More Fringe
Oct. 7th, 2010 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieThis is what I wrote after seeing 1x16:
They've been pushing the "Olivia is great with kids!" thing for several episodes now. More wild-assed spec: In an/the alternate universe, she and Peter are a couple and have a kid. Don't tell me if I'm right or wrong; I'm probably wrong, but I want to enjoy this amusing fic cliche as long as possible.
Aaaaand 1x17 pretty much blasted it out of the water. I think. New theory: Olivia is from an AU! Olive is the one from our universe. Dunno where she is now. The scorch marks on the wall in the video could be because someone dragged the girl in the video--our Olivia--from another dimension to replace Olive, the original from our universe (which I still think is what happened to Jones). Or, perhaps, Olivia is in her correct universe (ours), and Nick and Walter are from another AU, where Olive is also from. Olive and Olivia are definitely different people, though. And the buddy system has to have some bearing on the parallel universes--a way to connect people through the multiverse. Oh, and I'm still sure the Peter we see on the show is not Walter's original Peter--whether Walter or Peter traveled dimensionally, I don't know.
But at least we get an explanation for Olivia's boring clothing choices. I had started to wonder if that was A Thing or if it's just that everyone wears black nowadays.
Less awesome things: Walter's "I'm not listening to you because my IQ is higher!" snit fit at the hospital in "Inner Child." Seriously, Walter? Seriously, show? Fine, whatever, Walter's a polymath who can magically know what to do with this random kid, but he knows it because he's done research/theorizing/other work, not because he has an IQ of 190. As, I might add, has the doctor, who arguably has done more relevant work by going to med school, no matter what her IQ is. IQ =/= knowledge, no matter how hard the show is trying to equate the two. A six-year-old can have the same IQ as Walter or Peter. You planning to trust that six-year-old in your Lab O' Wonders? Didn't think so. (If you couldn't tell, this bothers me a lot with Peter, too.)
They've been pushing the "Olivia is great with kids!" thing for several episodes now. More wild-assed spec: In an/the alternate universe, she and Peter are a couple and have a kid. Don't tell me if I'm right or wrong; I'm probably wrong, but I want to enjoy this amusing fic cliche as long as possible.
Aaaaand 1x17 pretty much blasted it out of the water. I think. New theory: Olivia is from an AU! Olive is the one from our universe. Dunno where she is now. The scorch marks on the wall in the video could be because someone dragged the girl in the video--our Olivia--from another dimension to replace Olive, the original from our universe (which I still think is what happened to Jones). Or, perhaps, Olivia is in her correct universe (ours), and Nick and Walter are from another AU, where Olive is also from. Olive and Olivia are definitely different people, though. And the buddy system has to have some bearing on the parallel universes--a way to connect people through the multiverse. Oh, and I'm still sure the Peter we see on the show is not Walter's original Peter--whether Walter or Peter traveled dimensionally, I don't know.
But at least we get an explanation for Olivia's boring clothing choices. I had started to wonder if that was A Thing or if it's just that everyone wears black nowadays.
Less awesome things: Walter's "I'm not listening to you because my IQ is higher!" snit fit at the hospital in "Inner Child." Seriously, Walter? Seriously, show? Fine, whatever, Walter's a polymath who can magically know what to do with this random kid, but he knows it because he's done research/theorizing/other work, not because he has an IQ of 190. As, I might add, has the doctor, who arguably has done more relevant work by going to med school, no matter what her IQ is. IQ =/= knowledge, no matter how hard the show is trying to equate the two. A six-year-old can have the same IQ as Walter or Peter. You planning to trust that six-year-old in your Lab O' Wonders? Didn't think so. (If you couldn't tell, this bothers me a lot with Peter, too.)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-10-07 10:34 pm (UTC)I'm so very much enjoying reading your theories. One of the things I love about this show is that there really are so many possibilities, so many different answers to all the questions they raise, so you never know where you're going. Of course, I've been happy with the answers so far.
no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 12:20 am (UTC)There do seem to be a lot of ways things on the show could go...
no subject
Date: 2011-05-28 04:30 am (UTC)More wild-assed spec: In an/the alternate universe, she and Peter are a couple and have a kid.
Maybe that's Walter's fanon? (Maybe he watches Futurama? (http://edelen.bengalenglish.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/futurama_ep691.jpg))
The scorch marks on the wall in the video could be because someone dragged the girl in the video
I thought they implied that Olive was the source of the fire that killed Walter's lab assistant!
But at least we get an explanation for Olivia's boring clothing choices.
When Nick opened that closet FULL of dark, drab clothes, I lol'd hard. One black shirt wasn't enough, he needed twenty.
(If you couldn't tell, this bothers me a lot with Peter, too.)
I kind of like that they're both stupidly vain about their IQs - they seem like the type of people who would be very proud of their standardized-test-taking ability. (And maybe we can say that throwing one's IQ score around is an effective way of bluffing and posturing and redirecting attention away from obvious lack of real qualifications, as in the thing with that poor hassled nurse. Isn't that a happier explanation than just lazy writers? Let's pretend it's true!)
no subject
Date: 2011-05-30 04:57 pm (UTC)Mwahahaha!
Maybe that's Walter's fanon?
Heh. Let's just that that there is an episode which makes it very obvious that Walter has contemplated the idea of them getting married, at least.
I thought they implied that Olive was the source of the fire that killed Walter's lab assistant!
They did. I'm sure you've figured it out by now, but my theory in this post went up in flames pretty quickly after I came up with it. Jones just teleported, and not into an alternate universe, so everything I had come up with that hinged on him going to the AU fell apart.
When Nick opened that closet FULL of dark, drab clothes, I lol'd hard. One black shirt wasn't enough, he needed twenty.
THEY ARE ALL SUBTLY DIFFERENT AND TWENTY IS TOTALLY NECESSARY!
Isn't that a happier explanation than just lazy writers? Let's pretend it's true!
Okay!
no subject
Date: 2011-05-30 06:33 pm (UTC)OMG YAY
THEY ARE ALL SUBTLY DIFFERENT AND TWENTY IS TOTALLY NECESSARY!
THAT ONE IS TOTALLY A DIFFERENT SHADE OF BLACK!
no subject
Date: 2011-05-30 11:58 pm (UTC)If you're actually shipping Peter/Olivia and not just enjoying the fact that Walter does, you're going to both LOVE LOVE LOVE and HATE HATE HATE S3, just FYI. But if you're like me, more on the LOVE side.
THAT ONE IS TOTALLY A DIFFERENT SHADE OF BLACK!
IT IS "MIDNIGHT" RATHER THAN "STYGIAN"!
no subject
Date: 2011-05-31 05:57 am (UTC)Oh, I do! They are adorable! (That time he brought her flowers after the car crash! So cute!)
you're going to both LOVE LOVE LOVE and HATE HATE HATE S3, just FYI.
Is Peter going to hook up with the Other Olivia? Because that's about the angstiest angst that I can think of... (Omg, then the 17-year-old who told Olivia to get Peter while the getting's good was foreshadowing!) (Just finished 2x12! Ow, my sleep!)
IT IS "MIDNIGHT" RATHER THAN "STYGIAN"!
I CAN'T WEAR "ONYX" WITH THIS, IT WILL CLASH.
no subject
Date: 2011-05-31 11:53 pm (UTC)Oh, yay! I think they're adorable as well.
Is Peter going to hook up with the Other Olivia? Because that's about the angstiest angst that I can think of...
*COUGH* I'll neither confirm nor deny. There's plenty to hate and plenty to love, though. I'm reasonably sure there are at least three events you will never be able to predict, though.
(If you're at 2x12, you're about to enter a really EXCELLENT string of episodes. Yay!)
no subject
Date: 2011-06-03 04:10 am (UTC)FLAILFLAILFLAILFLAIL OMG S2 FINALE!!11!
no subject
Date: 2011-06-03 10:57 pm (UTC)