# Fringe: Concentrate and Ask Again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257 "2011-02-05T04:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/1 "2011-02-05T04:51:06Z")
When Nina Sharp is sitting at a desk looking at the books about the first men, her right hand looks perfectly normal. Isn’t that arm a robotic prosthetic? She was wearing a glove earlier in the episode. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/2 "2011-02-05T06:16:53Z")
Don’t know, but I did like this episode better than last week’s. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/3 "2011-02-05T06:28:38Z")
I am very excited to see Sam return, and to discover that he is apparently immortal. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/4 "2011-02-05T06:38:25Z")
Dear Agent Dunham, Owing to your recent hotness at the fundraiser, you have been permanently assigned to the FBI’s newly created fundraiser security detail. Should Fauxlivia cross over to this universe again, she will also be assigned to the fundraiser security detail. Everyone agrees that that would be unbelievably awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/5 "2011-02-05T07:02:01Z")
I seem to recall her taking off a skin-coloured and textured glove in one of the early episodes. Her arm looked normal, then she peeled off the skin. I could be misremembering, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/6 "2011-02-05T07:42:19Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Dear Agent Dunham, > > Owing to your recent hotness at the fundraiser, you have been permanently assigned to the FBI’s newly created fundraiser security detail. Should Fauxlivia cross over to this universe again, she will also be assigned to the fundraiser security detail. Everyone agrees that that would be unbelievably awesome. You just KNOW that Peter has fantasized about being the meat in an Olivia/Fauxlivia sandwich! 😃 Seriously, I find Anna Torv incredibly attractive on _Fringe_. Even (maybe _especially_) when she’s not all glammed up. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/7 "2011-02-05T07:50:08Z")
This whole things with which Olivia will he chose is starting to feel a little soap-opera-y. I mean, really? Which world will live or die depends on who Peter truly loves? I’m sure there’s more to the story than that. There’d better be. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/8 "2011-02-05T13:04:41Z")
And what happens if he chooses niether? Both Universes go boom? that would be bad. Brian ---
**Author:** ![McReady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@McReady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McReady)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/9 "2011-02-05T13:06:33Z")
Maybe I’ll check that show out on DVD. I remember watching the pilot, and finding it irredeemably stupid and cliched. Did it get better? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/10 "2011-02-05T14:45:52Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > This whole things with which Olivia will he chose is starting to feel a little soap-opera-y. > > I mean, really? Which world will live or die depends on who Peter truly loves? I’m sure there’s more to the story than that. There’d better be. There’s got to be. One of the big points they’ve been pushing is that the alt-universe isn’t necessarily an “evil” universe. It would be just as wrong to destroy that universe as it would be ours. > [@McReady](#): > > Maybe I’ll check that show out on DVD. I remember watching the pilot, and finding it irredeemably stupid and cliched. Did it get better? Much better. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/11 "2011-02-05T15:08:26Z")
> [@McReady](#): > > Maybe I’ll check that show out on DVD. I remember watching the pilot, and finding it irredeemably stupid and cliched. Did it get better? Oh, yes. Much, much, much, better. I’m surprised you didn’t hear about it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/12 "2011-02-05T19:39:23Z")
It’s one of my favourite shows on tv, and am quite bummed out that it got shifted to a graveyard spot (late Friday nights) where it will probably die. I enjoyed this episode, too. It is a little soap opera-y with Olivia mooning over Peter, but it’s more than just Peter; she got experimented on, she lost her mom, her doppelganger got her man; she got to see how her life could have been different if things had played out differently; she’s having a real, “Why does everything bad happen to ME?” time. Not enough Walter in this episode. There should be more Walter in every episode. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/13 "2011-02-05T20:24:04Z")
“Oh! Punchbuggy blue!” ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/14 "2011-02-05T21:13:51Z")
It looks like Olivia retains some of the skills she got from Fauxlivia’s RNA. Those were some impressive pistol shots she made at the fundraiser. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/15 "2011-02-05T21:16:21Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > This whole things with which Olivia will he chose is starting to feel a little soap-opera-y. > > I mean, really? Which world will live or die depends on who Peter truly loves? I’m sure there’s more to the story than that. There’d better be. I think this is a case where polygamy is the only acceptable choice. Seriously, how could 1 man with 2 women be worse than the destruction of an entire universe? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/16 "2011-02-05T21:18:17Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > There’s got to be. One of the big points they’ve been pushing is that the alt-universe isn’t necessarily an “evil” universe. It would be just as wrong to destroy that universe as it would be ours. I’m wondering too though, they keep talking about it being able to create as well as destroy. And Sam said something like it’s a matter of perspective, so I wondering if maybe the ending will be that Peter merges the two universes into one. From one perspective, two universes will have been destroyed, but from another, a new universe will have been created out of the two. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/17 "2011-02-05T23:23:09Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > … I wondering if maybe the ending will be that Peter merges the two universes into one. Mmmm. By doing both Olivia’s at once. I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Pigs\_in\_Space](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@Pigs\_in\_Space](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pigs_in_Space)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/18 "2011-02-05T23:37:17Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Not enough Walter in this episode. There should be more Walter in every episode. I loved the moment when he said “I’m sorry” to the mind reader without actually \*saying \*it. Wonderful acting. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/19 "2011-02-05T23:55:53Z")
> [@TPWombat](#): > > Mmmm. By doing both Olivia’s at once. > > I’ll be in my bunk. 😃 Oh, and I meant “I’m wondering” instead of “I wondering”. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257/20 "2011-02-06T00:13:11Z")
I feel really bad for the mind reader guy. Telepathy with no way to turn it off would be horrible. Next week preview looked like (not really spoiling any stuff that happened in it but boxed for the extra spoiler sensitive)it’s a red universe ep, nice to see they aren’t dropping those just because Olivia Red and Olivia Blue are back in the proper universes. I like seeing some of those redverse supporting characters, like Charlie Red and that other guy whose name I can’t recall but was burned for a while. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-concentrate-and-ask-again/570257.md?page=2)