Fringe 4.09: "Enemy of My Enemy"
Jan. 20th, 2012 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieWell, I definitely liked this better than last week, though I do still have some reservations. Chiefly, I don't understand what story purpose Jones and the shapeshifters serve that the universes destroying themselves didn't. Yeah, a common enemy gets the two sides working together, that's legitimately awesome, but...why take nine episodes and a convoluted shapeshifter plot to do it? An apocalypse is a suitably unifying common enemy! Plus maybe we wouldn't have had to spend so much time setting it up and instead could have moved further on the getting-Peter-home plotline!
Speaking of which, I'm starting to get a sneaking suspicion that Blueverse may be gone for good. There was a little too much wink wink nudge nudging in Peter's "Well, this Walternate wasn't at all like I remember, but Walter, you're still the same guy." If we never see anything related to Blue again I am going to be unbelievably pissed, though, because while it's been cool to see all the changes a Peterless universe wrought, spending the rest of the season rebuilding relationships we got three years of beautiful characterization on before holds absolutely no interest for me.
Anyway, on to the good:
Red!Lincoln and Redlivia are really kind of adorable together. "Well, you're kind of funny-looking!" I resisted their allure last year, but...have I mentioned that pairings who act like twelve-year-olds toward each other are kind of a thing for me? (And ha, she's single now! And here I thought her and Frank were on pretty good footing until the surprise!pregnancy.)
Bwahahaha, of course any and all versions of Walter would enjoy molecular gastronomy. Poor, poor Astrid.
Amber!Lincoln: I lost a partner!
Peter: I lost a universe!
Oooh, burn.
I don't entirely remember "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones," but I'm surprised Amber Fringe Division never ran into him--wasn't he relevant to one of their cases? Was it something Peter said or did that led to Olivia heading to Germany to talk to him?
I'm kind of loving this new humanitarian version of Walternate.
Altstrid: Are you really from another timeline?
Peter: Yeah, I think so.
Altstrid: Cool.
OMG, adorable geeky Altstrid! *squishes*
Heh heh heh, the perils of maps across universes.
OMG, THE SCENES WITH WALTER AND ELIZABETH. I'M NOT SURE I CAN TEXTUALLY RENDER HOW AMAZING AND POWERFUL THEY WERE. Just...wow. Wow.
It sounds like they might have still had the case with Alistair the time traveler in "White Tulip," but Walter was still so guilt-wracked that he never managed to confess to him, so Alistair never sent him the white tulip. Maybe?
Really kind of in love with everyone and their alternates around the conference table, with Walternate of all people heading things up. At the end of last season, I expected that shot to happen at some point, but they managed to make it rather different from what I envisioned.
Peter being all, "Now your fight is my fight!" (only not in so many words) also makes me tremble about the fate of Blueverse, nice as it was to see him join up with the gang.
Heh, Amberlivia's kind of like, "Well, you did save my life, maybe you're not so bad..."
OMG JONES IS WORKING WITH NINA!! THEY'RE DOING HORRIBLE THINGS TO OLIVIA!!! Damn, maybe they are trying to activate her powers. I really wonder what Jones is up to now; assuming Alt-Broyles hasn't been replaced by a shapeshifter himself, I feel like it has to be something where the end is worthwhile, even if it doesn't justify the means, because Broyles, in any universe, has always seemed like perhaps the most moral character of all of them and I don't see him joining up with a bad guy without a seriously good reason.
Next week: Um, isn't didn't we already do this in "The Ghost Network"? Maybe the outcome will be different. I'm all about learning more about what the Observer said to Amberlivia, anyway. (I am a little tired of Peter always knowing something the rest of the team doesn't and explaining it to them, though. Argh, just get your Blue memories back, people!)
Speaking of which, I'm starting to get a sneaking suspicion that Blueverse may be gone for good. There was a little too much wink wink nudge nudging in Peter's "Well, this Walternate wasn't at all like I remember, but Walter, you're still the same guy." If we never see anything related to Blue again I am going to be unbelievably pissed, though, because while it's been cool to see all the changes a Peterless universe wrought, spending the rest of the season rebuilding relationships we got three years of beautiful characterization on before holds absolutely no interest for me.
Anyway, on to the good:
Red!Lincoln and Redlivia are really kind of adorable together. "Well, you're kind of funny-looking!" I resisted their allure last year, but...have I mentioned that pairings who act like twelve-year-olds toward each other are kind of a thing for me? (And ha, she's single now! And here I thought her and Frank were on pretty good footing until the surprise!pregnancy.)
Bwahahaha, of course any and all versions of Walter would enjoy molecular gastronomy. Poor, poor Astrid.
Amber!Lincoln: I lost a partner!
Peter: I lost a universe!
Oooh, burn.
I don't entirely remember "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones," but I'm surprised Amber Fringe Division never ran into him--wasn't he relevant to one of their cases? Was it something Peter said or did that led to Olivia heading to Germany to talk to him?
I'm kind of loving this new humanitarian version of Walternate.
Altstrid: Are you really from another timeline?
Peter: Yeah, I think so.
Altstrid: Cool.
OMG, adorable geeky Altstrid! *squishes*
Heh heh heh, the perils of maps across universes.
OMG, THE SCENES WITH WALTER AND ELIZABETH. I'M NOT SURE I CAN TEXTUALLY RENDER HOW AMAZING AND POWERFUL THEY WERE. Just...wow. Wow.
It sounds like they might have still had the case with Alistair the time traveler in "White Tulip," but Walter was still so guilt-wracked that he never managed to confess to him, so Alistair never sent him the white tulip. Maybe?
Really kind of in love with everyone and their alternates around the conference table, with Walternate of all people heading things up. At the end of last season, I expected that shot to happen at some point, but they managed to make it rather different from what I envisioned.
Peter being all, "Now your fight is my fight!" (only not in so many words) also makes me tremble about the fate of Blueverse, nice as it was to see him join up with the gang.
Heh, Amberlivia's kind of like, "Well, you did save my life, maybe you're not so bad..."
OMG JONES IS WORKING WITH NINA!! THEY'RE DOING HORRIBLE THINGS TO OLIVIA!!! Damn, maybe they are trying to activate her powers. I really wonder what Jones is up to now; assuming Alt-Broyles hasn't been replaced by a shapeshifter himself, I feel like it has to be something where the end is worthwhile, even if it doesn't justify the means, because Broyles, in any universe, has always seemed like perhaps the most moral character of all of them and I don't see him joining up with a bad guy without a seriously good reason.
Next week: Um, isn't didn't we already do this in "The Ghost Network"? Maybe the outcome will be different. I'm all about learning more about what the Observer said to Amberlivia, anyway. (I am a little tired of Peter always knowing something the rest of the team doesn't and explaining it to them, though. Argh, just get your Blue memories back, people!)