inter-dimensional, sci-fi series" it never would have gotten a greenlight. His lesson in the art of pitching has ultimately been, "At the very beginning you have to know that you have a handle on the characters, and the potential for those characters. But if you know that you want to do some really, really weird stuff, keep it to yourself."

The Fringe two-hour finale airs this Friday at 8/7c on FOX.

Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at@RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN.

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