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

Rewatching tomorrow for serious. And to work out what the heck happened :(

haha this episode was ridiculous!

i like how they've built up quite slowly over 2 seasons to basically going all-out bonkers in that episode.

i mean none of it makes any sense really but it's always fairly light-hearted and there is a great sense of humour underpinning this show. it makes a great tonic to the dire final season of lost.

Hey, so, I forget whether or not Pyro burns herself up when she does the big flameout. Like, we saw one charred stain on the ground which is the Empathist, and then Olive the Other Olive's barbecued team leader, but I'ma wager Pyro is going to come back into play next week.

Altlivia is less cold but hates alcohol, so she's gotta go.

OK so I checked everyone up: projected emotions guy was from season 1, the first Akiva Goldsman written episode. pyro was from Goldsman's second episode -- she was the twin sister of another cortexiphan testee who spontaneously combusted, and she came close to blowing up too. so yes, they're dead. the guy who dies right after transporting originally had the special power of transferring his fast-growing cancer to other people. special agent Lee and alt-Olivia's BF are new.

wrong Liv. it's got to be.

Why do you say that?

William Bell's rambling old man shtick at the hospital was lol.

uh, liv "infiltration achieved' and liv in the cell pretty much implied it's the wrong liv, right?

freakin love nimoy

I tried to trace back to see if the wrong Olive also kissed Peter but that wasn't possible, it was too soon after she was tied up.

Peter/Olivia smooching is going to be a tipoff that Olive isn't Olive.

i thought that olive was olive but olives switched before the grenade

yeah, that's right.

the show was pretty explicit that the alternate Liv has crossed back with them (the achievement of which was the least convincing thing so far on a show whose meat is totally unconvincing stuff). fwiw my post was made during the show, although out of excitement rather than claiming myself to be any kind of plot unraveling genius, as it was super fucking obvious.

haha ok

Olives switched after the grenades, when Bell got knocked out, as long as we're belaboring the obvious.

xxpost

So what you're saying is that somewhere between the point where there were two of them, and one had a grenade and one had a gun, and Bell passed out, Olternate switched places with Ourlivia?

Because she was acting all shifty-like on the stage, and then also knew about the typewriter and how to use it, so it would seem like maybe that might have happened. IMO.

of course it happened

unless they are going for total mindfuck and oltenrate is just in trouble for getting pwned by ourlivia

so what i'm getting from this thread is that y'all think Olternate pulled the SWITCHEROO?

looking forward to discussing this for another four months btw

(also btw Roberto fwiw I got from the timestamp that you were making the call before they made it explicit)

Uh, when wasn't it explicit?

^^^

it was WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE OBVIOUS as soon as Bell woke up but not confirmed until she went to typewriter

(but lol if it's not obvious to you guys by now that i'm winding you up i don't know how you're following the show)

Olternate

They called her "Bolivia" in the captions at one point!

should've been Fauxlivia

can get on board with fauxlivia

Fauxlivia

I think we've reached a consensus.

LOL @ this latest exchange.

i have a theory--let me know if its too weird--did alternate universe Olivia come back with walter and peter? i think maybe...

PETER'S ALIVE?!?!

Just caught up w/ this show using the helpful season 1 playlist from the Lost thread - at its best, it is really, really good. Great S2 finale.

someone tell me which episodes I can skip. I have a feeling this show is probably good but I watched the first two last night and had the same reaction everyone did.

Somebody posted a list of the season 1 episodes you should watch. I think it is upthread but I'm starting to wonder if it was elsewhere.

watch these
Season 1: 1 (pilot), 4, 5, 7, end of ep 8, 10, 14, 17, 19, 20
season 2: 1, 4, maybe 7, 8, 10, maybe 14, end of 15, 16 (Peter), 17, 18, 22, 23

great! I'll try that. I'm seriously on the fence about whether catching up with these is even worth it. I should probably go watch all the seasons of the Wire that I missed or something.

Man, the run from Season 2 from ep 15 onwards was easily the best they've done - it would be great if they could keep that up for a whole season but I guess that's kind of unlikely.

This is weirdly a show whose "mythology" episodes don't really suffer if you haven't seen previous installments.

Anyone read Fringe producer @ Comic Con say, essentially, lol science?

bump for S3 premiere anticipation

v excited but sad that i can't just watch the whole season in one day

when does it start?

last night.

:O

Bubbs!

Eric the Midget guest stars next week.

hahahahahahahhahaha omg /pukes

splatterific! my wife screamed at that one.

I think this whole season will go back and forth from cases at one universe to cases at the other

Walter had some great quotes this episode