Ok, so what was that?
(I guess Bell is alive, but was the implication that the one we saw interacting with Walter was an astral projection, or some kind of Fight Club dissociative crazypants hallucination?)
― Pot Leeedom (Leee), Saturday, 12 May 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nah he teleported out or escaped to another dimension
― mh, Saturday, 12 May 2012 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
The very first time Olivia crossed over to the alt-reality, iirc Bell rang the uh, bell to send her back. Guess he did the same thing here with himself?
The part where Walter shot then stuck a metal rod through Olivia's head was kinda horrifying.
― Roz, Sunday, 13 May 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
no surprises in a finale (it was all locked in early to work out how it did) is a bit disappointing. so the final series is 13 eps of the struggle against the past-colonising observers. hmm :-/
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 13 May 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was wondering how much of the planning for the last few eps of the season was done before they knew they were being renewed. I suppose just a few changes (no future episode, Bell dies instead of escaping, September says something about how important you all are and keep wuvving each other) and this could have been the series wrap up.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 13 May 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
the thing with olivia dying and comping back was genuinely frightening.
― s.clover, Sunday, 13 May 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
er coming back.
Yeah the wrap-up with Bell and DRJ, considering they've both been the mysterious big bad villains for four seasons, was a bit too neat imo. Suddenly the observers are now the Real Enemy?
And I still don't know what spontaneous combustion, moving the sun and lighting up the oil reservoir were supposed to have accomplished - apart from "activating Olivia" and lolkilling DRJ. Seems like a weird way to go about it, though I guess kidnapping her never worked in the past.
― Roz, Sunday, 13 May 2012 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Fringe" will wrap up with a 13-episode season that jumps ahead to 2036. Producers plan to emphasize "core characters and family dynamics" over mythology.
Oh, barf.
― R=J-L (Leee), Friday, 7 September 2012 05:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
having Lost flashbacks
― Roz, Friday, 7 September 2012 05:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
shit that is lame and bullshit
― j., Friday, 7 September 2012 05:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'd like episodes with less mythology and more crazy sci-fi shit, tbh
― your naïve bacon (mh), Friday, 7 September 2012 13:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
they kind of wrapped up all the mythology--now it's all future watcher overlords
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
well, other than the fact they never revealed how/when walter and peter built the machine and sent it back in time
― your naïve bacon (mh), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
they did it on the outrigger
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
what is up with the new credits sequence words! suddenly we're in an orwell novel
― j., Saturday, 29 September 2012 04:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
well, yeah?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:48 (7 months ago) Permalink
well, yeah
― j., Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
Same credit sequence as that observer world episode last season right
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 September 2012 23:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
o probs
i don't really remember, what is it the observers want exactly? to drain earth's resources and enslave its inhabitants to drain them? or something?
― j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
Dunno
It got so silly at the end of last season i'm just going to ride these last episodes out
But fuck the observers being nazis. Fuck that bullshit, jj
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
thought nazis
with fedoras
and CO factories
― j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, as lame as that
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
who think music is just noise
― j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
and have taken all the walnuts
― j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 02:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
all the ads about the 'observer' stuff in this show now make it look like The Adjustment Bureau: The Series
― the mirror has 2 chainz (some dude), Sunday, 30 September 2012 02:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think the deal is they destroyed their future so much that they need a new place to live, so they're colonizing the 21st century?
― s.clover, Sunday, 30 September 2012 03:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
ok lol @ the search for walter bishop's betamax horcruxes
also why has no one bothered to ask Etta the very obvious question of what happened to her when the observers arrived at the park?
― Roz, Saturday, 6 October 2012 12:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't know, do we really want them wasting screen time with that kind of useless backstory?
― I am a witch man, I am a Manwich (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 7 October 2012 05:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
Way behind, watching first ep now.
Thought carbon monoxide machines were going to be some geoengineering kludge for climate change.
Astrid Naugahyde == yay ^_^
Thought the preferred term was Amber Roma.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
Exposition filling in past details is boring.
ON NO, WALTER'S SHOE.
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
I started watching the new episode of the new season and was so lost I've had to go back and read a recap of last season bc clearly I was asleep for half of it
I swear this show is so wtf I need a goddamn flowchart. But I love it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 October 2012 04:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
I feel you there, like I'd forgotten Desmond was ambered so that they could get... Peter? out. And I thought September was dead? But somehow was able to hatch a plan with Walter after the point in the story where he died?
― Claudia Schiffer Kills Frog (Leee), Sunday, 14 October 2012 05:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
God, I think I'm at least one season behind. Was watching it as self compiled dvdrs of d/lded videofiles and just stopped making them at one point. Not sure if it was just that I stopped making those things which I'd been doing with a few tv series or if I'd just stopped making them of that series while I continued with others. Had watched it through from the beginning that way and got up to I think the middle of series 3, could have been 4. It's on 5 now isn't it?Whichever series that was that was suddenly quite a bit longer tahn previous ones had been anyway.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 14 October 2012 08:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
humanity's only hope!
― j., Tuesday, 16 October 2012 00:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
I read all the recaps and was still completely mystified why the new season picks up in 2036...but I guess i'll just go with it.
God this show is like homework now, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
it's pretty simple, they wrapped the last storyline, didn't have anything plotted, and had floated a "fringe in the future" episode last season as an out in case they had to plot out another season
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
observers come, fringe team ambered, they're let loose 24 years later - is there anything else to it?
― j., Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
Well that's why I was confused --- I thought I'd missed something huge in the last couple of eps that triggered the future jump
Now I understand that *it's just a story* I can relax
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
be patient with me. I'm slow
'tape 6... or 7...'
― j., Thursday, 18 October 2012 05:39 (7 months ago) Permalink
so...
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 October 2012 00:23 (6 months ago) Permalink
i can't even remember what happened to that dude in which time in which timeline
― j., Tuesday, 30 October 2012 01:23 (6 months ago) Permalink
lost me completely in season breaks. like when peter and olivia were talking about how their marriage didn't work because they lost their child/couldn't save the world ?_? so much melodrama and so little interesting action.
― bnw, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 01:44 (6 months ago) Permalink
that dark skies/shoe bit is some classic hard SF. love the stuff where sufficiently alien/advanced folks are simply incomprehensible to us.
― s.clover, Saturday, 3 November 2012 01:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
that assembly scene was pretty cool
― j., Wednesday, 7 November 2012 06:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
so was this plot kind of like 'gift of the magi' except backwards?
― j., Wednesday, 7 November 2012 06:13 (6 months ago) Permalink
so "An Origin Story" refers to Peter being the father of the Observers, no?
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:05 (6 months ago) Permalink
probably ref to his superhero observer powers he'll have now
― d-_-b (mh), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:21 (6 months ago) Permalink
both seem possible given time-travel hijinx
― j., Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:10 (6 months ago) Permalink