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[FRINGE] Reality be fragmenting at the seams
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In general, I got a Dollhouse Epitaph-One vibe from the whole thing. They left it at a funny place, though. I was expecting next week to continue that story, but apparently they're going back to normal-time?
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
One week you are watching them save the world knowing that in the future things are even worse, at the same time you are watching them try to undo some of the damage that was done as they saved the world in the past @ the same time. That's some gutsy decisions made if that's what they are going to attempt.
(we know next weeks is back in the "past", and they set up enough stuff to know we aren't done with the "future" - I think they are going all out in this possible last season)
I got more of a Terminator/SkyNet vibe from it - well, at least during the opening scrolling text thingy. That music was very Terminator like.
Other than that, wow.
Also, I was betting they were going to pull some kind of crazy twist and have Etta be Fauxlivia and Lincoln's daughter or something, but Oh Well.
I wonder if Leonard Nimoy is going to come back for one more episode or if he's done-done for good now? I thought he was totally through with the show but now I am wondering what's going on with him in amber.
What I'm curious about is Bell's role in this new universe, and what he did that pissed off Walter.
Flood of spergrage within.
Why does your brain-imaging gizmo only have one battery, other than it give the actress (I couldn't even be bothered to remember her name) an excuse to hand something to Simon?
Why does the Loyalist kill that one guy, but not her?
The episode is full of shit like that. Nearly every scene has something that doesn't logically follow, or is stupid/nuts. Like the climax.
Jesus christ if it you know you have trackers in your body, shouldn't that be the first thing you find out how to nullify if you think you're part of a resistance movement? And hey, dude, if you're so ready to sacrifice yourself - which you seem to be since you get yourself sealed up in amber - since you apparently know it's YOUR tracker they activated (what? does the girl not have one?), why don't YOU just run and give the team time to get everyone out? If Broyles/Observers corner you, then you can blow your brains out. It's not like trapping yourself in amber is going to save you, unless you really think the Observers won't be able to find a way to get you out of the amber and mind-rape you.
I'm also tempted to call bullshit on Walter knowing secret details of Massive Dynamic's headquarters considering he was in a fucking mental hospital when the building must've been drawn up and built, and that was AFTER he'd had this brain tissue removed, and in this universe he apparently never became MD CEO (or if he did, never left the lab to visit it). I suppose it's possible that he could've found out about the secret passages in the four years we haven't witnessed, but that's just making excuses for it.
God I hate this episode. The only redeeming parts of it were watching John Noble and Blair Brown act.
And oh, as a final note, thank you very much, series, for ruining the Observers. You manage to take a truly alien, unnerving, mysterious antagonist(?) and turn them into fucking Captain Planet villains.
Also, it seems to me that Olivia was dead (the bullet that Etta wore) and that Bell was who killed her (Walter saying "what Bell did to Olivia").
The show was totally telegraphing the "THIS IS PETER AND OLIVIAS DAUGHTER" the entire time, so I was positive it would be Peter and Olivia in the amber. Astrid was an awesome surprise.
Oh, and one thing that to me at least, proved this future is directly connected to right now:
Olivia is not in this future.
is the show still good or should I continue waiting to see the words "series finale" before diving back in?
They didn't know how strong it was? No idea, that didn't stress me that much, seeing as he crashed into soft cardboard boxes
Do we know exactly who killed him? Maybe it was someone who was cutting lose ends, as the guy knew too much
This is what made it very hard to care about this episode. It's another universe and it's pretty bad, odds are it'll vanish.
And antimatter just makes entire building disappear? Really? Everybody can spot the issues with that. I wish they'd bring back their high school science fact checker.
Cool titles though.
Final season trailer (using footage from previous seasons only) is here, and while nothing is new, definitely got me hyped: http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/26/fringe-final-season/
This season will likely wrap up the Jones story and the "peter going home" story to help calm things a bit. No more "4 universes in play" we will be down to 2, possibly 1 depending on what happens with Jones. Then we can focus on "future and current timelines" without it being too messy for the final season.
I'm calling X as Jones' plan kind of goes off, but Olivia and Peter are the only two saved and become "Adam and Eve" of the new Universe.
But why no one even mentioned "Shutting the bridge down is exactly what Jones wants possibly!" or "Jones can hop back and forth easy enough, we're not separated for all time." I do not understand. Nor Walter and Walternate keeping quiet about the fact shutting it down may have KILLED Peter. That's kind of big "Oh, by the way..." kind of thing to keep from him and Olivia.
I'm glad they got another (half) season, because they're either building up well or squandering the season albeit in a decent way.
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They knew (or were hoping) it was strong enough to throw a grown man out of a given space in a split second, so that's not really an explanation for the stupid.
(Also, sidenote, why does the airblast only affect solid things and not gas? That doesn't make any sense- ... sigh. Whatever.)
That would make sense if it wasn't already established that you can smuggle a giant chunk of amber with someone inside it around inside the building.
Honestly, though, that scene is just a minor part of the stupid of the episode. The reason I harp on it is that it was at that point that I started throwing up my hands and making disgusted noises at the TV.
Oh well, I'll get around to watching yesterday's episode sometime in the next couple days. Back to the regular cast!
I assumed Jones wanted to shut down the bridge--isn't that why he told Colonel Broyles to go to the machine with a (presumably explosive) device? Presumably whatever his back-up plan to destroy the universes is (as per the teaser for next ep), it doesn't need the bridge in order to work, and was therefore initially Plan A. Destroying the bridge would have given him a monopoly on inter-universe travel, making him essentially impossible to apprehend. When Broyles failed to destroy the bridge, he moved to Plan B, which we saw in this episode. Now that Plan B won't work, he'll go back to his original plan, along with aforementioned monopoly.
Everybody acknowledged the possibility that they'd be able to turn the machine back on and re-establish the bridge; but they weren't sure, so they felt like they'd never see each other again. Until they catch Jones they can't even try.
As for keeping quiet about shutting it down getting rid of Peter... I don't blame them for keeping it to themselves--both men are keenly aware that it can be difficult for anyone to put the good of all over selfish need. The chance that Olivia would try and stop them from shutting down the machine meant it was better not to tell her, at least when weighed against the fate of both universes.
And I suppose not telling them can be attributed to not taking the chance of one of them backing out, but I also think they earned the right to be given that 'option' at this point. Or more to the point just to know the score. Bit of a slap in the face if he went poof and they explain it after the fact. But it makes sense, I suppose.
Yesssssssssssss!
But yay for Nimoy being back, didn't see that coming. I was expecting the escalator thing to be another test for Olivia, but instead it was....ok, not even going to try and work my way through all that.
Good thing we have another half season to go, no way in hell can they wrap all this up.
Good comparison with Dollhouse - Epitaph One. Fits it perfectly.