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

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.

god I loved that episode. Made me cry like a motherfucker.

tbh I'm not completely clear what exactly happened at the end of this ep. So if this universe was his all along, then why isn't everyone waking up to their memories of Peter just like Olivia is and why are Olivia's memories of Nina being "overwritten"?

because LOVE

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

i have not watched this new one yet but haven't they been setting this up for quite some time? with walter and peter, with olivia and her stepfather, with the 'ghost' couples who couldn't let go acrooooossss the muuuultiverses etc.?

What I don't friggin get is that Peter magics the two universes together and somehow erases himself in the process, but no one remembers what he did so they're no closer to fixing anything. I guess that they don't have the universe-shattering events, maybe? And if Walter & co. are the "first people" then when the fuck do they send the machine back

It was just all..."Wait, so I constructed all of these intricate flow charts of all the Fringeverses and THIS is how you resolve amberverse?"

*tears up flowcharts*

On the other hand... flying porcupine monsters.

four-eyed Lincoln is really adorable. just sayin.

ohhhhh I love him, so cute

Right?! Kinda bums me out a bit that both versions of him harbor unrequited crushes on Olivia.

I think Lost totally killed any enthusiasm I've had for theorising abt TV shows btw. Normally I'd be all abt timelines, and "Peter's important!", and "what about their baby?!" but I'm weirdly not that bothered that it all ended up boiling down to something as corny as LUV. I just want to see more David Robert Jones.

le sigh...

"me and my army of flying porcupine men will RULE THE WORLD" - Pink and the Brain s2e9

Hahah

This seems like a very cheaty way out, that they get to rehash old storylines now because of WUV

But kinda cool in a way. Those creatures were kind of awesome looking.