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

It's also, probably very intentionally, just enough of an order to trip the 100 episode level for syndication -- which may seem less important in the 'watch via Netflix' era or the like but that still very much has a place.

So the Double Rainbow Guy is from the other side?

which is double rainbow guy?

great episode - loved the scene between the two Walters (was kind of amused though how Peter's somehow morphed from a belligerent, selfish con artist into this perfect good son)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

oh you meant THAT double rainbow guy. lol sorry, thought you meant there was a character from one of the various timelines/futures who talked about seeing a double rainbow or something.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. TT_________TT

aw, spock ain't that bad

Not complaining about Spock per se... :(

action astrid : )

wait WHAT noooooooooooooooo : (

Didn't Astrid show up in the flashforward ep, though?

action astrid : )

― j., Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait WHAT noooooooooooooooo : (

― j., Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didn't Astrid show up in the flashforward ep, though?

― Simon H., Saturday, May 5, 2012 10:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My EXACT train of thought!!

And yeah, she's in the FF ep, but the shock of THE SCENE and my mistakenly assumption that this was the season finale combined to freak me out.

Asterix ;_;

Had to lol at how unnecessarily complicated DRJ's plan to kill Peter was, though.

"The Bishop must be sacrificed. And I will do it by luring him to two dishes rigged up to a satellite that can magnify the sun rays to concentrate on an oil well where the explosion would probably destroy the entire city of Boston. And when he gets there to stop it, I'll just kill him with nothing but a crowbar."

lol that is why he was only the bishop... but does that make Spock the queen?

Wait, he was diverting the sun JUST to kill Peter? Whoah and also lol

Man the product placement was so freaking ham-fisted in this ep, there was an entire exchange between Astrid and Walter at the scene of the spontaneously combusting people that seemed tacked on specifically to show off Sprint's pay-by-phone tech. Can't we be a little more, I dunno, creative with this shit?

Also somewhat bored with this one and felt DRJ's death was a MASSIVE anti-climax.

The product placement was hilarious.

I don't think that DRJ's death could be anything but anti-climactic: he's already died once before, and plus, it's the same episode that features Nimoy's return.

Only half of him crumbled away to dust! He seems to be good at recovering from losing half of his body as I recall.

nah, that was another version of this universe

Use Sprint phone tech, immediately die by spontaneous combustion - I'd say that's A+ product placement right there. At least until REGENERATING PIG-BRAIN LEMON CAKE made in an Easy-Bake oven.

LOL

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?)

Nah he teleported out or escaped to another dimension

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.

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 :-/

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.

the thing with olivia dying and comping back was genuinely frightening.

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.

"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.

having Lost flashbacks

shit that is lame and bullshit

I'd like episodes with less mythology and more crazy sci-fi shit, tbh

they kind of wrapped up all the mythology--now it's all future watcher overlords

well, other than the fact they never revealed how/when walter and peter built the machine and sent it back in time

they did it on the outrigger

what is up with the new credits sequence words! suddenly we're in an orwell novel

well, yeah?

well, yeah

Same credit sequence as that observer world episode last season right

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?

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

thought nazis

with fedoras

and CO factories

Yeah, as lame as that

who think music is just noise

and have taken all the walnuts

all the ads about the 'observer' stuff in this show now make it look like The Adjustment Bureau: The Series

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?

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?

I don't know, do we really want them wasting screen time with that kind of useless backstory?