# Fringe 4-20-2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473 "2012-04-21T02:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473/21 "2012-04-23T21:08:03Z")
I don’t know, maybe you all are being too hard on it. I don’t think it was supposed to be anything more than a one-off, “what if” episode. I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473/22 "2012-04-24T15:30:01Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Which basically means September set this plan in motion a long time ago, to get Walter to bring Peter from the other universe so he could be with Olivia. A case can be made for this based on what we’ve seen. We know that the reason Walternate did not cure his son was that he was distracted by September. This ultimately led to Walter’s kidnapping of Peter from the other universe. Thus far, September’s explanation has been rather sketchy – he wanted to “observe” Walternate, and inadvertently let himself be seen. But what if that was the point? What if September’s plan all along was to make Walternate see him, thus distracting him from finding the cure, thus causing Walter to kidnap Peter, etc., etc., all in the service of engineering Henrietta, who could only be the product of Olivia (because of the cortexiphan) and the Peter from the other universe (because of – well, I’m still working on that part)? September found a way to prevent the Observers from taking over, and executed the plan. And it would have worked too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids – Peter inadvertently erasing himself from existence. So September found a way to bring him back. I kind of like it. I think it holds up better than “oops – he saw me!” ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473/23 "2012-04-24T15:58:37Z")
I love Enalzi’s theory. Hope the show’s writers come up with something as good. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473/24 "2012-04-24T16:19:16Z")
Yeah, ditto. That works really well…and explains why a time-traveler would be seen (and not just go back and correct it. “Hey me from 15 minutes ago, I’m you from 15 minutes in the future. When you go observe Walternate, hang out about 2 feet to your left or he’ll see you/us, won’t develop the cure, won’t save his son and that will eventually cause cosmic fuckuppery in two universes. Mkay? Cool. Laters.”) ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473/25 "2012-04-24T18:56:11Z")
Henrietta is just such an odd name for this day and age. I wonder if they chose it as a reference to[Henrietta Lacks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks) the unwitting donor of an immortal cell line. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473/26 "2012-04-24T19:41:08Z")
Peter and Fauxlivia’s son was Henry so Peter and Olivia probably named their daughter (or just Peter did) in honor of him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-4-20-2012/619473.md?page=1)