There may have been some lip-wibble over here. That last scene between Walter and Peter was a neat reversal of Peter disowning Walter after he discovered the 1987 switcheroo, but, but... STOP DISOWNING EACH OTHER, GUYS. I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS.
Walter drugging himself so he can sleep.
"Who sleeps like this???" Aww, Olivia's turned into Peter!
Walter seems to have somewhat conflated the two up until the final scene of this episode
I think when a kid who looks just like your kid is begging you to save him, conflation tends to happen. And Walter had to force himself to... disconflate? disflate? unflate? differentiate the two at the end in a conscious effort to deny adult!Peter. End result: awwwwwwww! John Noble is just amazing.
unless they've been hanging around this universe because Peter lived and they wanted to keep an eye on that.
I'm thinking that. Since Peter survived because of an Observer not-just-Observing, they had to watch for consequences.
that dropped storyline from "Reciprocity" about Peter killing the shapeshifters actually coming back?
Yay!! I half-expected Peter to slip into that conversation, "They bleed mercury when you shoot them in the head. Oh, and would you like me to murder them for you? Because I've gotten pretty good at that!"
Peter is...remarkably sanguine
I think after his initial shock at the hospital, he's switched into Con Man/Emotional Shut-Down Mode. He's had practice dealing with Olivias and Walters who are not His Olivia And Walter, after all. He definitely flinched a couple times when he looked at Olivia, though.
I...am getting the impression that Peter didn't tell her
Yeah, telling her that would not have helped things at all. Probably once he established that she didn't remember him, he shifted his focus onto "WHERE'S WALTER I NEED WALTER HE WILL FIX OLIVIA'S BRAIN FOR ME!!"
TIME SLIPS, OMG.
Bwuh?? Is that what the Agent Jill thing was about?? Or did I miss something while pondering Nina's classy, classy camo jacket?? I assumed that one of the Jills was a shifter, although there didn't seem to be a point to infiltrating her. ...And now that you mention it, the first Jill was my bet to be the more likely shifter, and that would mean that real!Jill wouldn't have been alive to come in a minute later... I prefer melding universes!
They can't be distinguished from humans without surgery.
If they're just copying DNA, though, you'd think they'd lack various scars and damages picked up over the years that wouldn't be copied along with DNA...
Yaaaaay, more on Olivia&Nina!
The look on Lincoln's face after Olivia's exposition was pretty great, too.
Hee, I enjoyed Peter being sneaky and rewiring the intercom so he could listen and speak to the people in the office.
Peter is almost as bad at being held captive as Olivia!
I finally realized who Amber!Lincoln reminds me of: MULDER.
Bwah! Mulder would also have immediately referred to a giant killer brain-creature as Gus!
...Wait, Bell said that some things weren't meant to be tampered with? REALLY?
Maybe both Peters' deaths made Walter AND Bell more cautious and self-doubtful?
Am I just imagining it, or did Nina give Walter a speech about how he had changed and wasn't evil anymore back in S2 or S3?
Yeah, when he was comparing himself to Walternate? Maybe back when he was reinventing amber? I forget exactly which episode.
Wait, did the shapeshifter just fly?
SHE'S SPIDERMAN!
Whoa, is Olivia actually walking around the office without her jacket?
At one point she was walking around with her jacket unbuttoned! It's like we don't even know her anymore!!
Awww, overture of friendship: REJECTED.
I read that as more awkward flirting! (Has Olivia ever had an unmarried partner she hasn't slept with? Geez.) And possibly Nerd!Lincoln moving ever closer to CANON!GAY!
Another quantum-entangled typewriter!
Really? You're gonna stab away at a giant retro typewriter in the middle of a busy station, and you think nobody's gonna notice the oddity? Come on!
when I wanted MOAR PETER, DAMMIT
I know! I was all, "THERE IS NO ROOM FOR B PLOTS THIS WEEK, GUYS."
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Date: 2011-11-05 05:35 pm (UTC)There may have been some lip-wibble over here. That last scene between Walter and Peter was a neat reversal of Peter disowning Walter after he discovered the 1987 switcheroo, but, but... STOP DISOWNING EACH OTHER, GUYS. I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS.
Walter drugging himself so he can sleep.
"Who sleeps like this???" Aww, Olivia's turned into Peter!
Walter seems to have somewhat conflated the two up until the final scene of this episode
I think when a kid who looks just like your kid is begging you to save him, conflation tends to happen. And Walter had to force himself to... disconflate? disflate? unflate? differentiate the two at the end in a conscious effort to deny adult!Peter. End result: awwwwwwww! John Noble is just amazing.
unless they've been hanging around this universe because Peter lived and they wanted to keep an eye on that.
I'm thinking that. Since Peter survived because of an Observer not-just-Observing, they had to watch for consequences.
that dropped storyline from "Reciprocity" about Peter killing the shapeshifters actually coming back?
Yay!! I half-expected Peter to slip into that conversation, "They bleed mercury when you shoot them in the head. Oh, and would you like me to murder them for you? Because I've gotten pretty good at that!"
Peter is...remarkably sanguine
I think after his initial shock at the hospital, he's switched into Con Man/Emotional Shut-Down Mode. He's had practice dealing with Olivias and Walters who are not His Olivia And Walter, after all. He definitely flinched a couple times when he looked at Olivia, though.
I...am getting the impression that Peter didn't tell her
Yeah, telling her that would not have helped things at all. Probably once he established that she didn't remember him, he shifted his focus onto "WHERE'S WALTER I NEED WALTER HE WILL FIX OLIVIA'S BRAIN FOR ME!!"
TIME SLIPS, OMG.
Bwuh?? Is that what the Agent Jill thing was about?? Or did I miss something while pondering Nina's classy, classy camo jacket?? I assumed that one of the Jills was a shifter, although there didn't seem to be a point to infiltrating her. ...And now that you mention it, the first Jill was my bet to be the more likely shifter, and that would mean that real!Jill wouldn't have been alive to come in a minute later... I prefer melding universes!
They can't be distinguished from humans without surgery.
If they're just copying DNA, though, you'd think they'd lack various scars and damages picked up over the years that wouldn't be copied along with DNA...
Yaaaaay, more on Olivia&Nina!
The look on Lincoln's face after Olivia's exposition was pretty great, too.
Hee, I enjoyed Peter being sneaky and rewiring the intercom so he could listen and speak to the people in the office.
Peter is almost as bad at being held captive as Olivia!
I finally realized who Amber!Lincoln reminds me of: MULDER.
Bwah! Mulder would also have immediately referred to a giant killer brain-creature as Gus!
...Wait, Bell said that some things weren't meant to be tampered with? REALLY?
Maybe both Peters' deaths made Walter AND Bell more cautious and self-doubtful?
Am I just imagining it, or did Nina give Walter a speech about how he had changed and wasn't evil anymore back in S2 or S3?
Yeah, when he was comparing himself to Walternate? Maybe back when he was reinventing amber? I forget exactly which episode.
Wait, did the shapeshifter just fly?
SHE'S SPIDERMAN!
Whoa, is Olivia actually walking around the office without her jacket?
At one point she was walking around with her jacket unbuttoned! It's like we don't even know her anymore!!
Awww, overture of friendship: REJECTED.
I read that as more awkward flirting! (Has Olivia ever had an unmarried partner she hasn't slept with? Geez.) And possibly Nerd!Lincoln moving ever closer to CANON!GAY!
Another quantum-entangled typewriter!
Really? You're gonna stab away at a giant retro typewriter in the middle of a busy station, and you think nobody's gonna notice the oddity? Come on!
when I wanted MOAR PETER, DAMMIT
I know! I was all, "THERE IS NO ROOM FOR B PLOTS THIS WEEK, GUYS."