Series/Fringe

Aww, fiascos are great cloth for fun plots.

It does make you wonder how much of the backstory has been altered (Ms. Bishop is still dead or not?), and what sort of timeline we will ultimately end up with.

Thanks to last night's episode we now know how the Flood evolved. It was very enlightening.

SO... WALTER ISN'T CRAZY.

THIS IS AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT.

SARCASM IS VERY LOUD?

:P

edited 8th Oct '11 6:19:35 PM by Nicknacks

I CALL IT LOUDCASM

FOR OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS

USEFUL FOR TAUNTING ARMIES AND ALSO TREES.

That was a damn good episode.

All in agreement?

Yes, very good. It really brought home to me what a terrible person Walter was, which is something you don't really remember when he's being amusing and eccentric. He experimented on kids with no thought to what the consequences would be for them, and took kids whose parents cared more about the money than them (that's two of the experimented-on kids that we know had abusive parents, now). Cameron had a right to be a lot angrier than he actually was.

Course, maybe him having magnetic powers made that more obvious to me to...

I'm only 15 minutes into "Subject 9", but at around the 15 mark, when they're walking down what's supposed to be a Manhattan street, did anyone else notice the incredibly obvious Canadian flags in the background at some building across the street?

Great episode. So Walternate - or else someone who's gone rogue in the Alt Fringe department - is still using shapeshifters to spy on 'our' side. And no one's discovered the existence of Observers in this history stream.

Also, a great look into Walter's head. Incredibly rough on Peter, but in this continuity, Walter's right - Peter's not his son.

It really seems like the writers here are in love with examining all the ways things could be different, and since it would feel like overkill to introduce a third universe, this is their method for examining yet another way things could have turned out.

More frivolously, is anyone else getting the sense of a Ship Tease between Olivia and Lincoln?

edited 5th Nov '11 7:48:44 AM by WarriorEowyn

Yeah, on the ship tease. Which means Linc's so dead.

Looks like the Observers have gone and broke the time stream.

Uh-oh

it looks like David Robert Jones is coming back, Jared Harris has been seen on location with the rest of the main cast

So pleased if true.

I liked that Walter was listening to Violet Sedan Chair in the last episode. Their album has been growing on me more and more since it leaked.

MIDSEASON BREAK WHHHHHHYYYYYYY

Short answer: Because they're Fox. They have a great, innovative, interesting show with a lot of potential and a loyal viewership. Naturally this means that the show has to die.

According to this, Friday night viewership dropped off sharply after Kitchen Nightmares in November. Which is of course not surprising. I doubt there's a lot of demographic overlap among those shows.

So we're probably looking at the last season of Fringe. It's been a good run, though.

edited 12th Dec '11 8:14:10 AM by Lawyerdude

aaaaand back from break. It looks like the season's picking up, the stakes are higher, and we get to see a familiar face. Or what's left of it anyway.

It's not familiar to me (missed the first season). But I'm a big fan of Walternate not being a villain.

edited 16th Jan '12 3:59:39 PM by WarriorEowyn

Then for Heaven's sake, get the DV Ds and watch Season 1. There is so much in there that has later payoffs. Long story short, the guy we saw talking to Broyles was the Big Bad of Season 1, who we saw killed via Portal Cut.

Heeee's baaahaaaaack...Might he be be B Side Jones? (Jones Zwei?)

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Were-porcupines of Boston! Dah-dah, dah-dah, dah-dah dah-dah!

That had more callbacks to the first season than just the porcupine creature (now with wings!). I'm pretty sure that I saw the monster from the episode with the animal rights group as well (its tail was poking out of a cage in the ending scene).

I figured that once Olivia started getting her original memories back, the rest of the world would start reverting to normal as well. Walter in this episode did seem a little more like the Walter in "our" usual universe, didn't he?

I really wish this topic was more active.

Anyway, :( Red Lincoln.....we barely knew ye.

Good episode this week.

Next week looks utterly, off-the-wall crazy. Time travel? Bad Future where the Observers rule the world? DESMOND?

Can't wait for next week. It seems to be a tradition since Season 2 to make Episode 19 off-the-wall crazy. Although I'm rather sad they've broken the tradition of naming it after drugs ("Brown Betty" and "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide").