Newbie "Fringe" question

[panache45]

I've started watching "Fringe," and am still in Season 1. I'm holding off on a lot of questions, because I'd rather answer them as the show progresses. But I have one question up-front: What is the meaning of the figures at every commercial break . . . a butterfly, and 6-fingered hand, a flower, etc., all with a big white dot? Or tell me whether I'm not supposed to know this yet, and I'll save it.

[Maus Magill]

I've noticed the butterfly has bones in its wings, and the seeds in the halved apple are human embryos.

I haven't figured out the flower yet.

[Meltdown]

I seem to recall that each symbol represented a letter of the alphabet, and that if you looked at all the symbols in a given episode, they spelled out a 5-letter word.

[enalzi]

It's a code, with each symbol representing a letter. Usually it spells a word connected to the episode. It's pretty irrelevant to the show (although a recent episode did make a reference to it). On the Fringe Wiki you can see the code and the word that gets spelled every episode.

[Meltdown]

Here's a link with the decodes, if you don't want to try to figure it out yourself:

http://fringepedia.net/wiki/Glyphs_code

[Corcaigh]

Originally Posted by Meltdown

Here's a link with the decodes, if you don't want to try to figure it out yourself:

http://fringepedia.net/wiki/Glyphs_code

All these years and I never noticed!