Yeah, I’ve been trying to find it online, ever since I posted. :mad:
I love the trick the episode did, so that we got to experience the same effect that the kid got to experience.
I’m beginning to think that Olivia was “designed” as a controller type person. We saw that she was able to talk down both the empath guy and the fire girl. I bet she’s supposed to have a leadership role in the upcoming “war.” I hope we see more of the parallel universe too.
House is flopping around aimlessly right now and 24 is boring and predictable, so therefore Fringe is my new favorite TV show (with the possible exception of that show that stars Jennifer Love Hewitt’s boobs). I was never one for the X-Files myself and I hated Olivia at first, but now I’ve grown to love this show. I’ll get up and do stuff during other shows, but Fringe has gotten good enough that I let the dinner dishes rot until the news comes on.
Walter is the best character on TV in a decade.
After Malcolm Reynolds and Saul Tigh, maybe.
The thing is, a cell phone doesn’t work like a landline - you need to dial the number before you can connect to the network, whereas with a landline there’s a dial-tone waiting for your input when you pick up the phone. A dial-tone is necessary for any old-fashioned phreaking tricks.
That said, there’s a small possibility that the magical cell phone app can translate tones to numbers, and then dial them on your behalf. Hence my comment of “moderately believeable”… even though the app itself could theoretically be programmed, it’s completely pointless.
Given that Olivia is supposed to have perfect recall and Peter is a boy genius, it seemed easy enough to have either one of them able to dial the number by sound alone. So yeah, pretty stupid writing throughout that one scene.
The sound recording on the glass would make sense if there was like a line where the lady had been sliding her hand over the glass while it was soft, but minus some sort of linear movement like that, ain’t no way there’s going to be sound.
The more interesting thing though is that it looks like Peter is going to have to take over as the mad scientist now. It looks like he has been “activated” as well. But, with Walter being such an important part of the show, they’ll have to bring him back–which hopefully doesn’t mess up the planned storyline.
This show is at it’s best when the science is way beyond reality. Pyrokenesis and parallel universes? I’m down with that. Using an electron microscope to find a perfect recording of a sound on melted glass? It’s no good become it’s just barely in the realm of plausibility, which makes it more fake.
I really don’t get it! The series is called Fringe for Pete’s sake. The whole premise of the series is that all these “unscientific” things that people dismiss as impossible are actually real. So why all the complaints that the science is wrong? Why should Walter’s “science” that studies the “fringe” stuff necessarily have to work the same way as a “normal” lab? I mean, considering what we’ve seen of Massive Dynamic’s lab, the more money you have, the weirder your science.
IOW, just relax and go with it. Analyzing it for “real life” continuity accomplishes nothing and spoils the fun.
Exactly. The show is basically just winking at you when Walter does things like get a still of the last thing seen by a dead person.
It’s just “fringe” science.
Yeah - but many of the things, atleast early on, were Urban Legends of the past… thats what made them fun.
So, when will it be revealed that
Peter was part of the group of children tested with drugs?
My bet is the last ten minutes of the season finale.
Nah, Walter did something different to him. My bet is that he’s a clone of Walter or has had all of Walter’s memories downloaded into him or something.
Just coming in to say that I’m really growing to like this show. It had a slow start and had a hard time hooking me, but around the seventh episode or so it really picked up. And I don’t normally care about the crazy ‘science’ (I sat through 6+ seasons of the X-Files quite happily) but I winced at the electron microscope thing.
Walter is a great character, as everyone said. His and Peter’s scenes together are fantastic. I want an Astrid episode soon, I want to know more about her.
I saw Michael Cerveris play Sweeney Todd! He does creepy dude very well.
I think the most annoying thing about the microscope thing is that Peter just happened to be building it. Seems like a lot of work when he could just use iTunes.
I thought he was building it so he could make copies of his father’s LPs which had been too badly damaged to play in the usual manner. I would presume that the music on them was not available anywhere else.