r/fringe

I'm only on episode 3 or 4 I guess. Since Peter has disappeared does Walter no longer own massive dynamic?

Does it seem like, in this world run as a tyrannical dictatorship by an omnipotent set of gods, that the Fringe team is always just like… on the street?

I feel like most of the main important conversations that have happened this season have happened outside. Like these guys are supposedly some of the most wanted criminals in the entire world, with the entire force of the Observer technology bearing down on them and they are just standing on a busy street corner or in a park. Do the Observers not have access to street cameras? Or once the Observers realize who they are dealing with, they don’t think to check the Fringe team former base of operations?

These guys seem evil but incredibly incompetent for being super beings.

I recall the episode I think in S4 about a boy who controls some kind of fungus organism, and how that later played out as the plot if Stranger Things.
On my rewatch I also noticed in S1E14 Ability, when David Robert Jones comes to the FBI HQ and demands to speak with Olivia and no one else, this would be the same opening story of the show The Blacklist: James Spader comes to the FBI HQ and demands to speak with Elizabeth and no one else. The Blacklist came out in 2013 so right after Fringe eded. This is my 4th rewatch and I just noticed that 🙂
Not directly related but I noticed that Jeff Pinkner is one of the producers on the show From which is also sci-fi and in the similar realm as Fringe.

Any other similarities you recall between Fringe and other shows?

(I'm on the 3rd season, very much enjoying it bar a couple of mild cringe moments that were more bad writing than story or acting.)

SPOILERS AHEAD - But I had a question about Olivia's abilities to see people and things from the other side - she spotted Peter fairly early, but then that ability just seemed to vanish and never used again. Why isn't she able to see shapeshifters and other objects in later episodes? Did I miss an explanation somewhere? I admit I have cooked a couple dinners while watching and may have missed something important ...

NO SPOILERS PLEASE! I’m on s1 E18

So in episode 18 of S1, it’s revealed that William bell is funding ZFT. Everyone is shocked like it’s this big surprise. But deadass I thought from jump we knew this. Massive dynamic was at the scene of every crime 😐😐. Like bro, wdym you’re shocked?? I thought the reveal was gonna be that Broyles was funding ZFT with FBI money (which doesn’t make sense) but would have been a better “plot twist”. I love the show but the way they revealed it was William bell was so funny to me, like yeah no shit Sherlock. Who else was it gonna be? Beth? 😂😂

Another outstanding episode. It is interesting to see the dynamic between the two Olivia's. The subtle differences between the two. It might be my imagination or it might be what they intended but it almost seems like the two Olivia's kind of walk different.

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I'm glad that our John was able to keep the good stuff about Marjorie even though he doesn't remember her anymore.

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I am on the fence about the alternate Olivia. Sometimes I like her and sometimes I don't.

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I hope Peter comes back soon but then there might be some jealousies between the two Olivia's.

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... And I love it so much. S3 was wonderful in how expansive and exciting it was, and I have to admit the start of S4 was not my favourite, but now every episode is a gut punch and so wonderful. I've realized I love shows where love and loneliness and longing are explored in earnest and Fringe does that SO well in S4. It almost reverts to the sci-fi procedural format BUT with a subtle twist to explore the human condition, whether that's Lincoln's longing for love, Alternate Astrid trying awkwardly to connect with Aspirin or lonely serial killers.

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I think overall I still prefer S3 overall but man, S4 is so wonderful to watch and helping me get through a lot of tough stuff right now. I just want to give Walter and Peter a giant hug all the time.

When this episode aired how crazy did you go when a character who is very much dead shows back up?? And no one seems the least bit surprised or interested?

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I know now about it being an episode out of order but it feels like they should have fixed this and put it back in the first season instead of leaving it where it aired in the second.

Spoliers for season 1!

Title. I'm really enjoying this show. I've heard that it starts out as more of a procedural with sci fi concepts and them turns into more of a full fledged sci fi show in season 2. But I was hooked and theorizing from a couple episodes in. My theories have changed a little through the season. My early initial theory about Peter's "medical history" was that Walter transfered the mind of a dying Peter into another deathly child's body but at this point it seems pretty obvious that our Peter is from another universe. The fact that he remembered the GI Joe's scar on the other side and that Walter will often bring up something in Peter's childhood that Peter's remembers differently and Peter's grave are all big clues.i think Walter is a little more reliable than we think. I wouldn't be surprised if his grief over Peter's death is what caused him to study Fringe science. Also I have a suspicion that Walter's memory loss is not an accident. It seems too coincidental. I think either Walter erased his own memory on purpose for some reason or Bell did it to him, that seems more likely.

I like the characters. Walter is definitely growing on me. I didn't like Peter too much at first because he's the kinda like "well that just happened" kinda character who's just there to react like audience would but there's a little more to him. Olivia is a surprisingly real and flawed character. Often FBI agents feel the same on TV but she's written as an actual character which shouldn't be where the bar is but you guys know how TV and movies is now.

I've been wondering about the interstitial symbols and what they mean. I've noticed some of the symbols show up in the actual show but I'm still confused. I think they mean something though.

Also I'm pretty sure Walter wrote ZFT. or at least I did think that until it seemed like Bell wrote it but I'm still not convinced. Could've been Walter still.

My first theory about the pattern was that it was some kind of higher dimensional being or aliens causing it. But now my understanding is that it's casued mostly by humans that are probing at another alternate reality. The majority of which are massive dynamics and ZFT. also don't really have any theories about the observer yet.

I'm really enjoying this show ams how it treated the audience as intelligent and isn't scared to have us sit with unresolved clues for a little bit. It's such a refreshing change from all the "second screen viewing" we see now.​ Also glad there's so much ahead and that apparently the show is well thought out unlike Lost haha. I like Lost but there's not always satisfying anwers to the mysteries and this feels different.

I don't scroll through this subreddit because i don't want spoliers so please please be careful. But I wanted to make this post because i figured itd be fun for you guys to see a first timers view. I don't want any hints or anything like "just you wait until episode whatever". I only know some mild spoilers and want to keep it that way. If you have any questions to what I think at this point I'd be happy to anwers but please no leading questions keep it very vague. I've heard about "unearthed" and decided to watch that in between seasons closer to his original spot so I'll be watching that then on to season 2!

After breaking the vail, Walter takes Peter back to the Blueverse to treat him there. Why didn’t he find Walternate and tell him about the cure? Or at least find a way to send Walternate a message? Or was Walter, on some level, hoping for an excuse to take Peter?

Did Walter not want Walternate to find out about the other Universe? Walternate must have been doing similar research.

I like a lot of this show, but seasons 5 and 3, when Walter decides to >!kill Olivia, I understand that he wants to save his world, but death wasn't necessary for that; he just needed to bring Olivia back. It drives me nuts that he goes that far, and I always felt he was a nicer Walter before then. Also, in season 5, the observer plot—my God, so crazy and stupid. They made them too powerful; I don't believe for a second that a being who can see all timelines could ever fail at their job. Not to mention, if they were part of the prime universe, all they would have to do to fix their future is change things so it focused on more green energy that repairs the planet. They had the power to do it, and in 100+ years, it would be mostly done. I think that would have been a better plot—observers working with fringe to create a better future for themselves. But more just venting on my rewatch curious if im the only one annoyed !<

Incredible, i love the sentence of the wife in spanish "yo no soy tú mujer, tú mujer está muerta" Witch means"I am not your wife, your wife is death". And is my own reason tocloving this episode. I enjoyed a lot the stakes of the episode, the plot of Walter, the relationship between Olivia, and Peter, the acting. And i adore that end of the husband not moving on.

Even Astrid is awesome. She’s always so good a recentering Walter. Does she get any love?

S3:E22

Oh man I just barely missed it. It was like 20 days ago. That would have been so awesome if I'd seen it on that exact day!!🤪😜

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Hello! I just created this final girl for Agent Dunham on https://makeyourownfinalgirl.vanrydergames.com/

In case anyone is wondering, Final Girl is a solo board game inspired by horror movies, so I thought I could make Olivia a final girl card.

Hope you like it!