More Fringe
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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.)
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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.
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Date: 2010-10-08 12:20 am (UTC)There do seem to be a lot of ways things on the show could go...