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

lolololol

I like fun-hating Lincoln because they put glasses on him and now I'm all, "oh, HELLO." Such a sucker for a boy in glasses.

And now they've began this episode with Olivia in glasses, I like this trend.

Show still seems to have a great balance between standalone procedural episodes and the mythology stuff. Like I never think, "Ack, this episode isn't going to advance the mythology at all, DO NOT WATCH." And it's not the X-Files, where the standalones were always the best ones.

Having said that, looking forward to the return of non-emo Walter more than I am Joshua Jackson.

what was walter listening to on his headphones?

Two thoughts on the first "Peter's back" episode (watching via Hulu):

1. God, why does our side hate fun so much?
2. The actress who plays the shapeshifter is rrowr, but wow she can't act. Wonder if she won the part on a reality tv show.

This week's ep was much better, even though it was pretty much "White Tulip" mk ii.

2. The actress who plays the shapeshifter is rrowr, but wow she can't act

u just don't understand her kind!

Walter is listening to ... Styx, 'Too Much Time On My Hands'

I am kind of amazed at how good this show has gotten. Peter has no chemistry with anyone but in this role of man-with-no-context his woodenness is now apropos.

Liking how his reaction to being shuttled around in time this ep just makes him annoyed, not completely horrified like anyone else would be

why does walter's amber-timeline house have a flatscreen tv in it? has he only been living in the lab there in recent times? the house looks a lot more disused than that.

The modern tv fucked with me, too. Maybe it's a sponsored prop by LG or something?

haha was about to post that, it's obvs a continuity error with the props dept. Then again, it's possible that Walter invented it way back when...

Wait a sec, what do you mean by "amber timeline"?

Anyway: woman doing math, now that's what I call a fringe event, amirite?

Not to be *that guy*, but the Fibonacci spiral doesn't actually appear in nature: http://www.shallowsky.com/blog/science/fibonautilus.html

well, not timeline, but this episode was still in amber-world, right? in which everyone but peter has a different history than they did in green fringeworld. (uh.... or whichever color the not-red one was.)

Oooh you're referring to the title sequence, thought you meant amber as in the stuff the alt. universe uses to seal up breaches.

no but i had kind of assumed that would come into play eventually in the amber world.

do we need a NSFW on this thread or can someone remove the Newgod porn?

fixed. also, good show.

Ta, remy.

They're getting decent at leading the audience on to believe that a character is like their other universe counterpart was, and then yanking the rug out from underneath.

Yes, some neat swerves and foreboding prophecies, but along the way, the dialogue and characterizations have become 10 times clumsier.

omg, take me to your leader

alternate earth is the alien planet

Damn Peter's mom is a fox.

funny, i had the urge to make the same post.

isn't she crazy in the original green fringe world though? the crazy one is not a fox.

funny, i had the urge to make the same post.

Great minds etc.

isn't she crazy in the original green fringe world though? the crazy one is not a fox.

This show is making me keep track of four sets of characters, so I had to look up whether or not his mom also committed suicide in the OG Our-verse (she did). Btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop

I need many flow charts for this show now. I still love it but it makes my head hurt

between aspie Farnsworth and doppelganger town, the last two episodes have been really good

the two Farnsworths episode was really good. She is my favorite character, even though she never gets to do anything.

product placement in this show is done in such a LOL way sometimes.

How many Nissan Leafs are you buying?!?

ws double astrid farnsworths in a particle accelerator so there'd be ten of them

Astrid squealing when she first sees Other Astrid.

Olivia: "I always wondered why no one ever does that."

^^LOL-ed at this.

Astrids was so good, like it was last season again. The last episode was very good, too, in fact it's almost as if the show's real writers had mysteriously vanished from this entire universe, but suddenly found their ways back midseason.

actually a scary x-filesy vibe to the last one. kinda figured it out early, but enjoyed it nevertheless

The cars shutting down/UFO fakeout was a pretty great X-Files homage.

product placement in this show is done in such a LOL way sometimes.

I love how studiously casual they are about it!!

Hahah wau @ the end of the last episode!!!

(Really lackadaisical preceding 40 minutes though.)

aw cmon

I REMEMBER EVERYTHING

the hivemind kid plot was pretty by the numbers and just there to prop up the story revelations and character development

I can take or leave the sudden convergence of our Olivia with not-Fauxlivia, but I'm talking about the very final scene.

the hivemind kid plot was pretty by the numbers and just there to prop up the story revelations and character development

Yeah, totally. I mean, is that storyline finished or is it getting continued next week? Not that I care either way. I just want to know which Nina that was.

Does Broyles have eyebrows? Cos it'd be an awesome reveal if he turns out to be an undercover Observer.

kind of weird/racist that all the observers are white, especially now that they spoiled their origin

maybe the time machine recreates them atom by atom out of white molecules

Keep forgetting to mention this, but

SHIITAKE
HAPPENS

!!!

lol, yes

OK, I knew this was the reveal we had coming, but I felt like it could have been handled better than it was.

SPOILERS
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"Thanks for turning this beacon on. btw, this is your Olivia, you just deleted yourself from this universe but LOVE blah blah blah"
cut to shot of Peter and Olivia embracing
~fin~

Cue Tesla: "Loooooooove wiiilll fiiiind a wayyyheyyyyyy"

I am not mad, but it's just..ugh. All that time in the amberverse & it's just "love"?

I was kind of annoyed that it was introduced this way, instead of having the characters at least recognize it was possible that this was just a universe where Peter just erased himself.

yeah, it was v. ugly and it didn't need to be. if they'd omitted the line about love, i.e. said 'this is your universe, and you should have been erased from it. but you weren't forgotten' i'm fairly certain that everybody would have gotten that It Was Love w/o out the hamfistedness.

The episode w/Peter Weller handled issues of unrequited love and affection better than about anything else in the series while still being pretty good science fiction. I think it's the one I've rewatched the most. Plus, Peter Weller.