Oh and something else. During the episode when Walter goes to Alt Earth for Peter it’ also clear that Alt. Walter is not going to cure Peter because he misses a chemical reaction of the cure he’s working on for Peter. He misses it because he’s been distracted by a Watcher in his lab. Prime Walter notices both the reaction and distraction and finishes the cure.
My mind was not in a…err…natural state* when we watched this and so I am definitely going to have to watch it again to get the “makes sense” version… but what I saw, I loved! [Note, I had no idea going in that this was going to be anything other than a regular episode. So I had to self-check and say “they don’t usually do that, do they??”]
*and yet 100% legal, btw.
I hadn’t thought of that. Interesting. Any way you cut it, Peter and Walter have not had an easy relationship, and they won’t have an easy relationship. From our God’s Eye view, though, that’s kind of heartbreaking since we know how deeply Walter loves Peter, in spite of all of Walter’s flaws.
Did anyone notice that in the “Story” the cylinder from the 1st season episode “The Arrival” showed up again with the Observers. It has shown up a few times, usual with them and I am begining ro think it is much more important then we might know. Does anyone know somewhere online I can share and read theories about the meta-story in Fringe?
I’m mostly just impressed that they could have a story separate from the main storyline and still not give Astrid any characterization or background. She just is.
Whyyyy?
Well, she really, really needs a job.
Wow, what a cool guy. He’s very talented.
A part of me thinks she’s going to be the cause of the dimensional war, controlling legions of shapeshifters and Watchers from the alternate dimension.
Also she will be dressed in tight leather like mirror-universe Kira from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
What?
One more thing, a friend pointed this out and I agreed: Olivia looked good wearing red lipstick and having hair that wasn’t pulled back.
Fox has a Fringe web site set up. You can watch full episodes there and post comments.
And there is fringepedia:
I liked the episode, my only (nitpic) is that the show was set presumably in the 40’s but the kitchen appliances were from the 80’s! Trivial I know, but it was really jaring from my standpoint.
It is. I’m not 100% on the idea, but there are several mentions of Peter’s illness throughout the series and Peter has been pretty consistent that he has no memory of being sick. Perhaps the trauma of nearly drowing.
There were mixed technologies throughout the episode. Ingrid has a woodgrain encased laptop for instance.
Yeah, they were, and I quite liked that effect.
I’m with you there. Definitely the worst Fringe episode yet. Utterly, mind-numbingly boring.
I just watched it again sober and I still liked it. It made sense this time but we still burst into laughter every time a character burst into song 
I was expecting way more singing from everyone’s description here. I don’t think anyone sung for more than 30-45 seconds. It seemed like they weren’t brave enough to do it or something.
I like the amount of the singing. I think if they’d done too much it would have detracted from the show.
Not to mention the cell phones…
It just occurred to me why the Noirpunk, rummage-sale mix of props and costumes really worked for me in this episode (which I LOVED, btw). It has a parallel resonance with what we’ve seen in the alternate universe and the Observer’s technology. We keep getting little glimpses of “anachronistic” stuff, like blimps and whatever those com units are that the Observers use. You never really know what to expect. In some ways it’s more advanced over there (and wherever the Observers come from). Apparently less advanced in others. Then there are the camera shop and typewriter shop that the shapeshifters visit with retro, second-hand-store collections of technology. This episode took those ideas and ran with it in delightfully hyperbolic fashion.
But…but…it wouldn’t have been noirpunk without those anachronisms. That’s what made the episode cool! Well, that and the singing corpses.