(I was surfing around on friendsfriends and tumblr last night looking for episode reactions, and I was surprised that there were more than a few people saying they would rather Peter just not come back, and that they liked the Amberverse much better than Blueverse. I was just like, "...I respect your opinion, but I will never understand it.")
Really? All I've seen thus far in S4 is PEEETTTTEEEERRRR WHERE AAAAARE YOOOOOOOU. I've read recaps that were straight-up "there was no Peter so I don't really care." I honestly do think they struck the perfect balance of not having him come back too soon, but having him gone just long enough that we were anxious for his return and excited by it - it would have been far, far too pat to have him come back in the season premiere. (Glaring at Mulder forever.)
I love Peter, I do, but I've loved seeing this world without him, and I think it's been such a fabulous quasi-meta commentary on how characters don't grow and change in isolation, but in response and reaction to each other. Just the fact that the writers took the time to really think about how everyone would be different, and slipped in all those little moments and asides like the fact that Olivia would have ended up actually killing her stepfather, has been worth a few Peter-free episodes as far as I'm concerned.
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Date: 2011-10-16 12:06 am (UTC)Really? All I've seen thus far in S4 is PEEETTTTEEEERRRR WHERE AAAAARE YOOOOOOOU. I've read recaps that were straight-up "there was no Peter so I don't really care." I honestly do think they struck the perfect balance of not having him come back too soon, but having him gone just long enough that we were anxious for his return and excited by it - it would have been far, far too pat to have him come back in the season premiere. (Glaring at Mulder forever.)
I love Peter, I do, but I've loved seeing this world without him, and I think it's been such a fabulous quasi-meta commentary on how characters don't grow and change in isolation, but in response and reaction to each other. Just the fact that the writers took the time to really think about how everyone would be different, and slipped in all those little moments and asides like the fact that Olivia would have ended up actually killing her stepfather, has been worth a few Peter-free episodes as far as I'm concerned.