YAAAAYYY!!! I thought he wouldn't be back until the next episode! Which... he kind of isn't. But still! Yay!
Did anyone in the audience not know the glowy energy cloud was Peter?
How did Olivia go from, "No dreams about Mystery Man, but COINCIDENTALLY I was visited by a glowy blue cloud!" to "Oh, a cortexikid from twenty-five years ago is a MUCH MORE LIKELY explanation!!" Oh plot, and your necessities. And does the team usually go for an instant "Weird thing? DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY!!!" vibe? Because that felt off.
Like the fact that Nina has apparently been some kind of mother figure to Olivia at least SINCE HIGH SCHOOL, HOLY SHIT.
SO UNEXPECTED! SO EXCITING!
ran away from the Cortexiphan trials(!!!)
So, how did Olivia leave the trials originally? Because the trials were still going in 1985 in Bluniverse, right, and Walter didn't get committed until the fire in... 1991? Did they ever fill in those blanks?
once she found out tried to protect Olivia as best she could and eventually got the trials shut down.
I could get behind this!
Hence why Walter, hilariously, referred to her as a "viper" and claimed her words "rattled around [his] inner ear like razor blades."
Odd how the Walter/Bell antagonistic relationship has kind of transferred over to Walter/Nina in the Amberverse. I wonder if Nina ending the trials ended up giving her more power and influence in Massive Dynamic?
(Especially because she still seems kind of evil! I love ambiguously evil supporting characters!)
Continuing Evil Nina FTW!
But but but OLIVIA'S POWERS! They were so awesome!
So awesome! Yeah, I'm thinking she never got activated in this timeline. BUT when she was expositing to Astrid, she gave three examples of cortexipowers that were all her own: telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and crossing over. Or maybe she only had them in little spurts under the small doses of cortexiphan? And they never came back after the trials? Also, there's no Peter to give her the right conditions to make them work.
given the butterfly effect, a lot more people than Olivia, Walter, et al. will be walking around with different memories
Eh, most of the special knowledge on this show is restricted to the main characters, so I'd assume memories of the Bluniverse would likewise only come back to the inner circle, and the general populace would be unaffected.
a universe without an Olivia who can cross over and use telekinesis is not one I want to watch a show about
Awwwwww. And that show would not be Fringe, so I don't think you have to worry.
Bwahahaha! Oh, Olivia, I love you for trying to shoot the floaty glowing energy cloud.
Pumping astral projections full of lead: a solution that only Olivia would come up with. (That car made a pretty solid thunk when it hit the cloud. Was Peter injured?)
"He got the idea from The Matrix." Hee.
So... in this universe, did Olivia not cross over to the WTC at the end of S1, and come flying back through her windshield at the beginning of S2? Because Walter used this same general camera setup with frogs to try and recreate her crossing then.
Olivia remembers the fire she started.
So in running away she skipped the part where Walter erased her and Peter's childhood memories? (BECAUSE THAT TOTALLY HAPPENED OR ELSE CANON MAKES NO SENSE GRR.)
Even cuter: Jasika Nicole's partner's name is Claire.
Awwww. But I thought it was a Freudian slip, considering how St. Claire's was on his mind.
And oh, Walter saying he knows they aren't family, but... MY HEART, YOU ARE BREAKING IT.
I KNOW. I was all, "But he IS family! Walter, you're family! Olivia, tell him he's family! Olivia! Olivia, WHY AREN'T YOU SAYING IT???" This is not the Olivia I want to see the rest of the season! Remember when Peter ran away to the Redverse and Walter had a freakout in the grocery store and Olivia was all, "There is NO WAY you are going back to St. Claire's I would never let that happen!"? D: D: D:
So...the doses of Cortexiphan were smaller in this timeline? How did Peter dying change that?
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Date: 2011-10-16 04:12 am (UTC)YAAAAYYY!!! I thought he wouldn't be back until the next episode! Which... he kind of isn't. But still! Yay!
Did anyone in the audience not know the glowy energy cloud was Peter?
How did Olivia go from, "No dreams about Mystery Man, but COINCIDENTALLY I was visited by a glowy blue cloud!" to "Oh, a cortexikid from twenty-five years ago is a MUCH MORE LIKELY explanation!!" Oh plot, and your necessities. And does the team usually go for an instant "Weird thing? DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY!!!" vibe? Because that felt off.
Like the fact that Nina has apparently been some kind of mother figure to Olivia at least SINCE HIGH SCHOOL, HOLY SHIT.
SO UNEXPECTED! SO EXCITING!
ran away from the Cortexiphan trials(!!!)
So, how did Olivia leave the trials originally? Because the trials were still going in 1985 in Bluniverse, right, and Walter didn't get committed until the fire in... 1991? Did they ever fill in those blanks?
once she found out tried to protect Olivia as best she could and eventually got the trials shut down.
I could get behind this!
Hence why Walter, hilariously, referred to her as a "viper" and claimed her words "rattled around [his] inner ear like razor blades."
Odd how the Walter/Bell antagonistic relationship has kind of transferred over to Walter/Nina in the Amberverse. I wonder if Nina ending the trials ended up giving her more power and influence in Massive Dynamic?
(Especially because she still seems kind of evil! I love ambiguously evil supporting characters!)
Continuing Evil Nina FTW!
But but but OLIVIA'S POWERS! They were so awesome!
So awesome! Yeah, I'm thinking she never got activated in this timeline. BUT when she was expositing to Astrid, she gave three examples of cortexipowers that were all her own: telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and crossing over. Or maybe she only had them in little spurts under the small doses of cortexiphan? And they never came back after the trials? Also, there's no Peter to give her the right conditions to make them work.
given the butterfly effect, a lot more people than Olivia, Walter, et al. will be walking around with different memories
Eh, most of the special knowledge on this show is restricted to the main characters, so I'd assume memories of the Bluniverse would likewise only come back to the inner circle, and the general populace would be unaffected.
a universe without an Olivia who can cross over and use telekinesis is not one I want to watch a show about
Awwwwww. And that show would not be Fringe, so I don't think you have to worry.
Bwahahaha! Oh, Olivia, I love you for trying to shoot the floaty glowing energy cloud.
Pumping astral projections full of lead: a solution that only Olivia would come up with. (That car made a pretty solid thunk when it hit the cloud. Was Peter injured?)
"He got the idea from The Matrix." Hee.
So... in this universe, did Olivia not cross over to the WTC at the end of S1, and come flying back through her windshield at the beginning of S2? Because Walter used this same general camera setup with frogs to try and recreate her crossing then.
Olivia remembers the fire she started.
So in running away she skipped the part where Walter erased her and Peter's childhood memories? (BECAUSE THAT TOTALLY HAPPENED OR ELSE CANON MAKES NO SENSE GRR.)
Even cuter: Jasika Nicole's partner's name is Claire.
Awwww. But I thought it was a Freudian slip, considering how St. Claire's was on his mind.
And oh, Walter saying he knows they aren't family, but... MY HEART, YOU ARE BREAKING IT.
I KNOW. I was all, "But he IS family! Walter, you're family! Olivia, tell him he's family! Olivia! Olivia, WHY AREN'T YOU SAYING IT???" This is not the Olivia I want to see the rest of the season! Remember when Peter ran away to the Redverse and Walter had a freakout in the grocery store and Olivia was all, "There is NO WAY you are going back to St. Claire's I would never let that happen!"? D: D: D:
So...the doses of Cortexiphan were smaller in this timeline? How did Peter dying change that?
Maybe it made Walter more cautious?
TWO WEEKS TIL THE NEXT ONE WHYYYYYY??