Fringe: Marionette

Good for you Olivia. Of course you could not let everything out at the moment Peter told you, it is not your way. You need to process information, you need to deal with it. The scene at the end where you completely unloaded on Peter was poignant, beautiful, and heartbreaking. I wanted to cheer for your bravery at confronting Peter’s inability to see Folivia for who she was, but I was also devastated that you had to go through this terrible injustice with no one to comfort you. This is a science fiction television show, how did it make the audience care so much for the characters?

Other than the emotional catharsis at the end of the episode this week’s storyline was fairly weak. After wonderfully connected stories all season long the Frankenstein's monster stuff just was not doing it for me. On the bright side the episode was sufficiently creepy. My wife could not look at the television in quite a few tension filled moments.

I missed Lincoln and Charlie. I even missed the cab driver that inexplicably helped Olivia after she took him hostage.

The Observer is back! I almost forgot they existed. After the amazing drama that played out between Folivia’s universe and ours my view of the fiction of Fringe significantly narrowed to focus on the two worlds we became familiar with. The mere existence of two worlds necessitates the existence of infinite worlds (I’m sure there is a a sound scientific theory to back up my wild assertion).

If the pieces of Walternate’s doomsday device are truly as ancient as we’ve been led to believe it is plausible that in one of the infinite paths the history of planet earth has taken the people who built that device never used it. Therefore they continued and prospered, possibly becoming the beings we know as Observers. If the Observers are in fact decedents of an ancient race of humans 1.0 they must have vast knowledge of the workings of the universes which would explain their ability to seemingly phase in and out of our world.

Walternate feels as though only one universe can survive, which leads me to believe that his reality has not caught on to the Observer visits. Unless Observers can only safely travel to our dimension for some reason or another. I love Fringe, I don’t understand it, but I love it. Actually, I’m making an executive decision, Fringe is at the top of my list for a series re-watch. Quick someone buy it for me for Christmas.