Fringe: The Bishop Revival

Why did it have to be Nazi's?  They are the laziest shorthand for "evil" a television show can conjure up in the fictional world.  

For some reason the writers of Fringe wanted the lovable version of Walter (as opposed to the somewhat evil version that existed before William Bell pulled memories out of his head) to do something terrible and without remorse, yet justified.  Therefore, Walter killed a Nazi and not a modern day Nazi, an original Nazi.  

An original Nazi who somehow managed to create the fountain of youth and was hell bent on realizing Hitler's nightmare of the "master race".  If the writers were going to have one of the main characters kill someone, they don't get any more evil than an eternally young Nazi, with a grudge against the Bishops, and a burning desire to carry out the wishes of Adolf Hitler.

I am enjoying Walter pushing Peter into a relationship with Olivia.  His "Do you think you she'll call me Dad?" line was hilarious, especially considering Peter calls him Walter.

I wonder if this episode is a precursor to a Bishop family flashback.  That would most likely be an extremely illuminating story.  What type of family structure creates a Walter Bishop?  

Genetically targeted execution would certainly be a valuable tool.  I wonder if the Bishop's and Olivia are going to be able to resist the urge to assassinate enemies with this extremely evil technology.  If they do end up using it will there at least be debate over the consequences of unleashing this tech upon their dimension?

I am ready for a truly seriously heavy cannon episode.  This self contained stuff simply keeping the show in neutral. 

Supernatural: Swap Meat

My frustration with this series is growing exponentially with every self-contained storyline.  Two weeks in a row has seen Supernatural give us silly stories, with weak villains that shouldn't hold a candle to the Brothers Winchester, and yet they somehow managed to get almost killed both times.  The creative forces of this show have built Sam and Dean up to be the two most important sentient beings in all of heaven and earth but they can't best a 16 year old?

Thankfully, we did get a couple of morsels as far as canonical information is concerned.  Dean has a bounty on his head that all of hell is looking to collect on.  That bounty is more than likely to come into play at some point in the future.  Furthermore, Dean is so willing to forgive and forget with Sam that he pretended not to notice when the fake Sam was acting off because he seemed so dam happy.  Dean commenting about how nice it was for the two of them to drink together was a seriously sad moment.

That all being said, it took Dean how long to realize Sam was not Sam?  Also, it's one thing not to check your messages in a 24 hour time period, it's another not to realize that you have no cell phone at all.  Especially when you have 10 or so phones, bad form Dean.

Speaking of phone calls, if Sam couldn't reach Dean why wouldn't he try Bobby?  If for some odd reason Bobby didn't pick up why wouldn't he try to reach the family whose house they were ghost-busting?  And how many times can Sam get tranquilized by 16 year old boys?  It's embarrassing, he's supposed to be strong enough to hold the essence of Lucifer.

Kudos to the actress who played the girl in the geek trio with the Star Wars obsession (I miss Buffy).  She had a very believable turn when possessed by the unnamed demon and was legitimately creepy.  Though even the demon's motivations were suspect.  It explained that the usurper to Sam's body could give the vessel to Lucifer but then wasted a bunch of time seemingly waiting to get exorcised.

If someone in possession of Sam's body can give it to Lucifer, that would seemingly be the only way the devil gets his due.