History Headscratchers / Fringe

* The fact that everyone in-universe seems to blame Peter for not realizing Fauxlivia was not Olivia. How do you think HE feels? The woman he's been sleeping with for weeks is NOT who he thought she was. But I guess {{Rape Is OK When It Is Sci Fi}}?

* The fact that everyone in-universe seems to blame Peter for not realizing Fauxlivia was not Olivia. How do you think HE feels? The woman he's been sleeping with for weeks is NOT who he thought she was. But I guess {{RapeIsOKWhenItIsSciFi}}?

* The fact that everyone in-universe seems to blame Peter for not realizing Fauxlivia was not Olivia. How do you think HE feels? The woman he's been sleeping with for weeks is NOT who he thought she was. But I guess {{RapeIsOKWhenItsSciFi}}?

* The fact that everyone in-universe seems to blame Peter for not realizing Fauxlivia was not Olivia. How do you think HE feels? The woman he's been sleeping with for weeks is NOT who he thought she was. But I guess {{RapeisOKWhenItsSciFi}}?

* There's only one thing that bugs me about this show. It's pointless to complain about the soft science, because it's so routinely over-the-top and absurd as to become almost prosaic within the context of the show when a woman doing a Leonard Nimoy impression discusses the possibility of transplanting one of her two personalities into the body of a cow and communicating through brain waves on an EEG monitor. There's a certain RefugeInAudacity here, as if they listened to all the complaints about the science used in ''TheXFiles'' and said "You think ''that's'' ridiculous? Put ''this'' in your pipe and smoke it!" Most of the rest of it that would bug me if I were in a nitpicky mood I can chalk up to RuleOfFunny. What ''does'' bug me is the "find the shapeshifter" plot at the beginning of season 2. ''Everyone'' picks up the IdiotBall and runs as far as they can with it. It was obvious who it was in the first place, but after they discover the orderly's body, it becomes ''impossible'' to miss. That, and the utterly cheap manner in which they wrote Kirk Acevedo off the show. It's nice having him back in season 3, but still...not quite the same.

** It ''could'' be a mother-to-baby transmittable disease (like AIDS) and the genetic factor comes in with the immune system's reaction to it. Granted it is a strech. Would make sense if a previous epidemic (and we know that the AlternateUniverse is painfully prone to those) made carriers out of those it did not kill.

** I wouldn't be surprised if they simply decided to capitalise on the NarmCharm. It is still hard to believe that Torv could do each scene straight faced.

** I'm still not sure if it's the epitome of {{Narm}} or the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome most awesome thing]] [[NarmCharm ever shown on television.]]

** William Bell started the cortexiphan experiments over Walter's initial objections (and the Jacksonville trials weren't the first). At some point prior to "Peter", Bell left for Europe to secure funding in order to continue the experiments/found Massive Dynamic; he likely left Walter or someone else in charge of them. When Walter realised that he needed a new way to cross between universes, he took a firmer hand in guiding the experiments.

* Olivia's William Bell accent. Were they aiming for maximum {{Narm}} or what?

* "Bloodline." A genetically inheritable virus. [[FlatWhat What.]] Did I miss something crucial in my Biomed lectures? Then again... maybe it was some kind of weird, modified virus that was accidentally unleashed on the unsuspecting public. [[MST3KMantra Never mind... I'll just go with it.]]

* In "Concentrate and Ask Again", tracking down a mind reader is apparently the only way to extract information from someone in a coma. Didn't anyone remember Walter's already come up with 2 separate means of reading comatose minds? The John Scott thing had some side effects, but the one in "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones" didn't seem to.

* 1) Why does the sow need a recap at the start of every episode? Thats one of the things I liked about season 1!
2) How did Mina just go to see Olivia in the hospital in either the first or second ep? I mean, she's there for no reason or intro, and Im sure you have to get permission from the doctor to see a patient!
3) In the second ep, why did no one bring up the fact that the suspect killed himself in custody? Why were there no guards? Were they constipated?

* Why don't the shapeshifters try to deface the original bodies once they steal their shapes? The FBI ''et al'' know what the three holes in the mouth mean. Disguising that or making identification more difficult would buy them more time.
* In "White Tulip", the physicist is traveling back to inhabit his original body, right? Then how did he appear in the subway car when he wasn't there before?

** This is total WallBanger territory given the flashbacks in "Peter," where we see Walter himself present a prototype modern cell phone (copied from the parallel universe) to the Military in 1985. The fact of William Bell removing knowledge from Walter's head only somewhat alleviates this problem.

1) Why does the sow need a recap at the start of every episode? Thats one of the things I liked about season 1!

* I just got done watching the pilot so forgive me if this gets explained later on in the series, but why did they not use the sychronized dream thingy on Agent Scott after he died? It was stated earlier that you can get information from a corpse withing six hours of their death.

3) In the second ep, why did no one bring up the fact that the suspect killed himself in custody? Why were there no guards? Were they constipated?

* Im on the second disc of season 2 dvd to catch up on the show (So no spoilers please) and I have 3 questions.

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