Farewell, Fringe, my love. I still feel like this season has been meh. But the previous seasons were amazing. So it all evens out. I'm going to miss my show either way.
I still don't get the whole Plan to Reset Time. Baby Observer goes into the future at just the right time so someone's all, "Let's not create Observers????" Whatever. I don't buy it. But OK. He's important. I get it.
Time to get Old!Broyles in on this. He finds out where Baby Observer is being held, beneath the ruined Statue of Liberty. Windmark's interrogating him but getting nowhere, just developing a bloody nose and a popped blood vessel in his eye for the trouble. So it's time to bring out the tech to really get at this kid.
The only way into the facility on Liberty Island? Use the Other Universe. Good thing Walter has some old Cortexiphan lying around to reactivate Olivia's ability. Plus they use the Other Universe Window to take a peek first and make sure the Observers haven't invaded there too. All looks clear, so they go for it. Time for a bunch of shots of Cortexiphan to the ol' brain stem for poor Olivia.
OTHER UNIVERSE TIME!!!!! My favorite place. Chelsea Clinton leads in the Presidential race. And Lincoln Lee is BACK! He and Fauxlivia are married and have a grown-ass son. And Fauxlivia is rocking some fabulous gray in her hair. God, I love Fauxlivia. I guess that's what the show was missing this season. No crazy Freaks of the Week, no Awesome Dual Universes, no funny Walter food things. Observers (and dystopian futures) were better in small doses.
Olivia crosses over into the room where they were holding Baby Observer. Only they've moved him because they're going to disassemble him. Now that doesn't sound good. And Olivia's starting to kind of phase in between both universes, her Cortexiphan wearing off. She gets to the kid just as they're about to strip him for parts, and they make it back to the Other Universe. But an Observer follows. Good thing Lincoln and Fauxlivia Lee take care of the situation. Olivia makes it back over with Baby Observer.
Windmark finds out Broyles was behind the exposure of Baby Observer's location. So he's pissed, as usual. He figures out Broyles is going to meet our Team, so he has someone follow him. Too bad Broyles is too smart for that and notices them following. Broyles is captured. Uh-oh.
Donald/September built a machine in the lab whilst everyone was off gallivanting across universes. He pays a visit to an old Observer pal to get a piece he needs. Time to open a wormhole to the year 2167, and Walter has to accompany the kid. Walter and Peter say a Sad Bishop Goodbye.
Oh but they can't get that piece they need from the Observer because the Bad Observers have caught up to him, killed him, and taken the tech. Windmark knows they are trying to reset time. Astrid comes up with an idea to use one of the Observer's "shipping lanes" as a wormhole.
Donald/September says he should be the one to escort the kid into the future. Yeah, DUH, you should be! Walter doesn't need to do this shit. Take your bald kid and get into the future!!!
There is some great grossness, and Olivia and Peter unleash all the different contaminants, poisons, and foreign bodies from the past 5 years into the ventilation system at Observer HQ. Observers dropping left and right from various Freaks of the Weeks Greatest Hits. Our Team gets whatever tech they need from Observer HQ to take over the shipping lane.
Windmark finds them and starts beating the crap out of Peter and Olivia. Til Olivia summons her electrical powers and has him pwned by a car. R.I.P. Windmark you bastard.
Donald/September is killed in a shootout running toward the wormhole. So now it really is up to Walter to take the kid over. Bye bye, Walter.
We're back to the point where Olivia, Peter, and little Etta are in the park. But this time, no Observer invasion. Happy ending, but what happened to my Walterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
This Week's Final Code: *sob* LOVED and CLOSE *I'll miss you*
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18 January 2013
14 January 2013
Fringe
It took me this long to catch up on Fringe, which clearly means I'm ready to let go. Guess I'm just trying to make the separation easier, you know?
Tank Time! In order to pull out the memory of September that Baby Observer planted in his brain, Walter decides to go into the Deprivation Tank. Sans trunks, of course. He figures out where September used to live (when he had hair) and the team goes to see if he's still there. Along the way, we get a really touching Walter/Peter moment where Walter remembers things from the old timeline and says he loves Peter and they hug and get teary. So what - someone's gonna die, right?
Windmark heads into the future to meet "The Commander" and there is much general Observer creepiness. Windmark really has a hard-on for killing Our Team, which is odd because Observers don't get hard-ons for anything.
Donald (September, a bit older now and still with hair), is indeed still in his apartment. Must be rent controlled. So Donald used to be the Observer September and then as "punishment" for helping the Team, he had his device removed and named himself Donald. He tells us that hundreds of years from now, Observers just create themselves in labs - humans decided to sacrifice human emotion for increased intelligence. And Baby Observer is September's kid, who was deemed an anomaly because of his brain development, so September hid him in the past. Oh lord, now my eyes have gone crossed.
So Donald/September says they have to send Baby Observer into the future, to the point where humans made that decision to grow Observers, to prevent them from doing so, thereby never creating Observers. They're going to reset time. What Walter hasn't told the others is that, in order for the plan to reset time to work, he has to sacrifice himself. Baby Observer showed him that. See - told you someone was dying.
As the team tries to get wherever the team is going, Baby Observer is caught by Windmark. Or maybe turns himself in.
This Week's Code: GRACE
Well, the show is nearly over - and the preview showed Lincoln Lee and Fauxlivia, so I'm kind of excited. Can we get some Charlie before it's all over? Maybe reset the timeline and then open like we did in the pilot?
Tank Time! In order to pull out the memory of September that Baby Observer planted in his brain, Walter decides to go into the Deprivation Tank. Sans trunks, of course. He figures out where September used to live (when he had hair) and the team goes to see if he's still there. Along the way, we get a really touching Walter/Peter moment where Walter remembers things from the old timeline and says he loves Peter and they hug and get teary. So what - someone's gonna die, right?
Windmark heads into the future to meet "The Commander" and there is much general Observer creepiness. Windmark really has a hard-on for killing Our Team, which is odd because Observers don't get hard-ons for anything.
Donald (September, a bit older now and still with hair), is indeed still in his apartment. Must be rent controlled. So Donald used to be the Observer September and then as "punishment" for helping the Team, he had his device removed and named himself Donald. He tells us that hundreds of years from now, Observers just create themselves in labs - humans decided to sacrifice human emotion for increased intelligence. And Baby Observer is September's kid, who was deemed an anomaly because of his brain development, so September hid him in the past. Oh lord, now my eyes have gone crossed.
So Donald/September says they have to send Baby Observer into the future, to the point where humans made that decision to grow Observers, to prevent them from doing so, thereby never creating Observers. They're going to reset time. What Walter hasn't told the others is that, in order for the plan to reset time to work, he has to sacrifice himself. Baby Observer showed him that. See - told you someone was dying.
As the team tries to get wherever the team is going, Baby Observer is caught by Windmark. Or maybe turns himself in.
This Week's Code: GRACE
Well, the show is nearly over - and the preview showed Lincoln Lee and Fauxlivia, so I'm kind of excited. Can we get some Charlie before it's all over? Maybe reset the timeline and then open like we did in the pilot?
27 December 2012
Fringe
Our team can't get Observer Baby to talk. They bring him to Nina, who takes everyone to a convenient secret lab where the Resistance has been experimenting on Observers. They've got a device that can basically read Observers' minds, but it doesn't work with the kid so they decide to try linking one of their mind's with the kid's.
In the midst of tracking down all these secret labs and tech, the Observers find out Nina is working with our team, and locate her in the lab. Soon it's R.I.P. Nina, who kills herself rather than have her brain probed by these assholes. Luckily, she had stashed away Observer Baby so the team finds him after the Observers vacate the premises.
The team takes the tech and Observer Baby back to the amber lab and hook up OB and Walter's brains. Walter asks OB why he's important and he gets answered in a bunch of memory flashes, culminating in the revelation that September is Donald. Man, I can't even remember what happened to September. Didn't he die? This show was complicated enough without rebooting this year. Oy.
This Week's Code: SENSE
In the midst of tracking down all these secret labs and tech, the Observers find out Nina is working with our team, and locate her in the lab. Soon it's R.I.P. Nina, who kills herself rather than have her brain probed by these assholes. Luckily, she had stashed away Observer Baby so the team finds him after the Observers vacate the premises.
The team takes the tech and Observer Baby back to the amber lab and hook up OB and Walter's brains. Walter asks OB why he's important and he gets answered in a bunch of memory flashes, culminating in the revelation that September is Donald. Man, I can't even remember what happened to September. Didn't he die? This show was complicated enough without rebooting this year. Oy.
This Week's Code: SENSE
16 December 2012
Fringe
Damn you, DVR, for screwing up and not recording Fringe on Friday. Thank you, internet, for offering me other options....
The radio from the Pocket Universe is picking up a signal. And Walter dropped acid. This might be a good episode. Walter has visions of a Tinkerbell type of girl as well as the chick who was burned to death in his lab. The team uses Convenient Resistance Tech to determine the source of the signal -- a skeleton in the woods.
There's a bunch of skeletons in the woods, and one of them is Sam Weiss, the awesome bowling alley dude from back in the day. In their hunt for the source of the signal, they come across a couple in a house with a Child Observer. The same one from the Pocket Universe, and the one they all encountered in the other timeline. Donald left the kid with the couple 20 years ago. All they know is that he's somehow important to defeating the Observers, and he hasn't aged or spoken since. They turn the kid over to our team, because that's what Donald instructed.
Then we get Walter reliving the past, with him crossing over to get Peter, etc., etc. He's becoming the Asshole Walter he never wanted to be again.
This Week's Code: GUILT.
The radio from the Pocket Universe is picking up a signal. And Walter dropped acid. This might be a good episode. Walter has visions of a Tinkerbell type of girl as well as the chick who was burned to death in his lab. The team uses Convenient Resistance Tech to determine the source of the signal -- a skeleton in the woods.
There's a bunch of skeletons in the woods, and one of them is Sam Weiss, the awesome bowling alley dude from back in the day. In their hunt for the source of the signal, they come across a couple in a house with a Child Observer. The same one from the Pocket Universe, and the one they all encountered in the other timeline. Donald left the kid with the couple 20 years ago. All they know is that he's somehow important to defeating the Observers, and he hasn't aged or spoken since. They turn the kid over to our team, because that's what Donald instructed.
Then we get Walter reliving the past, with him crossing over to get Peter, etc., etc. He's becoming the Asshole Walter he never wanted to be again.
This Week's Code: GUILT.
07 December 2012
Fringe
Observer Peter is in full effect, with his transparent Wall of Crazy. Windmark's out to get him and finds the Wall, realizing it means Peter can "run futures." Peter does a lot of anticipating-everyone's-next-move tricks to outsmart Windmark, and fights him with all that blinking-out-of-existence stuff.
Olivia gets ahold of the tech/needle-thing that Peter used from their Resistance pal whose name I can't remember or understand. She tells Astrid and Walter what Peter has done and wants Walter to take that tech and try to figure out a way out.
Goddammit, more of the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. The next one tells them to retrieve an industrial magnet. Olivia goes to do it so that Walter can check out the Observer tech. Walter's tests on the tech confirm that the brain gets, like, super-smart, and has no more emotions.
Olivia finds the people with the magnet - they've been holding it for years, waiting for Walter's return. Now Olivia has to transport this giant magnet back -- she's not gonna get stopped? The Observers don't check for random big trucks on the roads? The Observers don't find her, but some random thugs on the road ambush her - and they figure out she's got a bounty on her head. The thugs call it in to the Reward Wire, saying they'll only meet the Observers in a "Truth Church" - a place they can't be read, I guess?
Peter shows up in the lab after his fight with Windmark to get his shoulder stitched up. He feels no pain. Walter says the changes will "soon be permanent" -- so I suppose there's hope for Peter to change back?
Olivia escapes the thugs, because she is Olivia and is awesome and rigs up a super awesome gun thing out of steam and Etta's bullet. She is sure to retrieve the bullet.
Everyone on this show goes from Boston to NYC in 2.4 seconds. It gets annoying. Because suddenly Olivia meets up with Peter where he's watching Windmark to make sure he ends up on a trajectory that will lead to his death at Peter's hand. But she convinces him to remove the tech from his brain so she doesn't lose him. OK.... So does that mean Peter's whole transformation was totally pointless? It's gotta have more repercussions down the road....
This Week's Code: PLEAD
Olivia gets ahold of the tech/needle-thing that Peter used from their Resistance pal whose name I can't remember or understand. She tells Astrid and Walter what Peter has done and wants Walter to take that tech and try to figure out a way out.
Goddammit, more of the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. The next one tells them to retrieve an industrial magnet. Olivia goes to do it so that Walter can check out the Observer tech. Walter's tests on the tech confirm that the brain gets, like, super-smart, and has no more emotions.
Olivia finds the people with the magnet - they've been holding it for years, waiting for Walter's return. Now Olivia has to transport this giant magnet back -- she's not gonna get stopped? The Observers don't check for random big trucks on the roads? The Observers don't find her, but some random thugs on the road ambush her - and they figure out she's got a bounty on her head. The thugs call it in to the Reward Wire, saying they'll only meet the Observers in a "Truth Church" - a place they can't be read, I guess?
Peter shows up in the lab after his fight with Windmark to get his shoulder stitched up. He feels no pain. Walter says the changes will "soon be permanent" -- so I suppose there's hope for Peter to change back?
Olivia escapes the thugs, because she is Olivia and is awesome and rigs up a super awesome gun thing out of steam and Etta's bullet. She is sure to retrieve the bullet.
Everyone on this show goes from Boston to NYC in 2.4 seconds. It gets annoying. Because suddenly Olivia meets up with Peter where he's watching Windmark to make sure he ends up on a trajectory that will lead to his death at Peter's hand. But she convinces him to remove the tech from his brain so she doesn't lose him. OK.... So does that mean Peter's whole transformation was totally pointless? It's gotta have more repercussions down the road....
This Week's Code: PLEAD
16 November 2012
Fringe
Pacey's got the Observer power to see a series of events that will happen. And he uses that power to make sure one misses a meeting. Careful now, let's not go abusing this wondrous gift!
Time for another video tape! They have to use William Bell's handprint to access his storage facility and retrieve 2 of those cylindrical beacon things the Observers use. Good thing they have Bell's hand that they cut out of the amber when the team was first found. Too bad the storage facility is part of a bombed-out building.
The team goes to find Old Nina, who will have access to some technology that can help them clear away the rubble without damaging the storage facility. Nina's hair is silver and fierce; she and Olivia appear to have that same connection they did in that one universe, the one where Nina raised her.
Meanwhile, Peter's gone off on his own and tries to do the trick again to anticipate the Observer's behavior and get their Rebel friend to switch briefcases with him. But there's a variable he didn't anticipate so the Rebel can't make the switch. Peter's also getting some major hot flashes.
Peter tries again and it works, resulting in the Rebel exploding something inside the briefcase all over a group of Observers - something that makes their skin look burned up and their jaws fall off of their faces. Kickass effects, zombie style! I like it.
Olivia's not falling for Peter's shitty excuses for disappearing from time to time. He's also becoming a little more robotic in the way he speaks. She knows something's up. Meanwhile, the team gets access to the rubble and enters the storage room. They find a device, which Peter activates, and the beacons rise from the ground.
Olivia discovers Peter's crazy drawings of timelines - he's tracking the Observer lieutenants, anticipating their actions, and is totes a robot! He tells her that he has the tech in his head. He's totally speaking like an Observer; it's freaky!! The toxin he used on the Observers was the very first Fringe event toxin that killed all the people on that plane. Now he's ready to attack the leader. And just when I say, "I hope he doesn't go bald," some hair falls out into his hand. Nooooooooo!
This Week's Code: TRUST
Time for another video tape! They have to use William Bell's handprint to access his storage facility and retrieve 2 of those cylindrical beacon things the Observers use. Good thing they have Bell's hand that they cut out of the amber when the team was first found. Too bad the storage facility is part of a bombed-out building.
The team goes to find Old Nina, who will have access to some technology that can help them clear away the rubble without damaging the storage facility. Nina's hair is silver and fierce; she and Olivia appear to have that same connection they did in that one universe, the one where Nina raised her.
Meanwhile, Peter's gone off on his own and tries to do the trick again to anticipate the Observer's behavior and get their Rebel friend to switch briefcases with him. But there's a variable he didn't anticipate so the Rebel can't make the switch. Peter's also getting some major hot flashes.
Peter tries again and it works, resulting in the Rebel exploding something inside the briefcase all over a group of Observers - something that makes their skin look burned up and their jaws fall off of their faces. Kickass effects, zombie style! I like it.
Olivia's not falling for Peter's shitty excuses for disappearing from time to time. He's also becoming a little more robotic in the way he speaks. She knows something's up. Meanwhile, the team gets access to the rubble and enters the storage room. They find a device, which Peter activates, and the beacons rise from the ground.
Olivia discovers Peter's crazy drawings of timelines - he's tracking the Observer lieutenants, anticipating their actions, and is totes a robot! He tells her that he has the tech in his head. He's totally speaking like an Observer; it's freaky!! The toxin he used on the Observers was the very first Fringe event toxin that killed all the people on that plane. Now he's ready to attack the leader. And just when I say, "I hope he doesn't go bald," some hair falls out into his hand. Nooooooooo!
This Week's Code: TRUST
10 November 2012
Fringe
Back to the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. Olivia and Pacey are busy grieving (helllla depressing) so Walter goes off on his own to an apartment listed in the latest videotape. Where's Astrid? Isn't she supposed to have a leash on him? She must have been in the crapper cuz then she comes into the lab looking for him.
The apartment building is abandoned and has been through some kind of universe-ripping event. And when Walter crosses one of the rooms in a certain way, he disappears into another universe. It's like a trippy haunted house maze apartment with upside-down rooms and stuff.
The team comes to the apartment to find Walter and then follow Videotaped-Walter into and through the "pocket universe." On the videotape, Walter is walking around with an Observer Baby, or at least a kid like that little bald kid from Season 1 or 2. Observer Baby isn't in the room where Video-taped Walter left him. They figure that Donald took him, Donald being the guy Walter was working with back in the day when he was recording his tapes. They find an olde timey radio that's sure to be important at some point, but nothing else.
Meanwhile, they left Astrid in the real universe, because Astrid always gets left behind. She sees Observers coming to the apartment (they caught Walter on camera walking in the neighborhood). The team escapes, but first Peter gets to do some hand-to-hand combat with an Observer -- and Peter is as fast and strong as they are, snapping the Observer's neck. Badass. And now Peter's seeing in blue like Observers do.
This Week's Code: SPLIT
The apartment building is abandoned and has been through some kind of universe-ripping event. And when Walter crosses one of the rooms in a certain way, he disappears into another universe. It's like a trippy haunted house maze apartment with upside-down rooms and stuff.
The team comes to the apartment to find Walter and then follow Videotaped-Walter into and through the "pocket universe." On the videotape, Walter is walking around with an Observer Baby, or at least a kid like that little bald kid from Season 1 or 2. Observer Baby isn't in the room where Video-taped Walter left him. They figure that Donald took him, Donald being the guy Walter was working with back in the day when he was recording his tapes. They find an olde timey radio that's sure to be important at some point, but nothing else.
Meanwhile, they left Astrid in the real universe, because Astrid always gets left behind. She sees Observers coming to the apartment (they caught Walter on camera walking in the neighborhood). The team escapes, but first Peter gets to do some hand-to-hand combat with an Observer -- and Peter is as fast and strong as they are, snapping the Observer's neck. Badass. And now Peter's seeing in blue like Observers do.
This Week's Code: SPLIT
04 November 2012
Fringe
Papa Pacey is bitter because his baby's dead. Elsewhere, The Observers are closing down a street for a portal-between-two-universes event in which 3 large boxes are "shipped" over.
Astrid's still working on that damn Great Hunt for the Video Tapes, but has hit a stumbling block because propane and ethanol that were going to be used in a bratwurst cook are precariously close to where the laser needs to go. Seriously. That's the stumbling block. This show is turning into a parody with this blasted Great Hunt for the Video Tapes.
They meet up with a Resistance buddy of Etta's who tells the team that the Observers are shipping back parts and escalating their plan to degrade the air to the point where it shortens human lifespans. Peter wants to get some Observer tech, open up the portal, and destroy the Future -- hard. Luckily, the Resistance has captured an Observer with said tech! Now Peter just has to figure it out.
Peter uses some pupil-response-device to get the Observer to clue him in on the proper way to assemble the tech. Commence sabotage!!!! It doesn't go as planned though. It does at first, and they think they've created a black hole on the other side, but then another shipment comes through so they obviously weren't destroyed.
Commence plastic bag suffocation torture!!!! Turns out, Peter's reading of the Observer's dilated pupils wasn't accurate because, well, Observers are emotionless, reactionless effs. So the device didn't work. Peter wants to "put the Observers' tech" in his head. Which involves him strapping the Observer down and pulling something out of the base of his neck. R.I.P. Asshole! And now Peter inserts that tech into his head. Oh this'll go well...........
As if one hunt for video tapes wasn't enough, now Walter's finding tapes of Etta's birthdays in his desk. Olivia watches it and remembers the good old days and calls Peter to tell him she wants him back and wants them to be together like they used to. Well, too late, sweetie, cuz now he's got some metal wormy thing in his head!!!!!!!!!
Man, every episode ENDS awesomely lately.
This Week's Code: FIGHT
Astrid's still working on that damn Great Hunt for the Video Tapes, but has hit a stumbling block because propane and ethanol that were going to be used in a bratwurst cook are precariously close to where the laser needs to go. Seriously. That's the stumbling block. This show is turning into a parody with this blasted Great Hunt for the Video Tapes.
They meet up with a Resistance buddy of Etta's who tells the team that the Observers are shipping back parts and escalating their plan to degrade the air to the point where it shortens human lifespans. Peter wants to get some Observer tech, open up the portal, and destroy the Future -- hard. Luckily, the Resistance has captured an Observer with said tech! Now Peter just has to figure it out.
Peter uses some pupil-response-device to get the Observer to clue him in on the proper way to assemble the tech. Commence sabotage!!!! It doesn't go as planned though. It does at first, and they think they've created a black hole on the other side, but then another shipment comes through so they obviously weren't destroyed.
Commence plastic bag suffocation torture!!!! Turns out, Peter's reading of the Observer's dilated pupils wasn't accurate because, well, Observers are emotionless, reactionless effs. So the device didn't work. Peter wants to "put the Observers' tech" in his head. Which involves him strapping the Observer down and pulling something out of the base of his neck. R.I.P. Asshole! And now Peter inserts that tech into his head. Oh this'll go well...........
As if one hunt for video tapes wasn't enough, now Walter's finding tapes of Etta's birthdays in his desk. Olivia watches it and remembers the good old days and calls Peter to tell him she wants him back and wants them to be together like they used to. Well, too late, sweetie, cuz now he's got some metal wormy thing in his head!!!!!!!!!
Man, every episode ENDS awesomely lately.
This Week's Code: FIGHT
26 October 2012
Fringe
Let's not talk about the crazy hours I've been working, the Halloween vacation I went on, the fact that I've seen 2 movies and not reviewed them, and the fact that I have 3 episodes of The Challenge to catch up on. Let's just watch Fringe so I can go to bed and work tomorrow.
Peter's on the run from Observers who tried to read him while he was stealing gas. The rest of the crew is digging out Tape 2 at Harvard. And Old Broyles is having a confab with the Lead Asshole Observer because they've determined that someone is working for the Resistance and feeding Our Team information.
Tape 2's clue directs Our Team to a subway station. But in order to get there, Walter first takes everyone downstairs where Walter has kept all of the evidence from their Fringe Division cases. Random.
During the course of a mind-rapey interrogation, an Observer gets the traitor to reference someone called "The Dove" -- my money's on Broyles cuz he's acting hella on-guard and can block the Observers out of his head pretty well. Sure enough, Broyles texts Ella to tell her the Observers are headed for the lab. So the crew re-ambers the lab and sneaks out.
The team uses the old makes-head-holes-close-up gas (that stuff was awsome!) to get past guards and into the subway station. I like the concept of them using the past Fringe case evidence and making weapons out of them. But I don't know if that's something that's going to continue, or was just the gimmick for this episode.
So what they get out of the station is a giant scroll of an equation that Walter wrote and can't make sense of. Broyles comes by and they have a sweet reunion, and he gives them some weapons. Observers catch up to them. Everyone shoots and runs. Lead Asshole Observer catches up to Etta. I suddenly think this show could get interesting if Etta dies. Time to lose the weirdness of a 5-year age gap between parents and child. Get some drama and angst from her death.
Sure enough, Lead Asshole Observer shoots her. And before she dies, Etta arms a bomb that wipes out a bunch of Observers. R.I.P. Etta. Nothing against you, kid, but I want my old show back. And you were in my way. This might just be the jolt the show needed. Peter's at least going to be crazed for revenge.
This Week's Code: WOUND
Peter's on the run from Observers who tried to read him while he was stealing gas. The rest of the crew is digging out Tape 2 at Harvard. And Old Broyles is having a confab with the Lead Asshole Observer because they've determined that someone is working for the Resistance and feeding Our Team information.
Tape 2's clue directs Our Team to a subway station. But in order to get there, Walter first takes everyone downstairs where Walter has kept all of the evidence from their Fringe Division cases. Random.
During the course of a mind-rapey interrogation, an Observer gets the traitor to reference someone called "The Dove" -- my money's on Broyles cuz he's acting hella on-guard and can block the Observers out of his head pretty well. Sure enough, Broyles texts Ella to tell her the Observers are headed for the lab. So the crew re-ambers the lab and sneaks out.
The team uses the old makes-head-holes-close-up gas (that stuff was awsome!) to get past guards and into the subway station. I like the concept of them using the past Fringe case evidence and making weapons out of them. But I don't know if that's something that's going to continue, or was just the gimmick for this episode.
So what they get out of the station is a giant scroll of an equation that Walter wrote and can't make sense of. Broyles comes by and they have a sweet reunion, and he gives them some weapons. Observers catch up to them. Everyone shoots and runs. Lead Asshole Observer catches up to Etta. I suddenly think this show could get interesting if Etta dies. Time to lose the weirdness of a 5-year age gap between parents and child. Get some drama and angst from her death.
Sure enough, Lead Asshole Observer shoots her. And before she dies, Etta arms a bomb that wipes out a bunch of Observers. R.I.P. Etta. Nothing against you, kid, but I want my old show back. And you were in my way. This might just be the jolt the show needed. Peter's at least going to be crazed for revenge.
This Week's Code: WOUND
12 October 2012
Fringe
So I just watched the pilot for Arrow. And I'm all in. It's like Smallville but 1000 times better. Cuz this guy actually kills people. And the mystery of what happened to him while he was missing is cool. Loved the pilot!
Over on Fringe, it's the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. The first one is Walter smoking a massive bong, and it leads them to a location in a Northern Pennsylvania forest. Within this forest is... for old time's sake let's call them the Freaks of the Week -- people who look like they have tar all over their faces and live in some weird little village.
The shit-faced guys recognize Walter. They're a group of refugees from the city who maintain an historical record of mankind. Walter's tape sends them to an abandoned mine where they find an extra-tarred-up dead body. The team starts developing tar spots as well. They've got to get to the bottom of the mine to retrieve some kind of quartz crystals that are super, super important, you guys. Some tar guy makes the sacrifice play to retrieve it. The end.
Olivia does a lot of angsting over whether she was a bad mother. Boo. I'm still not feeling this season. Yeah, I get it, life is bad under The Observers. It's also boring. And I don't care about these ugly tar people. The story on this one stunk. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
This Week's Code: ANGER. Yeah, that about sums it up. The next one looks better though.
Over on Fringe, it's the Great Hunt for the Video Tapes. The first one is Walter smoking a massive bong, and it leads them to a location in a Northern Pennsylvania forest. Within this forest is... for old time's sake let's call them the Freaks of the Week -- people who look like they have tar all over their faces and live in some weird little village.
The shit-faced guys recognize Walter. They're a group of refugees from the city who maintain an historical record of mankind. Walter's tape sends them to an abandoned mine where they find an extra-tarred-up dead body. The team starts developing tar spots as well. They've got to get to the bottom of the mine to retrieve some kind of quartz crystals that are super, super important, you guys. Some tar guy makes the sacrifice play to retrieve it. The end.
Olivia does a lot of angsting over whether she was a bad mother. Boo. I'm still not feeling this season. Yeah, I get it, life is bad under The Observers. It's also boring. And I don't care about these ugly tar people. The story on this one stunk. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
This Week's Code: ANGER. Yeah, that about sums it up. The next one looks better though.
05 October 2012
Fringe
Did I mention yet that Last Resort sucks? It legit sucks. And I had 2 people I trust recommend it to me! Needless to say, I no longer trust them. It's just a dumb, incomprehensible mess and godawful. Ick. Anyway, I just watched last night's and it's time to wash the taste out of my mouth with some Fringe. Let's hope it tastes as good as it used to. Cuz so far it tastes a little off. It's weird when a kid and her parents are nearly the same age and when you're not sure what's been happening for 20 years.
Harvard has been taken over by Observers, but the team wants to get into Walter's lab. "It's not a problem for someone who's done acid," says Walter. He remembers tunnels beneath the campus. They find the lab ambered-up and cobwebbed over. An Observer loyalist happens across the lab and Etta whips out some kind of crazy torture/aging device on him. Olivia's not so proud of her daughter any longer. Walter rigs some pig's eyes so they can get through an ocular scanner to get into the science building so they can turn the power back on. So there's a bunch of gross eyeball stuff which I hate. Good old Fringe.
Etta and Peter go undercover into the science building where they see experiments being done on humans, brains in jars, etc. Etta also sees her old pal Desmond's head - and only his head - surrounded by electrodes. And it blinks. YAY Fringe!
Using a laser from Walter's laserdisc player, they dig out a camera (Betamax, natch - Walter loves his outdated technology) and videotape. On it, Walter says that he laid out his plan on several videotapes which must be found and put together. I'm sorry - is this the new Freak of the Week? Videotape of the Week? It's Lord of the Rings with Betamax! Mike makes some Harry Potter reference instead.
This Week's Code: FAITH. As in, have faith that this will feel like my show again. I miss my Freaks of the Week. :(
Harvard has been taken over by Observers, but the team wants to get into Walter's lab. "It's not a problem for someone who's done acid," says Walter. He remembers tunnels beneath the campus. They find the lab ambered-up and cobwebbed over. An Observer loyalist happens across the lab and Etta whips out some kind of crazy torture/aging device on him. Olivia's not so proud of her daughter any longer. Walter rigs some pig's eyes so they can get through an ocular scanner to get into the science building so they can turn the power back on. So there's a bunch of gross eyeball stuff which I hate. Good old Fringe.
Etta and Peter go undercover into the science building where they see experiments being done on humans, brains in jars, etc. Etta also sees her old pal Desmond's head - and only his head - surrounded by electrodes. And it blinks. YAY Fringe!
Using a laser from Walter's laserdisc player, they dig out a camera (Betamax, natch - Walter loves his outdated technology) and videotape. On it, Walter says that he laid out his plan on several videotapes which must be found and put together. I'm sorry - is this the new Freak of the Week? Videotape of the Week? It's Lord of the Rings with Betamax! Mike makes some Harry Potter reference instead.
This Week's Code: FAITH. As in, have faith that this will feel like my show again. I miss my Freaks of the Week. :(
28 September 2012
Fringe
We only get 13 more episodes of Fringe. And they're in the Observer-run year of 2036. I really wanted to do a massive rewatch of Fringe while it was on break, but I didn't. So maybe it's a goal for after this season then.
Once we get accustomed to the future and the team of Etta, Walter, Astrid, and Pacey working together, Etta determines that amber gypsies have taken Olivia. I guess they go around cutting people out of amber and then selling them to family members. She's not with the amber gypsies because the little midget bookstore dude bought her -- and uses her as a coffee table. I'm not making this stuff up, people.
They get ambered-Olivia into the back of a van but then Observers and their army of human slaves show up. Walter gets separated from the rest and captured. Olivia is freed from the amber. YAY hi Olivia I love you!! Lovely Bishop family reunion ensues. Well, except for Walter, who is being interrogated by Observers, and not very nicely. He's def being mindraped. Boo Observers.
So it seems the years before they all got ambered-up went like this -- Etta "died" or maybe just disappeared. After losing their kid, Olivia and Peter split because they were sad, and also he was a pussy and she wanted to go save the world. Before she ambered herself, Olivia was bringing Walter a device to unscramble the plan for defeating the Observers that September had put into Walter's mind.
Etta hooks the team up with her Resistance friends, who sneak them in to free Walter. The thought device doesn't help them, because Walter's brain got all effed up during the mindraping.
This Week's Code: DOUBT.
OK, look, I'm all for any kind of Fringe. Truly. But I miss my little team solving Freak of the Week cases. There, I said it.
Once we get accustomed to the future and the team of Etta, Walter, Astrid, and Pacey working together, Etta determines that amber gypsies have taken Olivia. I guess they go around cutting people out of amber and then selling them to family members. She's not with the amber gypsies because the little midget bookstore dude bought her -- and uses her as a coffee table. I'm not making this stuff up, people.
They get ambered-Olivia into the back of a van but then Observers and their army of human slaves show up. Walter gets separated from the rest and captured. Olivia is freed from the amber. YAY hi Olivia I love you!! Lovely Bishop family reunion ensues. Well, except for Walter, who is being interrogated by Observers, and not very nicely. He's def being mindraped. Boo Observers.
So it seems the years before they all got ambered-up went like this -- Etta "died" or maybe just disappeared. After losing their kid, Olivia and Peter split because they were sad, and also he was a pussy and she wanted to go save the world. Before she ambered herself, Olivia was bringing Walter a device to unscramble the plan for defeating the Observers that September had put into Walter's mind.
Etta hooks the team up with her Resistance friends, who sneak them in to free Walter. The thought device doesn't help them, because Walter's brain got all effed up during the mindraping.
This Week's Code: DOUBT.
OK, look, I'm all for any kind of Fringe. Truly. But I miss my little team solving Freak of the Week cases. There, I said it.
29 July 2012
Yep, It Was Awesome
So I think I'll watch The Avengers now (I have it with some foreign (Russian?) subtitles, but couldn't care less). On a related note, I'm 95% sure I'm giving up on So You Think You Can Dance. And I'm pretty sure there's a new Project Runway season, yet I have no desire to watch that either. When you don't watch a show for a few days and don't miss it and pretty much dread starting it, that means it's OK to abandon it. And I find myself thinking I'd rather do a Massive Fringe Rewatch v. watching new SYTYCD. It can be so and it will be so!
Long story short, Breaking Bad has ruined all other TV for me.
18 July 2012
Comic-Con 2012: Day Four
We had to get up early again, because even though I only wanted to see the Fringe panel at 10:00, there were Supernatural and Doctor Who panels scheduled after it, and never underestimate those fandoms. I was geared up for what would surely be a bittersweet Fringe panel, as they were saying goodbye and are always soooo appreciative of the fans.
Tragically, I missed nearly the first half of the panel because those damn Comic-Con idiots didn’t open Hall H early enough. Nerd rage!!! So although I got a seat, it wasn’t until after the first video presentation, the Season 5 preview. Though of course that’s online now. But I got to see Lance Reddick cry and that was amazing. He, Anna Torv, and Jasika Nicole were blubbering messes at one point; it was adorable. Joshua Jackson and John Noble were their normal adorable, funny selves. Noble said that a movie was a possibility, but I suppose it’s a possibility just like aliens are a possibility. But I hope it happens! They had a nice retrospective video thanking the fans too. They all took a bow at the end. Love it. Excited for season 5!
After that, it was trolling the Exhibit Hall, snapping a photo of Nathan Fillion at the Marvel booth, and closing the place down at 5. Below are some of my favorite cosplay pictures. We had a great Comic-Con and looking forward to next year!
Mike’s Two Cents (the stuff he saw that I didn’t, while I was making sure to get into the Breaking Bad panel): Total Recall was awesome as crap and looked really good. Colin Farrell is always good on a panel. The hover cars and the way the city is built are cool. No Schwarzenegger one-liners, more like serious sci-fi. Looper was awesome; it looks really fast-paced, interesting concept. It’s not heavily focused on the time travel. Emily Blunt is funny as shit. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was cool and funny and grateful to be working. Elysium footage was still rough but looks pretty good. Matt Damon is jacked-up and Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley were there too. Resident Evil 127 - Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez were having fun and made for a really good panel. They both enjoy being at Comic-Con and know how to work the crowd.
Finally, some photos of the happy nerds and their swag, including the much-coveted Django Unchained tee shirts.
12 May 2012
Fringe
OK, I'm sober and it's a beautiful morning. Bring on what is sure to be a crazy, emotional season finale of Fringe.
William Bell brags to Walter that he's building his own universe. They're on a barge and Bell has a God/Noah's Ark vibe going on.
The chick from Lost is being followed by September and calls Olivia and Peter. When they get to her house, they find a crumbled hole in the floor. But they're called away to the hospital, where Astrid is in surgery for her gunshot wound. Astrid's all broken up because she lost Walter. :(
Olivia and Peter head to the warehouse and September is there, with the chick from Lost, who is holding a gun on him. She shoots at September, but he catches the bullets. So she uses a gun invented by Bell (it shoots faster than Observers can catch), and gets September in the chest. Then she shoots at him again and Olivia's superpowered ass catches the bullets and flings them back at her!!!! PWNED. R.I.P. bitch!!!! September wanders off to investigate the future, or whatever it is Observers do.
Peter and Olivia bring Dead Bitch back to the lab for "questioning". And a giant needle through her brain. Ick. Nina brings the tech and they get to it. It's the craziest dead-person-interrogation ever. The chick kind of reanimates, but her eyes move all over the place and her facial muscles twitch and it's creepy as hell. Cree. Pee. She tells them Bell is on a boat, and is going to collapse/rebuild the universe using some energy source. Olivia grabs her and sends electricity through the room. Olivia is your energy source, ladies and gentlemen. She's Magneto or some shit, resonating an electromagnetic field. So all that nonsense last week was really just part of the activation process, so Bell could get Olivia's mojo working to his advantage. I'll allow it.
The team locates the barge and heads into the universe destroying/creating storm over the ocean. The barge isn't visible to Olivia and Nina, only to Peter, which means it's already crossed over. Olivia has the ability to cross over, so she and Peter leap off the helicopter together and on to the barge.
Peter and Olivia bust in on Walter and Bell. Bell's all, "I can't turn it off, Olivia's doing this." So Walter shoots Olivia through the head. Then Bell does his little ringing-the-bell thing and disappears from the universe. The barge is now fully back in the regular universe.
Walter slaps a grieving Peter and says he can save Olivia because of her superpowers. He digs a hole in her head, making an exit wound and driving the bullet through her head with a long radio antenna. Oh god. Enough with the objects in people's heads today! The bullet pops out and her head starts to heal.
Broyles meets with the government, gets promoted to General and gets funding to expand Fringe Division. Broyles offers Nina the job of running the science department. Oh and guess what - Olivia's pregnant. That's no shocker really.
Walter's Food Thing of the Week: No, that's not lemon jello, it's urine. Thank goodness Astrid has some licorice to share with him at the hospital.
In the end, Walter's making toasted PB&J at the lab when he's visited by September, who tells him, "They are coming." Pretty kickass finale, with typical resolution-but-not-really. Looking forward to our (too-short) final season!!
This Week's Code: PURGE
William Bell brags to Walter that he's building his own universe. They're on a barge and Bell has a God/Noah's Ark vibe going on.
The chick from Lost is being followed by September and calls Olivia and Peter. When they get to her house, they find a crumbled hole in the floor. But they're called away to the hospital, where Astrid is in surgery for her gunshot wound. Astrid's all broken up because she lost Walter. :(
Olivia and Peter head to the warehouse and September is there, with the chick from Lost, who is holding a gun on him. She shoots at September, but he catches the bullets. So she uses a gun invented by Bell (it shoots faster than Observers can catch), and gets September in the chest. Then she shoots at him again and Olivia's superpowered ass catches the bullets and flings them back at her!!!! PWNED. R.I.P. bitch!!!! September wanders off to investigate the future, or whatever it is Observers do.
Peter and Olivia bring Dead Bitch back to the lab for "questioning". And a giant needle through her brain. Ick. Nina brings the tech and they get to it. It's the craziest dead-person-interrogation ever. The chick kind of reanimates, but her eyes move all over the place and her facial muscles twitch and it's creepy as hell. Cree. Pee. She tells them Bell is on a boat, and is going to collapse/rebuild the universe using some energy source. Olivia grabs her and sends electricity through the room. Olivia is your energy source, ladies and gentlemen. She's Magneto or some shit, resonating an electromagnetic field. So all that nonsense last week was really just part of the activation process, so Bell could get Olivia's mojo working to his advantage. I'll allow it.
The team locates the barge and heads into the universe destroying/creating storm over the ocean. The barge isn't visible to Olivia and Nina, only to Peter, which means it's already crossed over. Olivia has the ability to cross over, so she and Peter leap off the helicopter together and on to the barge.
Peter and Olivia bust in on Walter and Bell. Bell's all, "I can't turn it off, Olivia's doing this." So Walter shoots Olivia through the head. Then Bell does his little ringing-the-bell thing and disappears from the universe. The barge is now fully back in the regular universe.
Walter slaps a grieving Peter and says he can save Olivia because of her superpowers. He digs a hole in her head, making an exit wound and driving the bullet through her head with a long radio antenna. Oh god. Enough with the objects in people's heads today! The bullet pops out and her head starts to heal.
Broyles meets with the government, gets promoted to General and gets funding to expand Fringe Division. Broyles offers Nina the job of running the science department. Oh and guess what - Olivia's pregnant. That's no shocker really.
Walter's Food Thing of the Week: No, that's not lemon jello, it's urine. Thank goodness Astrid has some licorice to share with him at the hospital.
In the end, Walter's making toasted PB&J at the lab when he's visited by September, who tells him, "They are coming." Pretty kickass finale, with typical resolution-but-not-really. Looking forward to our (too-short) final season!!
This Week's Code: PURGE
05 May 2012
Fringe
OK. This episode was weird. It's not just me - I'm not drunk or anything this time. It was oddly paced and confusing as hell. Maybe because it's the first part of a two-parter? So you don't know what the point of anything is yet? I don't know. I just wasn't feeling it. And the show's been SO GOOD this season! Whatever - I'll have faith.
Freak of the Week: A couple dozen people in a public place start smoking from the mouth and head and then drop dead. Everyone else in the area realizes that if they hold perfectly still, they won't be affected. Walter discovers that nanites are responsible - transmitted through the escalator and then activated by people's movements. Huh????
At any rate, that Australian chick from Lost is one of those infected and playing freeze tag, and the team takes her back to the lab to try to find an antidote. When the chick gets all feverish, Olivia grabs her hand and essentially sucks the fever out of her and into herself. Walter develops an antidote. End of that. Well, wasn't that easy.
In other news, Peter and Olivia are house hunting, and looking for a place with a nursery. They're very sweet and happy -- so, you know, it's going to end badly.
David Robert Jones is responsible for unleashing the nanites, because he's responsible for everything. But Walter thinks that William Bell is responsible for the design of the nanites. And he's right -- Old-ass Spock is back, baby, and working with DRJ.
Nina insists that Bell died several years back, in a car "accident" after getting tired of suffering from cancer. But Walter believes Bell visited him at the insane asylum since that date, and goes there to check the logs.
OK and then, as if enough weird, random shit weren't happening, there's this thing about a DRJ-controlled sunbeam. I'm going to ignore this. This was dumb. Long story short, Peter and Olivia work to turn off the sunbeam, but then DRJ attacks Peter. Olivia breaks out some telekinesis, controlling Peter's body and beating up DRJ. DRJ disintegrates. RIP DRJ. What.
Walter's Food Thing of the Week: Walter makes a lemon cake in an Easy Bake Oven. A lemon cake laced with pig brain, because lemon cake is the best incubator. And the pig brain helps him determine that Bell's fingerprints are on the visitors' log from the hospital. See, now that I can accept more than a giant sunbeam. But really - WHAT!?
OK and THEN? When Astrid and Walter are tracking Bell? Astrid ends up getting shot in the back. What the hell. Whuuutttttt.
This Week's Code: POWERS.
Freak of the Week: A couple dozen people in a public place start smoking from the mouth and head and then drop dead. Everyone else in the area realizes that if they hold perfectly still, they won't be affected. Walter discovers that nanites are responsible - transmitted through the escalator and then activated by people's movements. Huh????
At any rate, that Australian chick from Lost is one of those infected and playing freeze tag, and the team takes her back to the lab to try to find an antidote. When the chick gets all feverish, Olivia grabs her hand and essentially sucks the fever out of her and into herself. Walter develops an antidote. End of that. Well, wasn't that easy.
In other news, Peter and Olivia are house hunting, and looking for a place with a nursery. They're very sweet and happy -- so, you know, it's going to end badly.
David Robert Jones is responsible for unleashing the nanites, because he's responsible for everything. But Walter thinks that William Bell is responsible for the design of the nanites. And he's right -- Old-ass Spock is back, baby, and working with DRJ.
Nina insists that Bell died several years back, in a car "accident" after getting tired of suffering from cancer. But Walter believes Bell visited him at the insane asylum since that date, and goes there to check the logs.
OK and then, as if enough weird, random shit weren't happening, there's this thing about a DRJ-controlled sunbeam. I'm going to ignore this. This was dumb. Long story short, Peter and Olivia work to turn off the sunbeam, but then DRJ attacks Peter. Olivia breaks out some telekinesis, controlling Peter's body and beating up DRJ. DRJ disintegrates. RIP DRJ. What.
Walter's Food Thing of the Week: Walter makes a lemon cake in an Easy Bake Oven. A lemon cake laced with pig brain, because lemon cake is the best incubator. And the pig brain helps him determine that Bell's fingerprints are on the visitors' log from the hospital. See, now that I can accept more than a giant sunbeam. But really - WHAT!?
OK and THEN? When Astrid and Walter are tracking Bell? Astrid ends up getting shot in the back. What the hell. Whuuutttttt.
This Week's Code: POWERS.
27 April 2012
Fringe
Let's all join hands in a prayer to the FOX gods, giving thanks that they have renewed Fringe for a fifth season. Sure, it'll be the last season and it'll only be 13 episodes long, and it saddens me to think it'll all be over around this time next year, but at least the writers get to wrap up their story. Well, wrap it up as much as you can on Fringe. And hopefully we'll get one final, epic Comic-Con panel too. The Fringe panels have always been great.
So we're back in the present this week, where the Peter Bishop Doomsday Device sits in wait. The 2 Fringe Teams meet so Walter can explain that David Robert Jones is trying to get the universes to collide, destroying them both in order to create another universe that DRJ would control.
We then see DRJ operatives all over the world looking for different coordinates. Then, at the same time, the people's veins get all poppy and the ground beneath them cracks. Worldwide earthquakes, in both universes.
Olivia recognizes the operatives as fellow Cortexiphan Kids, who are being used because of the psychic link to their Alternates. Peter proposes closing the Otherworldly Bridge to cut the link, which would be permanent and result in the Other Universe degrading again. So they try another way first, getting a "good alternate" from the Other Universe brought to the lab so they can dose him with LSD and hook him up to Walter's crazy brain machine. Olivia taps into the psychic link and tracks the "bad alternate." They catch him, but earthquakes still erupt in other places.
DRJ has an army of Cortexiphan Kids, and he's convinced them that they're helping the Universe. The "bad alternate" is no help, and gives them the slip, so the Fringe Teams decide the bridge must be closed. Time to load Pacey into the Peter Bishop Doomsday Device. The 2 Walters have a conversation about how Walter's afraid Peter will disappear when the bridge goes away. It's awesome to watch the 2 Walters talk -- and I love how this Walternate isn't as much of an asshole as the Other Timeline one was.
Peter gets the machine going and then the teams say their goodbyes to their doppelgangers. Lincoln decides to stay in the Other Universe. Awwww, Lincoln and Fauxlivia. I approve. But OMG I'm feeling sad - is this the end of the Other Universe for us? I'll miss it!
The bridge closes and only our team remains, including Peter.
This Week's Code: ALIVE.
So we're back in the present this week, where the Peter Bishop Doomsday Device sits in wait. The 2 Fringe Teams meet so Walter can explain that David Robert Jones is trying to get the universes to collide, destroying them both in order to create another universe that DRJ would control.
We then see DRJ operatives all over the world looking for different coordinates. Then, at the same time, the people's veins get all poppy and the ground beneath them cracks. Worldwide earthquakes, in both universes.
Olivia recognizes the operatives as fellow Cortexiphan Kids, who are being used because of the psychic link to their Alternates. Peter proposes closing the Otherworldly Bridge to cut the link, which would be permanent and result in the Other Universe degrading again. So they try another way first, getting a "good alternate" from the Other Universe brought to the lab so they can dose him with LSD and hook him up to Walter's crazy brain machine. Olivia taps into the psychic link and tracks the "bad alternate." They catch him, but earthquakes still erupt in other places.
DRJ has an army of Cortexiphan Kids, and he's convinced them that they're helping the Universe. The "bad alternate" is no help, and gives them the slip, so the Fringe Teams decide the bridge must be closed. Time to load Pacey into the Peter Bishop Doomsday Device. The 2 Walters have a conversation about how Walter's afraid Peter will disappear when the bridge goes away. It's awesome to watch the 2 Walters talk -- and I love how this Walternate isn't as much of an asshole as the Other Timeline one was.
Peter gets the machine going and then the teams say their goodbyes to their doppelgangers. Lincoln decides to stay in the Other Universe. Awwww, Lincoln and Fauxlivia. I approve. But OMG I'm feeling sad - is this the end of the Other Universe for us? I'll miss it!
The bridge closes and only our team remains, including Peter.
This Week's Code: ALIVE.
21 April 2012
Fringe
Holy crap, the episode starts like a movie, with text telling us Observers seized control of humanity in 2015 and there was a huge uprising/resistance that barely survives. It's 2036. Whatever remains of the Fringe Team is there to police what's left of humanity. The main agent chick (I'll bet money she's Olivia/Peter's kid, let's see...) has been searching for our Fringe Team, and they've just discovered Walter, all ambered up.
And holy crap all new credits! And they're all about how people have no freedom or private thought, and also no joy. LOVE IT!! Most ambitious show on television. Goddamn.
Broyles is still alive and in charge, old as shit, beholden to the Observers. Nina's working with the future Fringe Team, wheelchair bound and rocking seriously awesome silver hair. The future Fringe Team also has Desmond from Lost - so YAY!
Anyway, Desmond and Agent Lady release and revive Walter. He comes out hungry, what with it being 20 years and all. Get him some licorice, stat! Our Fringe Team had figured out how to get rid of the Observers, but then were encased in amber. Walter's mind is a bit gone - he's even more adorably child-like than normal - so he's not entirely helpful. The team has to get through the Observer-controlled city to get the piece of Walter's brain that Massive Dynamic has, so they can try to heal him.
Jesus, these Observers are real assholes. What the hell made them like that? Dicks. Well-dressed dicks.
Anyway, the new guys heal up Walter and get him working on his Observer-destroying machine. The machine takes a building out of existence, and then Walter takes them to where his Team are ambered-up. The Team consists of Astrid, Bell, and Peter. Bell gets left behind off-screen, but Walter has his hand. And it sounds like Olivia was dead in the resistance. And, yes, Agent Lady is Henrietta (heh) Bishop. Meanwhile, the episode just ends there. This is the most ambitious show on television -- how do they get away with this stuff? Cuz they're just going back to the present next week! They're crazy!!!
This Week's Code: QUAKE
And holy crap all new credits! And they're all about how people have no freedom or private thought, and also no joy. LOVE IT!! Most ambitious show on television. Goddamn.
Broyles is still alive and in charge, old as shit, beholden to the Observers. Nina's working with the future Fringe Team, wheelchair bound and rocking seriously awesome silver hair. The future Fringe Team also has Desmond from Lost - so YAY!
Anyway, Desmond and Agent Lady release and revive Walter. He comes out hungry, what with it being 20 years and all. Get him some licorice, stat! Our Fringe Team had figured out how to get rid of the Observers, but then were encased in amber. Walter's mind is a bit gone - he's even more adorably child-like than normal - so he's not entirely helpful. The team has to get through the Observer-controlled city to get the piece of Walter's brain that Massive Dynamic has, so they can try to heal him.
Jesus, these Observers are real assholes. What the hell made them like that? Dicks. Well-dressed dicks.
Anyway, the new guys heal up Walter and get him working on his Observer-destroying machine. The machine takes a building out of existence, and then Walter takes them to where his Team are ambered-up. The Team consists of Astrid, Bell, and Peter. Bell gets left behind off-screen, but Walter has his hand. And it sounds like Olivia was dead in the resistance. And, yes, Agent Lady is Henrietta (heh) Bishop. Meanwhile, the episode just ends there. This is the most ambitious show on television -- how do they get away with this stuff? Cuz they're just going back to the present next week! They're crazy!!!
This Week's Code: QUAKE
13 April 2012
Fringe
Let's watch Fringe whilst drunk, OK? OK! I always forget that I'm not supposed to drink on Fridays so I can watch Fringe. Well, today I'm combining it. Let's goooo!
But goddammit, we start with Awesome!Kickass!Lincoln's funeral. SADDDDNESSSSS!
Fauxlivia is questioning Nina -- wants to know who David Robert Jones's mole in the Department of Defense is. Nina ain't giving up shit, she's all "things are going to get worse."
Back to Our Universe. Freak of the Week: Guy bitches out another guy in an office. Guy gets pulled up to the ceiling and then crashes back to the ground, body broken. His injuries (along with others') are consistent with those of a plane crash victim.
The plane crash happened on The Other Side, and killed their Our Universe counterparts as well. Walter heads over to the Other Side to examine their bodies. Lincoln's, like, fully on the Other Side now. Good for him. Walter spends the night at Fauxlivia's and she gets drunk reviewing Awesome!Lincoln's murder case. He wears her robe and cooks her food to sober her up. Awwwww I love me some Walter/Fauxlivia!!
Another car accident/random death happens in both Universes. There's some device in the car, and that device is linked to DRJ.
DRJ is hanging out in Broyles's house, and Broyles is pissed. Looks like DRJ saved Broyles's son's life (or at least his eyesight?) in exchange for Broyles helping him. Sonofabitch. Now DRJ wants Broyles to blow up the bridge that links the 2 worlds.
With Walter's help, Fauxlivia suspects Broyles is the traitor, and she tricks Nina into confirming it. But then Broyles turns himself in to Our Broyles! Oh hell yes he does. He's a good man. Eff DRJ. Walter heads back home. He tells Peter and Olivia that DRJ is searching for a way to collapse both universes. Dun dun dunnnnn.
On a Related Note: You know who I wish was cast in Django Unchained instead of Jamie Foxx? Lance Reddick. Goddammit....
Walter's Line of the Week: On seeing Peter and Olivia -- "Look - it's my son and his girlfriend." AWWWWWWWW . He also wanted to bring over a casserole to the Other Side in honor of Awesome!Lincoln. He couldn't. But he could bring over a severed hand.
This Week's Code: SIMON. Who the eff is Simon?
Next Week: We get more future shit? Yes please!
Can I also say how hot Anna Torv is? This is my favorite picture ever. Thank you.
But goddammit, we start with Awesome!Kickass!Lincoln's funeral. SADDDDNESSSSS!
Fauxlivia is questioning Nina -- wants to know who David Robert Jones's mole in the Department of Defense is. Nina ain't giving up shit, she's all "things are going to get worse."
Back to Our Universe. Freak of the Week: Guy bitches out another guy in an office. Guy gets pulled up to the ceiling and then crashes back to the ground, body broken. His injuries (along with others') are consistent with those of a plane crash victim.
The plane crash happened on The Other Side, and killed their Our Universe counterparts as well. Walter heads over to the Other Side to examine their bodies. Lincoln's, like, fully on the Other Side now. Good for him. Walter spends the night at Fauxlivia's and she gets drunk reviewing Awesome!Lincoln's murder case. He wears her robe and cooks her food to sober her up. Awwwww I love me some Walter/Fauxlivia!!
Another car accident/random death happens in both Universes. There's some device in the car, and that device is linked to DRJ.
DRJ is hanging out in Broyles's house, and Broyles is pissed. Looks like DRJ saved Broyles's son's life (or at least his eyesight?) in exchange for Broyles helping him. Sonofabitch. Now DRJ wants Broyles to blow up the bridge that links the 2 worlds.
With Walter's help, Fauxlivia suspects Broyles is the traitor, and she tricks Nina into confirming it. But then Broyles turns himself in to Our Broyles! Oh hell yes he does. He's a good man. Eff DRJ. Walter heads back home. He tells Peter and Olivia that DRJ is searching for a way to collapse both universes. Dun dun dunnnnn.
On a Related Note: You know who I wish was cast in Django Unchained instead of Jamie Foxx? Lance Reddick. Goddammit....
Walter's Line of the Week: On seeing Peter and Olivia -- "Look - it's my son and his girlfriend." AWWWWWWWW . He also wanted to bring over a casserole to the Other Side in honor of Awesome!Lincoln. He couldn't. But he could bring over a severed hand.
This Week's Code: SIMON. Who the eff is Simon?
Next Week: We get more future shit? Yes please!
Can I also say how hot Anna Torv is? This is my favorite picture ever. Thank you.
07 April 2012
Fringe
Gene the cow is wearing a giant FBI jacket. Has she done that before? It's hysterical. And then the hat comes out. OMG love it.
Lincoln Lee = Peeta Mellark. He's all lovesick and heartbroken over Olivia changing. The Other Universe wants to exchange information on David Robert Jones, and Lincoln is eager to go over, or at least get out of this universe for a while. He volunteers as tribute! (The Hunger Games references will never stop, folks.)
Fauxlivia and the Two Lincolns end up teaming up to investigate a bunch of melted-face corpses. Lincoln is very eager to help, cuz he's liking his woman as a redhead. He'll take whichever Olivia he can get, poor guy. While driving to the scene, Fauxlivia asks Lincoln what his middle name is -- Tyrone. I find this hysterical. So does Fauxlivia, who uses it to jone on Her Lincoln, who is mortified by the name.
I love the interactions between the Two Lincolns; Our Lincoln is trying to figure out how they came out so different. You know, with Alt!Lincoln being such a confident badass. But they share the same history as far as they can tell. My personal theory? It's the thigh holster.
The perp is a kind of shapeshifter, but one that's melting people's faces, unable to hold on to the new face for long, and uses some umbilical cord looking version of the shapeshifting device. When the team catches the dude, Broyles informs Nina, because they are evil and working together. Nina dispatches an assassin to take the dude out, but he shoots Alt!Lincoln instead. Nooooo! It's awesome to watch Fauxlivia snipe the assassin's ass though. She rules!! R.I.P. Alt!Lincoln. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! R.I.P. Thigh holster. They catch Nina.
Lincoln offers to stick around to help Fauxlivia. Awwwwwwww. It'll be easier for both of them to have each other. AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Notable Difference Between the Universes: Our Batman = Their Mantis.
This Week's Code: DREAM. More like a nightmare with no more Alt!Lincoln. :(
Lincoln Lee = Peeta Mellark. He's all lovesick and heartbroken over Olivia changing. The Other Universe wants to exchange information on David Robert Jones, and Lincoln is eager to go over, or at least get out of this universe for a while. He volunteers as tribute! (The Hunger Games references will never stop, folks.)
Fauxlivia and the Two Lincolns end up teaming up to investigate a bunch of melted-face corpses. Lincoln is very eager to help, cuz he's liking his woman as a redhead. He'll take whichever Olivia he can get, poor guy. While driving to the scene, Fauxlivia asks Lincoln what his middle name is -- Tyrone. I find this hysterical. So does Fauxlivia, who uses it to jone on Her Lincoln, who is mortified by the name.
I love the interactions between the Two Lincolns; Our Lincoln is trying to figure out how they came out so different. You know, with Alt!Lincoln being such a confident badass. But they share the same history as far as they can tell. My personal theory? It's the thigh holster.
The perp is a kind of shapeshifter, but one that's melting people's faces, unable to hold on to the new face for long, and uses some umbilical cord looking version of the shapeshifting device. When the team catches the dude, Broyles informs Nina, because they are evil and working together. Nina dispatches an assassin to take the dude out, but he shoots Alt!Lincoln instead. Nooooo! It's awesome to watch Fauxlivia snipe the assassin's ass though. She rules!! R.I.P. Alt!Lincoln. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! R.I.P. Thigh holster. They catch Nina.
Lincoln offers to stick around to help Fauxlivia. Awwwwwwww. It'll be easier for both of them to have each other. AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Notable Difference Between the Universes: Our Batman = Their Mantis.
This Week's Code: DREAM. More like a nightmare with no more Alt!Lincoln. :(
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