Fringe 4x16: "Nothing As It Seems"
Mar. 30th, 2012 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieThat was...odd? Weirdly hamfisted and obvious? HEY GUISE LINCOLN ISN'T PART OF OUR LITTLE FAMILY LOLZERS! Which, okay, if Linc really is on his way out I won't cry, but do we have to have it spelled out? I mean, Olivia/Peter/Astrid giggling with each other while Linc looked on moodily and waited to die was obvious without Walter pointing it out. I expect more from you, Fringe!
It also bothers me that Broyles and Lincoln were the only two who seemed to care that Amberlivia was just gone. (Speaking of which, if she really is gone entirely, no trace of her left, I am going to be SO PISSED at the previous fifteen episodes.) Maybe Nina just didn't show it, or something.
Heyyyyy, it's creepy psychologist lady again! How strange to see her, when I just made a post about Robson Arms. Huh.
Raise your hand if you think Rachel didn't marry the same guy she married in Blueverse thanks to Nina's influence, and at some point we'll meet an Ella who's not quite right.
"You should get that, I think the seventies are calling." Hee.
Okay, Walter buying dead!Peter a birthday gift for every year he would've been alive is sweet and sad and wonderful. Even if your dad should NEVER BUY YOU PORN, OH, GOD. Peter hugging him was adorably awkward.
"Want to talk about it, or just pretend like we already did?" Option B, please.
Shouldn't Olivia remember the past however many months it's been since Peter came back, though, which would include the diner conversation with Lincoln? Does her memory really just stop with that day on Liberty Island?
PETER AND OLIVIA, YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO UNDERCOVER SCHOOL, BECAUSE THAT WAS TERRIBLE.
The porcupine men...fly? Really? The...buh...I...okay, well, I guess Fringe has done stranger things, but...is that a shark I see off in the distance?
OMG IT'S GAETA. And he's again gotten pulled into a crazy conspiracy! Awww!
The ending: O...kay? "Snakehead" is not the season two episode I would've chosen to go back to, but whatever. My question is, is the repetition of these cases merely being caused by the ripple effect--Peter not being there led to this led to that led to the other thing, culminating in these schemes coming to fruition three years later than they did in Blueverse--or is it indicative of further timeline shenanigans? I would like the second to be true, because the episode didn't really hold my interest otherwise.
While I'm here, have a family who has adopted a hippo as a pet.
It also bothers me that Broyles and Lincoln were the only two who seemed to care that Amberlivia was just gone. (Speaking of which, if she really is gone entirely, no trace of her left, I am going to be SO PISSED at the previous fifteen episodes.) Maybe Nina just didn't show it, or something.
Heyyyyy, it's creepy psychologist lady again! How strange to see her, when I just made a post about Robson Arms. Huh.
Raise your hand if you think Rachel didn't marry the same guy she married in Blueverse thanks to Nina's influence, and at some point we'll meet an Ella who's not quite right.
"You should get that, I think the seventies are calling." Hee.
Okay, Walter buying dead!Peter a birthday gift for every year he would've been alive is sweet and sad and wonderful. Even if your dad should NEVER BUY YOU PORN, OH, GOD. Peter hugging him was adorably awkward.
"Want to talk about it, or just pretend like we already did?" Option B, please.
Shouldn't Olivia remember the past however many months it's been since Peter came back, though, which would include the diner conversation with Lincoln? Does her memory really just stop with that day on Liberty Island?
PETER AND OLIVIA, YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO UNDERCOVER SCHOOL, BECAUSE THAT WAS TERRIBLE.
The porcupine men...fly? Really? The...buh...I...okay, well, I guess Fringe has done stranger things, but...is that a shark I see off in the distance?
OMG IT'S GAETA. And he's again gotten pulled into a crazy conspiracy! Awww!
The ending: O...kay? "Snakehead" is not the season two episode I would've chosen to go back to, but whatever. My question is, is the repetition of these cases merely being caused by the ripple effect--Peter not being there led to this led to that led to the other thing, culminating in these schemes coming to fruition three years later than they did in Blueverse--or is it indicative of further timeline shenanigans? I would like the second to be true, because the episode didn't really hold my interest otherwise.
While I'm here, have a family who has adopted a hippo as a pet.