Giant Freakin Robot

Fringe if full of creepy creatures, spooky occurrences, and sinister plots. And no one embodies all three of these quite like the Observers. If you don’t believe me, check out the latest eerie viral video for the fifth and final season of Fox’s sci-fi police drama.

“Heed, obey, serve,” is the motto of the day for those pasty, bald, fedora enthusiasts.

The fifth and final season of Fringe is set to premiere on September 28th. While we’re only going to get thirteen episodes, they should be memorable installments to say the least. Season five largely takes place in the year 2036, in the Orwellian dystopia first introduced in the season four episode, “Letters of Transit.” The Observers, who hail from the 27th century—where they’ve finally ruined the world—have travelled back in time and taken over.

It looks like Fox’s sci-fi police procedural Fringe will partake in one of the most maddening recent trends in television. The fifth and final season—which kicks off on Friday, September 28th—has already been trimmed down to a sparse 13 episodes, but that’s not going to stop the network from drawing things out as much as possible. During the season there will be two breaks.

The final season of Fringe begins Friday, September 28th

Last week our lovable, smooth-pated future overlords, the Observers, released a public service announcement reminding us that any dissent will be met with a good, old-fashioned brain scrambling. Now the unnamed Observer spokesman has returned with another one, this time explaining how “natives” need to remain in their “living quadrants” and not travel without identification and prior approval. Disobey, and here comes the brain scan. There’s got to be an Arizona joke in there somewhere, but here’s the vid: