Fringe: Setting People on Fire With Your Brain

OK, I kind of loved it when, in this week's episode of Fringe, Emmanuel Grayson basically reveals the plot of the Star Trek movie in his spiel. Does this mean that the Star Trek universe and the Fringe universe are the same? Maybe Emmanuel Grayson *is* Spock. Or is it just that both the show and the movie exist in J.J. Abrams' head? Hard to say. But mostly I want to talk about pyrokinesis. And if you're curious about that, you gotta click the jump, to avoid pesky spoilers from last night's episode. Whatever one wants to say about Fringe's science, we should at least concede that they know their science fiction. The word pyrokinesis was indeed, as Walter tells us, invented by Stephen King though he certainly didn't come up with the idea of people starting fires with their brains (King himself has admitted his indebtedness to previous sci-fi ...