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Walternate that was in the contamination suit 2 episodes ago.
things got a little more interesting.
When my death comes, I want it to be delicious, strawberry-flavored death.
Best line of the night. Possibly even top 10 for the whole series - Walter has so many excellent lines. So, now we get Good Walter versus Evil Walter - this oughta be good!
This is two weeks in a row where I went in with low expectations (“Aww, a noir episode?” “Awww, a Peter episode?”) and was pleasantly surprised. may take over as my favorite show once Lost finishes up its run.
Looks like next week will be a killer episode with
Alternate Olivia!
The twist I am hoping to see is that Walter and Walternate are both good men, and Bell is the big bad that needs to be taken down. I’m not sure if that is more or less likely now that Nimoy has said
that he is retiring shortly, when he finishes the last of his filming as Bell.
What kinda baffles me is why did it take so long for Walternate to finally cross over to our universe. What were the problems that he couldn’t overcome? We know he’d be “science” smart. Also how can his desire to reunite with his long lost son continue to burn without hatred for our Walter stealing him. Twenty years of festering and focused hatred is a lot to deal with. I hope they answer that somehow.
I wonder what our Walter would say to Walternate. Would he tell him he did it to save Peter’s life and just couldn’t give back a son he lost? Hopefully things will get better.
It’s quite possible he didn’t know there WAS an alternate universe. We don’t really know the whole history of the universes, but I think our side figured it out first.
if he didn’t know there was an alt universe then how would he know where his Peter is and was. Was it Bell that told him? Was the alt universe severely screwed up by Walter’s first jump to get young Peter that they “knew” there was something wrong with their universe due to another universe’s tampering. Things can get confusing easily, I hope they clear up all this weirdness and confusing aspects of multiverses.
Well it sounded like he was being called Mr. Secretary (chairman?, I’ll re-watch it to confirm) which implies he’s a political leader of some kind. If that’s the case he can’t just go traipsing off willy-nilly.
During the previews for next weeks episode, a voiceover character who is most probably Walternate says:
This is the moment for which you were created
Based on that, I’m going to speculate that:
a) He was speaking to Peter
b)He’s smarter that Walter (this is also implied by the fact that Walter was watching Walternate to get tips on designing a cure for Peter).
BMada I just finished rewatching the end. Walternate was in fact called Mr. Secretary.
In unrelated idle conversation, DVRs should be able to scene jump.
The shapeshifters were talking about the secretary a couple episodes ago. Definitely sounded like the leader of their group.
Why did it take so long for Walternate to show up? A few ideas come to mind.
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Grief drove him to the loony bin for an extended period of time. I kind of like this explanation because it neatly parallels our Walter’s situation.
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He does appear to be some kind of important official. Perhaps he wanted to wait until he had sufficient power to mount a proper rescue. He could go in with agents to command and decent equipment instead of risking a solo mission using a portable generator-powered device on top of a frozen lake.
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Unspecified Observer interference. They hold fast to their observing duties the way Picard held to the Prime Directive. One of them could have delivered some bullshit prophecy-type speech that he had to wait until a specified time to do anything.
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Instead of a bullshit prophecy, maybe he scientifically determined that he had to wait to mount the rescue.
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He was afraid of our massive supplies of strawberry-flavored death. As should we all be.
I think that Walternate will be the typical Mad Scientist, obsessed beyond reason with getting Peter back to his universe and intent on destroying Walter’s universe once Peter is back where he belongs. This is why the Watchers have said that Peter is important, because it is up to Peter to stop the destruction of Walter’s universe. The destruction of one universe will probably mean the destruction of both, but this won’t matter to Walternate because he’s mad, you know. Peter will have to turn against Walternate in order to save the universe he grew up in with Walter. His unstated affection for Olivia will be the reason.
The next episode is the first of a two parter titled ‘Over There’. I think these are the last two episodes of the season. Since Nimoy is retiring, William Bell probably dies during this two parter.
It’s also very hard to cross over from their side, apparently, which is why they have shapeshifters. I think that’s why they came over to our side first to open a window and bring him through. And I can’t remember, is Newton a shapeshifter too? I barely know his story.
We keep forgeting one more thing about the other universe. If my memory sreves me correctly, something happened “over there” I think it was called “The Blight” or something similar. In the episode called “Jacksonville” before the building form both universes merged, the people over there were discussing how rare coffee was “now, since the (blight, incident, event)”
So now I am gonna go off on a bit of a speculation rant.
The “bight” was cause by the cylinder the Observers were so keen to get their hand on in the episode from the first season. Either that or the cure that our walter spilled in the alternate universe caused it. Getting Peter back will help fix it.
JUST SPECULATION but since it’s based on something you spoiler boxed, I’ve done the same
I assumed that line was directed to Olivia and a reference to the experiments on her as a child, or maybe it was OliviAlt, in a similar situation