Fringe October 7 2010 "The Plateau"

So they don’t have pens in the other world? Are they paperless over there then? Looks like it.

I like the homeless guy holding a sign “Aruba War Vet.”

I like the idea of following a Fringe event on the other side. Gives us an idea of what their team is like and makes for an interesting episode.

It’s nice to see Charlie again, and I’m sure we’ll see how Lincoln manifests on the blue side, but where’s Peter and Walter, dammit?!! Let’s have an ep of those two solving something without an Olivia. Oh, hay, freak of the week’s turned into alt-Astrid.

I wonder if Walternate might try to make use of the hyper-intelligent prediction guy to help with the war effort.

Most chilling thing I’ve heard on tv for a while - Walternate saying, “I just have a larger laboratory now.” Yikes.

I think we’ll see Algernon again, too (I’d call him Charlie, but we already have a Charlie).

So, Olivia is creating visions of Peter in her mind as a way of fighting the gaslighting?

I liked this episode a lot. A very “X-Files” freak-of-the-week type episode. They tied the “Algernon” story nicely together with the Olivia/memory plotline via the toxic-air alarm and her lack of response to it.

More like the writers are shoehorning Peter into every episode no matter how unnatural and out of place it is just to satisfy a contract that requires him to be in every (or however many) episodes. I almost put Walter in there as well, since his appearance at the hospital was ridiculous, but then I remembered that John Noble had quite a bit of screen time. Funny how distinct his two characters are in my mind. But still, the Peter visions were silly, reminiscent of Buffy dreaming about Angel early in season 3 just so David Boreanaz would be in every episode. Weak.

Other than stumbling into one of my pet peeves, I was just as invested in this episode as if it were a regular monster of the week. That’s a huge accomplishment considering how little I was invested in the previous all-alternate episode. Bravo, says I.

I was thinking the same thing and I hope they do. It was a good solid episode except for the shoehorning already mentioned especially at the very end with Peter telling Olivia all that stuff.

I’m finding that, too - “Hey, Walter wasn’t in this week’s episode - no, wait, he was, as the Walternate.”

Is it just me, or does Olivia seem a lot more chipper in the alternate universe?

She’s getting a lot more sex.

How are they gonna find out Fauxlivia is the fake one? That’s what I want to know. I thought we had a theory in last season’s finale that Peter would find out because each Olivia had their own way of kissing but that’s been debunked because we had a few shots of Fauxlivia and Peter kissing.

Although I like watching the alternate universe, I’d rather be watching the one with Peter and not-all-there Walter.

Yup; Fringe is all about the Three Musketeers (3.5, if you count Astrid the Exposition Princess, but they never let her out of the basement. FBI G-gal, stack of degrees, and she’s stuck babysitting a mad genius and a cow.)

I think I know how Charlie, and Lincoln are gonna figure out that Fauxlivia is faux, and it is totally gonna tie into her boyfriend career.
Anna Torv (the actress) was born in 1978. I will assume her character is similar in age to the actress. IN our world (blue world) smallpox was basically eradicated by the early 1970’s. Childhood inoculation against it was discontinued in 1972. The real Olivia is not protected against it, and as soon as her BF returns from Texas, I am betting she will contract the disease, wheras, Fauxlivia was probably vaccinated years ago, when she started dating a specialist in the virus!!

At one point they said she was a “junior agent” which means she’s under Olivia for a two-year probation period, assuming that the show is going by real FBI rules. That has to be up soon, right?

Kylede, she might be plausably vaccinated. I’m not and about the same age, but many medical and military people our age are. A lot got vaccinated the first few years after 9/11 too, due to being at a higher risk than us civilians. OTOH, she might not, so your idea could be plausable too.

I think a government agent who flies all over the world at the drop of a hat would be vaccinated, too - sorry, Kylede. :slight_smile: I think that is going to be the kind of thing that trips them up, though.

Considering that they still have outbreaks-does (what do we call alt-land? Red 'verse? B-side?) thems even have the vaccine? Just remembering that episode of Sliders where they slid into a plague-y 'verse that never figured out penicillin.

Maybe not, though. I looked it up last night and whatever the health org that wanted the vaccinations in the wake of 9/11 withdrew the recommendation in 2003 due to a higher than expected number of side effects. You have to be 23 to enter Quantico, and she would have been in 2001 if she went directly from college. If they had her wait for not even two years out of college, she might not have been vaccinated when all those first responder types were.

I’m thinking too hard about this, aren’t I. Sorry.

Check out the preview video for the next episode here. It’s hilarious. :smiley:

That is great! Walter is probably my favorite character on TV right now.

Can’t wait to see what he brings to the next office potluck!

I don’t know. They did transfuse the living shit out of her when they were screwing with her memory. Some immunity might’ve snuck in there in the process.