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Fringe 4x04
It was a fabulous Fringe night at Chez Twins - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
duia came over and watched the pilot and 1x02 with us. She enjoyed the "extra dead" corpses in the pilot, Olivia's BAMFiness, and Peter's coats, so I'm comfortable in calling her hooked. Sadly, she was called off to work before we could start the one with the bus, so Lindsey and I watched this week's episode.
OMG YAY PETER'S BACK PLUS NEKKID INNA LAKE AND THE AAAAAAANNNNGGGSSSTTT THAT IS GOING TO ENSUE NEXT WEEK CAN IT BE FRIDAY NOW?
*sucks in air* Okay, I'm good.
Okay, while I loved this episode for many reasons, the story was not well paced or plotted. Not actually meeting Cameron until the last fifteen minutes? He just magically was able to control his powers enough to be a plot device and bring Peter back? Meh. However, it was fucking GOLD for character stuff, so we can overlook that.
Wow, it was weird watching this immediately after the pilot and 1x02. John Noble is fucking AMAZING - I could recognize that he was bringing back all these behaviors and things (some obvious like the hand tick, some not) from early in the show, and it broke my heart because he's still stuck there, stuck with his medication and having trouble thinking and guilt-ridden and simultaneously afraid of being crazy enough to go back to St. Claire's, and just plain afraid of being crazy.inmyriadbits thought that Walter calling Astrid "Claire" was the name of his dead lab assistant, but apparently her name was Carla
In terms of filling in the AU backstory gaps, this episode was also awesome. The cortexiphan trials still happened! And Elizabeth still committed suicide, which is awful and sad, but consistent. But WTF is going on with Nina knowing Olivia in high school? Is this somehow related to Nina's mysterious connection with Peter that was never revealed, that was somehow transferred to Olivia in this alternate timeline? Also curious about her highly antagonistic relationship with Walter - what is the root of that? I don't remember them being this hostile towards each other, even when he kind of thought she might be evil.
I'm also settling into the realization of what we have lost. I thinking I kept expecting them to snap back to the Blue canon (and they may still do that), but what happens if they don't? We're going to lose so much: Olivia & Peter's friendship, Peter's delicate relationship with Walter, all the knowledge of the other universe...unless people start remembering both realities, which could be an awesome headtrip. *sigh* This is problem/awesome thing about Fringe - I never know where the heck they're going. Spoiler-free is the best way to watch.
I am excited that we may get more Cortexiphan kids - it seems they weren't all killed off by the freaky cancer dude in this timeline? Which hopefully means more exploration of superhero!Olivia now that Peter is past his Meeting With Destiny arc. *fingers crossed*
IS IT FRIDAY YET?
duia came over and watched the pilot and 1x02 with us. She enjoyed the "extra dead" corpses in the pilot, Olivia's BAMFiness, and Peter's coats, so I'm comfortable in calling her hooked. Sadly, she was called off to work before we could start the one with the bus, so Lindsey and I watched this week's episode.OMG YAY PETER'S BACK PLUS NEKKID INNA LAKE AND THE AAAAAAANNNNGGGSSSTTT THAT IS GOING TO ENSUE NEXT WEEK CAN IT BE FRIDAY NOW?
*sucks in air* Okay, I'm good.
Okay, while I loved this episode for many reasons, the story was not well paced or plotted. Not actually meeting Cameron until the last fifteen minutes? He just magically was able to control his powers enough to be a plot device and bring Peter back? Meh. However, it was fucking GOLD for character stuff, so we can overlook that.
Wow, it was weird watching this immediately after the pilot and 1x02. John Noble is fucking AMAZING - I could recognize that he was bringing back all these behaviors and things (some obvious like the hand tick, some not) from early in the show, and it broke my heart because he's still stuck there, stuck with his medication and having trouble thinking and guilt-ridden and simultaneously afraid of being crazy enough to go back to St. Claire's, and just plain afraid of being crazy.
inmyriadbits thought that Walter calling Astrid "Claire" was the name of his dead lab assistant, but apparently her name was CarlaIn terms of filling in the AU backstory gaps, this episode was also awesome. The cortexiphan trials still happened! And Elizabeth still committed suicide, which is awful and sad, but consistent. But WTF is going on with Nina knowing Olivia in high school? Is this somehow related to Nina's mysterious connection with Peter that was never revealed, that was somehow transferred to Olivia in this alternate timeline? Also curious about her highly antagonistic relationship with Walter - what is the root of that? I don't remember them being this hostile towards each other, even when he kind of thought she might be evil.
I'm also settling into the realization of what we have lost. I thinking I kept expecting them to snap back to the Blue canon (and they may still do that), but what happens if they don't? We're going to lose so much: Olivia & Peter's friendship, Peter's delicate relationship with Walter, all the knowledge of the other universe...unless people start remembering both realities, which could be an awesome headtrip. *sigh* This is problem/awesome thing about Fringe - I never know where the heck they're going. Spoiler-free is the best way to watch.
I am excited that we may get more Cortexiphan kids - it seems they weren't all killed off by the freaky cancer dude in this timeline? Which hopefully means more exploration of superhero!Olivia now that Peter is past his Meeting With Destiny arc. *fingers crossed*
IS IT FRIDAY YET?