I think in the pilot, it had no inkling that it was going to be about parallel universes until the reveal about Peter in S1. The pilot started out, yes, as a wannabe X-Files, but they took a thread from it (the pattern) and extrapolated on that and anchored it in the multi-verse mythology, thus becoming something different.
The multi-verse premise dominated all four seasons, evolving from "oops, Peter's not from here" to "oh and that's causing a war between worlds" to "oh hey we should probably stop the war and heal it." Even DRJ's main objective is around the two universes.
The future timeline though seems like a completely different show entirely, because we have no indication that the Alt-verse (any of them). The Us vs Them is more along the lines of warring with our future selves rather than variations within our actual selves.
And I don't mean to say that it won't be good. I'm both excited and nervous as to how that will play out. But it does feel different if only because we'll be losing the familiarity of present and live in the not-so-distant future.
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Date: 2012-05-01 07:13 am (UTC)The multi-verse premise dominated all four seasons, evolving from "oops, Peter's not from here" to "oh and that's causing a war between worlds" to "oh hey we should probably stop the war and heal it." Even DRJ's main objective is around the two universes.
The future timeline though seems like a completely different show entirely, because we have no indication that the Alt-verse (any of them). The Us vs Them is more along the lines of warring with our future selves rather than variations within our actual selves.
And I don't mean to say that it won't be good. I'm both excited and nervous as to how that will play out. But it does feel different if only because we'll be losing the familiarity of present and live in the not-so-distant future.