Fringe (new JJ Abrams show) : Mad scientist, flesh eating virus, a cow and talks with the dead

fantastic episode. robocop was excellent, the ending was really powerful.

also, ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?!

Am I behind? I thought the last episode was the one with cancer dude and walter making taffy

You are behind, so don't read past this line.

Clearly inspired by "Cause and Effect" from Star Trek: TNG, but with enough twists and yeah, the ending was a total gut punch, to make it well worth while.

Can anyone make out the return address on the letter to Walter?

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Crying Cat

fanfuckintastic ep all around. fuckin' peter weller. fuckin' gary numan. fuckin' interlocking dramatic ironies and necessities. if every ep could be like this, FRINGE would be the best show on broadcast.

Awesome episode. Love love love love Weller, great role for him. He brings the intense-crazy so well. And Walter!!! <3 him more and more with every episode, my chest is sure to burst. Gorgeous twist in the timetravel trope, really beautiful surprise ending, I can't stop thinking about it.

"the walternate" was the second best thing about the retro 80s episode

why didn't the walternate (equally smart if not smarter than walter and has a motorola razr) go grab peter back in '85?

i suspect that'll play out in due time

did walter go grab peter before or after he sent a car across to the other dimension? and how come there was none of the mass-replacement palaver which was the crux of the previous episode?

didn't know this. Apparently the show works with Science Olympiad to craft lesson plans to teach high school kids about the weird science depicted in an episode. For example:

http://www.fox.com/fringe/fringe-science/season-2/episode-19.htm

really didn't feel this week's ep

Yeah it was a bit ridic, one of those "well, we better pause a minute so we don't run out of story arc" eps.

really? I liked it a lot, as a sort of fairy-tale representation of the Walter/Peter situation. Loved their weird little semi-steampunk additions, the weird cell phones, the wooden laptop...seemed like they had fun with this episode. A little indulgent, sure...but I dug it. Loved the musical interludes...Dunham doing her Stevie Wonder, and as a Wire fan, seeing Daniels SING was awesome.

He went to the Eastman School of Music!

Great episode and great timing to for a dramatic pause in a dramatic story arc. I mean it would be kind of weird if Peter came back immediately. Not to mention that there is 1 new twist in this current story arc (what the bald guy said at the end of the episode).

Back to this episode. The music was lols and the singing was pretty damn good (especially Astrid). "The Candyman" with singing corpses was also awesome. The first two songs that Walter played on the records after smoking pot were awesome ("Roundabout" and "Head Over Heals"). Those are two of my favorite songs and I still have friends who probably couldn't even recognize them. I also got lols while seeing Olivia try to use her cellphone while drowning in the coffin (the goofy mix of 30s or 40s with future technology). It was a happy, heartfelt episode with some great dialog and parallels to the current story arc. The sad ending actually made me feel sad for Walter. Oh and "reverse operation" was very clever as well. Lots of goodies. I'm glad I watched this today when I was refreshed rather than last night when I was hella tired.

I had to watch the Robocop train episode twice because the first time I saw it I practically fell asleep (I watched it really late after my night shift). The second viewing (or 3rd or 4th for some parts) proved this to be a great episode as well. VegemiteGrrrl said it best: "Gorgeous twist in the timetravel trope, really beautiful surprise ending".

Kind of brutal to ask Anna Torv to try to do a hard-boiled accent, but man this episode was a delight.

OMG

Woweee wow.

Just. Wow.

Also girlcrush on Martha Plimpton still in perfect working order. She's grebt

Oh god, she was the cop, wasn't she? Dang, didn't even register.

I think there may have been a Twin Peaks vibe in this episode but I never watched much Twin Peaks
I didn't see the ending coming but my dad did

I had my suspicions, but it was still a cool surprise reveal. I hope people didn't tune out because they thought Peter rockin' the mixtape was the end.

cool but probably four or five episodes too late

Definitely a twin peaks vibe...They even had pie!!

I thought the story arc stuff seemed kind of shoehorned in at the end. I liked the idea of Peter, low on sleep, solving a local crime with no real fringe division content. Having him read weird stuff into every situation gives a good outsider perspective.

Then there's the reveal at the end with hey, that dude really was in the woods, and btw Walternate is here.

Come on, between the ppl on this thread speculating that Walternate was waging war on "our" universe and the heavy-handed treatment of MYSTERIOUS SECRETARY, that was no surprise at all. I did, however, get my nerd wires crossed with all the talks of cracks in the universe.

Like, I don't think any other show is comprised so much of episodes that are about killing time for 40 minutes just so it can end on a cliffhanger.

Like, I don't think any other show is comprised so much of episodes that are about killing time for 40 minutes just so it can end on a cliffhanger.

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/LostLogo_.jpg

lol

I wonder if this season will end with a Walter vs. Walternate pie eating contest.

I sense a pattern, JJ Abrams.

xp
if that's a lost spoiler, consider me pissed; I'm waiting for cheap copies of the blu-rays

Do you mean me, cozen?

nah the pie eating thing; was just fooling around really

cuz I'm p. sure lost doesn't finish w/an epic pie eating contest betw jack and hurley, right?.... right?!

You would be angry if I answered that seriously.

Liked the Twin Peaks/X-Files/Washingtoniana. Special Guest Composer Mike McCready!

I did, however, get my nerd wires crossed with all the talks of cracks in the universe.

there is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zKk76YkF1U

I am looking forward to the finale. And wondering what the Darth Vader Meditation Chamber device is for.

It blows up other universes, obviously.

alt-olivia was kind of hot.

So does France rule alt-USA or something?

Plus I'm curious as to how many of the season finale part 1 characters have been on before. Have all the super power/test subjects people been on the show before. Also didn't I hear that there is 5 of them still around in working condition and then they only show 3 (if black dude wasn't counting Olive).

Was Olivia's bf in alt-universe a character that's been on before?

Definitely remember the healer guy. Vaguely recall the other two but I don't know. Was her bf the guy from the pilot?

Definitely not the same guy as on the pilot. Also, the third agent on the other side (the one who got torched) was familiar but I couldn't place him.

curer was from the "oliva. in the lab. with the revolver" episode, empathist was in "bad dreams", and the pyro hasn't been in it before

the torched agent has never been in fringe before either

Pyro was on the show before! Empath was the guy who made Olivia lez up.

He went to the Eastman School of Music!

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, April 30, 2010 12:39 PM

woah hello new favorite co-alum!

loved the twin peaks ep (<3 <3 martha plimpton for all time), wasn't crazy about part 1 of finale... i did not think alt-olivia was hot. torched agent has been in something though... he seemed super familiar but i can't place him.

Alt-Olivia had stupid bangs.

she also seemed really lame!