Fringe March 11 2011 "Os"

[Tanbarkie]

@Mr.Excellent

It’s simple: Even when she’s pretending to be our Olivia, she’s more comfortable in her own skin than Olivia is. She grins more, cracks more jokes, and just seems happier than our mildly depressed and traumatized version. Plus, she likes to dye her hair red. Redheads are hot, whether they were born that way or attained that salutary condition by dint of effort.

Of course, thanks to her parallel universe shenanigans, Fauxlivia is now also mildly depressed and traumatized!

Also, the only hot redheads are natural redheads.

[gytalf2000]

@Fenris

OK. You want something more literal? How about this:

Last ep this season. Olivia wakes up in heaven. Clouds, pearly gates, etc.
Everyone else is there.

Olivia: Where am I?
Everyone: Heaven.
Olivia: How’d I die?
Everyone: Doesn’t matter. You’re in heaven.
Olivia: But…what about the laws of physics coming unravelled?
Everyone: Doesn’t matter. You’re in heaven.
Olivia: What about The Machine? What was it? Who were the First People? What was it for? Why Peter?
Everyone: Doesn’t matter. You’re in heaven.
Olivia: What about Fauxlivia, Walternate and the others?
Fauxlivia, Walternate, etc: Right here. In heaven.
Olivia: What happened with/to you?
Everyone: Doesn’t matter. You’re in heaven.
Olivia: What about the time-travelling bald guy watcher types
Time Travelling Bald Guy watcher types: Right here, in heaven
Olivia: What were you doing? What were you trying to fix?
Everyone: Doesn’t matter. You’re in heaven.
Olivia: Can you at least tell me if we had a war with the other earth? Are they both ok? How was all that resolved?
Walter: Magic water in an underground cave.
Olivia: Wait..what? Why is the water magic? How did it help? What did it do? That doesn’t answer anything.
Walter: You’re in heaven dear, it doesn’t matter.
Olivia: I’m not even Christian*
Walter: Doesn’t matter dear, this is the kind of heaven that people with COEXIST bumper-stickers where the C is a cresent moon, the O is a yin-yang symbol and so forth–we even have a stained glass window of that very bumpersticker right there (he points)..this is the kind of heaven those people go to. It’s nice, but vague.
Olivia: Do I get any questions answered.
Walter: You’ll get a 15 minute direct to DVD thing that answers some trivia and will discuss where your sister and her daughter went, but won’t really answer anything else.
Olivia: That…kinda sucks, really.
Walter: You’re in heaven, dear, don’t worry about it. I don’t. And I never learned exactly why Belly cut out chunks of my brain. And even though he’s right there, I’m not going to ask him. Now let’s go walk into the light.
(exunt omnes)

I like my shorter version better.

By the way, whatever DID happen to
A) Olivia’s sister and niece (I loved the niece–normally not into kid actors, but she and Olivia had a hell of a good chemistry on screen)?
B) The sub-plot with Olivia’s sister’s husband going for custody?
C) The Olivia’s Sister/Peter thing?

My guess is that Fauxlivia had the sister and niece whacked.
*I don’t know if she’s Christian or not. But it was funny, so I had her say it.

Hey Fenris, that was hilarious!

[Nobody]

@Smeghead

And at one point, weren’t they building up a subplot with Peter’s past, where he killed a gangster type guy for threatening some mysterious other woman?

I’ve been wondering about that too. I think they just dropped that plot.

Peter use to hang around with some bad dudes, probably a gang of some sort.
The woman Peter was dating became the mob boss’s girlfriend.
Peter found out that the mob boss was abusing her.
Peter threatened a lacky and told him to tell the boss that if he kept beating her up then he (Peter) would make the boss sorry.

I’m pretty sure that’s how it went.

[Nobody]

@Fenris

OK. You want something more literal? How about this:

Pretty funny. I mean, I never watched Lost, but I’ve heard enough talk about it to understand what you’re getting at.