Nobody
March 25, 2012, 9:09am
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Onomatopoeia:
Okay, so maybe I’m a little dense, but it doesn’t add up for me. Peter is actually home and this Olivia is his Olivia? If that’s the case, are there or are there not four universes? If this is Peter’s real universe, then there are only two universes, this one and the ‘other side’, right? If that’s the case, how is Broyles alive on the other side when he was killed before Peter was erased?
Before the reveal was made in this episode that this is the “correct” universe I found an educated guess that this would happen and posted about it in the thread for the episode, “The End of All Things”
I found something which changes my opinion about what happened to Peter. Although it’s somebody’s opinion and not established fact, it’s a very educated opinion and so I’ll put it in a spoiler tag. Although if you subscribe to this thread and get an E-mail then the spoiler tag won’t hide anything :smack:. Anyway:
Crave Online
One notion that “Fringe” has been stubbornly clinging to all season is that the original timeline still exists somewhere else or that Peter can somehow return there and resume his life as it was. I still believe that’s a false assertion, and there’s some thematic proof of that within the episode itself. At one point, Peter and Walter explained the concept of a palimpsest; which is a medium that is reused or altered while retaining traces of its earlier iterations. That’s the perfect metaphor for the fourth season of “Fringe.” The original timeline has basically been recorded over by Peter’s removal from history, but traces of Olivia’s memories are bleeding through. Peter himself is the most prominent reminder of the previous timeline, since by all accounts he shouldn’t even exist anymore.
Next, the writer says about Olivia:
Last week, the question posed was whether the Olivia of this new timeline was a separate and equal counterpart to the Olivia of the original timeline that didn’t deserve to lose her own existence to memories that don’t belong to her. I propose that both things are true. The Olivia of our timeline is also the Olivia of this new timeline, but the new Olivia is also a distinct individual created by her revised choices who is just as legitimate as the original Olivia. But there can only be one Olivia in this universe, and for now it’s a woman with two sets of memories.
I can’t argue with that logic.