Fringe S2 rewatch
Jan. 7th, 2012 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieFirst, two amusing links:
What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking?
Facebook News Feed History of the World
Second, Fringe rewatch update: soooo, all of S2 in under a week! Yeah, it kind of becomes impossible to stop after "Jacksonville" even when I already know what happens.
Though I do have to say that "Over There" is kind of ruined by knowing the ending in advance. I spent the whole two-parter hoping that this time, the Olivia/Fauxlivia switcheroo would fail. Sigh. Wrong Olivia, guys! And it's going take you eight friggin' weeks to realize it, which I have to admit does not encourage me to start S3. Though I have a feeling that season is going to be much, much better when taken at DVD rather than broadcast pace.
This is something I started thinking back in late S3, but never managed to put into words before this rewatch: Something like 80% of the non-mytharc cases of the week involve fringe events created, either deliberately or inadvertently, because one person was trying to save/reanimate/find/etc. someone he/she loved. Yeah, LOVE LETS YOU BREAK THE LAWS OF PHYSICS! Only Fringe manages to make that so much less cheesy than it sounds.
Anyway, knowing what I know now about what Walter's love for Peter drove him to do, each of those cases of the week now becomes like a tiny punch to the gut. Show, how are you so good? How do you manage to make even the throwaway plots relevant to your mytharc? That is just awesome. (Also, best thing ever: a sci-fi show that is so grounded in feelings on every level.)
I still think there's something that hasn't been told yet about Nina's relationship to Peter. That "You know how much Peter meant to me" in "Peter" is just too tantalizing, as was the mention of in vitro fertilization in the credits for that episode. (Although I've largely given up my very early theory that Nina was an egg donor for Walter and Elizabeth. Still, that term is suggestive.) And I can't help but think her taking in Olivia and Rachel in the Amberverse is related to not having a Peter around to play Ambiguously Evil Mother Figure to.
"Brown Betty" is still my favorite episode of the show. I so, so want them to return to that universe this season.
What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking?
Facebook News Feed History of the World
Second, Fringe rewatch update: soooo, all of S2 in under a week! Yeah, it kind of becomes impossible to stop after "Jacksonville" even when I already know what happens.
Though I do have to say that "Over There" is kind of ruined by knowing the ending in advance. I spent the whole two-parter hoping that this time, the Olivia/Fauxlivia switcheroo would fail. Sigh. Wrong Olivia, guys! And it's going take you eight friggin' weeks to realize it, which I have to admit does not encourage me to start S3. Though I have a feeling that season is going to be much, much better when taken at DVD rather than broadcast pace.
This is something I started thinking back in late S3, but never managed to put into words before this rewatch: Something like 80% of the non-mytharc cases of the week involve fringe events created, either deliberately or inadvertently, because one person was trying to save/reanimate/find/etc. someone he/she loved. Yeah, LOVE LETS YOU BREAK THE LAWS OF PHYSICS! Only Fringe manages to make that so much less cheesy than it sounds.
Anyway, knowing what I know now about what Walter's love for Peter drove him to do, each of those cases of the week now becomes like a tiny punch to the gut. Show, how are you so good? How do you manage to make even the throwaway plots relevant to your mytharc? That is just awesome. (Also, best thing ever: a sci-fi show that is so grounded in feelings on every level.)
I still think there's something that hasn't been told yet about Nina's relationship to Peter. That "You know how much Peter meant to me" in "Peter" is just too tantalizing, as was the mention of in vitro fertilization in the credits for that episode. (Although I've largely given up my very early theory that Nina was an egg donor for Walter and Elizabeth. Still, that term is suggestive.) And I can't help but think her taking in Olivia and Rachel in the Amberverse is related to not having a Peter around to play Ambiguously Evil Mother Figure to.
"Brown Betty" is still my favorite episode of the show. I so, so want them to return to that universe this season.
